All of the specialty area courses contain both seminar and clinical practicum components. Students complete a minimum of 768 hours of clinical practice. Full-time students can complete the program in four semesters, plus the summer between the first and second years. Part-time students usually complete the program in six to eight semesters. Examines Health Care Systems development, impacts, and prospects for change.
Content enables nurses to draw implications for nursing practice and advocacy for improving systems.
Examines the historical evolution, theoretical roots, current roles and context of advanced practice nursing. Content addresses the definition issues, and scope of advanced practice nursing within a changing environment. This course focuses on the relations between research and practice, the research process, and on non-experimental designs. This two course sequence explores the philosophy, logic, and methods of research and statistical analysis for use in clinical practice. This course focuses on sampling, measurement, data management, experimental designs, and on the use of data for improving practice.