 Description of Courses
| CGN 8001 |
Fundamentals for Nurse Educators: Pedagogical Design, Implementation, and Evaluation (3 units) (required for NFLP students)
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An examination of teaching and learning theory, the role of the nurse educator, the learning environment, curriculum development, and instructional design and evaluation for the classroom, simulation lab, and clinical practicum. Components and expectations of the academic workplace are also examined.
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| CGN 8002 |
Evidence and Innovation in Nurse Education (3units) (required for NFLP students)
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Focuses on the use of ecucational evidence, innovation for teaching and learning, and education continuous quality improvement. Topics include teaching in complex settings such as multicultural and multigenerational classrooms, educational technology, distance learning, and educational scholarship.
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| CGN 8010 |
Philosophy and Science for Nursing Practice
(3 units)
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This course focuses on an examination of the philosophical and scientific foundations which reflect the complexity of practice at the doctoral level including the development of nursing science and the phenomenon of concern to nursing practice; the principals of the biology of human structure, function and disease; behavioral and population science, including vulnerable populations; and middle range theories which support practice.
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| CGN 8020 |
Quality and Leadership in the 21st Century Health Care System (3 units)
(with clinical hours)
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This course focuses on an examination of quality improvement and cost effectiveness for clinical initiatives. Includes principals of business planning, business finance, health law, organizational theory, care delivery models, risk management, negotiation, and leadership especially with the care of vulnerable populations. Examines nursing s leadership role in shaping the health care system of the future.
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| CGN 8030 |
Clinical Scholarship, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice (3 units) (with clinical hours)
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This course focuses on an examination and strategies for clinical scholarship and research methods for critique and literacy focusing on epidemiology and evidence-based practice. Includes data base and policy development, databases evaluation, and quality and practice improvement. Includes population based research methods, outcome analysis techniques, and participative research.
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| CGN 8040 |
Transformational Information Systems for Health Care (3 units)
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This course focuses on an examination of information and technology systems which support research for evidence-based practice, quality improvement, outcome evaluation, best practices, management, and education. Principals for selecting and evaluating information systems, and the ethical, regulatory, and legal issues which surround information technologies.
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| CGN 8050 |
Social Justice, Health Care Advocacy, and Policy in Nursing Practice (3 units) |
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This course examines nursing s role in the care of underserved and vulnerable populations. Includes concepts of social justice, health care advocacy, and policy formation and implementation. Examines the structure and function of legislative and regulatory organizations, governance, public relations, and global health care issues.
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| CGN 8060 |
Outcome Based Collaboration and Collaborative Models (3 units)
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This course examines the role, scope, practice, and culture of different health care professions with a focus on building multidisciplinary collaborative teams. Collaborative communication patterns and synergistic decision making will be examined in the context of the interprofessional dimensions of health care and health care organizations focusing on the care of vulnerable populations.
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| CGN 8070 |
Population Based Prevention in Vulnerable Populations (3 units)
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This course examines comprehensive surveillance, prevention, and health promotion approach with underserved and vulnerable populations based on community health and vulnerable population theory. Focuses on the use of epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, geographic, genetic, behavioral, and socioeconomic data to design, develop, and implement interventions to improve health care access and address gaps in care.
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| CGN 8080 |
Care Delivery Improvement: Models and
Strategies (3 units) (with clinical hours) |
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This course focuses on the assessment of individuals, families, populations, including vulnerable populations, and organizations within traditional and innovation care delivery models and settings, using clinical epidemiology and reasoning, systems for leveling evidence, and ethics. Also included is the development of strategies and protocols that reflect nursing s accountability and the highest level of nursing care.
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| CGN 8090 |
Clinical Project (6 units)
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This course focuses on the completion of a clinical immersion experience and independent evidence-based project in a vulnerable population which provides an illustration of the essential competencies of the practice doctorate.
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