NURS 601 - Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice

Units: 3
This course explores theories used to advance nursing practice. Learners apply knowledge synthesis and translation to practice to address health inequities, leadership, and complex healthcare systems.

Prerequisites: Admission to M.S. Nursing program.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze current theories significant to advanced nursing practice and health care.
Integrate nursing and ethical theoretical understanding into advanced nursing practice role development.
Synthesize nursing knowledge, ethical principles, biopsychosocial perspectives, and health promotion theories for application to advanced nursing practice.
Integrate theory, evidence, clinical judgment, and interprofessional perspectives for translational processes to improve quality of advanced nursing practice and health outcomes for patient aggregates.
Analyze learning theories related to adult learning including: action learning, experiential learning, project based learning and self-directed learning in nursing education.
Analyze metacognitive and cognitive factors, affective and motivational factors, developmental and social factors, and individual difference factors that affect adult learning in nursing education.