Instructor(s): Angel Kuo, Mary Gallagher

This course will provide content on interprofessional collaborative practice skills needed to deliver patient-centered, quality care on an interprofessional team, specifically conflict management and leadership/membership on an interprofessional team. Learners will participate in interprofessional small group sessions to apply the skills learned with a trained facilitator. Learners will also evaluate team dynamics and engage in critical reflection of own behavior and impact on team dynamics.

Instructor(s): Ifeyinwa Asiodu

Critical analyses of contemporary strategies for the development of nursing theory building, particularly as they relate to selected nursing phenomena and an in-depth analysis of selected theoretical schools of thought.

Instructor(s): Astrid Block

Course Description: This course examines the theory and practice of providing palliative and end-of-life care to patients and their families across multiple practice settings and the lifespan. A multidisciplinary approach to palliative care will address symptom management, as well as spiritual, ethical, communication and self-care issues.

Instructor(s): Lauren Hunt

This course introduces essential communication skills and capacities that are required for effective palliative care nursing practice. Course activities include the opportunity to practice communication skills using a variety of methods.

Instructor(s): Pilar Bernal De Pheils

The course provides advanced content and supports practice in Spanish language skills. The emphasis is on taking a health history, giving physical exam instructions, assessing patient understanding of health, illness, and belief systems, and addressing patient concerns. Proper terminology and correct grammar, applied within the socio-cultural background of selected Latino American groups will be supported. The course is entirely online and conducted entirely in Spanish.

Instructor(s): Pilar Bernal De Pheils

Course provides advanced content and practice in communicating with Latino women. Emphasis is on selected reproductive health care issues for women including eliciting a health history and providing guidance. Effective communication with appropriate terminology, \r\nattentive to the Latino American woman sociocultural context, will be practiced. Course will address assessment of a women's understanding of reproductive health, and will be offered fully online and will be conducted in Spanish.

Instructor(s): Orlando Harris

Course provides an introduction to the principles and methods of qualitative research, critically analyzing the elements of qualitative research design set within the context of the research question to be asked and the existing knowledge in the area.

Instructor(s): Jerry Ouner

This course provides an overview of quantitative research methods, including study designs, sampling, data collection procedure, instrument validity and reliability, bias, and ethics, along with the skills to critically analyze research studies using of techniques used to conduct systematic reviews of bodies of knowledge and provides strategies to critique the scientific rigor of quantitative research designs.

Instructor(s): Glenn-Milo Santos

Course focuses on integrating commonly used statistical analysis techniques and clinical, health and epidemiological research studies. It provides didactic training and lab demonstrations of different statistical analyses for monitoring patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations; investigating predictors of health; evaluating the efficacy of interventions; and interpretation of findings from analyses. It also provides an overview of study methods.

Instructor(s): Linda Stephan

Students will discuss and analyze the ethical principles and professional role development of advanced practice nursing. Students will also explore healthcare policy and its impact on practice, as well as public and social policies that influence health determinants and health care outcomes, and the role of the nurse as an advocate.

Instructor(s): Linda Park

This course will introduce clinical researchers to the use of computer software for managing and analyzing clinical research data. Currently available statistical packages will be described and the roles of spreadsheet and national database programs discussed. Use of STATA for managing, cleaning, describing, and analyzing data will be taught in lecture and laboratory sessions.

Instructor(s): Ifeyinwa Asiodu

Course examines the construction of qualitative research and ethics in research. Students formulate research questions and design a qualitative study.

Instructor(s): Jyu-Lin Chen

Course critically evaluates concepts underlying measurement reliability and validity. Construction of measurement tools and their use in quantitative research will be explored.

Instructor(s): Christine Miaskowski, Sueann Mark

Course addresses the theoretical and specific basis for the assessment and management of complex conditions experienced by patients with cancer. Emphasis is on the nursing assessment and management of oncologic emergencies (e.g., spinal cord compression, sepsis, superior vena cava syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation).

Instructor(s): Sueann Mark

Course will focus on nursing management of cancer related symptoms, with a specific focus on the older adult physical and mental health status. Content covered will include symptom management during active treatment and survivorship. Application of geriatric-focused assessment and prognostic/outcome prediction tools in the context of aging physiology and cancer pathophysiology will be emphasized.

Instructor(s): Kate Holbrook

Course focuses on the foundations of advanced public health nursing to promote and protect the public's health, taking into consideration socioecological contextual factors that influence diverse populations and their interface with community and public health systems.

Instructor(s): Kate Holbrook

Course will increase learners' capacities to identify potential health promotion opportunities and prevention problems in vulnerable communities, create a partnership with community members, formulate plans to identify potential health promotion opportunities and the deep roots of health problems, and write proposals to obtain funding that will support activities for community-based health projects.

Instructor(s): Corey Fry

This course is designed to introduce advanced practice nurses to cardiovascular diagnostic tests and illustrate how to incorporate diagnostics into clinical decision making.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Castillo

This initial course of a 3-quarter series provides foundational knowledge of the impact of the social determinants of health on morbidity, mortality and health outcomes in rural environments. Learners will utilize key rural health concepts to plan community engagement and resource mapping

Instructor(s): Lisa Mihaly, Linda Stephan

The course will introduce learners to the concepts of structural racism and other inequities and the implications for advanced nursing practice. The link between historical events and current health disparities are analyzed. The intersectionality of racism with poverty and other marginalized and underserved communities will be discussed in depth.

Instructor(s): Marianne Biangone

The course focuses on development of a career as a university faculty member. Emphasis will be on understanding how to develop a program of research and develop a reputation in the field. Foci will include teaching, mentoring students, and university/public service. This seminar will develop the skills required for achieving success in an academic career.

Instructor(s): Kathleen McDermott, Kara Birch

Foundational course that presents the science, epidemiology, etiology, and development of mental disorders across the lifespan. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will guide diagnostic understanding and inform the differential diagnosis. The course prepares the PMHNP student to appraise mental disorders in the context of social determinants of health.

Instructor(s): Margaret Wallhagen

This course involves a critical investigation of theoretical approaches related to the study of adults as they age and palliative care. Emphasis is placed on bio-psycho-social theoretical perspectives and how these perspectives guide development of science for nursing care of adults across the life spectrum. Students' and others' research programs illustrative of methods for development, testing and implementation of selected theoretical approaches are discussed and critiqued.

Instructor(s): Rosalind De Lisser

This is the first course in a series which focuses on foundational knowledge and skills for PMHNP role development. It introduces the student to self-reflective practice and principles of psychotherapeutic care. Using in-class simulations, students will learn techniques for establishing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance with individuals across the lifespan.

Instructor(s): Rosalind De Lisser

This course is the second in a series and focuses on assessment, case formulation and treatment planning for PMHNP practice. Using classroom exercises and simulation, students will acquire the ability to develop case formulations and treatment plans for individuals with mental disorders across the lifespan.

Instructor(s): Rosalind De Lisser

This course is third in a series. Students will focus on assessment and treatment planning for complex cases with multiple comorbidities, including substance use and trauma-related disorders. Students will examine structural barriers and system-level approaches to caring for patients across the lifespan with complex needs. This course supports the student in transition to practice competency as an entry-level PMHNP.

Instructor(s): Karen Schumacher

This course examines principles and methods of mixed methods research. The emphasis is on application of philosophical and theoretical foundations, study designs, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of results. Students will critically appraise mixed methods studies relevant to their own areas of research and develop a mixed methods research proposal.

Instructor(s): Andrew Penn, Andrew Hultgren

This is the first course in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for the prescription of psychopharmacology and somatic therapies to treat mental disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course will provide foundational knowledge of common neuromodulatory therapies and major classes of psychotropic medication to insure safe prescribing.

Instructor(s): Andrew Penn, Andrew Hultgren

This is the second in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for prescription of psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course will evaluate evidence-based therapies for individuals and special populations across the lifespan. This course will examine stigma and sociocultural factors that affect individuals' ability to access and engage in health care. Upon completion the trainee will be eligible for the DATA 2000 X-waiver license.

Instructor(s): Andrew Penn, Andrew Hultgren

This is the third in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for the prescription of psychotropic medications to treat psychiatric and substance use disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course is focused on complex cases in psychopharmacology and will and evaluate use of evidence-based therapies for individuals and special populations across the lifespan. This course will examine stigma and structural barriers that affect individuals' ability to access and engage in health care.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis, Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the first course in a series which examines theory, principles, and application of individual, family, and group psychotherapies across the lifespan. This course will address cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, motivational, dialectical, and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis, Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the second course in a series that examines application of individual, family, and group psychotherapies across the lifespan. This course will address group therapies, family systems, attachment and developmental approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention. It is designed to use clinical case materials as the basis for discussion of assessment, engagement, and evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions within the context of PMHNP practice.

Instructor(s): Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the third course in a series which applies knowledge of psychotherapeutic principles to complex cases across the lifespan. This course will address harm reduction, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention. Students will explore application of each therapy to PMHNP clinical practice, identifying and evaluating specific therapeutic skills for patient engagement, interviewing, treatment planning, referral and/or intervention.

Instructor(s): Sandra Weiss, Christine Miaskowski

This course focuses on integrative, multi-method approaches for the use of self-report or observational measures in conjunction with genetic or neuroendocrine markers, electrophysiologic sensors, microbial sampling or other biological measures of a symptom. Participants will design biobehavioral methods to achieve a more comprehensive, multi-system understanding of a symptom or symptom clusters. Analytical strategies for synthesizing two or more measures of a symptom will also be addressed.

Instructor(s): Heather Leutwyler, Margaret Wallhagen

This course is in the series of courses for the Biobehavioral Research Training in Symptom Science. In this course, trainees will gain a working understanding of symptom science, analyze theories and designs appropriate to the study of symptom science and symptom management, and discuss the application of the symptom management model developed at UCSF. The course will also focus on operational definitions and measures of the symptom experience (symptom perception, evaluation and response).

Instructor(s): Michele Pelter

This course will focus on cardiac electrophysiology in both normal and pathologic states and how these states alter the 12-lead ECG. The focus is on in-hospital monitoring with an emphasis on interpreting 12-lead ECGs. Content includes the physiologic mechanisms of arrhythmias, ischemia/infarction and cardiac abnormalities (i.e., QT prolongation, chamber enlargement). Research in the field of electrocardiology and its application to clinical practice will be discussed.

Instructor(s): Linda Franck

In this foundational course, students and faculty will review classical and contemporary philosophical viewpoints relevant to nursing science. We will examine salient turning points in the history of epistemology, ontology, and moral philosophies..

Instructor(s): Annesa Flentje

This course will examine illness-related, gender-related and sociocultural factors that affect risk for co-existing psychiatric and substance abuse disorders and ability or willingness to access health care and community services. Models of service delivery will be evaluated for their ability to produce measurable health improvements for populations with these co-existing disorders.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski

The purpose of this online pharmacology course is to provide advanced practice nursing students with an overview of physiologic changes in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug-drug interactions across the life span, as well as legal, regulatory and safety issues related to prescribing in advanced practice nursing.

Instructor(s): Kristina Fortes, Michelle Buchholz

Course addresses pharmacotherapeutic and pharmacokinetic concepts across broad pharmacologic agent categories. Key physiologic changes across the lifespan that impact pharmacological agent effect and action is highlighted. Course content builds knowledge and skill to assess, diagnose, and manage common health problems, including relevant legal, regulatory, quality and safety issues relating to advanced practice nurse pharmacologic agent furnishing/drug ordering.

Instructor(s): Andrew Penn

Course will focus on the development of effective clinical judgment in the psychopharmacological treatment of patients with mental illness. It will cover the major mental illnesses, as well as treatment considerations of special populations.

Instructor(s): Lisa Guertin

The course provides instruction in the selection of antimicrobial therapy for acutely ill/hospitalized adults and principles of antimicrobial stewardship. This is web-based course contains 9 modules on selected topics such as pulmonary, skin, cardiac, and neurological infections. There are 1-2 mandatory remote seminars.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski, Fania Lazarov

This course provides a conceptual approach to pediatric pathophysiology and pharmacology. Emphasis is placed on evidenced based decision-making, minimizing adverse reactions and maximizing outcomes for children with common ambulatory conditions. This course also provides an overview of physiologic changes in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug-drug interactions across the life span, as well as legal, regulatory and safety issues related to prescribing.

Instructor(s): Mary Anne Israel, Fania Lazarov

This course provides a conceptual approach to pediatric pathophysiology and pharmacology as it relates to the therapeutic management of children with complex conditions encountered in the chronic or urgent care setting. Emphasis is placed on current research to guide decision-making, minimizing adverse reactions and maximizing outcomes for children with complex treatment regimens. This course builds on content from the N232.05A Pathophysiology and Pharmacology in Primary Pediatric Care course.

Instructor(s): Brittany Christiansen

This course is the application of pharmacotherapeutic principles in pediatric acute care settings. Concepts highlight evidence-based decision-making, minimizing adverse reactions and potential drug-drug interactions, and maximizing beneficial health outcomes for children with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions. This course also provides an overview of legal, regulatory, and safety issues related to prescribing.

Instructor(s): Ulrike Muench

Foundational 2-course sequence (N233A/B) for students to engage in scholarly activity using data for informed evidence-based policy and decision making. In N233A, students will learn to identify key components of the research process, prepare, and manage data for analysis, and conduct and interpret descriptive analyses. Followed by N233B.

Instructor(s): Ulrike Muench

Foundational 2-course sequence. Builds upon the skills of NURSING 233A towards preparing students to engage in scholarly activity using data to inform evidence-based policy and decision making as well as being a critical user of scientific literature. This includes managing data for analysis, applying statistical software to test hypotheses, generating graphs and tables to disseminate results, and critiquing strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative studies.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Gatewood

This course is the first in a series of two focused on advocacy, community engagement, quality improvement and leadership. It is an interprofessional program, completed in collaboration with the UCSF Family Medicine Residency. This program is designed to help students develop skills to serve as collaborators and leaders. Students will complete QI modules, attend weekly seminars, panel discussions, site visits, and identify a community partner organization for collaboration in the second quarter.

Instructor(s): Peterson Pierre, Lin Lin

Course provides the learner with a simulated learning experience in planning an evidence-based small test of change quality or process improvement project. Learners will identify a clinical problem or process suitable for a small test of change project and develop a project plan that includes appropriate measureable outcomes. Quality/process improvement concepts as well as patient safety principles will provide the theoretical basis for project proposal development.

Instructor(s): Celina Trujillo

Course is designed to provide the student with a scientific basis for understanding the normal pattern of development in the infant and child (birth- 12 years of age). Building on knowledge of normative development, common behavioral issues and mental health concerns that are encountered by advanced practice nurses in primary care and specialty settings will be reviewed.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski

This course will cover an overview, assessment, management and collaborative care of common behavioral and mental health conditions of childhood and adolescence. A one unit option is designed as an overview. The two unit option includes greater depth on assessment, diagnosis, co-management and referral. The course fulfills competencies for PNP and PMHNP students.

Instructor(s): Oi Saeng Hong

Seminar focuses on design and practical implementation of research on factors at work and in the environment that affect community health. Theoretical, ethical, policy and procedural issues related to occupational and environmental health research will be discussed. Students and faculty will bring examples from their research for discussion and problem-solving.

Instructor(s): Margaret Wallhagen

Critical examination of research in aging, focusing on collaborative, interdisciplinary research (i.e., nursing, medicine, geropsychiatry, and the social and behavioral sciences). Emphasis will be on the interdisciplinary research process and methodological and theoretical frameworks.

Instructor(s): Nikia Grayson

This course focuses on a critical analysis of current issues in nurse-midwifery, including issues in maternal and child health, effecting policy, the legal basis of practice, beginning skills for establishing practice and ensuring quality in nurse-midwifery practice settings. This course provides professional content necessary for practice as a certified nurse-midwife.

Instructor(s): Andrea Kuster

Professional Seminar offers 2nd year Family Nurse Practitioner students content on transitioning into the FNP role and additional clinical content on management of emergent and difficult clinical situations. This course provides students with experience in career building, including resume writing, job applications and negotiations, and licensure and certification application. Additional content includes patient satisfaction metrics and techniques, and ways to not miss emergent conditions.

Instructor(s): Roland Zepf, Janessa Broussard

Course provides an overview of the HIV-related epidemiological concepts, screening and diagnosis, basic HIV primary care, co-occurring conditions, prevention of HIV, and key populations.

Instructor(s): Janessa Broussard, Jennifer Huggans-Zapeta

Course will introduce the clinical application of pharmacology in the management of HIV-infected adults and adolescents based on the current US DHHS Treatment Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapies and The Prevention of Opportunistic Infections.

Instructor(s): Janessa Broussard

This course provides content on the clinical management of HIV-infected adolescents and adults with an emphasis on HIV complex chronic disease management and common HIV-related conditions and comorbidities. Students should have a basic knowledge of HIV epidemiology and HIV pharmacology.

Instructor(s): Janessa Broussard

In this course, students will attend HIV/AIDS Grand Rounds at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (in-person or online) to attain the latest clinical, diagnostic, research, and treatment information regarding the pathogenesis and management of HIV. Students will be expected to attend and participate in weekly hour long grand rounds offered UCSF Division of HIV Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine. This course may be repeated up to 3 consecutive terms, and may not be taken for more than 3 terms.

Instructor(s): Bethany Phoenix, Aaron Miller

This course examines and discusses theories and practice of various group modalities in current use. Emphasis is on understanding and promoting therapeutic processes in types of groups commonly facilitated by advanced practice nurses.

Instructor(s): Annesa Flentje

Course focuses on principles of supportive psychotherapies with adults experiencing a range of psychiatric problems. It also reviews models of crisis intervention, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and motivational interventions. It is designed to use clinical case materials as the basis for discussion of assessment, goal setting, and intervention.

Instructor(s): Chelsea Landolin

Course examines theories from social, behavioral and neurosciences to explain psychobiological responses to different types of trauma. It applies developmental theories to understand effects of traumatic events on persons across the lifespan. It explores assessment and intervention of individuals, families and populations with past or current physical, sexual and emotional violence, as well those experiencing natural or man-made disasters. Course emphasizes both acute and chronic responses.

Instructor(s): Linda Stephan, Adam Leonard

This course investigates pediatric health promotion, clinical prevention, and population health through course readings, lectures, and case discussions. Evidenced-based approaches for individual level interventions are analyzed, and community and systems level interventions are explored.

Instructor(s): Scott Weyland, Lisa Guertin

The course provides specialty content necessary for AG-Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to institute health promotion, maintenance and disease prevention in the care of stable, hospitalized patients. This content will enhance understanding of the inter-relatedness of health promotion and disease prevention aspects within and across various cultural groups in an acute care setting. This course is an online course that meets the ANCC course requirement health promotion and disease prevention.

Instructor(s): Brittany Christiansen

Course focuses on the application of culturally sensitive pediatric health promotion strategies with the ethical integration of life-sustaining healthcare for chronically-critically ill children in varied health care environments. Emphasis is placed on the application of foundations of pediatric health promotion including assessing growth and development, health screening, vaccinations, and surveillance for health and behavioral/mental health disorders while providing life-sustaining care.

Instructor(s): Helen Horvath

The N245.28 Seminar provides students with content in risk assessment, application of evidence-based clinical prevention strategies and skill development in selected health promotion activities for the purpose of providing primary care to adolescents and adult's health across the adult lifespan.

Instructor(s): Chelsea Landolin

Course investigates clinical prevention, health promotion, and population health concepts in relationship to health through literature review and case studies. Evidenced-based, epidemiologic, population health approaches will be applied to healthcare decision making at all levels of prevention at both the individual and system levels.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Gatewood

This course introduces students to signs and symptoms of illness across the life span that are commonly encountered. Symptoms and signs will be analyzed using a clinical decision-making model. The underlying causes and appropriate management of common illness' are discussed.

Instructor(s): Andrea Kuster, Sarah Nathan, Jennifer Huggans-Zapeta, Abbey Roepke

Seminar is taken concurrently with NURSING 246 Symptom Assessment and Management, and provides specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from NURSING 246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Andrea Kuster, Sarah Nathan, Jennifer Huggans-Zapeta, Mary Massella

This online seminar is taken concurrently with NURSING 246 Symptom Assessment and Management, and provides specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from NURSING 246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Linda Stephan

This course introduces students to symptom presentation and related conditions commonly encountered in pediatric primary care. The patients' clinical presentations, differential diagnosis, diagnostic approaches, and appropriate management are discussed.

Instructor(s): Mary Gallagher

This course prepares the student to apply knowledge of pediatric healthcare maintenance, pathophysiology, pharmacology and symptom assessment to the management of complex well-child and common acute pediatric illness. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will build upon differential diagnosis skills and develop basic proficiency in the formulation of an evidenced based treatment plan for common pediatric primary care chief complaints.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski

This course introduces the student to concepts related to the management of complex or chronic pediatric illness in the primary care setting. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will apply foundational knowledge of differential diagnoses and management to the assessment and management of complex conditions in the context of pediatric primary care.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski

This course advances student skills related to the management of pediatric complex conditions and introduces concepts related to the care of children with chronic conditions in the specialty care setting. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will refine skills in the assessment and management of complex conditions in pediatric primary care and learn strategies for effective collaboration and coordination of care with pediatric specialists.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski

This course incorporates skills related to assessment, diagnosis and management of well and ill children, and prepares students for the transition to leadership and independent clinical practice across settings. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will refine skills in the comprehensive care of children and learn to integrate them within the context of professional role development and state and federal standards for safe and ethical practice.

Instructor(s): Carrie Evans

Seminar provides specialty content necessary for primary care nurse-midwives and women's health nurse practitioners. Application from NURSING 246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Jim Gatewood

This seminar provides content specific to the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner role in assessment and management of symptoms commonly encountered in primary care of adults across the lifespan. Seminar is taken concurrently with NURSING 246 Common Symptom Assessment & Management and application from NURSING 246 lectures will be made through case-based discussions.

Instructor(s): Miranda Surjadi

Course introduces the more complex health problems encountered in primary care. Clients clinical presentation, underlying causes and appropriate treatment are discussed. Separate specialty track seminars permit elaboration of problems as they occur in the specialty.

Instructor(s): Abbey Roepke, Jennifer Huggans-Zapeta, Alicia Bacchus

Seminar is taken concurrently with NURSING 247 and provides the specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from NURSING 247 lectures will be made to the specialty area using case presentations and relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Lisa Mihaly, Andrea Kuster, Sarah Nathan

Advanced specialty seminar to extend knowledge of the varied scope of problems in family primary care. Advanced skill training in case presentation and management that represents integration of prior theoretical and clinical course work.

Instructor(s): Lisa Mihaly, Sarah Nathan, Andrea Kuster, Jennifer Huggans-Zapeta

Advanced specialty seminar to extend knowledge of the varied scope of problems in family primary care. Advanced skill training in case presentation and management that represents integration of prior theoretical and clinical course work.

Instructor(s): Yoonmee Joo

Class provides the opportunity to enhance clinical problem-solving and decision making; and develop clinical care management plans for complex chronic illnesses in adolescents and adults throughout the lifespan. This course will also emphasize the care of the older adult with multiple chronic conditions. The class format includes case study analyses with student presentations and student led discussion.

Instructor(s): Anna Strewler

This course provides students with exposure to important concepts that have significant impact on the ethical, legal and clinical aspects of professional practice as an Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner.

Instructor(s): Becca Neuwirth

Students will discuss fundamental provision and management of medication and procedure abortion. Course will allow discussion of background on abortion law, epidemiology, counseling techniques, trauma informed care, management and provision of abortion and abortion complications.

Instructor(s): Staff

Students collaborate in clinical investigations and other studies of special problems in nursing and health sciences or health policy under the direction of faculty. Students may select areas related to their long-term interests and future research or clinical program.

Instructor(s): Staff

Student undertakes an individual study with emphasis on special problems in nursing. Students may select an area of study which is related to their area of interest or future goals.

Instructor(s): Staff

This course offers students the opportunity to conduct research in preparation for their qualifying examination under the supervision and mentorship of faculty, usually the student's advisor or qualifying examination committee member(s).

Instructor(s): Sandra Weiss, Stella Bialous

This course provides an introduction to the principles and methods of proposal writing used in preparing a grant proposal. The coursework provides content on the process for good proposal development, key elements and sections of a proposal, necessary information to include in a grant proposal, and development of a budget.

Instructor(s): Heather Leutwyler, Margaret Wallhagen

The course is designed for doctoral students with an interest in Gerontology who are preparing to write either their qualifying examination papers or dissertation.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis

This course introduces the use of psychotherapy for treatment of cognitive, emotional and behavioral problems experienced by children and adolescents. Content builds upon a developmental framework, as well as a basic understanding of patient-centered clinical practice, including individual and family strengths, resiliency, and cultural identity. Evidence-based and best practices in psychotherapeutic modalities are introduced within the context of PMHNP practice.

Instructor(s): Stella Bialous

Course provides an introduction to critical thinking, policy, and ethical reasoning about the discipline of nursing and its contributions to policy discourse. Includes comparative analyses/critique of theoretical application. Focuses on learning and using theories of the policy process, including analyzing how health policy is constructed. Perspectives on agenda setting, media roles, advocacy, policy innovation, diffusion and implementation will be integrated with examples of policy problems.

Instructor(s): Jana Kohler

Course supports a comprehensive exploration of pathophysiologic phenomena in the cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurologic systems in the fetus, neonate and infant. Clinical presentation, associated symptomatology and therapeutic management strategies will be discussed.