NURS 899
Special Topics in Nursing: The study of special topics directed by an authority in the field.
NURS 910
Knowledge Development in Nursing: Examines the origin and development of nursing knowledge, theories and research testing nursing theories and models.
NURS 915
Nursing, Health Organizations and Policy Making: Interrelated responses of nursing, the organization of healthcare and policy over nurse leaders to public policies in policymaking, with consequences for organizations administration, services, staffing, interorganizational linkages, and health of the public.
NURS 923
Theories of Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions: Overview of theory and research related to the prevention of chronic conditions across the life span. Concepts such as health, illness, chronicity, risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disability are examined.
NURS 928
Organizational Theories Applied to Nursing: Examines contemporary issues and programs in nursing systems. Students use a four-level nursing systems model to analyze programs of research related to systems.
NURS 930
Issues in Prediction, Prevention, and Amelioration with Infants and Children at Risk: Developmental science is applied to research with children at risk for health problems and their parents. Examine conceptual models, design, and ethical issues in studies aimed at improving children's health.
NURS 932
Families and Health: Theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues related to family research including health promotion, risk reduction, vulnerability, and health risk, in the context of acute and chronic illness across the life span.
NURS 933
Methods for the Evaluation and Improvement of Health Care Systems: Examines literature on quality of care - effectiveness, safety, efficiency, equity, timeliness and patient-centeredness. Critically evaluates conceptual frameworks, research designs, sources of data, analytic approaches, and implications for health care policy.
NURS 950
Analysis of the Academic Role in Nursing Education: Knowledge, theories and skills necessary for transition into an academic teaching role in university schools of nursing. Particular emphasis on the teaching-learning process as utilized in higher education.
NURS 953
Ethics and Law in Health Care and Research: Addresses ethical/legal dilemmas in health care and research and how health professionals resolve dilemmas. Students analyze nurses' ethical/legal responsibilities, decision-making, and synthesize literature from ethics, law and policy.
NURS 957
From Theory to Intervention in Chronic Conditions: In-depth exploration of selected programmatic research in nursing and related fields on prevention and management of chronic conditions in order to generate and evaluate treatment theory and intervention protocol.
NURS 958
Designing Intervention Studies: Examination of methodological, ethical, and practical issues in the design and implementation of theory-based intervention studies.
NURS 960
Proseminar in Nursing: The Doctoral Executive Committee will select the specific topics within a proseminar for each semester in September of the preceding year.
NURS 961
Integrative Literature Review: Designed to develop students' skills in writing integrative literature reviews, students read method literature, issue literature, and examples of published integrative reviews.
NURS 970
Advanced Statistics I: Principles of Regression and Correlation: Principles of bivariate and multivariate regression and correlations are studied. Emphasis is on the application of these techniques in the analysis of nursing and health related data.
NURS 971
Advanced Statistics II: Principles of Analysis of Variance Principles of variance and covariance: Univariance ANOVA, multiple ANOVA, ANCOVA, repeated measures ANOVA - are studied. Emphasis is on application of these techniques in the analysis of nursing and health-related data.
NURS 976
Issues in Sampling and Design for Nursing Research: Discussion of critical analyses of methodologies and design. Quantitative measures, qualitative methods, design and sampling methods are examined for the study of nursing phenomena.
NURS 977
Qualitative Methods: Examines the philosophical orientation and methods of qualitative techniques including grounded theory and phenomenology, considerations of research designs, ethical issues, issues of rigor, data collection, and analysis.
NURS 978
Principles of Measurement: Examination of measurement and techniques for assessing validity, reliability, and structure of data collection instruments. Instrumental construction and procedures for critical evaluation of instruments are included.
NURS 979
Qualitative Analysis: Emphasizes the work of analysis and interpretation. Students apply relevant qualitative techniques to their own data.
NURS 980
Observational Methods: Explores quantitative observational research techniques. Strategies for developing coding systems, determining reliability and validity, and analyzing data are included.
NURS 981
Longitudinal Methods and Analysis: Examines longitudinal research methods, including conceptualization, design, and analysis. Assumptions and limitations of longitudinal statistics, relationship between design and analyses, and strategies to maintain scientific integrity are covered.
NURS 985
Research Seminar and Practicum: Guided Individual Research Experience Directs students to develop research skills related to dissertation and future research.
