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2601NURS625Issues in Psychiatric Mental Health Primary Care
A course covering special topics important to Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner primary care practice. Topics include but are not limited to cultural approaches to mental health care, addressing gender issues across the life span, crisis intervention, addiction and substance abuse, and geriatric psychiatry. Legal and ethical issues important to the psychiatric mental health practitioner role are integrated. The course includes cases for assessing, diagnosing, and intervening in a variety of psychiatric disorders.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2602NURS631Classroom Instruction and Evaluation
Learning theories, models, concepts, strategies, and technical innovations for classroom instruction and evaluation are examined. Test design, construction, blue printing, and analysis are included. Elements of this course may be met through attendance at off-site approved educational conferences for nurse educators.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2603NURS635Issues in Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Technology
This course examines Christian perspectives and legal and ethical frameworks for leading in healthcare settings and ensuring equitable, quality, and safe patient care. Course content includes: addressing organizational and systems issues through collaboration with interdisciplinary groups and using technology and data effectively to evaluate and promote system functions and inform leadership and patient-care decisions.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2604NURS635Issues in Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Technology
This course examines Christian perspectives and legal and ethical frameworks for leading in healthcare settings and ensuring equitable, quality, and safe patient care. Course content includes: addressing organizational and systems issues through collaboration with interdisciplinary groups and using technology and data effectively to evaluate and promote system functions and inform leadership and patient-care decisions.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2605NURS638Advanced Nursing Leadership and Role Development
The role of the nurse executive or manager within the managed care system is examined through analyses of selected leadership, management, and nursing theories. The concepts derived from these analyses are applied to the various role functions (leader, strategic planner, organizer, facilitator, evaluator). Leadership principles, safety, continuous quality improvement, technology, innovation, human resources management, teamwork, collaboration, negotiation skills, marketing, and strategic planning are emphasized.

Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2606NURS640Primary Care of Adults I
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NURS 650.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2607NURS640Primary Care of Adults I
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NURS 650.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2608NURS640Primary Care of Adults I
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NURS 650.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2609NURS641Practicum: Area of Clinical Emphasis
An individualized clinical practicum in the specific area of clinical emphasis chosen by the student designed to foster growth in clinical expertise and enrich the nurse educator role. Ninety clock hours of practice. (Pass/Fail)

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2610NURS643Educator Role Practicum: Area of Clinical Emphasis
Opportunities for application of educational strategies in classroom and clinical settings that apply to the student area of clinical emphasis. Includes exposure to other educator roles in a variety of settings. (135 clock hours)

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2611NURS645Practicum I: Primary Care of Adults
Clinical practicum in the differential diagnosis and management of common and chronic adult and gerontologic health problems. Includes skills intensives for clinical procedures. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2612NURS645Practicum I: Primary Care of Adults
Clinical practicum in the differential diagnosis and management of common and chronic adult and gerontologic health problems. Includes skills intensives for clinical procedures. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2613NURS645Practicum I: Primary Care of Adults
Clinical practicum in the differential diagnosis and management of common and chronic adult and gerontologic health problems. Includes skills intensives for clinical procedures. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 300 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2614NURS645Practicum I: Primary Care of Adults
Clinical practicum in the differential diagnosis and management of common and chronic adult and gerontologic health problems. Includes skills intensives for clinical procedures. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2615NURS648Clinical and Simulation Instruction in Nursing
A course designed to address evidence-based approaches to constructing and conducting meaningful clinical and simulation learning experiences for nursing students. Two hours didactic and one hour clinical (60 clock hours)

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2616NURS648Clinical and Simulation Instruction in Nursing
A course designed to address evidence-based approaches to constructing and conducting meaningful clinical and simulation learning experiences for nursing students. Two hours didactic and one hour clinical (60 clock hours)

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2617NURS649Practicum: Innovative Distance Instruction in Nursing
Models, concepts, and strategies for innovative distance education are implemented in live nursing courses. Students assess educational platforms, learning management systems, current technological trends, and synchronous vs asynchronous online classroom instruction while managing content delivery, course activities, and student evaluation. (135 clock hours).

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2021 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2618NURS650Primary Care of Adults II
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NRSG 640.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2619NURS650Primary Care of Adults II
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NURS 640.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2620NURS650Primary Care of Adults II
Primary care course emphasizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care of well and ill individuals across the adult lifespan. Concepts of health promotion, pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment are integrated throughout. Acute and chronic health problems related to specific body systems are studied. Diagnostic tests are reviewed. Differential and actual diagnoses are discussed based on client presentation. Management plans are formulated based on standards of practice and best evidence. May be taken prior to or after NURS 640.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2621NURS652Practicum I: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will utilize advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 350 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2622NURS652Practicum I: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will utilize advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2019 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2623NURS652Practicum I: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will utilize advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2624NURS652Practicum I: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will utilize advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2625NURS653Practicum II: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Continuing clinical practicum experience that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will develop advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2626NURS653Practicum II: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Continuing clinical practicum experience that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will develop advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 350 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2627NURS653Practicum II: Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Continuing clinical practicum experience that promotes competence for entry into the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner role. The student will develop advanced practice knowledge and skills in providing competent care and managing chronic and acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2628NURS654Practicum: Advanced Nursing Leadership
Leadership practicum that promotes competence for entry into nursing leadership roles in middle or upper management. Students are mentored by nursing leaders in mid to top level administrative positions at a healthcare facility. Involvement in routine management activities and special projects related to quality improvement and safety, information management, communication and collaboration, financial and policy decision-making, and systems evaluation are expected. Includes a minimum of 120 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2629NURS654Practicum: Advanced Nursing Leadership
Leadership practicum that promotes competence for entry into nursing leadership roles in middle or upper management. Students are mentored by nursing leaders in mid to top level administrative positions at a healthcare facility. Involvement in routine management activities and special projects related to quality improvement and safety, information management, communication and collaboration, financial and policy decision-making, and systems evaluation are expected. Includes a minimum of 120 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2630NURS655Practicum II: Primary Care of Adults
A continuation of clinical practicum with emphasis on the differential diagnosis and management of the more complex common, acute, and chronic physical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental adult and gerontologic health problems. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 300 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2631NURS655Practicum II: Primary Care of Adults
A continuation of clinical practicum with emphasis on the differential diagnosis and management of the more complex common, acute, and chronic physical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental adult and gerontologic health problems. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2632NURS655Practicum II: Primary Care of Adults
A continuation of clinical practicum with emphasis on the differential diagnosis and management of the more complex common, acute, and chronic physical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental adult and gerontologic health problems. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2633NURS657Acute Care Concepts and Skills I
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adult. Emphasis is placed on use of evidence-based guidelines and development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for management of specific complex disease processes. Development of frameworks for independent and collaborative patient care management are explored.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2634NURS657Acute Care Concepts and Skills I
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adult. Emphasis is placed on use of evidence-based guidelines and development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for management of specific complex disease processes. Development of frameworks for independent and collaborative patient care management are explored.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2635NURS657Acute Care Concepts and Skills I
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adult. Emphasis is placed on use of evidence-based guidelines and development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for management of specific complex disease processes. Development of frameworks for independent and collaborative patient care management are explored.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2636NURS659Acute Care Concepts and Skills II
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adult not covered in NURS 657. Emphasis is placed on use of evidence-based guidelines and development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for management of specific complex disease processes.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2637NURS659Acute Care Concepts and Skills II
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adults not covered in NURS 657. Emphasis is placed on the use of evidence-based guidelines and the development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for the management of specific complex disease processes.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2638NURS659Acute Care Concepts and Skills II
This acute care course emphasizes complex concepts and skills needed to care for the acute and critically ill hospitalized adults not covered in NURS 657. Emphasis is placed on the use of evidence-based guidelines and the development of advanced understanding and clinical judgment for the management of specific complex disease processes.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2639NURS661Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
This course uses core curriculum materials to address the unique needs of aging adults. Issues of aging, special approaches to care of geriatric patients, geriatric syndromes, diseases and disorders, and systems of geriatric care are addressed. Focus is on nurse practitioner roles promoting safety and quality care for aging adults within these systems.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2640NURS661Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
This course uses core curriculum materials to address the unique needs of aging adults. Issues of aging, special approaches to care of geriatric patients, geriatric syndromes, diseases and disorders, and systems of geriatric care are addressed. Focus is on nurse practitioner roles promoting safety and quality care for aging adults within these systems.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2641NURS662Primary Care of Children
Theoretical concepts in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the assessment, health promotion, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on developmental needs and the pathophysiologic stressors as well as the impact of the family on the health of the child.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2642NURS662Primary Care of Children
Theoretical concepts in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the assessment, health promotion, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on developmental needs and the pathophysiologic stressors as well as the impact of the family on the health of the child.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2643NURS663Practicum: Primary Care of Children
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts and development of skills in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the diagnosis and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Includes a minimum of 150 hours of clinical practice. May be used in combination with adult practicum courses to fulfill practicum requirements for FNP emphasis.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2644NURS663Practicum: Primary Care of Children
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts and development of skills in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the diagnosis and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice. May be used in combination with adult practicum courses to fulfill practicum requirements for FNP emphasis.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2645NURS663Practicum: Primary Care of Children
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts and development of skills in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the diagnosis and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice. May be used in combination with adult practicum courses to fulfill practicum requirements for FNP emphasis.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2646NURS663Practicum: Primary Care of Children
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts and development of skills in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in infants, children, and adolescents including the diagnosis and therapeutic management of common acute and chronic health problems. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice. May be used in combination with adult practicum courses to fulfill practicum requirements for FNP emphasis.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2647NURS664Practicum: Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts related to care of the aging adult with common, acute, chronic, and complex healthcare needs. Includes a minimum of 150 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2648NURS664Practicum: Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts related to care of the aging adult with common, acute, chronic, and complex healthcare needs. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2649NURS664Practicum: Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts related to care of the aging adult with common, acute, chronic, and complex healthcare needs. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2650NURS664Practicum: Geriatric Primary and Long-term Care
Clinical practicum that promotes application of theoretical concepts related to care of the aging adult with common, acute, chronic, and complex healthcare needs. Includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 08 ($150), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2651NURS665Practicum I: Primary Care of Families
A continuation of clinical practicum with emphasis on the differential diagnosis and management of the more complex common, acute, and chronic physical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental adult and gerontologic health problems. Precepted by nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers in out-patient, in-patient, clinics, acute and chronic care facilities. Includes a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 5, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2652NURS670Practicum II: Primary Care of Families
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into advanced practice in health promotion/disease prevention; management of patient illness across the lifespan; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching function; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting acute and chronic physical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental needs of patients and families across the lifespan. Includes a minimum of 300 hours clinical practice.

Credits: 5, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2653NURS671Practicum I: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 225 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2654NURS671Practicum I: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2655NURS671Practicum I: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2656NURS671Practicum I: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2657NURS673Practicum II: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 225 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2658NURS673Practicum II: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2659NURS673Practicum II: Acute Care of Adults
Clinical practicum that promotes competence for entry into acute care adult/gerontology practice utilizing advanced practice roles of: health promotion/disease prevention; management of complex acute and chronic illness of adult and gerontologic patients; nurse-patient relationships; teaching-coaching functions; professional roles; managing and negotiating healthcare delivery; quality assurance; and meeting physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of adult and gerontologic patients and their families who are experiencing complex acute, critical, or chronic illness. Includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2660NURS684Preparation for MSN Capstone
This course is required of all MSN students prior to taking NURS 694 MSN Capstone. Students will define a practice problem for their capstone project, develop a clearly stated PICO question, identify an emphasis for the project (research assistant, literature review, or educational offering), submit a capstone proposal for topic approval, and meet with their assigned capstone advisor to establish an appropriate timeline for the completion of their project.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2018 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2661NURS684Preparation for MSN Capstone
This course is required of all MSN students prior to taking NURS 694 MSN Capstone. Students will define a practice problem for their capstone project, develop a clearly stated PICO question, identify an emphasis for the project (research assistant, literature review, or educational offering), submit a capstone proposal for topic approval, and meet with their assigned capstone advisor to establish an appropriate timeline for the completion of their project.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2662NURS684Preparation for MSN Capstone
This course introduces students to the structure, expectations, and requirements of the MSN Capstone. Students will learn key components of the Capstone process through exemplars, templates, and guided activities. The course supports effective preparation for and timely completion of Capstone requirements.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2026 — Indefinite)     Future (2026-01-01)

Proposal — Workflow Step: Chair, Nursing
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingReview
2663NURS685Role Development for Advanced Practice
This course emphasizes professional employment, certification, and credentialing issues of concern to those in advanced practice. Students demonstrate synthesis of graduate level competencies through compilation of a professional portfolio. Course should be taken in the last semester of the graduate program.

Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2664NURS685Role Development for Advanced Practice
This course emphasizes professional employment, certification, and credentialing issues of concern to those in advanced practice. Students demonstrate synthesis of graduate-level competencies through the compilation of a professional portfolio. The course must be taken in one of the last two semesters of the graduate program.

Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2665NURS687Graduate Nursing Program Finalization
This course is required of all graduate nursing students in the semester of anticipated graduation and program completion. Students will complete an application to graduate and submit their completed professional portfolio for review and final approval.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2018 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2666NURS687Master's Nursing Program Finalization
This course is required of all master's nursing students in the semester of anticipated graduation and program completion. Students will complete an application to graduate and submit their completed professional portfolio for review and final approval.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2667NURS687Master's Nursing Program Finalization
This course is required of all master's nursing students in the semester of anticipated graduation and program completion. Students will complete an application to graduate, as well as take a certification readiness exam, as deemed by emphases.

Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2668NURS690MSN Capstone Continuance
Mandatory course for the student requiring additional time beyond one semester to complete MSN capstone. The student must register for this course each semester until the capstone course requirements are met and a grade has been issued. (Pass/Fail)

Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2669NURS694MSN Capstone
The student applies research evidence within their given practice setting in an effort to resolve practice problems using translational and transformative processes to improve practice quality and outcomes. Student research and writing activities in this final culminating experience in the MSN program are supervised by a research mentor. Should be taken in last semester of graduate studies.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 06 ($90), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2670NURS695Independent Study
Individual study and research under the supervision of the graduate faculty. Only two independent studies (a total of no more than six hours) are allowed to apply toward a student's degree.

Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2671NURS705DNP Seminar
Mandatory course for all DNP students aimed at fostering professional growth in advanced practice and meeting DNP competencies. Course is conducted annually in the fall as a face-to-face, on-campus intensive. Attendance and registration is mandatory each fall semester until the DNP program is completed. Course will be repeated.

Credits: 0 - 1, Lab Fee 09 ($180), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2672NURS705DNP Seminar
Mandatory course for all DNP students aimed at fostering professional growth in advanced practice and meeting DNP competencies. Course is conducted annually in the fall as a face-to-face, on-campus intensive. Attendance and registration is mandatory each fall semester until the DNP program is completed. Course will be repeated. Must have a minimum of 2 hours. Additional credits above the 2 hours may be used as elective hours. PASS/FAIL

Credits: 0 - 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2673NURS705DNP Seminar
Mandatory course for all DNP students aimed at fostering professional growth in advanced practice and meeting DNP competencies. Course is conducted annually in the fall as a face-to-face, on-campus intensive. Attendance and registration is mandatory each fall semester until the DNP program is completed. Course will be repeated. Must have a minimum of 2 hours. Additional credits above the 2 hours may be used as elective hours. PASS/FAIL

Credits: 0 - 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2674NURS706DNP Seminar
Mandatory course for all DNP students aimed at fostering professional growth in advanced practice and meeting DNP competencies. Course is conducted annually in the fall as a face-to-face, on-campus intensive. Attendance and registration is mandatory each fall semester until the DNP program is completed. Course will be repeated. Must have a minimum of 2 hours. Additional credits above the 2 hours may be used as elective hours. PASS/FAIL

Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2675NURS706DNP Seminar
Mandatory course for all DNP students aimed at fostering professional growth in advanced practice and meeting DNP competencies. Course is conducted annually in the fall as a face-to-face, on-campus intensive. Attendance and registration is mandatory each fall semester until the DNP program is completed. Course will be repeated. Must have a minimum of 2 hours. Additional credits above the 2 hours may be used as elective hours. PASS/FAIL

Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2026 — Indefinite)     Future (2026-01-01)

Proposal — Workflow Step: Graduate Studies Final Approval, Graduate Studies
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingReview
2676NURS710Scholarly Writing for Graduate Students
Principles of scholarly writing and APA format are reviewed. Students will engage in critical inquiry and conceptualize a project that impacts healthcare outcomes directly or indirectly. Writing assignments for this the course can be the basis for the DNP project.

Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2677NURS710Scholarly Writing for Graduate Students
Principles of scholarly writing and APA format are reviewed. Students will engage in critical inquiry and conceptualize a project that impacts healthcare outcomes directly or indirectly. Writing assignments for this the course can be the basis for the DNP project.

Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2678NURS716Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Advanced Practice
This course presents epidemiology and biostatistical concepts that are foundational to scholarly inquiry and advanced practice. Descriptive and inferential methods are studied, including parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. Practical applications are made through critiques of current research and use of statistical software for data entry, analysis, and interpretation. Concepts of disease causation and progression, modes of disease transmission, surveillance, screening, prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion are examined along with descriptive and analytic epidemiological methods.

Credits: 4, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2679NURS722Genetics and Environment in Disease
This course introduces the advanced practice nurse to basics concepts of toxicology (including issues in epigenetics and genomics), evidence-based public health intervention strategies, clinical screening/diagnostics, and emerging therapeutics related to environmental and genetic influences on health.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2680NURS728Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
This course provides a foundation for the use of a lifestyle approach for preventing, managing, and reversing chronic disease. Concepts explored include a Biblical perspective of health and healing, the role of lifestyle as a determinant of disease, the biological basis and scientific evidence for the use of lifestyle therapeutics, the impact of self-care and modeling of healthy lifestyles on patient health, and effective strategies for employing a lifestyle approach in advanced nursing practice. Eight essentials of optimal health as integral components of a healthy lifestyle are examined through the use of the CREATION Life model.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2681NURS728Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
This course provides a foundation for the use of a lifestyle approach for preventing, managing, and reversing chronic disease. Concepts explored include a Biblical perspective of health and healing, the role of lifestyle as a determinant of disease, the biological basis and scientific evidence for the use of lifestyle therapeutics, the role of the advanced practice nurse in Lifestyle Medicine, and effective models for employing a lifestyle approach in advanced nursing practice. Eight essentials of optimum health as integral components of a healthy lifestyle are examined through use of the CREATION Health model.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2022)     Discontinued (2021-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2682NURS728Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
This course provides a foundation for the use of a lifestyle approach for preventing, managing, and reversing chronic disease. Concepts explored include a Biblical perspective of health and healing, the role of lifestyle as a determinant of disease, the biological basis and scientific evidence for the use of lifestyle therapeutics, the role of the advanced practice nurse in Lifestyle Medicine, and effective models for employing a lifestyle approach in advanced nursing practice. Eight essentials of optimum health as integral components of a healthy lifestyle are examined through use of the CREATION Life model.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2683NURS734Health Coaching for Health Care Professionals
This course intended for healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds and develops an understanding of health behavior change science and equips the student to develop motivational interviewing and coaching competencies to help clients adopt individually designed lifestyle changes conducive to optimal health and wellness. Online classwork includes both asynchronous learning and weekly synchronous class and mentor coaching sessions. Students must complete a minimum of 60 hours of individual health coaching. This course is an approved training program by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching. Successful completion of this course allows students to be eligible to sit for the national certification exam from NBHWC.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2021 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2684NURS734Health Coaching for Professionals
This course is intended for professionals from a variety of backgrounds to develop an understanding of health behavior change science, motivational interviewing, and coaching competencies to help clients adopt healthy lifestyle changes. Online classwork includes asynchronous learning and weekly synchronous class and mentor coaching sessions. Students must complete a minimum of 60 hours of health coaching. This course is an approved training program by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). Successful completion of this course allows students to be eligible to sit for the national certification exam from NBHWC.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2685NURS734Health Coaching for Professionals
This course intended for healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds and develops an understanding of health behavior change science and equips the student to develop motivational interviewing and coaching competencies to help clients adopt individually designed lifestyle changes conducive to optimal health and wellness. Online classwork includes both asynchronous learning and weekly synchronous class and mentor coaching sessions. Students must complete a minimum of 60 hours of individual health coaching. This course is an approved training program by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching. Successful completion of this course allows students to be eligible to sit for the national certification exam from NBHWC.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2686NURS734Health Coaching for Professionals
This course is intended for professionals from a variety of backgrounds and develops an understanding of health behavior change science and motivational interviewing and coaching competencies to help clients adopt individually designed lifestyle changes conducive to optimal health and wellness. Online classwork includes both asynchronous learning and weekly synchronous class and mentor coaching sessions. Students must complete a minimum of 60 hours of individual health coaching. This course is an approved training program by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching. Successful completion of this course allows students to be eligible to sit for the national certification exam from NBHWC.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 10 ($210), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2687NURS735Lifestyle Strategies for Optimizing Psychosocial Health
This course is devoted to examining the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Emphasis will include Biblical and evidenced based perspectives for understanding, assessing, and managing eustress and distress.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2022)     Discontinued (2021-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2688NURS735Lifestyle Strategies for Optimizing Psychosocial Health
This course is devoted to examining the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Emphasis will include Biblical and evidenced based perspectives for understanding, assessing, and managing eustress and distress.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2689NURS735Lifestyle Strategies for Optimizing Psychosocial Health
This course is devoted to examining the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Emphasis will include Biblical and evidenced-informed perspectives for understanding, assessing, and managing eustress and distress.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2690NURS738Natural Adjuncts for Health and Healing
This course reviews the health benefits and physiologic basis of selected evidence-based adjunctive therapies such as hydrotherapy, herbs, and other natural remedies. Wholistic and Biblical perspectives, guidelines to support the selection and safe delivery, and legal and professional factors that have an impact on utilizing these therapies are emphasized.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2691NURS738Natural Adjuncts for Health and Healing
This course reviews the health benefits and physiologic basis of selected evidence-informed adjunctive therapies such as hydrotherapy, herbs, and other natural remedies. Wholistic and Biblical perspectives, guidelines to support the selection and safe delivery, and legal and professional factors that have an impact on utilizing these therapies are emphasized.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2692NURS742Exercise Modalities for Health-related Fitness
This course prepares the advanced practice nurse to integrate evidence-informed guidelines and practices for physical activity assessment, preparticipation health screening, exercise prescription, and counseling as a regular part of their healthcare practice. Exercise science principles are applied to various patient situations to prevent disease, overcome barriers to physical activity and exercise, and improve health outcomes.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2693NURS742Exercise Modalities for Health-related Fitness
This course prepares the advanced practice nurse in evidence-informed practices for integrating physical activity assessment, prescription, and counseling as a regular part of their healthcare practice. Exercise principles are applied to various patient situations to prevent disease, overcome disease-related and other barriers, and improve health outcomes. Clinical experience with anthropometric, metabolic, and fitness testing is a part of this course.

Credits: 2, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2694NURS742Exercise Modalities for Lifestyle Change
This course prepares the advanced practice nurse in evidence-based practices for integrating physical activity assessment, prescription, and counseling as a regular part of their health care practice. Exercise principles are applied to various patient situations to prevent disease, overcome disease-related and other barriers, and to improve health. Clinical experience with anthropometric, metabolic, and fitness testing is a part of this course.

Credits: 2, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2695NURS744Exercise Modalities for Lifestyle Change
This course prepares the advanced practice nurse in evidence-based practices for integrating physical activity assessment, prescription, and counseling as a regular part of their health care practice. Exercise principles are applied to various patient situations to prevent disease, overcome disease-related and other barriers, and to improve health. Clinical experience with anthropometric, metabolic, exercise and cardiovascular stress-testing in laboratory environments is a part of this course.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 09 ($180), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL ODD YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2023)     Discontinued (2022-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2696NURS745Nutritional Approaches to Disease Prevention, Management and Reversal
This course is designed to provide an advanced-level, evidence-informed review of the nutritional literature for the effectiveness of plant-based dietary approaches in the prevention and management of diet-related disease. Learned skills will include approaching nutrition from Biblical and wholistic scientific perspectives, critically evaluating nutritional studies, assessing nutritional status, prescribing nutritional interventions, evaluating patient's basic culinary techniques, and applying current strategies and resources to support patients in eating a plant-rich diet. Lab Fee 05 ($60). SUMMER EVEN YEARS.

Credits: 2, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2697NURS746Nutritional Approaches to Disease Prevention and Management
This course is designed to provide an advanced-level evidence-based review of the nutritional literature for the effectiveness of plant-based nutritional approaches in the prevention and management of diet related disease. Learned skills will include approaching nutrition from Biblical and wholistic scientific perspectives, critically evaluating nutritional studies, assessing nutritional status, prescribing and evaluating nutritional interventions, teaching nutrition principles and basic culinary techniques to patients and community, and applying current strategies and resources to help patients transition to eating more plant foods. Students will earn the Rouxbe Culinary Rx certificate.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2698NURS746Nutritional Approaches to Disease Prevention, Management and Reversal
This course is designed to provide an advanced-level evidence-informed review of the nutritional literature for the effectiveness of plant-based nutritional approaches in the prevention and management of diet-related disease. Learned skills will include approaching nutrition from Biblical and wholistic scientific perspectives, critically evaluating nutritional studies, assessing nutritional status, prescribing and evaluating nutritional interventions, teaching nutrition principles and basic culinary techniques to patients and the community, and applying current strategies and resources to help patients transition to eating a plant-rich diet. Students will earn the Rouxbe Culinary Rx certificate.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 - 2025)     Discontinued (2024-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2699NURS748Lifestyle Management of Chronic Lifestyle-Related Disease
This course uses a case study approach to apply concepts and practices of lifestyle therapeutics to common chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Topics and skills covered include a Whole Healthcare Treatment Pyramid model for integrating lifestyle into patient care and the use of community-based lifestyle improvement programs.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 05 ($60), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2025 — Indefinite)    
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive
2700NURS748Lifestyle Management of Chronic Lifestyle-Related Disease
This course uses a case study approach to apply concepts and practices of lifestyle therapeutics to common chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Topics and skills covered include a Whole Healthcare Treatment Pyramid model for integrating lifestyle into patient care and use of community-based lifestyle improvement programs.

Credits: 3, Lab Fee 11 ($240), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER EVEN YEARS

Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2017 - 2024)     Discontinued (2023-01-01)
✔️Nursing (NURS)NURSSchool of NursingActive