This course is designed to provide the student with the skills necessary to
critique, evaluate, and apply theories from nursing and related healthcare
disciplines. Philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the nursing
discipline will be explored with in depth discussion of knowledge
development and theory analysis. Students will study a selected phenomenon
in depth and learn the strategies for concept analysis and development.
This
course focuses on quantitative and qualitative research design with an
emphasis on strategies for incorporating current research findings into
the provision of healthcare to improve quality of care and care
delivery. Students will identify common problems in nursing and
healthcare systems, and determine the most appropriate research
methodology for finding or creating solutions. Students are expected to
critically appraise published research and develop appropriate and
creative methods for utilizing current research findings in a variety of
healthcare settings.
This course will prepare the nurse administrator to study the health-related
states of client populations and apply epidemiological, social, and
environmental data to the health status of individuals, families, groups,
and communities. Students will examine environmental and occupational
hazards leading to disease and evaluate preventative and therapeutic
measures that are available within healthcare delivery systems. Current
epidemic and pandemic issues will be discussed in addition to biological,
chemical, and radiological threats.
NURS 6303. Legal/Ethical Issues
and Current Trends in Healthcare
This course is an overview of current trends in healthcare today and the
legal/ethical issues with which the nurse manager in healthcare systems may
confront. Students will examine contemporary social, economic, ethical and
legislative issues influencing healthcare policy. Such issues as legal
liability of professionals, legal compliance, ethical standards and
personnel law will also be examined.
This course
will prepare the graduate to analyze theories and research relevant to
the role of nurse administrator as leader and manager. Emphasis will be
placed on the internal and external forces influencing the nurse
administrator role. Seminars will focus on healthcare policy,
organization, healthcare delivery systems, and fiscal management. The
graduate will be able to assume a leadership role in the managing of
human, fiscal and physical healthcare resources in a variety of
healthcare settings.
NURS 6503. Organizational
Behavior and Human Resource Management
This course deals both with human resource issues in the healthcare
organizations and with the theoretical foundations of organizational
development as an applied behavioral science. Attention will be directed to
the dynamics of contemporary human relations in healthcare organizations.
Prerequisites:
24 hours of core courses and NURS 6503 and NURS 6513.This course is designed
to promote student application of theory to practice. Students, with faculty
approval, will select the healthcare setting and nurse administrator as
mentor for the practicum. Students will be required to plan their studies,
set specific learning objectives and provide formal written reports on their
findings. The nurse administrator should work closely with his/her preceptor
to assess job requirements, analyze budgets and budgetary needs, and develop
a plan to provide quality, cost-effective nursing care to patients.
This course is designed to prepare the nurse administrator to develop a
crisis intervention program and to understand a wide range of crisis
intervention strategies including pre and post incident crisis education,
crisis intervention for individuals, significant other support services,
demobilizations after large scale traumas/disaster, small group defusing and
group intervention. The nurse administrator should have the knowledge
necessary to assess, plan, organize, implement and evaluate a crisis
intervention program.
This course is directed research on a thesis topic selected by the student
in consultation with a supervising professor. The student will be required
to present the thesis in a seminar to faculty and other graduate students.
EMHS 6003. Design and Management
of Preparedness and Mitigation Systems
This course reviews the needs for well structured design and management
processes for preparedness and mitigation systems. Students will study the
underlying concepts for the design and management processes and the best
practice methods currently used to implement these concepts in the public
and the private sectors. The course includes a special project in which
students will develop an actual design and management approach for a public
or private sector organization’s preparedness and mitigation system.
EMHS 6013. Technology for
Comprehensive Emergency Management
This course covers the technologies that are applied during each of the
phases of emergency management. Typical technologies reviewed include
information management, message handling, Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), material release modeling, situational analysis, and hazard analysis
tools. Students will research products in each technology category. This
course includes a special project in which students develop an exercise that
integrates and demonstrates several technologies in a comprehensive
emergency management approach.
EMHS 6023. Risk and Vulnerability
Assessment for Business and Industry
This course covers the hazards and threats businesses and industry face to
their security, safety, and business continuity. The scope of threats and
businesses studied ranges from local to international. Students will
research methods business and industry use to assess their risks and
vulnerability and best practices disaster recovery and business continuity
plans. A student project will include identifying the threats faced by a
specific business and developing a risk and vulnerability assessment that
addresses the business continuity needs of the business.
EMHS 6063. Principles of Hazards
and Emergency Management
This course provides an overview of hazards theory, emergency management
fundamentals, and the science of various hazards. Both natural and
technological hazards are studied with the perspective of emergency
management. Some of the topics include earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes,
floods, wildfires, terrorism, tornadoes, winter storms, and hurricanes.
