arrangement. Each week, the students will meet as a group in order to address problems encountered with their administrative project and offer suggestions and support. The course will consist of didactic sessions, presentations by the students, and problem solving sessions. Prerequisite: NUR 706, 707. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 804 Advanced Adult/Gerontology Nursing II. This course continues to focus on synthesis and application of more complex theory and research to effectively address the complexities of aging. Comprehensive evidence based management across settings, evaluation of care, role implementation, and influences of contextual factors on health care services for the elderly including palliative and end of life care are presented. This course provides the knowledge base for clinical gerontological management. Prerequisite: NUR 800, 801, 802. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 805 Advanced Adult/Gerontology Nursing II Practicum (180 Clinical Hours). This is the second clinical course of this advance nursing practice specialty. The objectives of this practicum are based on the content of the didactic component of the course. Prerequisite: NUR 800, 801, 802. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 806 Research Design and Methodologies. This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge, skills, and practice in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative data within the context of application to research design and methodology. The following advanced statistical techniques will be examined: analysis of variance (ANOVA/MANOVA), analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA/MANCOVA), use of psychometric techniques (for instruments used in patient care, nursing education and nursing research), linear regression, multiple regression, logistic regression, and structural equation modeling (SEM). Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 807 Advanced Adult/Gerontology Nursing III (180 Clinical Hours). This is the third in the series. This course continues to focus on synthesis and application of more complex theory and research to effectively address the complexities of aging. Comprehensive evidence based management across settings, evaluation of care, role implementation, and influences of contextual factors on health care service for the elderly including palliative and end of life care are presented. This course provides the knowledge base for clinical gerontological managements. Prerequisite: NUR 803, 804, 805. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 808: Advanced Adult/Gerontology Primary Care Nursing III Practicum (180 Clinical Hours). This is the third clinical course of this advanced nursing practice specialty. The objectives of this practicum are paces on the content of the didactic component of the course. Prerequisite: NUR 804, 805. NUR 809: Diversity and Ethical Issues in Advanced Practice (3 credit hours). The course focuses on the exploration of cultural diversity on client populations and nursing practice and provides opportunities for the exploration of the influence of culture on client health related behaviors. Emphasis is placed on the exploration of the contributions of the evolution of advanced nursing practice to the health of families, especially minority families. Students will explore the development of nursing theory by means of culturally appropriate nursing research methods. Researchable questions are merging from advanced nursing practice will be identified. The principle of ethical care will also be introduced in terms of social justice.

NUR 809: Diversity and Ethical Issues in Advanced Practice (3 credit hours). The course focuses on the exploration of cultural diversity on client populations and nursing practice and provides opportunities for the exploration of the influence of culture on client health related behaviors. Emphasis is placed on the exploration of the contributions of the evolution of advanced nursing practice to the health of families, especially minority families. Students will explore the development of nursing theory by means of culturally appropriate nursing research methods. Researchable questions are a merging of advanced nursing practice will be identified. The principle of ethical care will also be introduced in terms of social justice.

NUR 900 Advanced Practice Leadership and Management. This course will focus particular attention on the organizational and structural opportunities and barriers inherent in obtaining access to health care for cultures and subcultures. This includes applying systems thinking to develop financial and cost-effective strategies, legal and ethical dimensions of the business of health care delivery. This course provides the advance practice nurse with the skills to work with all organizational designs to eliminate health disparities. The advanced practice nurse will need to collaborate with other health care professionals from a variety of subcultures to analyze complex clinical situations as well as delivery systems to ensure safe and timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered care that meets or exceeds the standards of practice. This course will emphasize the delivery of health care to underserved populations as well as examining strategies to recruit, retain and recognize the accomplishments of a diverse nursing workforce. Leadership skills in human relations, organizational culture, effective patterns of communication and synergistic decision-making will accent this course. Prerequisite: NUR 806, 807. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 901 Advanced Practice Leadership and Management Practicum (180 Clinical Hours). This course is the clinical component of the leadership and management course. Leadership skills in human relations, organizational culture, effective patterns of communication and synergistic decision-making will accent this course. The student must complete 180 contact hours. Prerequisite: NUR 806, 807. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 902 Residency I Practicum (180 Clinical Hours). This is the first of a two-course series that provides the DNP student with mentored opportunities to identify, develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate an independent, analytic scholarly project focusing on problems of practice within specific populations. Each course builds on the knowledge and practice expertise of the DNP student, culminating in the completion of the scholarly project. The range of projects will be varied as they relate to the unique clinical practices of

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