Nursing Knowledge & Practice

Catalog description

This course explores the body of information and issues that entry-level master's students in nursing need to understand in order to take on the responsibilities associated with this level of practice. The process of socialization into the advanced nursing role is examined and strategies for effective role development and intellectual growth are seen as both personal and professional challenges. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationships among theory, research and practice as well as the responsibilities of nurses to make well- reasoned and ethical decisions. The domains of clinical and policy judgment, including problem identification, short and long term planning, evaluation of outcomes, and therapeutic and pragmatic reasoning are examined in the context of evolving conceptual and practice ideas.