In choosing the global health ministries area of focus, you will gain the expertise to provide population-based care domestically and around the world. The emphasis offers you advanced knowledge and skills based on world health problems and issues, environmental health, community development, societal structure, and policy development. Also, an emphasis is placed on using nursing as ministry through congregational health care and professional programs to address global health issues. Graduates completing the global health ministries track will be eligible to sit for the Advanced Public Health Nurse—Board Certified ANCC certification exam.
| Nursing Core (14) |
Credit |
Clinical/Lab |
| NSG-5000 |
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice |
3 |
|
| NSG-5040 |
Professional Role Development for Advanced Nursing Practice
|
3 |
|
| NSG-5050 |
Research for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice |
3 |
|
| NSG-5060 |
Bioethics and Spiritual Care in Nursing |
2 |
|
| NSG-5070 |
Policies and Strategies for Health Care Delivery |
3 |
|
| Total |
14 |
|
| Advanced Practice Core (9) |
Credit |
Clinical/Lab |
| NSG-5010 |
Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology |
3 |
|
| NSG-5020 |
Advanced Health/Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning |
3 |
100 hrs. |
| NSG-5030 |
Advanced Pharmacology |
3 |
|
| Total |
9 |
|
| Nursing Capstone (4) |
Credit |
Clinical/Lab |
| NSG-6300 |
Master's Project I |
2 |
|
| NSG-6350 |
Master's Project II |
2 |
|
| Total |
4 |
|
| OR |
| NSG-6400 |
Master's Thesis I |
2 |
|
| NSG-6450 |
Master's Thesis II |
2 |
|
| Total |
4 |
|
Specialty Curricula
| Global Health Ministries |
Credit |
Clinical/Lab |
| NSG-6200 |
Philosophy and Theology of Health, Healing, and Illness |
3 |
|
| NSG-6210 |
Global Health and Vulnerable Populations |
3 |
|
| NSG-6220 |
Epidemiology |
3 |
|
| NSG-6230 |
Population-Based Health Care Management |
3 |
|
| NSG-6240 |
Practicum I |
2 |
200 hrs. |
| NSG-6250 |
Practicum II |
1 |
200 hrs. |
| Total |
15 |
|
