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Recognition of the CollegeDoctor Nursing Practice (DNP) Program
Doctor Nursing Practice (DNP) Program
General Information
The DNP program is based on The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (AACN, 2006) guidelines for the curriculum, and reflects a multidisciplinary design incorporating appropriate graduate level courses from other disciplines. This program is designed to guide Registered Nurses and APN professionals in the development of a higher level of leadership skill at the organizational and systems level of practice as change agents for improving health care outcomes that focus on the following essential elements:
I. Scientific Underpinnings for Practice
II. Organizational and System Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking
III. Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice
IV. Information System/Technology and Patient Care Technology for the Improvement and Transformation of Health Care
V. Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care
VI. Inter-professional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes
VII. Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving the Nation's Health
VIII. Advanced Nursing Practice
The College of St. Scholastica offers two DNP program options: The Baccalaureate to Doctor of Nursing Practice (BS to DNP) program and the Post Master's DNP program.
The BS to DNP Program at The College of St. Scholastica educates professional nurses for advanced practice in nursing either as clinical nurse specialists in adult nursing, adult/geriatric nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, adult psychiatric nurse practitioner or family psychiatric nurse practitioner. Doctoral-level courses are integrated throughout the advanced practice nursing curriculum and prepare the future DNP to expand their knowledge and practice options. Students can opt for a dual track of study by adding a gerontological specialization to any of the advanced practice tracks. The BS to DNP option is offered in a hybrid format consisting of online courses supplemented with minimal on-campus meetings. Students who wish to complete the program on a full time basis should not work more than 0.6.
Learning outcomes:
Expected outcomes of the program are designed to prepare graduates who will:
1. synthesize knowledge from nursing and related disciplines as a basis for advanced nursing practice across the lifespan;
2. implement roles of advanced nursing practice responsive to changing environmental forces;
3. integrate leadership skills, teaching and collaborative strategies to facilitate policy changes that augment health; 4. integrate and apply evidence based research to advanced nursing practice with individuals and populations across the lifespan;
5. utilize knowledge of political, economic and social issues in ethical and legal decision-making to resolve dilemmas of practice;
6. demonstrate a commitment to the advancement of professional nursing and to the professional growth of self and peers;
7. evaluate care delivery models in order to develop or redesign sustainable systems of care;
8. assume leadership roles on interprofessional teams to collaboratively improve patient and population health outcomes;
9. utilize information technology and research methods to analyze multiple sources of client outcome data for the improvement and transformation of health care;
10. implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions to reduce health care disparities, particularly among the rural and underserved.
The Post-Master's Program option (Post MS) for current advanced practice nurses.
The Post MS Program option is offered in an online format; this makes our DNP programs accessible to working students with busy lives. Students may opt to complete the program on full time or part time basis. It is recommended that students who choose the full time option work no more than 0.6.
Learning outcomes:
The curriculum builds upon outcomes of the current master's curriculum to incorporate the essential elements not met in the master's program. Outcomes of the post-master's program are to prepare nursing leaders with the following competencies:
1. evaluate care delivery models in order to develop or redesign sustainable systems of care;
2. assume leadership roles on interprofessional teams to collaboratively improve patient and population health outcomes;
3. utilize information technology and research methods to analyze multiple sources of client outcome data for the improvement and transformation of health care;
4. implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions to reduce health care disparities, particularly among the rural and underserved.
Course Descriptions: BS to DNP Program
The plan of study consists of common core courses combined with interdisciplinary support courses and specialty courses for each track.
BIO 5777: Advanced Pathophysiology
4 credits
Advanced Pathophysiology is a course intended to broaden and deepen the students' knowledge of the normal and abnormal functional processes of the human body. The subject of study assumes a prior understanding of basic physiologic principles that is, in turn, built upon knowledge of cellular function and biochemical mechanisms. The ultimate goal of the course is to prepare students to visualize the mechanical functioning of the body in health and disease so that they may better understand the principles of prevention and treatment.
NSG 6605: Theorizing Nursing Practice
4 credits
A critical investigation of concepts, middle range theories, and family theories used by advanced practice health care providers in health promotion and disease prevention interventions with clients and families to achieve health outcomes.
NSG 6610: Theories of Human Development Across the Lifespan
2 credits
This course explores theories of human development across the life cycle from psychoanalytic, relational, interpersonal, sociocultural, cognitive, biological, and evolutionary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on the application of these theories to health promotion in advanced nursing practice in a multicultural society.
NSG 6614: Health Care Policy
2 credits
The role of the nurse in influencing health policy is investigated. Applications of change and systems theories to the process of health policy development are explored.
NSG 6627: Advanced Health Assessment: Adult
3 credits
Advanced physical, psychological, social and developmental skills necessary for primary care practice with adult clients. Principles and techniques of data collection, communication and physical examination are emphasized. Basic laboratory and diagnostic procedures are explored. Web-based course on campus seminars, 45 laboratory and clinical practice hours.
NSG 6671: Rural/Global Health
2 credits
Focuses on rural health and rural health issues related to health care and health care delivery. The role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in the delivery of health care to rural populations is explored. Issues and trends in rural health and rural health care delivery are investigated.
NSG 6677: Advanced Pharmacology
3 credits
Web Based Course. Principles of drug therapies commonly used by advanced practice nurses, including pharmacologic action of drugs, assessment issues, a decision-making processes for appropriate use monitoring across the lifespan and client education.
NSG 8000: Leadership in HealthCare
2 credits
Study of various dimensions of leadership and how they apply to the health care environment. Includes theoretical models and their application to nursing models of practice, personal and organizational integration of values, key aspects of creating and sustaining a learning organization, and leadership as partnership and teamwork.
NSG 8200: Clinical Outcomes Research
3 credits
Knowledge development in areas such as the translation of research into practice, the evaluation of practice, the design of activities aimed at improving the reliability of health care practice and outcomes, and participation in collaborative outcome research. The use of analytical methods to develop best practices and practice guidelines and to facilitate the evaluation of systems of care that will improve patient outcomes are emphasized.
NSG 8201: Clinical Project I
2 credits
Emphasis is placed on the use of analytical methods to assess client-centered outcomes in a clinical health care or organizational setting. The focus is on developing a design and evaluation plan for the DNP clinical project. Stage one in a three stage process. Students work independently under the guidance of a faculty advisor and with the assistance of a clinical expert/systems mentor. Attendance is required at a series of pro-seminars designed to facilitate processes essential to the development of an outcomes-, evidence based clinical project. Co-requisite: NSG 8200.
NSG 8202: Ethics in Health Care
3 credits
Analysis of both empirical research and philosophical inquiry in health care ethics with due consideration for human diversity and social context. Exploration of current ethical issues, including relevant contextual factors, within the health care disciplines broadly, and within the student's area of clinical practice and scholarship specifically. Emphasis on the socially organized practices of responsibility that influence ethical decision-making and their implications for health care delivery within the professional domains of administration, clinical care, policy and education. This course focuses primarily on the ethical problems of nursing practice. It is designed to help students increase their knowledge of the domains of ethical experience, articulate the ethical issues they experience in practice, and justify the reasons for taking one course of action over another. Readings are taken from moral philosophy, bioethics, nursing, feminist theory, and social science.
NSG 8204: Clinical Project II
4 credits
Students apply principles of outcomes research in the clinical setting while implementing the DNP clinical project proposed in NSG 8201. Second stage of a two-stage process in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the DNP clinical project, culminating in completion of an applied research project. Students work independently under the guidance of a faculty adviser and with the assistance of a clinical expert/systems mentor. Course includes formal presentation, critique, and defense of the DNP clinical project. Pre-Requisite: NSG 8201.
NSG 8352: Performance Improvement in Health Care Organizations
3 credits
Examines the concept of performance management and its application to the health care industry for both larger health care organizations and smaller health care settings. Issues related to the extreme pressure exerted by both purchasers and regulatory agencies for healthcare organizations to improve its performance will be analyzed.
NSG 8355: Healthcare Finance
3 credits
Covers finance issues related to healthcare organizations, such as: reimbursement analysis, understanding the nature of costs, service line profitability analysis, and preparation of operating and capital budgets. Students learn how to analyze financial statements and their relationship to organizational decision-making.
NSG 8420: Organizational Behavior
3 credits
Explores the behavior of people within organizations in terms of the factors that are most influential. Those include factors related to individuals, groups and the larger organization system. The course utilizes an experiential learning process that helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses as learners.
NSG 8430: Health Care Informatics
3 credits
An introduction to the concepts of health care informatics. Explore the use of information technology applications used by health care professionals to support health in clinical practice, education, research, and administration.
NSG 8470: Program Evaluation
2 credits
Program evaluation is the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program, to improve program effectiveness, and/or to inform decisions about future programming. As this definition emphasizes, the course focuses not on evaluating individuals but on programs or interventions where information from individuals is aggregated to summarize a group's progress and to draw conclusions about program effectiveness.
NSG 8530: Clinical Workflow and Process Redesign
3 credits
This course is designed to provide healthcare and health information technology professionals with the theory and tools necessary to effect the clinical transformation required for the successful adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). EHR systems are significant investments that must be planned and implemented in a manner that ensures positive outcomes. EHR systems are not just financial, administrative, or operational systems that focus on healthcare departmental tasks, nor are they electronic means to achieve documentation. Instead, EHRs are knowledge management systems, directly impacting the way clinicians practice. As such, clinical processes must be understood and redesigned to take advantage of the support afforded by information technology.
NSG 8660: Nursing Management
3 credits
Integration of organizational and management theories within the context of the nursing process to the delivery of nursing services in a variety of settings and systems. The role of the advanced practice nurse in various levels of management is analyzed and required core abilities required of the manager are emphasized. Factors affecting the dynamic changes in the health care system and delivery of nursing care are integrated.
NSG 8675: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
4 credits
Course description: Epidemiology and Biostatistics introduces key concepts to identify causes of disease, examines study designs used in the field with SPSS program analysis to provide solutions for relative risk, odds ratios, survival analysis, and logistic regression. Epidemiology examines clinical infectious diseases encountered in primary care settings and offers an epidemiologic perspective on cardiovascular diseases with emphasis on prevention and management in the elderly in a clinical setting.
NSG 8680: Leadership Seminar
1 credit
Facilitates the transition of graduate nursing students to advanced clinical practice. Emphasizes the concrete goals and tasks of the transition to practice as well as the transformation of identity from student to independent professional. Identifies the nature and scope of professionalism in the discipline. Provides an opportunity for networking with student colleagues statewide and for the creative visioning of an independent, nurse-run, multispecialty outpatient clinic for the delivery of collaborative primary care. Prerequisite: Enrollment during the semester in which graduation is scheduled.
NSG 6609: Continuing Enrollment
0 credits
Continuation of NSG 8205. Designed for students who do not complete their DNP clinical project within the designated time frame. Students register for continuing enrollment each semester while completing their work. The fee for continuing enrollment equals the tuition for one graduate semester credit. Prerequisite: NSG 8204.
Specialty Track Courses
Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Specialty Courses
BIO 5125:
2 credits
Biology of Aging is a course designed to allow study and understanding of the principles of aging applied to the anatomical and physiologic systems of the body. The course is divided into three portions; (1) Examination of the basic principles of aging from the population level; (2) Events of aging seen at the cellular level; and (3) Events of aging observed at the system level of the body.
NSG 6633: Health Assessment/Health Promotion of the Older Adult
2 credits
Course emphasizes analysis and application of theory and research related to health assessment and health promotion of older adults. Students will implement theory and evidence-based assessment techniques addressing health promotion, illness prevention activities, and diagnosis of illness and functional changes in older adults.
NSG 6635: Pharmacological Application: Older Adult
2 credits
Principles of gerontological pharmacotherapy are applied to pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions used in the management of acute, chronic physical and mental health disorders in older adults. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in relation to age related changes and pathophysiology are stressed. Assessment, decision-making processes, evaluation and client education for appropriate pharmacologic and non pharmacologic interventions are addressed. The course combines eight didactic hours with online case study application.
NSG 6639: Health Care Management: Syndromes in Older Adults
6 credits
Intensive clinical experience focusing on the care and management of the complex health needs in diverse older adult populations. Nursing care and the influence of support systems are evaluated for their impact on client outcomes. Processes and competencies addressed in this course include: (a) monitoring and support strategies for physical and behavioral changes experienced by clients; (b) modification of care for acute and chronic conditions in accordance with assessment, test findings, client responses and preferences; and (c) assessment of client preferences and responses to pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions. The course includes 270 clinical hours with web-based components and on campus seminar discussions.
NSG 6683: Primary Health Care Management II
6 credits
Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of acute and chronic illnesses in adolescents, adults and older adults. Underlying pathophysiologic and psychosocial bases for occurrence and detection are addressed with emphasis on management of common acute and chronic illnesses. It is required that NSG 6627 be taken within one year of this course, otherwise remedial work will be required Web-based course on campus seminars. 180 clinical hours.
NSG 6687: Nurse Practitioner Preceptorship
6 credits
This course is an intensive clinical experience (270 clinical hours) with a focus on prevention and health promotion, among adults/older adults, and their families, who are living with chronic illness.
Clinical Nurse Specialist Specialist Courses
NSG 8210: Clinical Nurse Speciaist: Role and Leadership
4 credits
An examination of the component roles and theories relevant to clinical nurse specialist practice, (e.g., clinical expert, teacher, consultant and researcher) within the context of spheres of influence (patient, staff and systems) and leadership. Study of major variables influencing health care which impact on clinical specialist component roles of consultant to peers and/or colleagues and teacher to staff and/or health care consumers. 145 practicum hours.
NSG 8211: Phenomena of Nursing Practicum
5 credits
Application of the four defining characteristics of nursing (phenomena, theory application, nursing action, and effects of action) to the care of clients with actual and potential health problems. A holistic approach is used in health promotion and illness intervention activities. Seminars focus on management of the health status of adults with emphasis on the independent dimension of nursing and critical diagnostic reasoning. 180 hours practicum. Focus: Clinical Expert Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
NSG 8212: Practicum: Clinical Specialization in Adult Nursing
5 credits
Emphasis on clarification of the adult nursing clinical specialist role. The component roles of the clinical nurse specialist (clinical expert, teacher, consultant and researcher) are synthesized as the student gives direct and indirect care to adults with complex and multifaceted health problems, under the preceptorship of a CNS. 180 practicum hours.
Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty Courses
NSG 6629: Advanced Health Assessment: Pediatrics
2 credits
Advanced physical, psychological, social, and developmental skills necessary for advanced practice nursing with pediatric clients. Principles and techniques of data collection, communication, and physical examination are emphasized. Basic laboratory and diagnostic procedures are explored. On line course, 45 laboratory and clinical practice hours.
NSG 6633: Health Assessment/Health Promotion of the Older Adult
2 credits
Course emphasizes analysis and application of theory and research related to health assessment and health promotion of older adults. Students will implement theory and evidence-based assessment techniques addressing health promotion, illness prevention activities, and diagnosis of illness and functional changes in older adults.
NSG 6635: Pharmacological Application: Older Adult
2 credits
Principles of gerontological pharmacotherapy are applied to pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions used in the management of acute, chronic physical and mental health disorders in older adults. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in relation to age related changes and pathophysiology are stressed. Assessment, decision-making processes, evaluation and client education for appropriate pharmacologic and non pharmacologic interventions are addressed. The course combines eight didactic hours with online case study application.
NSG 6681: Primary Health Care Management
6 credits
Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of common acute and chronic illnesses in infants to young adults. Aspects of assessment, diagnosis, management, and evaluation derived from pathophysiologic, psychosocial, spiritual, and developmental databases are addressed. Web enhanced course with three on-campus meetings and 144 clinical hours.
NSG 6683: Primary Health Care Management II
6 credits
Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of acute and chronic illnesses in adolescents, adults and older adults. Underlying pathophysiologic and psychosocial bases for occurrence and detection are addressed with emphasis on management of common acute and chronic illnesses. It is required that NSG 6627 be taken within one year of this course, otherwise remedial work will be required Web-based course on campus seminars. 180 clinical hours.
NSG 6685: Prenatal Health Care
2 credits
Introduction to the role of a family nurse practitioner in the promotion of healthy pregnancy and lactation, and the management of frequently encountered problems in a pregnant or lactating woman. Online course, 30 clinical hours. Pre- or Co-requisite: NSG 6683
NSG 6687: Nurse Practitioner Preceptorship
6 credits
This course is an intensive clinical experience (270 clinical hours) with a focus on prevention and health promotion, among adults/older adults, and their families, who are living with chronic illness.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Specialty Courses
NSG 6662:
2 credits
This course introduces the student to the theories, concepts, models, and professional issues relevant to the psychiatric nurse practitioner's role in the care of persons with mental illness and persons/ populations at risk for mental illness. Emphasis is placed on the psychotherapeutic foundations of the discipline, including therapeutic use of self, cultural competence, and psychotherapeutic models and interventions drawn from a wide variety of theoretical approaches, including neurobiological, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and other evidence-based approaches to the care of persons with mental health problems.
NSG 6665: Groups: Psychiatric Nursing Management II
4 credits
This course focuses on the development of skills needed to function as a novice, advanced practice group leader/therapist with multicultural clients in a variety of sociocultural contexts. It includes application of theoretical principles of group psychotherapy with clients experiencing a wide range of psychiatric and mental health problems.
15 class hours, 135 clinical hours. Pre-or co-requisite: NSG 6666
NSG 6666: Groups: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing
2 credits
Examination of the structure, functions, processes, and developmental course of groups in human life and health care practice. Introduction to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and group facilitation in advanced practice psychiatric nursing.
30 class hours. Pre-requisite: 6605, 6627, 6662, 6677, 6678, 8200, 8675, Bio 5777.
NSG 6667: Child/Adolescent/Family: Psychiatric Nursing Management III
4 credits
Development of skills necessary for holistic management of common and recurrent psychiatric symptoms/conditions of child/adolescent/family clients. Emphasizes initial contact and comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care based on pathophysiologic, psychotherapeutic, spiritual, and developmental data. Includes assessment of community mental health needs and psychoeducational, as well as psychotherapeutic, and psychopharmacologic approaches with child/adolescent/family clients. Traditional and non-traditional community practice sites are used.
Pre- or Co- Requisite: 6668
NSG 6668: Child/Adolescent/Family: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
2 credits
This course examines the knowledge base and roles in advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing with child/adolescent/family clients. Standards of diagnostic classification systems and treatment modalities related to psychiatric illness are explored. Aspects of health promotion and disease prevention in advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing are also explored.
Pre-Requisite: NSG 6605,6627, 6629, 6662, 6677, 6678, 8200, 8675, Bio 5777.
NSG 6691: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Preceptorship
4 credits
This course explores the role of adult or family psychiatric nurse practitioner as a holistic, direct provider of primary mental health care to psychiatric clients and their families. Role components include the integration of medical, nursing, and psychiatric interventions-including comprehensive psychiatric assessment, DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, medication management, laboratory monitoring, case management, and individual and/ or group psychotherapy--into a holistic plan of care; implementation of intervention strategies for at risk populations; and utilization of outcomes research in the delivery of primary mental health care. Pre-Requisite: NSG 8510; Pre- or Co- Requisite: NSG 6665.
NSG 8510: Assessment and Management of Psychiatric Disorders in Adult Clients
6 credits
Clinical and didactic course that explores the diagnostic criteria and treatment modalities for major categories of psychiatric illness. Articulates and develops the content areas and clinical skills necessary for entry level advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing, including psychiatric interviewing and assessment, DSM-IV differential diagnosis, and holistic management of individual, adult clients with acute and chronic psychiatric disorders and/or common mental health problems. Develops additional competencies in mental health promotion/disease prevention and psychoeducation, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacologic treatment. Meets the professional standards of ANA and AACN, as well as CSS graduate program outcome #4. (See the Graduate Nursing Student Handbook, page 4.) Prerequisites NSG 6662, NSG 6677, NSG 6678.
Course Descriptions:
Post Master's Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
NSG 8000: Leadership in HealthCare
2 credits
Study of various dimensions of leadership and how they apply to the health care environment. Includes theoretical models and their application to nursing models of practice, personal and organizational integration of values, key aspects of creating and sustaining a learning organization, and leadership as partnership and teamwork.
NSG 8200: Clinical Outcomes Research
3 credits
Knowledge development in areas such as the translation of research into practice, the evaluation of practice, the design of activities aimed at improving the reliability of health care practice and outcomes, and participation in collaborative outcome research. The use of analytical methods to develop best practices and practice guidelines and to facilitate the evaluation of systems of care that will improve patient outcomes are emphasized.
NSG 8201: Clinical Project I
2 credits
Emphasis is placed on the use of analytical methods to assess client-centered outcomes in a clinical health care or organizational setting. The focus is on developing a design and evaluation plan for the DNP clinical project. Stage one in a three stage process. Students work independently under the guidance of a faculty advisor and with the assistance of a clinical expert/systems mentor. Attendance is required at a series of pro-seminars designed to facilitate processes essential to the development of an outcomes-, evidence based clinical project. Co-requisite: NSG 8200.
NSG 8202: Ethics in Health Care
3 credits
Analysis of both empirical research and philosophical inquiry in health care ethics with due consideration for human diversity and social context. Exploration of current ethical issues, including relevant contextual factors, within the health care disciplines broadly, and within the student's area of clinical practice and scholarship specifically. Emphasis on the socially organized practices of responsibility that influence ethical decision-making and their implications for health care delivery within the professional domains of administration, clinical care, policy and education. This course focuses primarily on the ethical problems of nursing practice. It is designed to help students increase their knowledge of the domains of ethical experience, articulate the ethical issues they experience in practice, and justify the reasons for taking one course of action over another. Readings are taken from moral philosophy, bioethics, nursing, feminist theory, and social science.
NSG 8204: Clinical Project II
4 credits
Students apply principles of outcomes research in the clinical setting while implementing the DNP clinical project proposed in NSG 8201. Second stage of a two-stage process in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the DNP clinical project, culminating in completion of an applied research project. Students work independently under the guidance of a faculty adviser and with the assistance of a clinical expert/systems mentor. Course includes formal presentation, critique, and defense of the DNP clinical project.
NSG 8352: Performance Improvement in Health Care Organizations
3 credits
Examines the concept of performance management and its application to the health care industry for both larger health care organizations and smaller health care settings. Issues related to the extreme pressure exerted by both purchasers and regulatory agencies for healthcare organizations to improve its performance will be analyzed.
NSG 8355: Healthcare Finance
3 credits
Covers finance issues related to healthcare organizations, such as: reimbursement analysis, understanding the nature of costs, service line profitability analysis, and preparation of operating and capital budgets. Students learn how to analyze financial statements and their relationship to organizational decision-making.
NSG 8420: Organizational Behavior
3 credits
Explores the behavior of people within organizations in terms of the factors that are most influential. Those include factors related to individuals, groups and the larger organization system. The course utilizes an experiential learning process that helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses as learners.
NSG 8470: Program Evaluation
2 credits
Program evaluation is the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program, to improve program effectiveness, and/or to inform decisions about future programming. As this definition emphasizes, the course focuses not on evaluating individuals but on programs or interventions where information from individuals is aggregated to summarize a group's progress and to draw conclusions about program effectiveness.
NSG 8660: Nursing Management
3 credits
Integration of organizational and management theories within the context of the nursing process to the delivery of nursing services in a variety of settings and systems. The role of the advanced practice nurse in various levels of management is analyzed and required core abilities required of the manager are emphasized. Factors affecting the dynamic changes in the health care system and delivery of nursing care are integrated.
NSG 6609: Continuing Enrollment
0 credits
Continuation of NSG 8204: Clinical Project II. Designed for students who do not complete their thesis or project within the designated time frame. Students register for continuing enrollment each semester while completing their work. The fee for continuing enrollment equals the tuition for one graduate semester credit. Prerequisite: NSG 8204.
Admission Requirements for BS to DNP program
Admission Requirements for post-master's DNP program
Acceptance Categories
Full Acceptance: granted to those students who meet all admission requirements.
Provisional Acceptance: granted to those students who have not submitted all required materials but who otherwise have met the admission requirements. Students are allowed one semester to submit remaining credentials and are not eligible for Financial Aid until receiving Full Acceptance into the program.
Probationary Admission: granted to those students who do not meet the GPA requirements but who otherwise exhibit reasonable evidence to indicate their ability to do satisfactory graduate work. Students will be removed from probationary status after completion of 6 semester credits of satisfactory work in graduate courses. Students are not eligible for Financial Aid until receiving Full Acceptance into the program.
Transfer Credits
Students may apply transfer graduate credits they have earned from an accredited college or university toward completion of their St. Scholastica degree. A maximum number of six transfer credits can be applied. The transfer credit must have been completed no more than seven years prior to the date the St. Scholastica degree is completed. Forms to request transfer of credits can be obtained from the Graduate Studies Office. The College of St. Scholastica will consider transfer credits from students who:
Submit a Credit Transfer Application form.
Submit an official transcript sent from the accredited institution.
Submit the course syllabus, catalog or other pertinent descriptive information.
Demonstrate course content is applicable to the enrolled program.
Have earned course grade of 3.0 or better.
Completed the course seven years prior to applying to the St. Scholastica program.
Degree-seeking students planning to enroll in courses at another institution with the intent to transfer the credits to The College of St. Scholastica will need to send a written request and supporting course documentation to the Chair, Department of Graduate Nursing prior to enrolling in the course. Written approval will be provided if the course is acceptable for transfer.
Contact
Paula McGrew
Graduate Nursing Coordinator
The College of St. Scholastica
1200 Kenwood Avenue
Duluth, MN 55811
Phone: 218-723-6272
Fax: 218-733-2221
pmcgrew@css.edu
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