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consideration of legal, ethical, cultural, social, and professional practice issues related to the nurse anesthesia role. Through collaboration, the nurse anesthesia resident assumes increasing independence over the semester. Susan Emery NU 693 Nurse Anesthesia Residency II (Spring: 1) Prerequisite: NU 691 This course is the second of two that provide the nurse anesthesia student preparation in attaining competencies within the professional scope of practice and to meet certification requirements. The student is expected to function as member of the anesthesia team, and to provide comprehensive care based on clinical judgment. Students seek consultation when necessary, and analyze legal, ethical, cultural, social, and professional practice issues related to the advanced nursing practice role. The student is expected to be a role model for other nurse anesthesia students and a resource for clinical staff. The seminar provides the integration of Masters program objectives. Susan Emery NU 699 Independent Study in Nursing (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Permission of an instructor and the chairperson. Recommendation of a second faculty member is advised. Offered Biennially Students with a special interest in nursing may pursue that interest under the direction of the faculty member. A written proposal for an independent study in nursing must be submitted to the department chairperson. The student is required to submit written reports to the faculty member directing the study. The Department NU 701 Epistemology of Nursing (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Doctoral standing, PL 593 or concurrently This is an examination of the nature of epistemology, of philosophy of science movements affecting nursing as a scholarly discipline, and of the developing epistemology of nursing. This course includes perspectives on the nature of truth, understanding, causality, continuity, and change in science, as well as on positivism, empiricism, reductionism, holism, phenomenology, and existentialism as they relate to nursing knowledge development. The identification of the phenomena of study and scientific progress in nursing are critiqued. Sr. Callista Roy NU 702 Strategies of Knowledge Development (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: NU 701 This is an in-depth study of the processes of theory construction and knowledge development. This course includes concept and statement analysis, synthesis, and derivation from both inductive and deductive perspectives. Propositional statements are defined by order of probability and the processes for deriving and ordering such statements are analyzed. Issues and examples of empirical, deductive, interpretive, and statistical strategies for developing knowledge are examined. Experience is provided in concept analysis and knowledge synthesis of selected topics within one of the research foci: clinical and ethical judgments and human life processes and patterns. Sr. Callista Roy NU 710 Themes of Inquiry: Clinical Topics (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: NU 702 This course analyzes selected middle-range theories related to life processes. Emphasis is placed on the structure of knowledge, research design, and selected current research programs in nursing. Emerging themes of life processes at the individual, family, and group levels are considered. Ellen Mahoney NU 711 Themes of Inquiry: Clinical Judgment (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: NU 702 In this course, students examine several programs of nursing research as themes of inquiry. Analysis and synthesis of selected middle range theories related to the clinical science of nursing, that is, the diagnosis and treatment of health patterns and responses. Examination of state of the art research in ethical and diagnostic-therapeutic judgment is used as a basis for generating further research questions. Pamela Grace NU 740 Nursing Research Methods: Quantitative Approaches (Fall: 3) This introductory course fulfills a research methods requirement for doctoral students in nursing. Application of quantitative methodologies to a variety of research questions is explored. Emphasis is placed on types of quantitative research designs, sampling strategies and sample size considerations, data collection procedures, instrumentation, data analysis, interpretation, and communicating results. Mary Duffy NU 744 Statistics: Computer Application and Analysis of Data (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: NU 742 A study of the interrelations between research design and quantitative analysis of data. The focus will be on the use of analytic software on the personal computer to create, manage, and analyze data. The specific statistical techniques will include those most frequently reported in the research literature of the health sciences. Barbara Hazard NU 746 Measurement in Nursing Research (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: NU 740 and NU 744 This course focuses upon measurement theory and practice as it is used in nursing and health-related research. Measurement theory and major concepts of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced approaches are explored. Emphasis is placed on the critical appraisal of the psychometrics of various types of instruments within the two measurement approaches, including physiological and observational measurement, and bio-behavioral markers, interviews, questionnaires, and scales. Anne Norris NU 750 Qualitative Research Methods (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: NU 740 or permission of instructor This introductory course fulfills a research methods requirement for doctoral students in nursing. Application of qualitative and combined qualitative-quantitative methodologies to research questions will be explored. The relationship of data production strategies to underlying assumptions, theories, and research goals will be considered. Sandra Mott NU 751 Advanced Qualitative Methods (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: NU 750 or an equivalent introductory course or portion of a course on Qualitative Research Methods. Permission of instructor required. The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 371 NURSING

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