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Nursing 600: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice
3 Credits
This course will incorporate theories from nursing and a wide range of fields. Course work will include critiquing and evaluating a variety of theories. Students will learn how to apply appropriate theories from nursing and related fields to provide high quality health care.

Nursing 610: Information Systems in Nursing and Health Care                   3 Credits
This course will center on management of today’s healthcare organization, through the intelligent use of information and information systems. Emphasis will be placed on the managerial role and integration of informational systems within an integrated health care delivery network from a nursing perspective.

Nursing 615: Human Diversity and Social Issues in Health Care
3 Credits
This course will aid in developing an understanding of cultural differences as it relates to the health status of client populations. Students will be expected to use principles of epidemiology to gather information as it relates to population based care. Students will understand how to perform an in depth community assessment that fosters a multidisciplinary approach to empowering client populations to attain and maintain maximal functional wellness. A variety of topics will be discussed including cultural competency, basic epidemiology principles, genderism, sexism, and racism.

Nursing 620: Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing and Health Care
3 Credits
This course is designed to emphasize the manager’s moral and legal responsibility to society to develop systems that allow the most cost effective health care to be provided to the entire population. Issues examined include the exclusion of segments of society from health care due to cost, duplication of health services in a community, and management of higher costs associated with chronic illnesses and increased longevity without reduction in the quality of care. Acquaints the student with the internal and external legal environment faced by health care providers. This course will look at malpractice, risk management, tort law and tort reform, OSHA regulations, construction, organizational charters, bylaws, rules and regulations, legal constraints on organizational management, laws affecting subsidiary corporations, tax law.

Subjects that often create controversial situations are reviewed such as living wills, organ donation, medical experimentation, harming and wronging patients, abortion, informed consent, etc.

Nursing 630: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
3 Credits
This course will provide nurses will a strong theoretical foundation in health promotion and illness prevention, and the maintenance of function across the health-illness continuum with clients: the individual, family, or community.

Nursing 640: Nursing Administration Practicum I
3 Credits
This course follows and builds upon the theories learned in the MBA 621 course. The course examines the functions, responsibilities of a nurse administrator. Emphasis will be placed upon the role of the nurse administrator and advanced practice nurses in regard to how health care systems are organized including community and population based systems. The delivery of health care will be examined in a variety of settings including acute, ambulatory care, managed, and integrated care.  Students will gain an understanding of the community and its organization and systems of care. Topics included will be related to community; components, assessments, and health care systems. Core content related to health promotion and disease prevention will be introduced here and then expanded in course Nursing 630 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. In addition, it will actualize the role of a nurse administrator/manager of systems; this will be accomplished by requiring a portion of the course to include a preceptorship with an existing nurse leader in either an acute care or community setting. Prequisites: MBA 527, 621, 686, Nurs 620.

Nursing 650: Research Utilization                        
3 Credits
This course is designed to focus on research design and analysis to examine, apply, and utilize nursing science. It is an overview of current issues in nursing knowledge development, which includes the process of research utilization. Students are prepared to conduct analytical critiques of research literature for scientific merit and to synthesize these critiques for application into practice. This includes understanding statistics, how data is stored and retrieved, the use of databases, and the ability to effectively write and communicate. Prerequisite graduate level statistics within 5 years of starting program

Nursing 660: Selected Issues in Nursing and Health Care Policy
3 Credits
Incorporating the principles of primary care, students will examine how health care policy is formulated, which, will include analyzing the policy research relevant to health care delivery, the legislative and regulatory processes and how these apply to the interaction of regulation and quality control. Trends and issues concerning health care public policy at levels will be exam

Nursing 680: Nursing Administration Practicum II
3 Credits
This course is designed to incorporate material from previous courses including Nursing 610. Students are expected to look specifically at incorporating aspects of research utilization into this project specifically issues related to health promotion and disease prevention. The capstone project requires that students put into practice what has been learned in the program. This project may be in the form of a thesis, project report, or presentation. Work completed in this project will be expected to be of publishable quality, and as such it is highly recommended that it be submitted for publication. Prerequisites: Nurs 640, 600, 610, 660, 650 615, 630

MBA 527: Economic Analysis in Healthcare Management
3 Credits
This course evaluates reimbursement strategies, social and political factors that affect the usage of health facilities and the payment of services, and changes in the patterns of health care providers. Budgeting and financial management are considered in relation to these issues. Trends in business forecasting that influence both non-profit and for-profit organizations are studied.

MBA 621: Organizational Theory, Behavior and Communication
3 Credits
Study of the organization (for-profit and non-profit) as a complex system: line and staff functions, administration - leadership styles, motivation and group dynamics–impact of each on the achievement of organizational goals.

MBA 686: HealthCare Professional Management Issues                             
3 Credits
This course is designed to address the current issues related to healthcare professionals and the inter-relationships between themselves and patients. This course looks at the functions of administrative staff, regulatory, managed care, and health care benefit changes. Positive political skills will be stressed.