• NURS 6300: Information Management and Health Care Technologies

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course will explore the organization, collection, analysis, and dissemination of information in health care. This course focuses on clinical informatics, including the electronic health record, telemedicine, and technological approaches to quality and safety, and the integration of technology in instructional design and delivery in nursing education. Ethical and legal dimensions of health care technology are examined. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Integrate nursing science with emerging technologies to facilitate individual care. 2. Clinical Judgment: Assemble standardized data to drive critical decision-making. 3. Communication: Distinguish current emerging technologies and data analytics to improve health care outcomes and nursing education. 4. Compassionate Care: Originate strategies to improve information literacy and reduce inequities in digital access to information. 5. Professionalism: Develop a nursing practice reflecting advanced critical insight, clinical judgment, and professionalism. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6400: Advanced Issues in Pharmacology and Pathophysiology

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course combines the two nursing concepts of pathophysiology and pharmacology. Builds on the biophysical concepts from foundational sciences, pathophysiological changes, and pharmacotherapeutics (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics/genomics) associated with illness and disease. Within a quality caring framework, the relationship between these changes and pharmacotherapeutics is emphasized in the delivery of safe and person-centered care. Students will demonstrate effective, safe, ethical, and evidence-based care reflective of critical insight, clinical judgment, professionalism, and collaboration with the interprofessional team. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Critique the concepts and principles related to pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate biophysical concepts and processes relating to pathophysiological changes and pharmacotherapeutics. 3. Communication: Design evidence-based pharmacological care for advanced health promotion and prevention of illness and disease. 4. Compassionate Care: Integrate pathophysiological and pharmacological research findings to improve evidenced-based care. 5. Professionalism: Develop a nursing practice reflecting advanced critical insight, clinical judgment, and professionalism. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6510: Community and Global Determinants of Health

  2.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course focuses on the social determinants of health and their influence on health outcomes. Factors that contribute to development of vulnerable, community, and global populations and health disparities will be explored and will inform implications for nursing education and leadership, research, practice, and policy development. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Integrate concepts of determinants of health in the management and delivery of population-focused nursing care. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate the influence of determinants of health on the health outcomes of an individual and/or a community. 3. Communication: Collaborate using an interdisciplinary approach to perform a determinant of health community assessment. 4. Compassionate Care: Design a plan to address health disparities to inform education, research, leadership, and practice. 5. Professionalism: Critique policies related to determinants of health and health disparities at the local, national, and global levels. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6540: Communication and Collaboration in Nursing Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course focuses on effective writing, speaking, and conflict management skills of educators and leaders; these abilities inspire professional credibility and identity. Identify communication theories and skills, both verbal, non-verbal, and written to promote health education and create successful collaboration as a leader. Direct, compassionate, and informative communication assists in decreasing hostile work environments. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Compare communication strategies and theories. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate conflict management styles and their application for successful collaboration as a leader and educator. 3. Communication: Express effective verbal, non-verbal, and written professional communication as a leader and educator. 4. Compassionate Care: Integrate strategies to prevent a hostile work environment. 5. Professionalism: Appraise accreditation organizations that influence professional credibility and identity. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6550: Health Care Systems and Organizational Leadership

  2.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course prepares graduate nurses with the competencies for leading others in complex systems, allocating financial and human resources, health policy, and supervising organizational performance. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Critique health policy and its impact on consumers, communities, health care professionals, and health care delivery systems. 2. Clinical Judgment: Plan change guided by leadership principles and theories. 3. Communication: Assess complex dynamic health care delivery systems and the resources that support health care endeavors. 4. Compassionate Care: Evaluate the influence of organizational and systems leadership on the quality and safety of patient care. 5. Professionalism: Develop leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships, and a systems-perspective. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6551: Practicum: Leading Effective Organizations

  1.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course focuses on students leading change in population-based health care or health care delivery systems. Students incorporate practice with scholarly inquiry to influence organizational performance and health care policy. Synthesis and integration of leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes are demonstrated within the context of the students chosen population. Lead change as strategists and decision-makers in health care. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design and implement intentional changes in a health care delivery system or policy. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate critical decision-making practices to analyze, lead, and manage change in health care systems. 3. Communication: Facilitate leadership that advances the nursing profession in a complex dynamic health care delivery system. 4. Compassionate Care: Evaluate the impact of organizational and systems leadership on quality and safety of patient care. 5. Professionalism: Develop leadership skills, critical decision making, effective working relationships, and a systems-perspective to address real-world problems in health care. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6650: Teaching Methodologies and Technologies

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course will examine teaching and learning theories and principles, strategies, and methodologies of education for academia. The importance of evaluating personal teaching effectiveness is explored. Integration of innovative technology applied in the classroom. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Consider key concepts for functioning effectively as a professional in an educational environment. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate research through critical thinking to resolve education and practice problems. 3. Communication: Plan technological teaching and learning best practice strategies for learning-centered teaching. 4. Compassionate Care: Assess adult learners learning styles and needs to facilitate learner development and autonomy. 5. Professionalism: Integrate learning-centered teaching best practices to design and assess quality educational experiences while modeling effective professional and leadership behaviors. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6651: Practicum: Assessment and Evaluation Strategies

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course focuses on the role of the nurse educator. Students apply theory and knowledge of best practices to create learning-centered strategies, to facilitate and assess learning, and evaluate outcomes in academic and practice settings. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) ** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design, implement, and evaluate teaching and learning strategies used in educational or health care settings. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate learning-centered principles with teaching and learning theory to facilitate teaching, assessment, and evaluation of learners. 3. Communication: Construct tools to assess learning utilizing best practices of test construction and item development. 4. Compassionate Care: Create, assess, and evaluate learning experiences which support cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development of the adult learner. 5. Professionalism: Consider the continuous feedback and quality improvement process related to the nurse educator role. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6700: Advanced Health Assessment and Promotion

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course focuses on the development of advanced clinical decision-making skills in health assessment, promotion, and protection. This course builds on previous knowledge and skills gained during undergraduate studies. The student will gain advanced knowledge of assessment skills within the context of the family, psychosocial, sociocultural considerations, functional ability, presence of health risk factors, and developmental stages. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Create innovative nursing protocols for health promotion and protection, disease prevention, screening, and early intervention. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate concepts of decision-making skills and clinical judgment for advanced health assessment and health promotion. 3. Communication: Collaborate across disciplines and health care settings to improve care. 4. Compassionate Care: Appraise the importance of health promotion and protection, disease prevention, screening, and early intervention. 5. Professionalism: Evaluate professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct when providing advanced nursing interventions and health promotion. FA, SP, SU
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• NURS 6710: Curriculum Development and Program Evaluation

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University)

  
  This course emphasizes learning-centered teaching, curriculum design and development, and assessment and evaluation strategies. The course will look at trends in curriculum, technology, and program evaluation and explore legal, ethical, and regulatory issues. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) ** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design learning-centered curricula incorporating active learning strategies for diverse learners in academic and practice settings. 2. Clinical Judgment: Formulate a comprehensive assessment that incorporates learning-centeredness, learner achievement, and learning outcomes. 3. Communication: Plan instructional design elements into teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment, and evaluation. 4. Compassionate Care: Create curriculum using innovative technology to improve learning. 5. Professionalism: Appraise curriculum and evaluation to meet regulatory, accreditation, and industry standards. FA, SP, SU
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