This course focuses on applying the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to assume the role of leader in ways that continually improve nursing care and advance the profession. This course will explore contemporary issues in health care and the impact on practice, policy, education, and research. Emphasis is placed on the use of nursing informatics, health literacy, and the competencies needed by nurses to guide scholarly inquiry. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills essential to identify research questions, conduct structured literature and database searches, begin to critically appraise research findings and practice guidelines, and utilize electronic clinical decision support resources (up-to-date) associated with improved outcomes.Prerequisites: 705:205, 395, 335, 306, 330.  Corequisites: 705:340, 336.

2ND DEGREE L2 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide care to culturally diverse adults and older adults. Emphasis is placed on clinical reasoning/judgments pertinent to health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and symptom management, incorporating evidence-based practice to common physical and behavioral health conditions. Factors influencing the health of adult and older adult populations will be identified and disparities in outcomes will be discussed. The nurse's role as a leader, patient advocate, change agent, educator, and member of the interprofessional healthcare team will be discussed. This course will include clinical experiences in simulation and a variety of health care settings.Prerequisites: 705:205, 395, 335, 306, 330. Corequisites: 705:326, 340.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L2 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide care to diverse childbearing families. Physical and behavioral factors influencing the reproductive health of families, communities, and populations will be identified and disparities in outcomes will be discussed. Evidence-based practice, professional standards of care, the nursing process, and knowledge from nursing and related disciplines will be presented as the foundation for providing comprehensive, safe, quality nursing care to childbearing families. The perinatal nurse's role as a leader, patient advocate, change agent, educator, and member of the interprofessional health care team will be discussed. This course will include clinical experiences in simulation and a variety of health care settings.Prerequisites: 705:205, 395, 335, 306, 330. Corequisites: 705:326, 336.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L2 STUDENTS ONLY.

OPEN TO 2ND DEGREE L2 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide care to culturally diverse individuals, families, and communities dealing with acute and chronic mental health and psychiatric conditions. Emphasis on clinical reasoning/judgments pertinent to health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management of acute and chronic mental health and psychiatric conditions. Factors influencing mental health will be identified and disparities in outcomes will be discussed. The nurse's role as a leader, patient advocate, change agent, educator, and member of the interprofessional health care team will be discussed. The course will include clinical experiences in simulation and a variety of health care and community settings. Prerequisites: 705:428, 412, 414. Corequisites: 705:418, 455.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L4 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course synthesizes previous knowledge and skills to address population health of diverse individuals and communities across the life span and settings. The goal is to shift the focus from acute, individual care to a broader health promotion, disease prevention framework focused on populations. Emphasis is on the identification of social determinants that impact the health of individuals, families, and communities. Students are challenged to explore how engagement of nursing professionals can impact the health of populations through analysis of culturally competent care, to address social determinants and health disparities. The utility of the collection and interpretation of meaningful use data to identify care gaps to promote quality and safe care are discussed.Prerequisites: 705:428, 427, 412.  Corequisites: 705:414, 455.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L4 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by the student nurse to effectively transition to professional practice, providing and managing safe and effective care within health care systems.  Emphasis is placed on the synthesis of various leadership roles and responsibilities expected of the novice professional nurse, such as care provider, care coordinator, manager, change agent, and member of interprofessional teams working collaboratively to ensure continuity of care to support culturally competent, safe, and effective care to individuals, families, groups, and communities. Theoretical perspectives will help guide students to cope with change, conflict, prioritization, delegation, and time management.  This course will include a clinical component along with a seminar. Prerequisites: 705:428, 412, 414. Corequisites: 705:418, 414.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L4 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course is designed for college students who want to leverage their Apple iOS and iPadOS skills to increase adaptability in their academic and professional pursuits. In today's digital age, technology skills are essential for success in various majors and career paths. In this course, students will learn introductory to advanced skills in using Apple iOS and iPadOS, including iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and how to apply those skills to maximize productivity, efficiency, and creativity.

Through engagement with the scholarly field of social foundations (history, philosophy, and sociology of education), this course examines the relationship between urban schools and society. Attention is given to the ideal relationship between democracy and urban schooling, the current obstacles to realizing this relationship, and an opportunity to craft your stand on this relationship as a future teacher. This course employs multiple pedagogical orientations, including aspects of the following: democratic, feminist, libratory, and transformative pedagogies.  Course requires 15 field hours.

This graduate seminar considers scholarship and primary sources that engage with transnational cultural history in the decades since World War II. How have scholars made sense of the transnational flow of cultural commodities, and related questions about politics, production, consumption, reception, and desires? How can a transnational approach to culture shape (or reshape) scholarly understandings of US history, domestic activism, migration, and more? How can a cultural approach to transnational history shape (or reshape) scholarly understandings of diplomatic and political history, space and place, encounters, and power dynamics that are not anchored in a specific nation state? And how can a transnational focus inform how we analyze primary sources—from written texts to film, photographs, and music?

Important note: For students who have taken an earlier version of this (or related) courses, the readings for this summer course will be different. If you are interested in these themes and would like to pursue them further, you are welcome to take this class.

Cross-listed with:

26:510:508:B6:03647

26:050:540:B7:03649

Please note course will meet once weekly on Wednesday's via Zoom.