
BSN–DNP Course Portfolio.


This BSN-to-DNP program prepares advanced practice nurses to deliver comprehensive primary care to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The curriculum integrates advanced coursework in pathophysiology, pharmacology, pediatric assessment, evidence-based practice, and health systems leadership.
This course is designed for APRN students and focuses on advanced physiological and pathophysiological principles to support clinical decision-making and differential diagnosis. It covers acute and primary care conditions across the lifespan and incorporates cultural, genetic, and evidence-based considerations. Students will engage with diverse learning materials and explore current research to deepen their understanding of disease processes and their application to advanced nursing practice.

Fall 2024

This course prepares students to use informatics tools to support evidence-based clinical decision-making, improve care quality and safety, and engage patients in their own health. The first half introduces foundational informatics concepts and tools, while the second half emphasizes consumer engagement and the role of informatics in connected, learning health systems. Students will explore how to lead and apply technology for better outcomes and more efficient care delivery.
Fall 2024
This course provides essential knowledge for beginning APRN students, focusing on safe and evidence-based medication prescribing. Using a body systems and drug families approach, students integrate content from foundational courses to develop sound pharmacologic decision-making skills across clinical settings.

Spring 2025

This course explores the healthcare system, policy development, economics, finance, and leadership. Students analyze health policies and examine how ethical, social, political, cultural, and legal factors impact health promotion, disease prevention, and models of care.
Spring 2025
This course prepares advanced practice nurses to perform focused and comprehensive health assessments across the lifespan. Emphasizing critical thinking, students learn to gather and analyze subjective and objective data through health histories, physical exams, and diagnostic tools. Clinical labs, virtual patients, and case studies support the development of advanced assessment skills and the ability to distinguish normal from abnormal findings.

Summer 2025

This course introduces the transition from RN to APRN, focusing on role development, identity transformation, and professional competencies. Students explore leadership, collaboration, advocacy, and ethical practice while examining regulatory, economic, and interprofessional aspects of advanced nursing roles within the healthcare system.
Summer 2025
This course introduced foundational skills in research, statistics, and epidemiology to support the development of PICOT questions and evidence-based practice. Emphasis was placed on finding, appraising, and synthesizing literature, applying EBP and quality improvement models, and considering patient preferences in decision-making. The course culminated in a group project that translated current evidence into practical recommendations to improve quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness in patient care.

Fall 2025

This course builds on advanced assessment skills to prepare pediatric nurse practitioner students to conduct comprehensive and focused health assessments in children. Emphasis is placed on communication, critical thinking, and recognizing the unique differences between adult and pediatric patients. Through case studies, skill demonstrations, and clinical application, students learn to elicit detailed health histories, perform thorough physical examinations, and analyze findings to distinguish normal, variations of normal, and abnormal results, laying the foundation for safe and effective pediatric care.
Key Content Areas: - Pediatric health history, growth, and development - Assessment of head, face, eyes, ears, nose, throat, lymphatic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, genitourinary, and integumentary systems - Synthesizing findings for critical thinking and clinical decision-making
Fall 2025
This course explores the history of nursing science and the development of nursing theories, including grand, middle-range, and practice theories. Learners analyze philosophical, ethical, and theoretical frameworks as foundations for nursing practice and examine multiple ways of knowing. Emphasis is placed on reflection, discussion, and integrating theory into professional practice. By the end of the course, students develop a personal nursing philosophy, evaluate theories for their relevance to practice, and apply theory-guided models of care to improve patient outcomes.

Fall 2025

The first clinical course in the Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program and is completed alongside Primary Care of Children: Well Child Care. This course marks the transition from didactic learning to clinical practice, with a focus on well-child visits and foundational primary care for pediatric patients. Beginning in an observational role, students progressively assume greater clinical responsibility, applying advanced assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and documentation skills in real-world settings. Clinical experiences are supported by simulation, evidence-based practice activities, and focused trainings in anticipatory guidance, developmental screening, oral health, and literacy promotion. Emphasis is placed on comprehensive data collection, age-appropriate physical examination, interdisciplinary collaboration, and building ethical, person-centered relationships with children and their families to support shared decision-making.
Spring 2026
Foundational course in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner curriculum that emphasizes comprehensive well-child care from birth through adolescence. Building on advanced pediatric assessment skills, the course focuses on health promotion, disease and disability prevention, and the identification and management of common growth, developmental, and behavioral concerns. Instruction is grounded in evidence-based guidelines and a developmental framework, with strong attention to family context, culture, community, and social determinants of health. Through problem-based learning, case studies, and guided practice, students strengthen clinical reasoning, anticipatory guidance, and advocacy skills essential to delivering person-centered, developmentally appropriate primary care for children and adolescents.

Spring 2026
COMING SOON... SUMMER 2026
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NURS 5912 PNP Advanced Practicum II
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NURS 6456 Pediatric Advanced Clinical Skills


COMING SOON... FALL 2026
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NURS 5913 PNP Advanced Practicum III
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NURS 6488 Pediatric Minor Acute Illness
COMING SOON... SPRING 2027
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NURS 5914 PNP Advanced Practicum IV
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NURS 6496 Pediatric Chronic Illness and Disability


COMING SOON... FALL 2027
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NURS 6107 Research Methods
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NURS 6800 Innovative Leadership
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NURS 8020 DNP Project Prep
COMING SOON... SPRING 2028
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NURS 6303 Epidemiology
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NURS 8030 DNP Project I


COMING SOON... SUMMER 2028
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NURS 6108 Inferential Statistics and Quality Improvement
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NURS 8040 DNP Project II
COMING SOON... FALL 2028
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NURS 8050 DNP Project III

