Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of all 1st, 2nd, and 3rd semester courses or permission by program director. This course provides a framework for evidence based nursing practice and health care system change as a synthesizing focus for nursing role development. Emphasis

Baccalaureate degree and completion of all program pre-requisites. Course letter grade and Pass/Fail for clinical component. This course introduces students to the professional role in nursing. The importance of scientific inquiry, critical thinking and clinical judgment

Prerequisites: NS-661, NS-663, NS-664, NS-665, NS-622. This course uses a family-centered framework that offers evidence-informed nursing care to children and their families from infancy through adolescence. Bio-behavioral, cultural, developmental, and psycho-social factors

Prerequisites: NS-621, NS-660, NS-661, NS-665. This course uses a family-centered framework that offers evidence-informed nursing care for childbearing families. Bio-behavioral, cultural, developmental, and psycho-social factors influencing the health and well-being of

Prerequisite: RS-930. This course extends the basic univariate analytical methods to multivariate statistical methods. Multivariate statistics provide a means to analyze data with multiple independent and/or dependent variables. This course will provide an overview of some of

Prerequisite: HRS-950. This course provides doctoral students in rehabilitation science with a semester-long teaching practicum experience. Students will be paired with an experienced teacher (mentor) in their field of rehabilitation expertise and will participate in their

Prerequisite: written consent of instructor. Pass/Fail available; audit not available. Individually planned work guided by a faculty member may include directed readings, investigations, or projects in areas not currently covered by formal courses.

Prerequisites: None. This course is designed to provide an opportunity for students to meet and discuss their own research and the published research of others in the area of rehabilitation science. Students will gain experience in presenting, facilitating and discussing the

Prerequisite: DNP-880. Pass/Fail grading only; audit not available. This designation is used for students who are continuing residence. Students must register for residence continuation for each term that the residence is incomplete.

Prerequisites: DNP-866, DNP-867. In this third semester, doctoral course, students will integrate evidence and theory into their nursing practice. Students will develop new approaches to solve identified practice problems utilizing the evidence and building on the concepts of