Course Descriptions
NURS 501 Advanced Professionalization I
Focuses on socialization to the roles and responsibilities related to advanced practice nursing. Explores applicability of nursing theory to advanced practice nursing.
NURS 508 Advanced Nursing Practice: Systems
Provides an understanding of the context in which health services are managed and delivered. Explores social, ethical, and political issues affecting current and future nursing care delivery systems. Examines cost effectiveness of nursing care in a variety of settings.
NURS 509 Advanced Nursing Practice: Community
Examines basic principles, processes, and methods of program planning for health education and health promotion programs utilized by advanced practice nurses. Analyzes community assessment techniques to diagnose and prioritize health needs/problems and to plan, provide and evaluate care for individuals, families and population groups in conjunction with community-based organizations.
NURS 512 Advanced Nursing Science
Focuses on theory and research in advanced practice with aim of critique and utilization of current theories and findings/outcomes. Emphasizes analysis and synthesis of nursing science in the context of relevant programs, practice problems, issues, and concerns. Reviews major research design and analytic strategies.
NURS 601 Advanced Professionalization II
Facilitates enactment of selected advanced practice role following graduation from the program. Focuses on issues influencing implementation of selected advanced practice role.
NURS 620 Theoretical Perspectives of Community Health Nursing
Reviews and critically analyzes theoretical underpinnings of community health nursing, public health pratice, and behavior change. Describes the differences among community level interventions, family and group level interventions, and individual level interventions for behavior change. Explores various methods of community assessment, and describes community development, structure and organization. Relationships among community health needs, health services, resources, community health policy and community health indices are examined.
NURS 655 Nurse as Integrative Leader
Explores central theories and practice of leadership with emphasis on implications for the advanced practice nurse. Explores student's capacity for leadership, including contemporary contexts and personal propensities, strengths and deterrents to effective leadership practice. Includes learning experiences designed to enhance student's self-understanding as leader and provide culturally diverse urban arena for practicing emerging competencies. Requires an action plan designed, in consultation with faculty mentor, to systematically improve leadership skills.
NURS 689 Integrative Systems Practicum
Focuses on the application of nursing knowledge within the integrative systems specialties with a targeted population in a variety of settings. These settings may include health care and community organizations. Provides opportunities for achievement of competencies in advanced nursing practice through faculty-supervised clinical experiences with a preceptor. Allows for the practicum to be planned in relation to the student's area of interest and role preparation. Focuses on the evaluation of specific outcomes determined by the faculty and student. Provides an opportunity for practice to be repeated with either an additional population or at a more advanced level.
EPID 571 Principles of Epidemiology
Offers the theoretical foundation for understanding the health problems and needs of American society and uses scientific and social knowledge to examine factors that cause and alter the course of health problems in selected populations.
EPID 600 Introduction to Public Health
Describes the public health system in the United States. Explores the disease prevention and philosophy and foundations of public health management, economics, law, ethics and education. Examines the use of epidemiology and statistics to determine personal, environmental, and occupational health problems.
EPID 603 Public Health Policy and Politics
Provides an understanding of the public health policy development process, the influence of politics and special interest groups on this process, and current governmental policies for the provision of major public health services. The legislative process is a major focus of the course.
EPID 604 Principles of Occupational and Environmental Health II
Basic principles of occupational and environmental health are presented, with emphasis on biological, chemical, and physical factors that influence human health. Current workplace and public health safety and regulatory issues are emphasized.
EPID 605 Epidemiology of Health Behaviors
Provides an overview of the epidemiology of specific health-related behaviors, the relationships between these behaviors and health outcomes, and available evidence for the effectiveness and appropriateness of various approaches to modification of these behaviors. This material will be covered in the contexts of theories of health-related behavior and of methodological issues concerning the assessment of these behaviors and their relationships to outcomes of interest. The applicability of this material to underserved populations will be emphasized. The course format, as far as possible, will be that of an interactive seminar.
EPID 606 Epidemiologic Methods II
This course focuses on examining the design, conduct and analysis of major epidemiologic studies and the methods to deal with the problems of bias, confounding, and effect modification; using multivariate modeling techniques in epidemiology focusing on applications of logistic regression and Cox regression models to answer relevant research questions; solving meta-analytic problems using fixed and random effects models; understanding specific research areas of disease screening and exposure assessment; writing a research paper resulting from epidemiologic analyses of a large data set.
EPID 691 Program Research Project
Each student will complete a research project that demonstrates the application of the knowledge acquired in the MPH Program. The student will answer one or more relevant research questions. The final product is a scholarly written report of publishable quality. A proposal must be submitted for approval and credits are assigned commensurate with the complexity of the project. Arrangements are made directly with the faculty adviser. Graded as "S," "U" or "F."
BIOS 543/EPID 543/STAT 543 Statistical Methods I
Basic concepts and techniques of statistical methods, including: the collection and display of information, data analysis, and statistical measures; variation, sampling, and sampling distributions; point estimation, confidence intervals, and tests of hypotheses for one and two sample problems; principles of one-factor experimental design, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple comparisons; correlation and simple linear regression analysis; contingency tables and tests for goodness of fit. Students may not receive degree credit for both STAT 541 and STAT 543. STAT 543 is not applicable toward the M.S. degree in mathematical sciences or the M.S. degree in computer science.
HADM 602/EPID 602 Health System Organization, Financing and Performance
Examines the structure, functioning and financing of the U.S. health services system. Emphasizes foundational concepts for understanding and analyzing patterns of health and illness; health care cost, quality, access and utilization; workforce; competition in health care markets; and supplier, provider and payer effectiveness and efficiency. |
