This course provides students with opportunities to acquire the knowledge and clinical skills needed to provide safe and effective nursing care to adults experiencing acute illness. Clinical experiences in acute care settings focus on applying the principles of family-centered care and offer opportunities to provide nursing care focusing on health promotion as well as health protection and recovery from illness. Prereqs: GNUR 6010 & GCNL 5110.

The course focuses on the use of the nursing process in the management of complex health problems, with particular emphasis on the collaborative and independent functions of the nurse in an intensive, specialty, and technologically advanced care environment.

This core course provides an overview of nursing and health care related theory used for research and evidence based clinical practice. Students will focus on the specialized body of knowledge in the discipline of nursing and its contexts, historical perspectives, and interdisciplinary practice.

Applies theories introduced in earlier courses that are essential to nursing leadership in the health care system. Explores the context of nursing in the health care system, ethical nurse leadership, and theories involving lateral integration of care and organizations. Emphasizes leadership attributes and theory in health care. Offers a framework for a analysis of the CNL role with application of leadership to actual and/or simulated problems.

This course is an intensive clinical experience in an area selected by the student. The experience allows for full implementation of the clinical nurse leader competencies and includes a strong interdisciplinary practice focus. A capstone project is required and will be presented in a poster session at the end of the course.