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MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Syllabus
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Course Description
The master’s prepared nurse is in a key position to influence the health practices of
individuals, groups and communities. Health screening, risk assessment, targeted
needs assessment and health promotion are emphasized. The health care goals at
the local, regional and national levels are implemented to direct program planning,
development, implementation and evaluation.
Course Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to do the following:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and leadership skills necessary to plan, implement,
and evaluate health promotion activities, policy and research. (Essential II)
2. Describe major health promotion and disease prevention priorities and
policies for the new millennium that influence nursing practice, research and
education. (Essential VI)
3. Develop health promotion and disease, illness, and injury prevention
strategies that promote the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with diverse
client populations. (Essential VIII)
4. Identify and utilize epidemiological, social and environmental data in
planning, implementing and evaluating nursing interventions for health
promotion within an ethical context. (Essential IV)
5. Identify major concepts underlying health promotion theory and practice in
developing multidisciplinary, holistic plans of care that empower diverse
client populations. (Essential VIII)
MSN Essentials
The following represent the core content for all master's programs in nursing and
"provide curricular elements and framework, regardless of focus, major, or
intended practice setting" (AACN, 2011, p.3). The reference and the link for these
essentials are provided for you at the end of the document. These essentials
,MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
"delineate the knowledge and skills that all nurses prepared in a master's nursing
program acquire" (AACN, 2011, p.4), and you should see evidence of these
essentials in each of the courses in the MSN-NP curriculum. Below are brief
descriptions of each essential and can be found on pages 4 and 5 of
the Essentials document. In the document, you will find a deeper discussion of each
of them, as well as expected student outcomes and sample content.
Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities
Recognizes that the master's prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from
nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement,
and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care
across diverse settings.
Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership
Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to the
promotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills are needed
that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working
relationships, and a systems-perspective.
Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safety
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse must be articulate in the methods,
tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as
prepared to apply quality principles within an organization.
Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies research outcomes within
the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a change agent, and
disseminates results.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse uses patient-care technologies to
deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate
and coordinate care.
, MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Essential VI: Health Policy and Advocacy
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse is able to intervene at the system
level though the policy development process and to employ advocacy strategies
to influence health and health care.
Essential VII: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and
Population Health Outcomes
Recognizes that the master's prepared nurse, as a member and leader of
interprofessional teams, communicates, collaborates, and consults with other
health professionals to manage and coordinate care.
Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad,
organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the
planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical
prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and
aggregates/identified populations.
Essential IX: Master's-Level Nursing Practice
Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master's level, is broadly defined as any
form of nursing intervention that influences health outcomes for individuals,
populations, or systems. Master's-level nursing graduates must have an
advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences as well as the
ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. Nursing practice interventions
include both direct and indirect care components.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2011). The essentials of
Master's education in nursing (PDF). Washington, DC.
MSN Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, the graduate will be able to:
1. Synthesize concepts and theories from nursing and related disciplines to
form the basis for advanced practice.
MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Syllabus
Note: Log in to the course to view activities, videos, and presentations.
Course Description
The master’s prepared nurse is in a key position to influence the health practices of
individuals, groups and communities. Health screening, risk assessment, targeted
needs assessment and health promotion are emphasized. The health care goals at
the local, regional and national levels are implemented to direct program planning,
development, implementation and evaluation.
Course Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to do the following:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and leadership skills necessary to plan, implement,
and evaluate health promotion activities, policy and research. (Essential II)
2. Describe major health promotion and disease prevention priorities and
policies for the new millennium that influence nursing practice, research and
education. (Essential VI)
3. Develop health promotion and disease, illness, and injury prevention
strategies that promote the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with diverse
client populations. (Essential VIII)
4. Identify and utilize epidemiological, social and environmental data in
planning, implementing and evaluating nursing interventions for health
promotion within an ethical context. (Essential IV)
5. Identify major concepts underlying health promotion theory and practice in
developing multidisciplinary, holistic plans of care that empower diverse
client populations. (Essential VIII)
MSN Essentials
The following represent the core content for all master's programs in nursing and
"provide curricular elements and framework, regardless of focus, major, or
intended practice setting" (AACN, 2011, p.3). The reference and the link for these
essentials are provided for you at the end of the document. These essentials
,MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
"delineate the knowledge and skills that all nurses prepared in a master's nursing
program acquire" (AACN, 2011, p.4), and you should see evidence of these
essentials in each of the courses in the MSN-NP curriculum. Below are brief
descriptions of each essential and can be found on pages 4 and 5 of
the Essentials document. In the document, you will find a deeper discussion of each
of them, as well as expected student outcomes and sample content.
Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities
Recognizes that the master's prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from
nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement,
and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care
across diverse settings.
Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership
Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to the
promotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills are needed
that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working
relationships, and a systems-perspective.
Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safety
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse must be articulate in the methods,
tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as
prepared to apply quality principles within an organization.
Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies research outcomes within
the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a change agent, and
disseminates results.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse uses patient-care technologies to
deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate
and coordinate care.
, MSN
NURS 610: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Essential VI: Health Policy and Advocacy
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse is able to intervene at the system
level though the policy development process and to employ advocacy strategies
to influence health and health care.
Essential VII: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and
Population Health Outcomes
Recognizes that the master's prepared nurse, as a member and leader of
interprofessional teams, communicates, collaborates, and consults with other
health professionals to manage and coordinate care.
Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad,
organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the
planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical
prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and
aggregates/identified populations.
Essential IX: Master's-Level Nursing Practice
Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master's level, is broadly defined as any
form of nursing intervention that influences health outcomes for individuals,
populations, or systems. Master's-level nursing graduates must have an
advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences as well as the
ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. Nursing practice interventions
include both direct and indirect care components.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2011). The essentials of
Master's education in nursing (PDF). Washington, DC.
MSN Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, the graduate will be able to:
1. Synthesize concepts and theories from nursing and related disciplines to
form the basis for advanced practice.
