This essential graduate-level course prepares MSN students for advanced leadership roles in complex healthcare environments. It examines leadership theories, strategic decision-making, and the development, analysis, and implementation of health policy at organizational, state, national, and global levels. Students explore the intersection of leadership, policy, economics, ethics, and advocacy to influence healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes, […]

This core graduate-level course prepares MSN students to become competent consumers and contributors to nursing research and evidence-based practice (EBP). Students examine the research process, scientific inquiry, and methods for critically appraising, synthesizing, and translating evidence into clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on the integration of best available evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences to […]

This graduate-level course expands upon basic health assessment skills to prepare MSN students for advanced practice roles. It emphasizes comprehensive history-taking, advanced physical examination techniques, psychosocial and cultural assessments, and diagnostic reasoning across the lifespan. Students learn to integrate subjective and objective data, recognize normal variations and abnormal findings, formulate differential diagnoses, and document findings […]

This graduate-level course provides MSN students with an in-depth understanding of pharmacologic principles and the clinical application of drug therapy across the lifespan. Building on basic pharmacology knowledge, the course emphasizes pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, and the physiologic basis for drug action and interaction. Students will analyze major drug classifications, therapeutic uses, adverse effects, contraindications, monitoring […]

Course Description This graduate-level course builds upon undergraduate pathophysiology knowledge to provide an in-depth exploration of the biologic basis of disease in adults and children across the lifespan. Students examine alterations in cellular and tissue function, adaptive and maladaptive responses to stressors, and the pathogenesis, etiology, clinical manifestations, and complications of selected diseases. Emphasis is […]