UMass Boston

Course Overview

Description

This course focuses on the development and refinement of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills across the practice, education, and policy domains of the DNP role. This faculty-guided, student-led, seminar is tailored to the learner¿s area of interest and provides an opportunity for in-depth immersion in a clinical/conceptual area related to advanced practice nursing. Under the guidance of faculty and the site preceptor, learners refine and apply state-of-the-art, evidence-based knowledge and skills in a specialty area and compare and contrast approaches to the specialty area with attention to best practices. The social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors that influence health and disadvantage vulnerable populations are discussed. Students meet on-line for the seminar component of the course. In addition, students are expected to identify a clinical mentor and site for the specialty immersion component of the course. Immersion hours /experiences (80 hours) are included in this course.