LINDA R. CRONENWETT, Dean
Gwen Sherwood, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Jennifer D'Auria, Director of Master's Programs
Merle Mishel, Doctoral Program Faculty Leader
Linda Beeber (109) Psychiatric-Mental Health
Linda R. Cronenwett (105) Health Care Systems
Molly C. Dougherty (104) Women's Health
Anne Fishel (2) Psychiatric-Mental Health
Catherine I. Fogel (4) Women's Health
Sandra G. Funk (32) Psychology
Barbara Germino (49) Adult Health
Jean Goeppinger (89) Public Health and Community Practice
Joanne Harrell (54) Adult Health
Donna Havens (123) Health Care Systems
Diane Kjervik (103) Psychiatric-Mental Health
Barbara Mark (124) Health Care Systems
Margaret S. Miles (52) Children's Health
Merle Mishel (82) Adult Health
Mary Palmer (6) Adult Health, Gerontology
Susan Pierce (26) Health Care Systems
Margarete Sandelowski (64) Women's Health
Gwen Sherwood, Adult Health
Alice Boyington (108) Health Care Systems
Jennifer D'Auria (85) Children's Health
Virginia T. Davis (29) Children's Health
Edward Halloran (79) Health Care Systems
Cheryl Jones (112) Health Care Systems
Mary Lynn (84) Health Care Systems
Shirley Mason (12) Public Health and Community Practice
Chris McQuiston (100) Public Health and Community Practice
Virginia J. Neelon (13) Adult Health, Gerontology
Pamela Pletsch (7) Women's Health
Pamela Rowsey (44) Adult Health
Anne Skelly (99) Primary Care/Family Nurse Practitioner
Suzanne Thoyre (45) Children's Health
Marcia Van Riper (120) Children's Health
Debra Barksdale (122) Primary Care/Family Nurse Practitioner
Diane Berry (130) Adult Health
Susan Brunssen (125) Children's Health
Barbara Carlson (113) Adult Health, Gerontology
Janna Dieckmann (115) Public Health and Community Practice
Noreen Esposito (118) Women's Health
Mary Lynn Piven (110) Psychiatric-Mental Health
William Powell (113) Primary Care/Family Nurse Practitioner
Eleanor M. Browning (14)
Barbara Bunker (15)
Margaret E. Campbell (16)
Laurel A. Copp (22)
Jo Ann Dalton (23)
Mary C. Dowe (31)
Margery Duffey (42)
Cynthia M. Freund (17)
Bonnie K. Hensley
Carol C. Hogue (65)
Margaret F. Hudson (10)
Betty H. Landsberger
Patricia Lawrence (11)
Nancy Milio (28)
Helen M. Murphy (25)
Barbara C. Rynerson (19)
Ingrid Swenson
Eleanor Taggart
The master of science in nursing (MSN) program prepares nurses for advanced nursing practice with role preparation as a nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, and/or health care systems specialist.
The program of study varies from thirty-nine to forty-two credits of academic course work including clinical practice, an oral comprehensive examination, and a research project (or in some cases, a thesis). Students may pursue the MSN degree on a full-time or part-time basis. Dual programs of study may be developed on an individual basis, but involve a longer program of study.
The curriculum consists of four components: the professional core, the research core, the clinical core, and the advanced nursing practice specialty courses. The professional core courses (NURS 646, NURS 647) and research core courses (NURS 774, NURS 775, NURS 992 or 993) are required for all MSN students. The clinical core courses and advanced practice area courses focus on the student's selected area of specialization and role preparation.
The specialty areas offered by the program reflect a combination of current practice trends as well as available faculty resources. Content in specialty areas and the types of areas of specialization offered are adjusted based on these factors. In some advanced practice specialty areas, electives in nursing or other disciplines or courses to support a focus area are required. Each student is admitted to a specific advanced practice area and a faculty advisor helps design a program of study that is appropriate to the student's educational and career goals. Upon completion of the program, students are eligible to sit for national certification examinations appropriate to their advanced nursing area of preparation.
The current advanced practice areas include: adult nurse practitioner, health care systems (informatics, outcomes management, administration, education), children's health (pediatric nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist), primary care nursing (family nurse practitioner), psychiatric-mental health nursing, (clinical nurse specialist, and clinical nurse specialist-nurse practitioner), and women's health nursing (women's health care nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist). A rural community-oriented primary care option is available for family nurse practitioner students; this option requires an additional seven credits of course work beyond the forty required hours in the master's program. In addition, for students in the health care systems informatics option, dual MSN/MSIS and MSN/MSLS degree options are available through the School of Nursing and the School of Information and Library Science. An up-to-date listing of the advanced practice areas being offered and detailed descriptions of the curriculum for each specialty area may be accessed through the School of Nursing home page (nursing.unc.edu); click on "Academic Programs."
NURS 642 [142] HEALTH PROMOTION AND ILLNESS PREVENTION IN ADVANCED NURSING (2). Focuses on the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and identification of factors that impact health across the life span.
NURS 646 [146] HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN THE U.S.: DEVELOPMENT, IMPACTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSES (3). Examines health care systems development, impacts, and prospects for change. Content enables nurses to draw implications for nursing practice and advocacy for improving systems.
NURS 647 [147] APPROACHES TO ADVANCED PRACTICE INTEGRATING THEORIES, ROLES, AND ISSUES (3). Examines the historical evolution, theoretical roots, current roles, and context of advanced practice nursing. Content addresses the definition issues and scope of advanced practice nursing within a changing environment.
NURS 710 [200] DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (3). Explores developmental changes in morphological processes and normal and pathologic physiology in humans from conception through adolescence. Physiological differences between infants and children and adults are emphasized.
NURS 715 [230] PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FOR ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE (3). Examines the physiological and pathophysiological responses to injury-effects on cell function, host defense responses, maintenance of vital functions, and neuro-endocrine-immune responses.
NURS 720 [229] PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS IN ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE (3). Prerequisites, NURS 710 or NURS 715. Examines principles of pharmacotherapeutic decision making in advanced nursing practice with application to clinical management of common health problems specific to all age groups, encompassing a life-span approach.
NURS 725 [223] ADVANCED ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC REASONING IN NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC NURSING (4).Prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 710. Prepares the advanced practice neonatal/pediatric nurse to comprehensively assess neonates and children using a diagnostic reasoning process.
NURS 726 [226] ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC REASONING IN PRIMARY CARE NURSING (4). Prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 715. Examines the process of diagnostic reasoning as a framework to synthesize comprehensive assessment of adult patients. Course focuses on the clinical evaluation of common problems that are present in primary care settings.
NURS 727 [224] ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS IN PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING (4). Prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 715. Introduces students to the role of the advanced practice psychiatric/mental health nurse. Models for assessment, intervention, and evaluation are explored and tested clinically.
NURS 774 [274] RESEARCH FOR NURSING PRACTICE I (3). This two-course sequence explores the philosophy, logic, and methods of research and statistical analysis for use in clinical practice. This first course focuses on the relations between research and practice, the research process, and on nonexperimental designs.
NURS 775 [275] RESEARCH FOR NURSING PRACTICE II (3). Prerequisite, NURS 774. This two-course sequence explores the philosophy, logic, and methods of research and statistical analysis for use in clinical practice. This second course focuses on sampling, measurement, data management, experimental designs, and the use of data for improving practice.
NURS 810 [210] PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT OF ADULTS (3-4). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720; prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 726. Focuses on the management of illnesses common to young, middle, and older adults in ambulatory care.
NURS 811 [213] SELECTED ISSUES IN ADULT HEALTH (4). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810, or permission of the instructor. Provides the opportunity for an in-depth examination of management strategies with selected health problems in adults. Also examines issues inherent in the management of women and elderly populations.
NURS 812 [255] MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX HEALTH PROBLEMS IN ADULTS (4). Prerequisites, NURS 642, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810, NURS 811, or permission of the instructor. This capstone course focuses on the management of complex health problems in adult populations for the adult nurse practitioner.
NURS 819 [259] PRACTICUM IN PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT OF ADULTS (1-2). Prerequisite, completion of NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810. A precepted practicum in community-based ambulatory care settings that provides experiences in continuity of care in the delivery of personal health services to adult individuals and their families.
NURS 825 [212] SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (3). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810, or permission of the instructor. Uses a life span approach to examine principles of primary care management of childbearing couples and sexual reproductive health in women and men. Application is in community-based settings.
NURS 826 [292] INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY PRACTICE (2). Introduces fundamental concepts and models of community-oriented nursing practice and the central issues affecting that practice. Focuses on underserved and rural communities.
NURS 827 [211] CHILD HEALTH ISSUES IN PRIMARY CARE (3). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810; prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 642 or permission of the instructor. Examines the principles of assessment, management, evaluation, and continuing care of children in primary care settings. Developmentally appropriate, family-centered approaches and management of common medical problems are addressed.
NURS 828 [269] ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICUM IN COMMUNITY ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE (2). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810, NURS 825, NURS 827. Introduction to supervised clinical practice in primary health care with emphasis on use of history, physical examination, and laboratory data to plan interventions for promoting and restoring health.
NURS 830 [293] RURAL COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE (3). Introduces principles of community-oriented primary care with rural underserved populations: health assessment, program planning, and evaluation; culturally competent care; and effective and efficient practice management strategies.
NURS 833 [253] SPECIALTY CARE IN THE HEALTH OF WOMEN (4). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 720, NURS 726, NURS 810, NURS 825, or permission of the instructor. Focuses on the primary care of women with complex gynecological problems, reproductive complications, and socially derived health care problems. Emphasis is placed on assessment, diagnosis, management, and clinical decision making.
NURS 838 [254] HEALTH CARE IN WOMEN PRACTICUM (1-3). Prerequisites, NURS 715, NURS 726, NURS 810, NURS 825, NURS 833. This course gives the student a concentrated, experiential opportunity to provide advanced practice nursing in selected areas of women's health.
NURS 840 [242] ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN AMBULATORY PEDIATRIC NURSING (4). Prerequisites, NURS 710, NURS 720; prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 725. Focuses on ambulatory nursing management of children. Content includes health promotion, health maintenance, and common clinical symptomatology/problems in infants, children, and adolescents.
NURS 841 [241] FAMILY RESPONSES TO INFANT, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROBLEMS (2-3). Prerequisites, NURS 710, NURS 720, NURS 725, NURS 840, or permission of the instructor. Focuses on family responses to neonatal and pediatric health problems. Students function in an advanced practice nursing role, working with families of neonatal and pediatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.
NURS 842 [240] NURSING INTERVENTIONS WITH PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN (2-3). Prerequisites, NURS 710, NURS 720, NURS 725, NURS 840, or permission of the instructor. Prepares the advanced practice neonatal or pediatric nurse to design and implement a coordinated system of interventions that promote optimal health and development status for infants and children with psychophysiological health problems.
NURS 849 [244] CLINICAL PRACTICUM IN ADVANCED PEDIATRIC NURSING (1-5). Prerequisites, NURS 710, NURS 725, permission of the instructor. Supervised practicum in an advanced practice role in a selected health care setting that provides primary care and/or specialized health care to infants, children, or adolescents.
NURS 853 [258] MANAGEMENT OF THE CRITICALLY ILL INFANT (4). Prerequisites, NURS 710, NURS 720; prerequisite or corequisite, NURS 725. Prepares the advanced neonatal nurse to manage the high-risk neonate during the critical and convalescent phases of illness, including after hospital discharge.
NURS 859 [262] EXTERNSHIP IN THE ADVANCED NURSING MANAGEMENT OF THE HIGH-RISK NEONATE (1-5). Prerequisites, NURS 720, NURS 725, NURS 853 (or concurrent). The advanced neonatal nurse manages the health needs of a caseload of high-risk infants and their families under the supervision of an experienced nurse practitioner or physician.
NURS 860 [246] PSYCHIATRIC NURSING INTERVENTIONS WITH INDIVIDUALS (3). Prerequisite, NURS 727 or permission of the instructor. Focuses on theories, techniques, and research related to providing individual psychotherapy. Contextual factors affecting the delivery of psychiatric-mental health nursing services are analyzed.
NURS 861 [247] PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING INTERVENTIONS FOR FAMILIES (3). Prerequisites, NURS 727, NURS 860, or permission of the instructor. Students will analyze theories, techniques, and research relevant to therapy with families. Clinical placement with preceptors is used to apply knowledge.
NURS 862 [209] PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING INTERVENTION FOR GROUPS (1). Prerequisites or corequisites, NURS 727, NURS 860, or permission of the instructor. Students analyze and apply theories, techniques, and research relevant to therapy with groups. Clinical placement with selected preceptors provides opportunities for unique experiences.
NURS 863 [248] PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS (3). Prerequisites, NURS 727, NURS 860, NURS 861, or permission of the instructor. Utilizing epidemiology, psychoeducation, case management, and health policy, students examine the scope of mental health problems and services for underserved populations.
NURS 869 [278] PRACTICUM IN PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (1-3). Prerequisites, NURS 727, NURS 860, or permission of the faculty. Students apply knowledge and skill in selected domains of the advanced practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing. Supervision, peer evaluation, and independent readings will enhance the experience.
NURS 870 [117] HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS (3). Focuses on developing an understanding of the concepts relevant to health care informatics and the use of computerized information systems, as well as the use of computer applications to support clinical and administrative decision making.
NURS 871 [236] LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS (3). Examines: health care and nursing practice organizations; the influence of the external and internal environment on these organizations; and the role and relationship of nurse leaders to the nursing practice environment and to the greater organization.
NURS 872 [237] HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (3). Explores the knowledge and skills required for effective human resource management. Managerial behaviors that promote and maintain a professional nursing practice environment are emphasized.
NURS 873 [238] FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (3). Examines the issues of health care economics, financial management, and budgeting that relate to managerial decision making.
NURS 874 [239] OUTCOMES MANAGEMENT (3). Explores theories and methods related to outcomes management for quality improvement in health care, including improvement science, patient safety approaches, health services, research, evidence-based practice, and translation research.
NURS 875 [290] PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING APPLIED TO NURSING (3). Provides students who have had no previous teaching experience with educational principles necessary to teach nursing. Opportunities for observation and analysis of undergraduate instruction are provided.
NURS 876 [291] INNOVATIONS IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE CURRICULA (3). This course is designed to examine the curricular foundations and expectations of contemporary nursing and health care education in academic or clinical settings.
NURS 878 [243] NURSING MANAGEMENT RESIDENCY AND INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR (3). Prerequisites and corequisites: all required courses for the HCS specialty or concurrent enrollment in final HCS coursework. Students develop, implement, and evaluate managerial strategies related to the management of human and material resources, fiscal services, information systems, policy, quality outcomes, and/or physical facilities in an integrative fashion.
NURS 992 [392] MASTER'S PAPER (3).
NURS 993 [393] THESIS (3-6).
NURS 685 [185] CARE OF THE DYING AND BEREAVED THROUGHOUT THE LIFE SPAN (3). Students from a variety of health sciences-related disciplines gain an understanding of issues in working with dying and bereaved individuals of all ages and their families.
NURS 687 [187] ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING PRACTICE (2). Examination and discussion of major ethical issues arising in the professional practice of nursing in the context of systematic consideration of the nature of ethical choice.
NURS 703I [603] ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (3).
NURS 704 [204] SCIENTIFIC WRITING (1). Focuses on the principles and practice of scientific writing, with emphasis on research proposals, theses, research reports, dissertations, and articles for publication. Spring.
NURS 780I [608] MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGING DIABETES MELLITUS (2). This course examines the current issues involved in managing diabetes mellitus in persons over their life span. Contributions of the multidisciplinary team are an important theme throughout this course.
NURS 781 GENOMICS AND SOCIETY (3). This multidisciplinary course offers the student opportunity to gain a basic understanding of human genetics and explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of recent advanced in genetics.
NURS 782I [604] AGING AND HEALTH (DENT 604) (DPET 604I) (EPID 620I) (HMSC 904I) (MEDI 604) (PHYT904I) (PSYC 904I) (SOCI 824) (SOWO 604I) (3).
NURS 783I [607] AGING AND PUBLIC POLICY (DENT 607) (DPET 607I) (FMME 607) (HMSC 951I) (HPAA 961) (MEDI 607) (PSYC 907) (SOWO 607I) (3).
NURS 799 [113] SPECIAL PROBLEMS (Var.).
The discipline of nursing is concerned with the study of human experiences related to health, illness, and life transitions, as well as the professional practices that enhance well being, promote a healthful life, prevent injury and disease, facilitate recovery from and stimulate adaptive responses to illness and disability, ameliorate the negative effects of the treatment of disease, and promote a dignified and peaceful death. The PhD in nursing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing is designed to prepare scholars who will contribute to the science of nursing by expanding - generating, evaluating and disseminating - knowledge in these areas for use by nurses and others concerned with health care.
With changes in demography, advances in technology, and changes in the social and economic mandate for health care, the faculty of the School of Nursing has chosen to emphasize scholarship in the prevention and management of chronic health conditions across the lifespan. Of particular interest are populations at special risk for developing chronic health problems and for suffering more intense morbidity and early mortality because of them. These populations are vulnerable to severe manifestations of disease by virtue of such factors as age, gender, geography, history, race/ethnicity, biological markers of risk, and/or socioeconomic class. The prevention of chronic health conditions involves activities that promote health and prevent disease. The management of chronic health conditions involves, in turn, assisting people in: managing symptoms and side effects of diseases and their treatment; adjusting well to their emotional, family, social, and other sequelae; and living well with these conditions. Another priority area of study is the organizational context in which health services are delivered. This encompasses the study of the interactions among health care organizations, providers of care, processes of care, and recipients of care.
The PhD program in nursing emphasizes study of: (1) the understanding of health conditions in varying biographical, cultural, historical, clinical, ethical/legal, and organizational contexts; (2) practices to appraise health, improve health, and prevent health problems;, and (3) ways to evaluate the application of these practices in real-world settings across the continuum of care. Faculty help students link their clinical and research interests with the program emphasis. For example, students may focus their program of study on various kinds of chronic conditions, health-related social problems, or advanced biobehavioral measurement techniques. They may focus on studying and testing theories and concepts from nursing and other disciplines that address chronic conditions or the system of care. They may focus on population groups varying by gender, developmental level, race/ethnicity, or genetic predisposition. They may focus their study on specific theory-driven individual, family, or community-oriented interventions in the biobehavioral, psychosocial, psychoeducational, and/or technological domains. Or, they may focus on studies that seek to understand how to improve access to care, to investigate the effectiveness, costs, quality, and outcomes of organizational systems that provide services across the continuum of care.
The program emphasizes the value and capable use of a variety of methodological and analytic approaches from the biological, behavioral, and social sciences and the humanities; and interdisciplinary and participative collaboration with other scholars and affected populations. The overall goal of the program is to prepare competent, culturally sensitive, and compassionate scholars of nursing who will, through their active engagement with and passion for scholarship, contribute to the goal of a healthy nation.
Doctoral students can expect to take two or three years of course work, in addition to completing a dissertation. The curriculum includes four components: a required core curriculum; a dissertation; a minor or secondary area of study; and elective (optional) courses. Recommended curriculum components are listed below.
The doctoral curriculum is designed to increase the understanding of chronic illness prevention and management and the health care system. Methodological course work includes quantitative and qualitative research methods, statistics, measurement, health policy, and theory development. Students also take additional nursing courses and three courses outside of nursing that support the development of a specific focus on a particular age or gender group, population level (e.g., families, individuals, or communities), a particular response or intervention strategy, a particular disease entity, or nursing systems. Because of the rich resources available on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, courses are available in fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, epidemiology, health policy and administration, and physiology.
NURS 921 [335] THEORIES OF PREVENTION OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS (3). Overview of theory and research related to the prevention of chronic conditions across the life span. Concepts such as health, illness, chronicity, risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disability are examined. (On request.) Staff.
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NURS 922 [336] THEORIES OF MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS (3). Examines theories and concepts related to the management of chronic illness including their historical evolutions, social-political influences, implicit assumptions, and biases. (On request.)
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NURS 928 [279] ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES APPLIED TO NURSING (3). Examines contemporary issues and programs in nursing systems. Students use a four-level nursing systems model to analyze programs of research related to systems.
NURS 910 [281] KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING (3). Examines the origin and development of nursing knowledge, theories, and of research testing various nursing theories and models.
NURS 915 [352] NURSING, HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS, AND POLICY MAKING (3). Interrelated responses of nursing, the organization of health care and policy over nurse leaders to public policies in policy making, with consequences for organizations' administration, services, staffing, interorganizational linkages, and health of the public.
NURS 970 [370] ADVANCED STATISTICS I: PRINCIPLES OF REGRESSION AND CORRELATION (3). Principles of bivariate and multivariate regression and correlations are studied. Emphasis is on the application of these techniques in the analysis of nursing and health-related data.
NURS 971 [371] ADVANCED STATISTICS II: PRINCIPLES OF ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (3). Principles of variance and covariance - univariance ANOVA, multiple ANOVA, ANCOVA, repeated measures ANOVA - are studied. Emphasis is on application of these techniques in the analysis of nursing and health-related data.
NURS 976 [376] ISSUES IN SAMPLING AND DESIGN FOR NURSING RESEARCH (3). Discussion of critical analyses of methodologies and design. Quantitative measures, qualitative methods, design, and sampling are examined for the study of nursing phenomena.
NURS 977 [377] QUALITATIVE METHODS (3). Examines the philosophical orientation and methods of qualitative techniques including grounded theory and phenomenology, consideration of research designs, ethical issues, issues of rigor, data collection, and analysis.
NURS 978 [378] PRINCIPLES OF MEASUREMENT (3). Examination of measurement and techniques for assessing validity, reliability, and structure of data collection instruments. Instrumental construction and procedures for critical evaluation of instruments are included.
Six additional credits in the substance of nursing are required from those listed below.
NURS 899 [300] SPECIAL TOPICS IN NURSING (Var.). Topics directed by an authority in the field.
NURS 921 [335] THEORIES OF PREVENTION OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS (3). See above.
NURS 922 [336] THEORIES OF MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS (3). See above.
NURSE 928 [279] ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES APPLIED TO NURSING (3). See above.
NURS 930 [310] INFANTS AND CHILDREN AT RISK (3). Applies the developmental science perspective to children at risk for health problems. Students examine conceptual models, design, measurement, and ethical issues involved in preventing or ameliorating these health problems.
NURS 932 [339] FAMILIES AND HEALTH (3). Theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues related to family research, including health promotion, risk reduction, vulnerability, and health risk, in the context of acute and chronic illness across the life span. Staff.
NURS 933 [351] HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND PATIENT OUTCOMES: CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES (3). Examines literature on quality of care: effectiveness, safety, efficiency, equity, timeliness, and patient-centeredness. Critically evaluates conceptual frameworks, research designs, sources of data, analytic approaches, and implications for health care policy
NURS 957 [338] FROM THEORY TO INTERVENTION IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS (3). In-depth exploration of selected programmatic research in nursing and related fields on prevention and management of chronic conditions in order to generate and evaluate treatment theory and intervention protocol. Staff.
NURS 960 [384] PROSEMINAR IN NURSING (1-3). Proseminars are offered for one, two, or three credits. Topics differ each semester.
NURS 994 [394] DISSERTATION REGISTRATION (at least 6).
Fifteen credits in a minor or nine credits in a secondary area of study that supports the student's program are required. If a minor is declared, it must be in a department approved for the minor in the nursing doctoral program. A secondary area of study is an alternative to the minor and can be a cluster of courses from one or more departments. Minors and secondary areas of study are approved by the major advisor and the director of doctoral programs and an advisor from one of the other departments selected for study.
Elective (Optional) Courses
(Six credits required in these or other courses if minor is not done.)
NURS 950 [315] ANALYSIS OF THE ACADEMIC ROLE IN NURSING EDUCATION (3). Knowledge, theories, and skills necessary for transition into an academic teaching role in university schools of nursing. Particular emphasis on the teaching-learning process as used in higher education. Spring. Staff.
NURS 953 [353] ETHICS AND LAW IN HEALTH CARE AND RESEARCH (3). Addresses ethical/legal dilemmas in health care and research and how health professionals resolve dilemmas. Students analyze nurses' ethical/legal responsibilities, decision making, and synthesize literature from ethics, law, and policy.
NURS 958 [337] DESIGNING INTERVENTION STUDIES (3). Examination of methodological, ethical, and practical issues in the design and implementation of theory-based intervention studies. (Alternate years.) Staff.
NURS 961 INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW (3). Designed to develop students' skills in writing integrative literature reviews, students read method literature, issue literature, and examples of published integrative reviews.
NURS 979 [379] QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS (3). Emphasizes the work of analysis and interpretation. Students apply relevant qualitative techniques to their own data.
NURS 980 [380] OBSERVATIONAL METHODS (3). Explores quantitative observational research techniques. Strategies for developing coding systems, determining reliability and validity, and analyzing data are included.
NURS 981 [381] LONGITUDINAL METHODS AND ANALYSIS (3). Examines longitudinal research methods, including conceptualization, design, and analysis. Assumptions and limitations of longitudinal statistics, relationship between design and analyses, and strategies to maintain scientific integrity are covered.
NURS 985 [385] RESEARCH SEMINAR AND PRACTICUM: GUIDED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (3-5). Directs students to develop research skills related to the dissertation and to their future research.