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Oct 04, 2024
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NUR 6000 - Advanced Practice Nursing: Theory, Roles, and Change3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course focuses on the foundations for the science and the art of advanced nursing practice. Theories and therapeutic frameworks are analyzed and critiqued for their utility in guiding practice with select populations and developing efficacy in the change process. Students examine and apply theories and therapies to impact change in self, individuals, families, communities, and organizational systems. Current and emerging roles of the master’s prepared nurse are examined with an emphasis on required competencies, licensures, scope of practice, and entrepreneurship. Nursing roles as leaders and members are examined in context of interdisciplinary teams as they relate to quality and safety for clients and within health systems are explored. An advanced practice final course project is produced using introductory skills for data gathering and management to guide quality improvement initiatives and decision making. Introductory project management tools and strategies are introduced and applied in final project.
Prereq: None
Note: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Distinguish the roles of the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) within the ANA Scope of Practice and role specific standards, competencies, certifications, and licensures
- Examine and critique the roles of APRN advocate, leader, EBP provider, and educator utilized
- Integrate an understanding of nursing history in advancing nursing’s influence in health care
- Translate and apply theories from nursing and other disciplines to practice
- Analyze and evaluate the impact of APRN socially responsible leadership skills in creating organizational change and impact on team leadership
- Demonstrate knowledge of leadership skills that advocate for principles of social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Facilitate difficult conversations that impact intercollaborative teams and patient care outcomes using advanced communication skills and modalities that serve diverse audiences
- Evaluate the impact of healthcare informatics and technologies on data management and health care outcomes that support patient care
- Evaluate and create holistic self-care strategies that impact self, team members, and patients using current and emerging knowledge and technology
- Analyze and incorporate data driven benchmarks that monitor quality and safety measures and outcomes for patient care
- Evaluate and discuss effect of legal and regulatory policies on nursing practice and healthcare outcomes
- Apply introductory project management skills by creating business plan using EBP guidelines and data to guide quality and safety processes for practice and improving quality car in patient outcomes
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Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Role transition
- Historical evolution and APRN practice theories
- APRN roles and globalization
- APRN Scope of Practice and State Regulations, LACE and Consensus Model
- EBP and research
- Quality Improvement and utilization management
- Communication, intercollaborative teams, civility, and just culture
- Holism and self-care, care of organizations and patients
- DEI/CLAS/Cultural diplomacy
- Promoting and marketing the APRN role
- Data informatics and management
- Entrepreneurship in practice
- Quality/safety benchmarks
- Risk management, legal and ethical practice
Coordinator
Dr. Victoria Carlson Oehlers
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