A survey of the elements and functions of management information systems and the principles underlying the design and management of effective systems. As demand warrants. The School of Nursing occasionally offers the following graduate electives in nursing in either fall or spring. These courses are available to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Their goal is to provide the student with opportunities to individualize work in an area of interest not regularly provided for by the ongoing nursing courses.
Students learn to take a history, attend to pain cues, pain assessment, and nursing interventions.
Topics include coping strategies, ethics and pharmacological approaches, and the literature of pain. Students from a variety of health sciences-related disciplines gain an understanding of issues in working with dying and bereaved individuals of all ages and their families. Examination and discussion of major ethical issues arising in the professional practice of nursing in the context of systematic consideration of the nature of ethical choice. This course focuses on the principles and practice of scientific writing, with emphasis on research proposals, theses, research reports, dissertations, and articles for publication. Provides students who have had no previous teaching experience with educational principles necessary to teach nursing.