• NUR 510 - Health Care Across the Population

​Public health knowledge is grounded in principles of epidemiology and influenced by genetics and genomics. Utilizing both principles, students will explore environmental health, ethical health disparities, and social justice issues.

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• NUR 551 - Critique & Design of Nursing Research 

It focuses on advanced scholarly activities utilized to conduct nursing research. The history of nursing research, steps utilized to conduct research, and differences between the utilization of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are discussed. 

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• NUR 601 - Evidence-Based Practice & Strategic Health Care Decision Making

It engages students in principles of evidence-based practice and knowledge translation. Topics include health care quality, patient safety, population health, and health care informatics/technologies.

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• NUR 612 - Professional Roles in Advanced Nursing

It provides a framework of professional standards that serve as the foundation for nursing education, practice, and professionalism. The course immersed students in the profession’s historical roots, current, and future issues, roles, practice environments, and opportunities.

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• NUR 614 - Resilient Nursing Leadership

It requires students to explore leadership philosophies, design strategies for continued professional growth, and accept greater accountability as a leader in advancing healthcare. Students are paired with a mentor to participate in and reflect on leadership experiences for future integration of best practices in their advanced nursing roles.

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• NUR 648 - Health Care Law & Policy

It provides a basic foundation of the legal system and a broad analysis of laws that impact health care. 

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• NUR 590 - Principles of Informatics in Health Care Professions

It provides the basic theoretical framework and knowledge base for information management within various settings.  

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• NUR 594 - Ethics and Informatics 

It highlights familiar and new ethical concepts to consider when applied to informatics.

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• NUR 597 - Professional Domain of Nursing Informatics 

It explores various roles through the critical evaluation of current literature, current roles and future roles, professional values and standards, and a review of evolving competencies of nursing informatics practice.

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• NUR 660 - Human Technology Interface 

It addresses the human-technology interface, explores human-technology interface problems, provides an overview of the purpose of conducting workflow analysis and design, explores meaningful use, and cites measures of efficiency and effectiveness that can be applied to redesign workflow efforts and processes.

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• NUR 667 - Applied Clinical Informatics in Patient-Centered Care

It investigates the application of information technology and the impact of these interactions between healthcare providers and patients. The primary focus includes how patients are engaged and empowered by informatics technology, the application, and development of clinical decision-making tools, meaningful use, and the influence on patient outcomes and safety.

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• NUR 679 - Nursing Informatics Seminar I 

It explores project management concepts and skills related to implementing and evaluating information systems. The focus is to begin integrating all previous studies and to identify the focus of students’ final capstone project.

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• NUR 686 - Nursing Informatics Seminar II

It provides an opportunity for the student to gain advanced informatics-related experiences in the healthcare clinical setting through a minimum of 120 hours of practice functioning under the supervision of an informatics professional. ​

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