Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing 553 of healthcare that will include patient safety, quality, and risk management data over time. This course will utilize performance improvement tools that provide analysis and assist in managing healthcare organization. (3 credit hours) NSG 5492—Executive Nurse Leadership Capstone Students analyze, synthesize, and utilize all prior courses in a practice environment. The course provides an opportunity to combine beginning research skills, theoretical knowledge, and professional nursing experience to engage in graduate-level nursing activities in a specialty area. In this learning experience, the student implements a project that reflects their mastery of all program outcomes. (3 credit hours) NSG 5502—Advanced Health Assessment This course is required core content for students in the advanced practice specialization tracts. This course builds upon baccalaureate knowledge and clinical mastery of health and physical assessment. Comprehensive physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural assessments of individuals across the lifespan are emphasized. Clinical disease prevention and population health promotion are incorporated into the assessment process. Assessment criteria are appreciated as underpinnings of differential diagnoses and plans of care. (3 credit hours) NSG 5510—Advanced Pharmacology Students develop an advanced understanding of pharmacologic principles, which includes the cellular response level. This area of core content includes pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacogenomics of broad categories of pharmacotherapeutics agents. The purpose of this content is to provide the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, manage, and prescribe the appropriate pharmacologic agents in common health problems with a safe, exceptional quality, and in a cost-effective manner. (3 credit hours) NSG 5531—Advanced Pathophysiology This course presents an in-depth, systems-based approach to pathophysiological concepts, including principles of cellular function, genetic principles, and diseases of major organ systems that affect homeostasis across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the foundational learning requirements for advanced nursing practice, including patient assessment, clinical decision-making, patient education, use of information technology, and systems management skills. The structure and function of pathophysiological processes and diseases are investigated with use of current evidence-based resources in relation to epidemiology, disease states, and changes associated with diverse populations and cultural influences. (3 credit hours) NSG 5532—Neurobiology Psychopharmacology This course lays the groundwork for advanced practice nurses caring for individuals with mental disorders and/or substance use disorders. The course builds on fundamental knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology, reflecting current scientific knowledge of the neurobiology of serious mental illness. The course will focus on the application of psychopharmacology to clinical problems and factors underlying causality of these disorders, such as genetic or genomic factors, injury, trauma, and infection, as well as nerve degeneration. The complex networks involved in maintaining homeostasis between the brain and body will be examined. Also considered are indications for use of psychotropic medications, informed consent, and patient adherence strategies. (3 credit hours) NSG 5542—Primary Care Adult I This course focuses on the theoretical concepts of health promotion and disease prevention in adults in the primary care setting. This course examines acute illnesses and initial presentation of diseases the advanced practice nurse will see in primary care. Students will develop a systematic approach to evaluation and management of common conditions encountered. Content builds upon previous knowledge and clinical reasoning in the development of appropriate differential diagnoses, diagnostic modalities, and treatment and management plans. Individualized, evidence-based treatment and management plans are implemented by the advanced practice nurse. (6 credit hours) NSG 5550—Primary Care Adult II This course focuses on the theoretical concepts of health promotion (tertiary) prevention in adults in the primary care setting. This course examines chronic diseases and comorbid presentation of diseases the advance practice nurse will see in primary care. Students will develop a systematic approach to evaluation and management of common conditions encountered. Content builds upon previous knowledge and clinical reasoning in the development of appropriate differential diagnoses, diagnostic modalities, and treatment and management plans. Individualized evidence-based treatment and management plans are implemented by the advanced practice nurse. (6 credit hours) NSG 5560—Primary Care Women This course focuses on the development of the domains and competencies of the FNP, providing evidence-based healthcare for culturally diverse female patients and their families in the primary care setting. Knowledge of advanced health assessment, pharmacology, and pathophysiology are synthesized in the interprofessional management and evaluation of health promotion, health prevention, and disease management. (3 credit hours)
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