13 courses with the subject NRS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
The conceptual and theoretical foundations of nursing practice afforded the development of the roles of LECOM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 48
The understanding of health care finance and economics is essential to the role of the Clinical Nurse Leader. This course offers students essential concepts on the impact of finance and economics in the delivery of care, treatment, and services. The course will provide the nurse leader fundamental knowledge of health insurance and reimbursement; managed care and accountable care organizations; principles of budgeting and budgets; and financial analysis for health care service lines.
Knowledge of applicable health care law from the administrative and clinical perspectives are essential to nurse leader practice. This course offers two distinct sets of knowledge to secure understanding of law specifically written for nurse leaders. The topics involve advanced practice nursing; malpractice, negligence, and liability; risk management; organizational and workplace compliance and governing laws. The ethical considerations across nursing practice impact the role of the nurse leader. Hence, it is important to build knowledge beyond the ethical principles; rather, skills and resource recognition should be considered when faced with ethical decision-making and dilemma. The course offers the students expanded knowledge on ethical nursing practice by appreciating the skills necessary to address ethical issues, equally important is the development of competence in ethical nursing practice as it relates to quality and safety in nursing practice.
The advancement of biomedical and information technology has placed the nurse leader in a unique position to influence the workforce in recognizing the significance of clinical data in the provision of care, treatment, and services, and throughout the continuum of care. This course offers students learning of a myriad of perspectives in achieving organizational and national goals of achieving safe, efficient quality of care through technology. Concepts emphasize patient safety and quality, point-of-care applications, data management, and data analytics; and how the interprofessional team contributes to the health care delivery system. The course will highlight the role of APRNs and registered nurses in addressing the challenges and complexities of health information technology management.
The evolution of nursing practice continues to address the issues, difficulties, and complexities involved in the care of patients. The need for a focused approach in understanding evidence-based practice at the graduate level is essential to create and cultivate change, specifically in clinical practice. This course builds on fundamental knowledge of research, evidence-based practice, and statistics by providing advanced knowledge on scholarly output in practice scholarship; deeper appreciation of practical steps and tools for inquiring, appraising, and applying evidence into practice; and means to integrate frameworks for implementation science and evidence-based practice. Graduate statistics affords students essential knowledge in analyzing and interpreting data, variables and related data required for considering development, application, and evaluation of evidence through research findings.
Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology builds from the basic understanding of pathological understanding of diseases and conditions. Understanding advanced concepts in pathophysiology LECOM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 49
Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing Practice builds from the foundational knowledge of drugs and solutions from the pre-licensure nursing program. Understanding advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics concepts elevates the student’s knowledge of indications of pharmacological therapies, and their effects in the treatment of diseases and conditions by body systems approach. The student increases his or her understanding of various treatment modalities for acute and chronic disease states.
Advanced Physical Assessment for Advanced Nursing Practice builds upon the knowledge gained in pre-licensure nursing programs It is fundamental for every practicing nurse to perform and demonstrate proficiency in health assessment. Understanding advanced physical health assessment and clinical reasoning elevates the level of knowledge of the learning student essential to patient clinical outcomes. Appropriate advanced nursing assessment provides critical clinical data to the health care team in treatment decision making and effective provision of care and related services. Clinical reasoning affords the learning student the ability to interpret clinical data encountered in various health care settings; and contributes to efficient and effective care outcomes.
Interprofessional Collaboration – Credit Hours 3.0 The Advanced Practice Nursing Role of CNL in Healthcare Leadership and Interprofessional Collaboration, addresses the foundational concepts for the health care leadership role, and tackles significant issues and trends in practice, particularly the environment and dimensions of care, patient assessment, and outcomes management. The professional development of a bedside clinical Registered Nurse to a Clinical Nurse leader requires an understanding of processes and systems involved in the delivery of healthcare services with emphasis in nursing care and nursing-sensitive outcomes and domains. . Interprofessional collaboration is emphasized in the course and how the clinical nurse leader utilizes the workforce abilities and organizational resources to elevate organizational state and continuous progress through various designs of models of care.
This course explores transformational leadership in nursing and offers learners the knowledge and understanding of power and influence to achieve organizational mission and vision, sustain its existence, and becoming a leader as an agent of change. Nurses making policy for health care change will also be covered in this course.
Quality assurance and performance improvement influences patient and organizational outcomes. In the LECOM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 50
Promotion – Credit Hours 3.0 Epidemiology is essential to the clinical nurse leader practice in promoting health and safety for individuals under his or her leadership and care. Epidemiological approaches and principles related to the occurrence, prevention, surveillance, etiology, and control of health conditions and diseases in defined populations will be covered along with practical applications in evaluating health services and policy implementation. Patient-focused health care management complements the purpose of epidemiology for better health by exploring the multiple elements of person-centered care, and the role of clinical nurse leader in affording safe and effective care to every individual receiving care, treatment, and services.
The CNL Capstone Project demonstrates the culmination of student’s academic and experiential learning through a systematic scholarly process involving and integrating project theme assessment, design and development, implementation analysis and data interpretation, and evaluation, utilizing research and evidence-based practice to address a practice challenge. Students will be required to work with a Capstone Committee, comprised of at least 2 LECOM MSN- CNL faculty members, one of which will chair the committee, and at least one clinical preceptor/mentor from one or more of the three (3) clinical practicum experiences. The student will select his/her Capstone Committee members and chair; faculty advisors do NOT have to be on the Capstone LECOM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 51
Source: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
