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NSG 501 Teacher Practice Essentials-Models of Teaching & Learning (3)
Integrative approach to understanding teaching learning that explores how various educational models and principles frame the processes of teaching and learning. Focus toward advanced practice nurses interested in teaching. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and graduate student status.
NSG 502 Advanced Teacher Practice Essentials-Expertise in Teaching (3)
Critical analysis of how educational models and principles frame teaching to promote expertise in practice. Aimed toward advance practice nurses interested in teaching. Builds and expands content of NSG 501. Prerequisite: NSG 501 and graduate student status.
NSG 503 Advanced Teacher Practice Essentials-Diverse Learners (3)
Focus on relevance and inclusiveness of addressing diversity of learners within teaching and learning activities. Aimed toward advance practice nurses interested in teaching. Further expands content of NSG 501 and NSG 502. Prerequisite: NURS 501 and graduate student status.
NSG 504 Advanced Teacher Practice-Challenges in Teaching (3)
Focus on challenges facing educator during teaching encounters. Addresses influence of belief structures on learner's motivation for change. For advance practice nurses interested in teaching. Prerequisite: NSG 501 and graduate student status.
NSG 505 Applied Occupational Health and Safety (3) Camp, Johnson
Application of occupational safety and health principles. Student teams perform evaluations, assess production methods/processes and exposures, health and safety procedures and programs, and develop engineering and administrative controls. Students perform on a consulting project with a local company including budgeting, project reporting, and presentation. Offered jointly with ENVH 559 and IND E 567. Offered: Sp.
NSG 506 Organizing and Administering Industrial Safety and Health Programs (4)
Explores industrial organization and methods of integrating safety and industrial hygiene programs with industrial operations. Investigates philosophic issues related to industrial safety and health such as responsibility for safety, dependency on safe practice, and hierarchy of prevention. Contains numerous case problems and student involvement opportunities. Offered: jointly with ENV H 560; A.
NSG 507 Technical Aspects of Safety and Health (3)
Explores specific hazards associated with major industries, as well as hazards common to all industries. Covers machine guarding, electrical safety, systems safety analysis, materials handling, and working at heights. Offered: jointly with ENV H 562; W.
NSG 508 Introduction to Ergonomics (3)
Basic principles of ergonomics in work environment applied to problems of worker and management. Topics include measurement of physical work capacity, problems of fatigue and heat stress, applied biomechanics, worker-machine interactions and communication, design of displays and controls. Prerequisite: basic human physiology or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with ENV H 566/IND E 566; W.
NSG 509 Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing (1)
Synchronous Web pathophysiology class addresses immune and inflammatory responses with related content on infections and atherosclerosis. Focus on understanding the physiologic/pathophysiologic basis for disease processes and the relationship of various treatment modalities to these concepts. Prerequisite: Recent (within 5 yrs.) upper division anatomy/physiology course or permission of instructor.
NSG 510 Assessment and Management of Neonatal Problems (5)
Focus on pathophysiology of disease processes, assessment, diagnosis, and management of common health problems experienced by term and preterm neonates in neonatal intensive care settings. Includes foundations for clinical decision making for neonatal nurse practitioners and examination of interdisciplinary roles. Prerequisite: NURS 514.
NSG 511 Prevention Issues in Community Health (3)
An interdisciplinary overview of community health prevention approaches focusing on the social determinants of health and health disparity reduction among vulnerable populations. Analysis of community and population preventive strategies across the life course. Roles of advanced community health nurses as prevention leaders and consumers of prevention information are emphasized. Offered: Sp.
NSG 512 Prevention Critique in Community Health (3)
Critical examination of community health prevention programs that build community health capacity and show promise in facilitating long-term health equity among vulnerable populations. Focuses on the leading health disparities among USA racial and ethnic people of color, and how to be a critical program consumer, adopter and adapter. Offered: A.
NSG 513 Psychopharmacology for Children and Adolescents (1) Tyson, Walsh
Reviews pertinent issues in prescribing psychoactive medications to children and adolescents. Emphasizes empirical neuroendocrine bases, and nursing management relevant to these interventions. Examines legal and ethical issues pertaining to prescribing for children and adolescents. Offered: S.
NSG 514 Integrating Health Care and Culture (2-3, max. 3) Lenart
Prepares clinicians to integrate experience and knowledge with creative approaches and evidence-based strategies to improve cross-cultural health care, including complementary and alternative medicine/healthcare (CAM) practices. Focuses on relationships between clinicians, clients, and families emphasizing discovery of commonalities among cultures to enhance collaboration. Offered: Sp.
NSG 515 Issues in Men’s Health (2) Berry
Studies selected issues in men’s health. Focuses on significant issues particular to men’s health. Includes discussion of basic management of selected men’s health issues. Credit/no credit only. Offered: S.
NSG 517 Integrating Assessment and Knowledge of CAM into Allopathic Care (3) Schwenka
Explores strategies to assess and evaluate CAM use into conventional healthcare across the lifespan. Cultural, ethical, legal, and professional issues related to referral and collaboration within an integrative healthcare system. Challenges healthcare specialists to incorporate integrative principles into their practices. Offered: Sp.
NSG 518 Botanical Medicines and Dietary Supplements (2-3) Kiefer, De Pasquale
Exploration of commonly used herbs and evaluation of their evidence base, treating frequently occurring acute and chronic health conditions. Optional laboratory experiences at Bastyr University herb garden and medicine-making laboratory. Field trip to identify Pacific Northwest botanicals.
NSG 519 Qi Gong and Reflexology (1) Marazita
Focuses on history, evidence, and self-practice of traditional Chinese medicine’s Qi gong and reflexology. Examines how Qi gong combines movement, meditation, and breathing regulation to enhance qi energy flow. Explores how foot reflexology re-education, re-patterns, and re-conditions neurological reflexes in the soles of the feet to maximize health. Offered: S.
NSG 521 Infectious Disease and Infection Control (2)
Critical analysis of factors that influence infectious disease control including delivery of therapeutics, and the role of nursing and other health disciplines in health care and public health system responses, with a population-based perspective of infectious disease prevention, control, and management.
NSG 522 Life Span Physiology and Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice (3)
Analysis of normal and abnormal human responses in major organ systems in individuals across the life span. Examination of normal physiology, evidence based and selected disorders pertaining to each system.
NSG 525 Privilege, Oppression, and Social Justice in Health Care (3-4, max. 4) Allen, Schroeder, Ward
Focuses on professional development skills that challenge white privilege, racism, and other oppressions in health care. Analysis of racism and privilege, application of that analysis to other oppressions such as gender, class, heterosexism, ableism, etc. Overall goal to enable health care professionals create more socially just health care system. Credit/no credit only.
NSG 530 Professional Identity and Leadership Processes in Nursing (2-4, max. 4)
Analysis of professional identity and effective leadership processes. Clarification and advancement of professional identity; analysis of self as leader; critical examination of perspectives of leadership and change; development and application of skills in leadership, conflict management, and collaboration to advance the profession and improve health outcomes. Offered: AS.
NSG 597 Synthesis of Advanced Practice Nursing (3)
Synthesize new or higher levels of knowledge and skills of advanced practice nursing specialty, practice inquiry, and leadership to demonstrate competency of doctoral essentials and program objectives. Recommend concurrent clinical practicum. Prerequisite: doctoral candidacy or supervisory committee permission.
