MSN Nursing Education Course

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills required to collect data related to assessment of the individual’s health status. Students conduct comprehensive evidence-based health assessments encompassing environmental, genetic, multicultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors. Students explore ways to adapt communication styles to meet specific needs of their audience. Attention is given to integration of data to guide the nursing process. Interprofessional communication, collaboration, and technologies to integrate and coordinate care are explored.

Focus on pathophysiology, symptomology, and etiology of commonly encountered acute and chronic clinical entities of children and adults. The student develops clinical reasoning skills that distinguish the relationships between normal physiology and specific system alterations produced by injury and disease. Particular attention will be given to etiology, pathogenesis, developmental and environmental influences, genetics and genomics, and clinical manifestations of major health problems.

This course is an examination of global health and the involvement of nursing in promoting healthy communities. The student will examine global health concepts, theories, epidemiology, and global demographics. Threats to health and wellness will be explored including environmental impact, disease, disasters, and violence. Students also build advanced skills in interprofessional collaboration used to improve patient and population outcomes. An emphasis will be placed on opportunities to influence health policy, social inequalities, and ethical principles.

This course provides graduate level students with advanced knowledge of physiological responses to drugs used in the treatment of disease. Issues of drug interactions, polypharmacy, drug misuse and abuse are explored. The student explores the nurse’s role in facilitating client compliance to treatment regimens. Interprofessional communication and collaboration are emphasized.

In this course, students will examine research methodologies for teaching and learning to improve outcomes. Students differentiate between various research designs and strategies, explore ethical and legal considerations of conducting research, and evaluate research information and its applications to enhance professional practice.

This course provides opportunities for students to apply appropriate theories of leadership and management and examine the characteristics of effective leaders. Students explore what it means to be a leader in today’s healthcare environment and incorporate evidence-based leadership practices in ethical decision making. The course provides review of finance, organizational structure, and budget. Students will explore effective working relationships from a system’s perspective in addition to analyzing quality and safety issues related to health outcomes. The student will examine opportunities and processes to serve as a change agent.

The focus of this course is to familiarize students with evidence-based teaching/learning theories and strategies in relationship to the needs of the adult learner. Students will discuss, review, and synthesize topics that impact all aspects of the learning environment. Students will apply content through critical analysis and development of an adult learning plan.

This course assists students to utilize available technologies for teaching in a variety of educational settings. Legal and ethical issues surrounding the virtual learning environment are explored. Evidence to support the use of technology in the educational environment will be examined.

This course focuses on the process of development, assessment, and evaluation of the curriculum. Within the context of curriculum development, accreditation standards, trends in professional nursing practice, evidence based educational research, economic, and policy issues are analyzed. Selected nursing and educational theories, educational research, principles and techniques of curriculum development are explored.

The course prepares students to transition from the primary care giver role to one of an educator in multiple settings. The students learn to actualize the roles of the nurse educator as facilitators, motivators, mentors, consultants, colleagues, collaborators, scholars, members of the academy, and advocates in academic and clinical settings with a focus on quality, safety, and evidence-based practice.

This course provides an opportunity for students to analyze, synthesize and utilize all prior courses in an educational environment. Students are mentored by preceptors in a clinical practicum component of the course who are experienced in educational roles in various settings.