post-master's certificate program
Effects of cumulative loss experienced by professional care givers providing palliative care are examined and integrative supportive responses explored.
* A program plan for students enrolling in the Post-Master’s Certificate option will be developed based on previous Master’s Degree coursework.
COURSES
Advance Practice Core Courses
- Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Palliative Care
- Dimensions of Suffering, Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
Clinical Practica Courses
- Palliative Care I: Decision Making for Palliative Care
- Palliative Care II: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership Development
- Palliative Care III: Capstone Practicum
TOTAL: 18 credit hours/550 clinical hours
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Prepares graduates to function in the nurse practitioner role focusing on health maintenance/promotion, disease prevention, and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses across primary care settings.
* A program plan for students enrolling in the Post-Master’s Certificate
option will be developed based on previous Master’s Degree coursework.
COURSES
Advance Practice Core Courses
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuro-immunology I
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuro-immunology II
- Advanced Pharmacology I
- Advanced Pharmacology II
- Advanced Health Assessment and Pattern Appraisal
Clinical Practica Courses
- Clinical Practicum I
- Clinical Practicum II
- Clinical Practicum III
TOTAL: 19-23 credit hours/765 clinical hours
Through concentrated practica experiences (765 hours) with a nurse
practitioner and/or physician preceptor, students implement the advanced
practice role of nurse practitioner for care of pediatric, adult, and
geriatric clients in the community.
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Prepares graduates to function as nurse educators in the role areas of staff development, community education and higher education.
* A program plan for students enrolling in the Post-Master’s Certificate option will be developed based on previous Master’s Degree coursework.
COURSES
Education Courses
- Issues and Trends in Nursing Eduction
- Curriculum Development I: Staff Development & Community Education
- Curriculum Development II: Higher Education
- Teaching Methods and Strategies for Nursing Education
- Measurement and Evaluation in Nursing Education
Clinical Practicum Course
- Role Practicum in Nursing Education
TOTAL: 22 credit hours/150 practicum hours
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Clinical Nurse Specialist in Holistic
Nursing
Prepares professional nurses for advanced practice roles as nurse-healers in a variety of health care settings with diverse client populations.
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A program plan for students enrolling in the Post-Master’s
Certificate option will be developed based on previous Master’s Degree
coursework.
COURSES
Advance Practice Core Courses
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuro-immunology I
- Advanced Pathophysiology and Psychoneuro-immunology II
- Naturalistic and Holistic Therapeutics I
- Naturalistic and Holistic Therapeutics II
- Advanced Health Assessment and Pattern Appraisal
Clinical Practica Courses
- Clinical Practicum I
- Clinical Practicum II
- Clinical Practicum III
TOTAL: 23 credit hours/590 clinical hours
Courses provide knowledge of philosophy, integrative theories, and
science of wholeness, pathways for self-development and clinical practice
with selected clients. Opportunity exists for in-depth study of the self,
personal growth, and evolution of a healing consciousness.
Faculty who teach and mentor students are experts in the field of complementary
health care and maintain clinical practices in which the role of nurse-healer
is used in partnership with traditional health care systems.
Experiential learning of selected complementary modalities, such as imagery, meditation, polarity energy balancing, reflexology, relaxation, sound therapies, and therapeutic touch. Through clinical practica, students care for a selected client cohort to integrate a caring-healing model of advanced practice into a variety of health care environments.
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Nursing and Health Care Management
Prepares professional nurses for advanced practice roles as mid-level managers in a variety of health care settings which serve diverse client populations.
* A program plan for students enrolling in the Post-Master’s Certificate
option will be developed based on previous Master’s Degree coursework.
COURSES
Management Course
- Fundamentals of Management
- Operations Management
- Budgeting and Financial Accounting
- Marketing Management
- Management of Human Resources
- Management of Information Systems
- Health Care Ethics, Law and Policy
- Management of Communications
Role Practicum
- Role Practicum
TOTAL: 22 credit hours/135 clinical hours
Specialty courses prepare the professional nurse in the fundamentals
of management operations, budgeting and financial accounting, marketing
issues, business communication strategies, management of information and
human resources, and health care ethics, law and policy. A culminating role
practicum offers students the opportunity to implement selected role functions
with an individualized focus to enhance career development in a management
position in nursing and health care.
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