
End of Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program at Ember University, graduates will be able to:
- Integrate nursing and related sciences into the delivery of care to clients across diverse healthcare settings.
- Create effective interdisciplinary organizational and systems leadership in caring for clients in diverse healthcare settings.
- Analyze quality initiatives to improve health outcomes across the continuum of care.
- Apply practice guidelines to improve practice and health outcomes.
- Relate information and communication technologies to document and improve health outcomes.
- Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on healthcare delivery, practice, and health outcomes.
- Employ collaborative interprofessional strategies for improving client and population health outcomes.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical prevention interventions that affect individual and population-based health outcomes, perform risk assessments, and design plans or programs of care.
- Relate knowledge of illness and disease management to providing evidence-based care to clients, communities, and vulnerable populations in an evolving healthcare delivery system.
Program Outline:
Prerequisites Required: None
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: This course didactically illustrates the semiology, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral and mental disorders, including personality disorders, and chronic and acute psychiatric decompensations.
Prerequisites Required: MSN5030
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: This course focuses on the classification, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, compatibility, and secondary and adverse reactions of psychotropics.
Prerequisites Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, & MSN5050
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: This course teaches the different mechanisms to be shed in the implementation of individual, group, and family therapy according to the patient’s diagnostic and cognitive level.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, & MSN5035
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: This course covers the psychological changes in different age groups from infants to elders with their particularities and more frequent psychological and psychiatric illnesses and imbalances.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, & MSN5035
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: The student will complete a rotation in a psychiatric-mental health specialty area focusing on adults and their families with a preceptor who will guide the student in managing acute and chronic psychiatric symptoms and disorders. The student will explore and utilize various psychotherapeutic strategies in this clinical rotation. Following the Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, the student will also use evidence-based clinical decision-making.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, MSN5035, MSN5056 & MSN5056C
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: This course establishes the relationship between neurological problems and their psychiatric and behavioral expressions.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, MSN5035, MSN5056 & MSN5056C
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: The student will complete a rotation in a psychiatric-mental health specialty area focusing on children, adolescents, and adults with their families, with a preceptor who will guide the student in managing acute and chronic psychiatric symptoms and disorders. The student will explore and utilize various psychotherapeutic strategies in this clinical rotation. Following the Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, the student will also use evidence-based clinical decision-making.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, MSN5035, MSN5056, MSN5056C, MSN6057, & MSN6057C
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: For the practicum, the student will develop research using a topic selected from a pool given by the instructor according to psychiatric and behavioral issues affecting the community.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, MSN5035, MSN5056, MSN5056C MSN6057, MSN6057C, & MSN 5027
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: The student will receive a consolidation of all the knowledge acquired during the program through a didactic review to prepare the student for the certification exam.
Prerequisite Required: MSN5030, MSN5052, MSN5050, MSN5035, MSN5056, MSN5056C MSN6057, MSN6057C, MSN 5027, & MSN 6065
Co-requisites: None
Course Description: The student will complete a rotation in a psychiatric-mental health specialty area focusing on life span issues, co-occurring diagnosis, and substance abuse, with a preceptor who will guide the student in managing acute and chronic psychiatric symptoms and disorders. The student will explore and utilize various psychotherapeutic strategies in this clinical rotation. Following the Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, the student will also use evidence-based clinical decision-making in an advanced professional role.
Total Credits Hours
35
