Teaching

For Graduate Nursing Students

- Focuses on expanding student knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment beyond the baccalaureate level.
- Course does not prepare student for independent practice as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), but provides advanced understanding of pathophysiology, pharmacological treatment possibilities, advanced health assessment, and reasoning.

- Preparation for matching with scholarly chairperson, advanced fieldwork and the capstone project courses.
- Coaches students to analyze current fit with the competencies required for a selected advanced nursing clinical, educational or administrative leadership role; and on collaborative roles, functions, products, and documentation required to complete fieldwork and the capstone project.

- Provides a substantive field experience in a setting of interest.
- Assists students in delineating master's level nursing practice roles and translating and integrating scholarship into practice knowledge.

- Capstone project demonstrating scholarly analysis and application of evidence and theoretical concepts to clinical, educational or administrative leadership practice, culminating in a product for presentation or dissemination.

Master of Nursing Graduate in 2021

Name: Ivanka A. Vassileva
Capstone Project: "Pathways and Practice: Inspiring and Challenging Journey to Advanced Practice Nursing and Education"

Master of Nursing Graduate in 2022

Name: Jamie Lamb
Capstone Project: "Preparing Nurses to Prosper in a Broken System: The Moral Distress Education Project"

Master of Nursing Graduates in 2023

Name: Christine McCarthy (left)
- Capstone Project: "Recognizing the Role of the Preceptor: We Can Do Better"
Name: Oruene Jack (right)
- Capstone Project: "Addressing Hypertension Disparities in African Americans: Developing a Dietary Educational Document for Patients and Clinic Nurses"

- Provides graduate nursing students an opportunity to investigate and report on selected nursing problems under the supervision of a graduate faculty member.
- Credit/no-credit only.

- Focuses on critical reading, analysis, and source appraisal of scholarly knowledge.
- Builds skills in conducting systematic information searches of materials and evidence relevant to nursing practice.
- Basic introduction to reading of varied sources for understanding, academic writing, presentation skills, and reflective writing for academic and professional purposes.

- Explores strategies to promote ethical and quality patient-centered care as an individual provider, team member, and in collaboration with other disciplines.
- Provides a foundation of ethical frameworks and quality improvement approaches to support accountability for best practice.

- Focuses on strategies for translating scholarly knowledge to practice.
- Continue to advance skills in evaluating and synthesis of scholarly literature. Attention to effective communication of evidence through written and oral formats.

- Further development, critical examination, and synthesis of nursing care in a specialized setting.
- Increasing depth of clinical practice, including care to groups and communities as clients, applying leadership skills, assessing problems affecting quality health care delivery, and applying research findings.

International Nursing Students in BNURS498 in 2022 (from left to right):

- When exposed to adversity, such as earthquake, some individuals are more vulnerable to develop stress-related disorders, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In contrast, others are less adversely affected by adversity, who are often described as “resilient”. In this course, we will explore what resilience means in the context of specific challenges and discuss how we can promote the resilience factors to help individuals stay resilient during the difficult time.
- This course incorporates the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) component.