Sustainability Course Repository

This course focuses on the context of primary care for populations with identified risk factors, vulnerabilities, and health disparities. Principles of epidemiology are applied in assessing the health needs and outcomes of communities and populations. Students will assess multiple dimensions of inter-professional interventions that address community-based health promotion, evidence-based care, and evaluation. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instruct...

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Addresses the promotion of mental health, diagnosis, and age appropriate treatment of common, uncomplicated mental disorders and the ongoing management of patients with stabilized psychiatric disorders in primary care and the community. The complex interactions of mental and physical health, and bidirectional influences of medical and psychiatric treatment and prognosis, are considered. An ecological model and social determinants of health are examined as factors influencing the development of m...

Read more about NURS-6121 : Mental Health in Primary Care: Theory

Provides a foundation for the formation of Doctor of Nursing (DNP) students. Students are Introductionduced to the DNP essentials through the lens of Jesuit discernment. Philosophical and theoretical foundations of advanced practice are explored. Nursing theories are analyzed as examples of how the concepts of Person, Environment, Nursing and Health have been defined and applied in building a body of Nursing knowledge. Prepares students to integrate theories from Nursing and related disciplines ...

Read more about NURS-6130 : Foundations of Nursing Knowledge for Advanced Practice

Health promotion and disease prevention for women from adolescence through old age. Developmental, preconceptual, interconceptual, and postpartum assessment, and management of common episodic and chronic gynecological conditions of women in primary care settings, including culturally diverse, vulnerable and global populations. Health promotion and screening for male reproductive health is also included. Pregnancy care and the common complications are included (6 credits). Theory and research fro...

Read more about NURS-6204 : Gynecologic & Reproductive Health

Examines management of common physical and psychological health issues for women. The focus is on evidence-based practice approaches to the primary care management of women including physiological, psychosocial and pharmacological interventions to promote health, prevent illness and treat common acute and chronic non-gynecologic conditions of women. Age-related, cultural, family and community variations are incorporated into the review of clinical practice guidelines for common chronic and acute...

Read more about NURS-6206 : Primary Care of Women

Synthesis and application of theory and research to effectively implement advanced midwifery intrapartum care. Focus is on comprehensive interprofessional team participation and management of intrapartum and immediate postpartum care for women with normal births and common medical, surgical and obstetrics complications across settings. Development and evaluation of evidence based care approaches will be incorporated. Synthesis of evidence based evaluation and management of the immediate care of ...

Read more about NURS-6208 : Midwifery Management of Intrapartum Postpartum and Newborn

Provides a foundation in public health nursing concepts to integrate into advanced practice. Key to this process is the conceptualization of community and population focused care through an initiation into nursing theory and public health science designated for health promotion and disease prevention on the population level. Throughout the course students will reflect on their developing conceptual model of population focused nursing in the provision of socially just care. Registration restricti...

Read more about NURS-6250 : Population Theory and Practice

Addresses the complexity of the health of communities and populations when advanced practice public health nurses participate in the activities of engagement and assessment. The focus of the course is the application of principles of community based participatory research to work collaboratively with key partnerships in the identification of determinants of health and systems within local to global populations. Building on an ecological model, social and behavioral concepts are emphasized. Evalu...

Read more about NURS-6252 : Assessment of Communities and Populations

Addresses the stages of change and how social determents of health influence health behaviors. Focus is on the role of health promotion to create healthy environments and to optimize the health of communities or populations. The role of collaboration and the concepts of social capital and capacity building are emphasized. Social and environmental factors that influence successful outcomes are examined. The concept of social marketing is Introductionduced. The connection between health promotion ...

Read more about NURS-6254 : Population Health Promotion

Focuses on management of common acute health problems in primary cae across the lfespan. Diagnostic reasoning is used to differentiate the basis of chronic acute problems. Evidenced-based approaches to primary care drawing upon theories, researh, clinical knowledge, and nation standards are used to develop therapeutic plans for common acute healthproblems across the lifespan. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Read more about NURS-6450 : Primary Care Manage I Theory