FPB COURSES

NURSING DOCTORATE (NUND) COURSES

NUND 201 Introduction to Statistics for Health Science (3)
This course is designed to introduce the application of statistical methods to health sciences. Contents include descriptive statistics, distribution, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, power, and probability. Techniques of t-test, chi-square test, ANOVA, and correlation analysis will be taught along with in-class exercises using statistical software. This course is not for credit toward any undergraduateor graduate degrees in Statistics.

NUND 211 Introduction to Pharmacology (2)
This course introduces basic principles of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics. A survey of characteristics and uses of major drug groups with an emphasis on nursing implications is presented. Prereq: NUND 342.

NUND 213 Nursing Strategies and Interventions for Alterations in Human Function (4)
An introduction to specific nursing strategies and interventions designed to support the maximum health potential of the adult patient. The fundamentals of nursing care are incorporated into a laboratory setting and practiced in an acute care medical-surgical facility. Particular emphasis is placed on the nursing strategies and interventions. Evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions is integrated throughout the course. Prereq: Admission to DNP program.

NUND 220 Altered Human Functioning (3)
Introduction to basic pathophysiologic outcomes of selected intervening variables that alter human physiologic and cognitive functioning. This course builds on the student’s foundation of normal anatomy and physiology. Prereq: NUND 412 and completion of first semester of DNP program.

NUND 222 Nursing Informatics II: Biostatistics (1)
This course focuses on advanced concepts in quantitative methods for nursing, including application to nursing problems, and solution strategies using computer software.

NUND 223 Aging in Health and Illness (2)
This course will explore the concept of aging in health and illness with an emphasis on the older adult as an individual with the capacity to grow and develop. Content will include theories of aging, physiology of aging, geriatric syndromes and interventions, implication for policy and health care services. Prereq: NUND 213, NUND 233, NUND 410, and NUND 412.

NUND 225 Acute Care Nursing of the Adult (9)
The focus of this course is the integration of the nursing process in clinical practice. Human responses to significant health events and alterations are analyzed. Application of relevant physiology, psychosocial dimensions, and pharmacology are included. Particular emphasis is placed on nursing strategies, interventions, and the evaluation of their effectiveness in the care of the acutely ill adult. Prereq: NUND 213.

NUND 230 Foundations of Nursing Practice (2)
This course introduces the discipline of nursing and its attributes for clinical practice. Critical historical, societal, and philosophical influences that have affected nursing as a profession will be critiqued. Nursing theories are introduced. The individual, the group, the family, and the community as clients of the nurse are introduced. Nursing strategies to promote therapeutic communication are emphasized.

NUND 232 Introduction to Genetics and Embryology (1)
Introduction to the theories and concepts relevant to genetics and embryological development in humans.

NUND 233 Human Growth and Development (1)
Introduction to the theories, concepts and nursing applications relevant to the physical, psychological and social growth and development across the lifespan.

NUND 234 Introduction to Human Genetics (1)

NUND 315 Parents and Neonates in Health and Illness (4.5)
This course introduces biological, psychosocial, and developmental concepts applicable to the nursing care of women, newborns, and families during the childbearing cycle. Emphasis is placed on assessment and identification of health needs as parents and neonates respond to the changes inherent in the childbearing cycle. Strategies related to nursing care of parents and neonates are discussed. The clinical experience focuses on the direct application of these concepts and strategies in the care of patients in various perinatal settings. Prereq: NUND 224.

NUND 316 Infants, Children, and Adolescents in Health and Illness (4.5)
The study of infants, children, and adolescents and their health-seeking behaviors from a developmental perspective. Emphasis is on healthy infants, children, and adolescents as well as infants, children, and adolescents with common, acute, and chronic illness within the context of their family environment. Nursing strategies focus on interventions to promote, restore, and maintain health and foster growth and development. These strategies are based on understanding advanced concepts of children’s and adolescents’ responses in acute health/illness states. Prereq: NUND 213.

NUND 317 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (4.5)
This course is designed to address psychiatric and mental health nursing concepts. The focus is on clients with acute and chronic psychiatric disorders and their mental health. Nursing strategies that are appropriate for assessment and intervention with individuals, families, and groups to facilitate optimal mental health will be discussed and practiced. Prereq: NUND 224.

NUND 319 Public Health Nursing (4)
This course focuses on factors influencing the health of groups, communities, and populations. The student will examine relevant concepts, theories, research, and emerging public health issues. Principles of epidemiology will be addressed. Strategies for public health nursing interventions will be designed and implemented. Prereq: Completion of two semesters of DNP program.

NUND 341 Concepts of Management (3)
Study of basic concepts relative to leadership and working with groups of people in providing nursing care. Concepts include: decision making, power, authority, roles, teaching-learning, evaluation, leader behaviors, work groups, legal aspects, change.

NUND 342 Medical Microbiology, Immunity, and Infectious Diseases (3)
Microbial structure, growth, genetics, and metabolic control function and dysfunction of the human immune response. Manifestations of infectious disease and review of selected infectious diseases.

NUND 343 Issues and Ethics in Health Care (2)
Designed to introduce the students to the principles underlying ethical issues and methods of rational decision making. Fundamental theories will be reviewed and opportunity provided, using case analysis, to apply the theories in addressing ethical dilemmas common to modern health care.

NUND 400 Guided Study (1-6)
Selected topics in basic nursing. May include clinical experiences.

NUND 410 Health Assessment (2)
Comprehensive introduction to the assessment skills required for a successful nursing practice. Basic skills, such as vital signs, are taught along with a system by system approach to physical examination. Taking a health and psychosocial history is integrated into the course. The course is taught concurrently with anatomy and physiology, concepts of nursing practice, and strategies and interventions for alterations in functioning.

NUND 412 Anatomy, Physiology, and Metabolic Function of the Human Body (6)
Basic concepts of normal human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and nutrition presented with emphasis placed on the interrelatedness of human body systems and their holistic interactions. A review of the normal anatomy and physiology of the major body systems' normal structure and function and compensatory alterations under stress will be presented. Basic biochemical and metabolic control mechanisms will be reviewed with emphasis placed on their impact on normal and compensatory physiologic function. Dietary sources of the major nutrients metabolized by the human body will also be discussed. An observational laboratory of human cadaver dissection will be provided.

NUND 441 Management in Advanced Practice (3)
This course focuses on management issues and concepts related to those who will be practicing nursing as advanced practitioners. Seminars will focus on integrating legal, fiscal, quality improvement, informatic concepts and other intervening variables that affect environments of care. As an integrating part of the course, students will design and develop a nursing practice organization project that pertains to their clinical or management interests.

NUND 478 Curriculum and Instruction (3)
The purpose of this course is to explore the theoretical underpinnings of education and examine innovative approaches to critical thinking. Students are provided the opportunity to analyze philosophies and principles of education along with teaching and learning styles. The focus of this course is on curriculum planning and development congruent with the philosophy and objectives of a nursing program. Curriculum development includes determination of program and course objectives, along with selection and organization of appropriate learning experiences to meet these objectives. Techniques for instruction in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings are explored.

NUND 479 Theoretical Foundations: Education Testing & Evaluation (2)
In this course, an overview of educational measurement and evaluation is provided. Methods of evaluating teaching effectiveness, student learning, and student performance are explored, with particular emphasis placed on test construction and analysis. Prereq: NUND 478.

NUND 480 Action Research and Program Evaluation (1)
This course introduces the student to the concept of purposeful evaulation. The applicability of action research and evaluation to the change process and to continuous improvement within various venues will be explored. The iterative, participative, and emergent nature of generation of new knowledge and practice innovations will be discussed. Prereq: NUND 479 or consent of instructor.

NUND 481 Teaching Practicum (2)
This practicum is designed to provide a guided experience in an educational context. The teaching practicum will provide on side experience in educational activities in a school of nursing. Typical practicum experiences will engage the student in didactic, laboratory, and clinical teaching assignments. The student will be expected to use educational theory and nursing knowledge in completing the practicum experience.

NUND 483 Health Care Planning and Policy and Information Management Systems (3)
An exploration of the nurse’s role in health care policy and planning and information systems. Overview of issues in health care policy and planning, including the socio-political and economic context of health and health-seeking behaviors. Health care policy and planning at the local, state, and federal levels will be explored. Ethical dimensions of public policy formulations and implementation will be highlighted. The application of computer technology in health care and nursing will be explored. Following an introduction to hardware and software, special consideration will be given to clinical and administrative applications of information technology. Prereq: Graduate standing in Nursing or consent of instructor.

NUND 493 Population-Based Maternal-Child Nursing: Issues, Research, Policy & Inter (3)
This course focuses on broadening the knowledge base of pediatric and family nurse practitioner students to include aggregate-based health assessment and policy issues. This course is designed to build upon the students’ previously acquired knowledge of the nurse’s role in health policy analysis and planning, and the community health. Emphasis will be placed on the assessment of women’s health and children’s health at the community level, and the development of programmatic interventions to address identified needs. Students are expected to extend their expertise with policy analysis through development of a proposal to implement policy changes specific to needs identified within the population of women and children. Coreq: NUND 483 or permission of instructor.

NUND 500 DNP Thesis (1-3)
Systematic investigation of a clinically based research problem selected by the student for independent study. Includes proposal refinement and acceptance, data analysis and thesis completion under thesis committee supervision. Prereq: NURS520, NURS521, STAT301.

NUND 505 DNP Project (2-4)
Students will undertake an applied research project which could include program needs assessment, program development, evaluation of an existing program, development of an assessment instrument/protocol for clients, or cost/benefit analysis of program models. The research project will be developed in consultation with the student’s research project committee. Prereq: Students choosing to do a research project rather than a thesis are required to have completed NUND 481 Teaching Practicum and NURS 521 Advanced Nursing Research II.