Clinical Nurse Leader

Provides a theoretical foundation in pharmacology and its place in nursing practice. Includes general principles of pharmacology, the therapeutic implications of major drug categories, mechanisms of drug action, side effects of drugs, and the implications for nursing management.

Pathophysiology is a four-credit interprofessional course which provides a foundation of knowledge of common pathophysiologic conditions affecting adults and children and their clinical management.

Focuses on acquiring, analyzing, and refining of health assessment data to develop an accurate nursing problem list. Considers normal variations and abnormalities of different developmental, cultural, and ethnic groups. Introduces therapeutic communication, psychomotor skills, and interpersonal skills in providing care. The laboratory portion allows the student to practice assessment and clinical intervention skills in a simulated environment. Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Nurse Leader program.

This course provides the student with the theoretical knowledge necessary to provide basic safe and effective nursing care to adults and aging individuals. Clinical experiences focus on developing applying fundamental nursing skills.

This course provides opportunities for students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the unique biopsychosocial needs of growing children and adolescents, and their families. Clinical experiences in community-based and acute care settings focus on applying the principles of family-centered care and offer opportunities to provide nursing care to children and families that promotes health and prevents illness and injury.

This course provides students with opportunities to acquire the knowledge and clinical skills needed to provide safe and effective nursing care to adults experiencing acute illness. Clinical experiences in acute care settings focus on applying the principles of family-centered care and offer opportunities to provide nursing care focusing on health promotion as well as health protection and recovery from illness. Prereqs: GNUR 6010 & GCNL 5110.

This course encompasses the care of women through the lifespan with an emphasis on the childbearing period, spanning preconception planning and care through pregnancy, birth and family integration. The course presents the management of normal and high-risk pregnancy and explores the social, cultural, economic and other factors that impact the changing individual and family dynamics.

The course emphasizes application of concepts, theories and competencies that are the foundation for population-focused nursing practice in a community setting. Students have opportunities to engage in direct and/or indirect care to culturally diverse individuals, families, aggregates and communities.

The course provides an opportunity to learn and use bio-psychosocial concepts in the care of mentally ill of all ages and in a variety of hospital and community settings. The focus is on assessment strategies, plans of care, nursing interventions, medication management, and rehabilitative processes for individuals with a variety of acute and chronic mental health problems.

The course focuses on the use of the nursing process in the management of complex health problems, with particular emphasis on the collaborative and independent functions of the nurse in an intensive, specialty, and technologically advanced care environment.

This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired from previous courses during an intensive 224-hour experience. Students refine clinical skills in group patient care delivery, priority setting and decision-making, explore the nurse's role in the formal organization, progression of leadership roles & responsibilities, and to begin transition to leadership in professional nursing practice.

Introduces theories essential to nursing leadership in the contemporary health care system. Explores theories of change, complexity, horizontal leadership, microsystems, & decision-making & their relationship to nursing & the health care system. Course emphasizes self-assessment of leadership attributes. Course content provides an application of leadership skills to actual and/or simulated problems.

This core course provides an overview of nursing and health care related theory used for research and evidence based clinical practice. Students will focus on the specialized body of knowledge in the discipline of nursing and its contexts, historical perspectives, and interdisciplinary practice.

Students examine career, leadership, and practice environment issues and situations. Students expand their understanding of the legal context of practice and ability to advocate for needed change. Job acquisition skills including the development of a professional portfolio and formal leadership project proposal are focal points of the course.

Applies theories introduced in earlier courses that are essential to nursing leadership in the health care system. Explores the context of nursing in the health care system, ethical nurse leadership, and theories involving lateral integration of care and organizations. Emphasizes leadership attributes and theory in health care. Offers a framework for a analysis of the CNL role with application of leadership to actual and/or simulated problems.

This course is an intensive clinical experience in an area selected by the student. The experience allows for full implementation of the clinical nurse leader competencies and includes a strong interdisciplinary practice focus. A capstone project is required and will be presented in a poster session at the end of the course.