2025–26 Graduate Academic Catalog Page 129 Graduate-Level Course Descriptions NSG-6710 – NSG-8040 NSG-6710 Advancing Quality and Safety 3 hours The focus of this course is to provide nurse leaders with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to achieve and sustain quality and safety in healthcare organizations. Students will learn about the models of service delivery, quality and safety processes, and tools. Prerequisite: NSG-6700 Managing Organizational Behavior. (Fee: $50) NSG-6720 Leading Toward Excellence 3 hours The focus of this course is to engage nurse leaders in the development of strategies to leverage leadership skills to influence and promote excellence in healthcare delivery. Students will learn the multi-dimensional aspects of leading in a complex healthcare system. Prerequisite: NSG-6710 Advancing Quality and Safety. (Fee: $50) NSG-6730 3 hours Transforming Healthcare Through Strategic Decision Making The focus of this course is to engage nurse leaders in strategic thinking toward transforming healthcare. Students will develop strategic decision-making skills to achieve organizational goals. Prerequisite: NSG-6720 Leading Toward Excellence. (Fee: $50) NSG-6780 Nursing Leadership Practicum I 2 hours This course prepares nurse leaders to apply entry level competencies in healthcare leadership. Students are required to complete 200 practicum hours under the supervision of a qualified preceptor and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisite: NSG6730 Transforming Healthcare Through Strategic Decision Making. (Fee: $250) NSG-6790 Nursing Leadership Practicum II 1 hour This course prepares nurse leaders to develop entry-level competencies in healthcare leadership. Students are required to complete 100 practicum hours under the supervision of a qualified preceptor and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisite: NSG6780 Nursing Leadership Practicum I. (Fee: $125) NSG-6800 3 hours Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Primary Care The focus of this course is to prepare students to learn and apply foundational primary care principles required in caring for children in a pediatric nurse practitioner role. Students are required to complete 100 hours of direct clinical care under the supervision of qualified clinical preceptors and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisites: NSG-6050 Professional Role Development and Health Care Leadership; NSG-6060 Healthcare Economics and Policy; NSG-6070 Principles of Evidence-Based Practice; NSG-6080 Biblical Basis for Advanced Nursing Practice; NSG6150 Advanced Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Genomics for Advanced Nursing Practice; NSG-6160 Advanced Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing Practice; NSG-6170 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning for Advanced Nursing Practice; NSG-6190 Transition to Clinical for Advanced Practice Nursing. (Fee: $500) NSG-6810 3 hours Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Development and Behavioral Health The focus of this course is to prepare students to learn and apply developmental theories, developmental evaluation, and management of children with developmental and behavioral disorders. Students are required to complete 100 hours of direct clinical care under the supervision of qualified clinical preceptors and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisite: NSG-6800 Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Primary Care. (Fee: $500) NSG-6820 6 hours Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Health Promotion The focus of this course is to prepare students to learn and apply health promotion and disease prevention theories from an ecobiodevelopmental perspective. Students are required to complete 200 hours of direct clinical care under the supervision of qualified clinical preceptors and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisite: NSG-6800 Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Primary Care. (Fee: $1000) NSG-6830 6 hours Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Disease Management The focus of this course is to prepare students to learn and apply health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based management of common acute and chronic primary health problems in children. Students are required to complete 200 hours of direct clinical care under the supervision of qualified clinical preceptors and the School of Nursing faculty. Prerequisite: NSG-6800 Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Primary Care. (Fee: $1000) NSG-6990 1 hour Transition to Practice for Advanced Practice Nursing The focus of this course is to prepare students to transition to practice as an advanced practice nurse with a biblical foundation. Prerequisites: Final NP Track Course.AGACNP: NSG-6620 Acute Care Concepts and Practice III. FNP: NSG-6310 Advanced Concepts and Practice in the Care of Adults; NSG-6315 Advanced Concepts and Practice in the Care of Older Adults; NSG-6320 Advanced Concepts and Practice in the Care of Women; or NSG-6325 Advanced Concepts and Practice in the Care of Children. PNP: NSG-6830 Advanced Concepts and Practice in Pediatric Disease Management. (Fee: $500) NSG-8000 EBP 1: Foundation of Scholarly Inquiry 3 hours This course explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings for nursing practice relevant to the role of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Students will appraise models and theories for application, translation, and implementation of best evidence into improving healthcare outcomes. Prerequisites: BSN Entry to DNP Students: NSG-6070 Principles of EvidenceBased Nursing Practice; NSG-6500 Applied Scholarship in Advanced Nursing Practice. (Fee: $50) NSG-8010 Biostatistics 3 hours This course provides an overview of the logic and appropriate use of statistical techniques most frequently reported in the research literature of the health professions, including common parametric and nonparametric statistics. Students will learn the logic and meaning of statistical concepts, understand the underlying assumptions and appropriate utilization of common statistical techniques to answer practice questions, interpret results from statistical analyses, determine clinical and statistical significance and grow in statistical reasoning skills. (Fee: $50) NSG-8020 Healthcare Informatics 2 hours This course provides an overview of healthcare informatics: the transformation of data into information and knowledge in order to inform decisions and actions to improve patient care and system outcomes. (Fee: $50) NSG-8030 Scholarly Writing 1 hour This course prepares DNP students to develop and implement strategies for competency in scholarly writing. (Fee: $50) NSG-8040 EBP 2: Application of Scholarly Inquiry 3 hours This course prepares DNP students to critically appraise and translate evidence into practice environments. Prerequisite: NSG8000 EBP 1: Foundation of Scholarly Inquiry. (Fee: $50)
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