This course will cover pathophysiologic processes across the lifespan and explore complex patient cases that are commonly encountered in a variety of practice settings. Healthy body physiology is explored to better understand disease processes. This course serves as the foundation to develop differential diagnoses and comprehensive treatment plans for patients, families and populations. Prereq: graduate standing or instructor permission.

Course provides clinical experiences with women & children that build on basic concepts & skills used by nurse practitioners in the delivery of primary health care including health promotion, risk reduction & management of common acute health problems. Direct guidance & supervision are provided by physicians & NPs at the clinical sites under the direction of the faculty. FNP complete GNUR 6640 & 6070; PNP-PC complete GNUR 6620 & GNUR 6651 coreq.

GNUR 6640 explores management of common reproductive and sexual health conditions, infections, and disorders of reproductive & post-reproductive aged people in primary care. Additional topics include reproductive physiology, contraception, preconception, & routine antepartum care of low-risk pregnant people as well as social and ethical challenges. Focus is on appropriate differential diagnoses, clinical reasoning, & treatment plan formulation.

Explores the biological correlates of psychiatric illnesses and examines neurostructural, neurochemical, psychopharmacologic processes relevant to psychiatric illnesses. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.

This course examines guideline-supported evidence for advanced disease management of the acute/critically/chronically ill adolescent and adult including the frail elderly. The course reinforces the case based learning approach for commonly encountered problems. The course examines advanced health promotion and disease prevention management strategies, and advanced approaches to evaluate outcomes of interventions.

This course offers advanced understanding of methods of testing effectiveness of nursing interventions. Research ethics are integrated in the course. Students examine research designs in terms of validity for assessing effectiveness of nursing interventions. The concept of statistical power is introduced, as students learn how to estimate and increase it via research design, sampling and sample size, measurement, and construct validity. Prereq:GNUR 8139 & coreq GNUR 8140, or instructor permission.

This course explores the philosophical issues underpinning scientific knowledge in nursing. Ontological and epistemological implications for the development of nursing knowledge will be explored. In the processes of analyzing and synthesizing, students will move through nursing's meta-paradigm to the major conceptual models and theories in nursing.

Broadens, and then refines through historical analysis, the student's view and understanding of the current health care system. Explores the role that historical inquiry and analysis play in understanding the evolution and status of the health care system; the development of health professions (nursing and medicine) and institutions (hospitals and public health services); and the interplay of intellectual, social, economic, and political events that shaped the current health system. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing or instructor permission.

In this course students will address the clinically relevant aspects of genetics and human genomics, embryology and developmental physiology. Students will examine clinical correlates to enhance their understanding and application of key concepts in practice.

This course examines guideline-supported evidence for introductory disease management of the acute/critically/chronically ill adolescent and adults including the frail elderly. The course utilizes a case based learning approach for commonly encountered problems. The course examines health promotion and disease prevention management strategies, and approaches to evaluate the outcomes of the planned interventions.