include the varied yet interdependent activities of critical reflection, validation, confirmation, and utilization of nursing knowledge. In addition, the student will explore the utilization of nursing theory and knowledge to his or her own experiences and everyday nursing practice. Co-requisites: MSN 6100, 6180. MSN 6160. Evidence-Based Practice (3) This course provides students the knowledge and skill required to develop and implement evidence-based processes within the professional settings of the nurse administrator and the nurse educator. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6141, 6180. Co-requisite: MSN 6120. MSN 6180. Improving Patient Care and Nursing Practice through Information Systems (3) This course provides students the knowledge and skill required to dfecrively apply the prindples of information technology within the healthcare setting. Course content indudes the utilization of information technology to analyze healthcare data for the improvement of nursing dedsion-making and to support quality in nursing administration and nursing education settings. Co-requisites: MSN 6100, 6141. MSN 6200. Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Administration (3) This course focuses upon the knowledge and skills required to utilize established theoretical and concepts frameworks to critically analyze clinical and non-clinical leadership issues and apply theory-based principles within the nursing administration setting. Prerequisite: MSN 6100, 6141, 6180. MSN 6300. Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Risk Issues in Patient Care Delivery (3) This course focuses upon the nurse administrator's responsibility to develop and maintain a culture of safely, reduce and prevent harm to patients, and reduce institutional risk and liability issues through the utilization of healthcare outcomes measurement and application of sound principles and practices associated with quality improvement. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200, 6324, 6340, 6360. Co-requisites: MSN 6380, 6400. MSN 6324. Financial Issues in Nursing Administration (3) This course provides a conceptual foundation for the nurse administrator's accountability to provide fiscal resource planning, forecasting and resource allocation, strategic planning that addresses future trends, oversight of all nursing related operating aspects, and the achievement of the financial goals of the healthcare organization. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200. Co-requisites: MSN 6340, 6360. MSN 6340. Compliance with Legal and Regulatory Systems in Patient Care Delivery (3) This course focuses upon the nurse administrator's responsibility to develop and maintain a healthcare environment that fulfills the compliance standards and criteria established by both state and national legal and regulatory systems. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200. Co-requisites: MSN 6324, MSN 6360. Scope and Practice of Nursing Administration (3) This course addresses the nurse administrator's responsibility for the overall administration of patient care delivery services and representation of nursing services at the highest level of the organization and across a wide variety of settings. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200. Co-requisites: MSN 6324, 6340. MSN 6380. Retaining and Developing a Competent Workforce in Nursing (3) This course addresses the overall operational management and administration functions related to staffing, staff development, and managerial issues including coaching, disdpline and employee 279 support. Processes rdated to labor relations within healthcare is addressed. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200, 6324, 6340, 6360. Co-requisites: 6300, 6400. MSN 6400. Nurse Administrator Residency (3) This on-site pradicum is designed to prepare the student for a career in nursing administration and leadership. The student will partidpate in focused participative learning activities with nurse leaders at either the executive, diredor or manager level. A variety of focused nursing administrator residency areas will be available. The student, faculty, and assigned nurse administrator residency preceptor will collaboratively design the residency experience. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6200, 6324, 6340, 6360. Co-requisites: MSN 6300, 6380. MSN 6500. Theoretical Foundations in Nursing Education (3) This course focuses upon the knowledge and skills required to utilize established teaching and learning theories developed to enhance the nursing educational process. The practical utility of these teaching and learning theories in diverse nursing education learning environments will be emphasized. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6141, 6180. MSN 6520. Curriculum Development for Nursing Educators (3) This course focuses on the concepts and organizing frameworks for curriculum design, course development and desired outcomes, standards of nursing education and practice, continuing education, and health care educational programs.. Issues related to program accreditation and related social and legal issues will be examined. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6500. Co-requisites: MSN 6540, 6560. MSN 6540. Measurement of Competence and Outcomes in Nursing Education (3) This course focuses upon established theories of measurement and evaluation coupled with strategies for implementing evaluation of student learning, program outcomes, and faculty performance targets. Accurate interpretation of evaluation data to support an evidence-based response to student and program evaluation results will be emphasized. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6500. Co-requisites: MSN 6520, 6560. MSN 6560. Socialization in the Role of Nursing Educator (3) This course prepares the student to function proficiently in the nurse educator role within a variety of learning environments and social settings. The development of professional and personal adaptive strategies will be emphasized. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6500. Co-requisites: MSN 6520, 6540. MSN 6580. Clinical Nursing Instruction in Higher Education and Community Settings (3) This course prepares the student to apply teaching and learning theories within the practice laboratory and clinical settings. The clinical application component of this course will provide the student the opportunity to participate, with supervision, in a practice laboratory and/or clinical instruction environment. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6500, 6520, 6540, 6560. Co-requisites: 6600, 6700. MSN 6600. Nursing Instruction in Higher Education and Community Settings (3) This course prepares the student to apply teaching and learning theories within both the traditional and non-traditional classroom setting. Teaching strategies designed to support student learning across varied settings and modalities will be emphasized. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6141, 6160, 6180, 6500, 6520, 6540, 6560. Co-requisites: MSN 6580, 6700. General PROFILE ENROLLMENT STUDENT AFFAIRS ACADEMIC INFO DEGREE REQ GENED Engaged Learning 8 Interdisciplinary OUR/CBL HNRS/BIS ESL LIBS INTRD MINORS Applied Science 8 Technology AUSV/ATTC CMT CEET/EE CS MFET/ETM MET DGET ENGR IDT SST TBE Arts 8 Humanities MPC/MENG COMM ENGL FL MUSC THEA ART/ARTH Business 8 Econ MBA MACC/MTAX ACTG BS AD/FIN MGMT MKTG SCM ECON/QUAN 1ST Education MSAT/MED CHF AT/HLTH NUTR/PEP/REC HPHP COURSES ATHL/PE EDUC Heaifh Professions MHA/MSN MSRS DENT PAR HTHS HAS/HIM MLS NRSG RADT DMS/NUCM RATH REST Science BTNY CHEM GEO MATH/MTHE MICR PHYS/ASTR ZOOL Social S Behavioral Sciences MCJ/CJ ECON GEOG HIST POLS/PHIL PSY SW/GERT SOC/ANTH AERO MILS NAVS Continuing Ed Davis Campus Weber State University 2011-2012 Catalog