University of Colorado College of Nursing

 This course explores innovative and integrative nursing and disease management care models within the context of today's health care delivery system.  The course focuses on the individual's and the agency's accountability, interdisciplinary collaboration, timeliness and continuity of care and cost effectiveness.  National standards and industry benchmarks are reviewed and used to guide quality improvement initiatives.  This course includes 135 hour clinical experience to cement the didactic content of the course.  Students will work in a disease management or population management department and develop skills in complex care planning, stratification of populations, organizational assessment, program development and evaluation.  Clinical settings may include hospitals, clinics, community health care agencies, nursing centers, hospices, homeless shelters or home care agencies.

This course focuses on using research and evidence sources, clinical judgment and patient values and preferences in practice.  Advanced skills in critical appraisal and knowledge of organizational culture and change theory are emphasized to support implementation of evidence-driven clincial decisions by the advanced practice nurse.

This course builds on an overview course on nursing philosophy and theory, and focuses on the application of theories in nursing and other disciplines to guide practice and design transformative models of health care.  Grand, middle-range and practice level theories will be analyzed for their application potential and students will develop models for practice in their specialty area based on these theories.

Ways of knowing about the human experience of health and illness and the nature and scope of knowledge will be explored.  A narrative approach is used to uncover, describe and interpret the meaning of health, illness and nursing practice.

Addresses cultural perspectives on clinical care, including the frameworks and methods used successfully by advanced practice nurses to assess cultural preferences, express expectations, negotiate treatment plans and modify care to accommodate provider-patient differences and patient and family expectations.

 This introductory course focuses on core concepts, skills, tools that define the informatics field and the examination of health information technologies to promote safety, improve quality, foster consumer-centered care and efficiency.

A course in emerging therapies and healing traditions is based on the wisdom of indigenous and alternative health care around the world. Advances in application of healing modalities will be introduced including nano technology and vibrational therapies. Integration of knowledge and holistic nursing practice will be emphasized.

This is an intermediate-level statistics course for nursing graduate students. Topics covered include: correlation, prediction and regression, hypotheses testing, t-tests, ANOVA and ANCOVA. Material is made relevant to nursing by use of nursing research studies as examples.

Students prepare for the DNP capstone clinical project by completing human subject preparation, discussing ethical conduct of clinical research, selecting an appropriate design and method and planning for subject recruitment and site selection.

Develop and demonstrate leadership expectations within the framework of doctor of nursing practice role by application of clinical evaluation science to create, implement and evaluate practice interventions, health delivery systems and/or clinical teaching.

Following completion of NUDO 7018 proposal the emphasis in this course is the collection, management, analysis, synthesis and discussion of research or evaluation data on a clinical research or evidence-based practice question.

This course provides the student with an overview of key leadership principles for creating strategy and managing teams in a new venture. It introduces leadership concepts critical to gaining true organizational commitment and focuses on case studies relevant to common business issues. By exploring what entrepreneurial leaders actually do and how they do it, the student will examine the principles of strategic planning and how visionary leadership is required to develop an organization that is able to execute the strategy through measurable goals and objectives.