| MINOR IN NURSING
RESEARCH
Program Description
The minor in Nursing Research is available to students pursuing
education in advanced clinical specialty roles the opportunity
to also obtain training pertinent to the coordination and conduct
of clinical research. The minor will enable graduates to apply
their clinical and research skills in the following types of positions:
clinical trial interventionists, research consultants, adverse
events managers, data collection and research project managers.
The minor involves the completion of a minimum of 12 credits of
coursework focusing on research methodology and statistics. The
student who completes the nursing research minor will be able to
achieve the following competencies:
- Apply research principles to the management of clinical investigations.
- Participate in the research process including the development
of reviews of literature, research protocols, and human subjects
protection protocols.
- Participate in recruitment of research subjects, data collection,
and dissemination of research findings.
- Utilize computer technology and informatics as an integral
component of a research program or project.
- Articulate the role of the clinical researcher within the health
professions and society.
- Perform the role of nurse researcher within clinical research
settings.
Course Requirements
PSYED 2018 Statistics l: Descriptive and Inferential
Statistics (3 cr.) Introduction to descriptive and inferential
statistics. Topics include frequency distributions, graphs, stem-and-leaf
displays, boxplots, scatter diagrams, measures of central tendency,
measures of variability, correlation, sampling distributions, point
estimation, introduction to hypothesis testing, introduction to
interval estimation, chi-square analysis, one-sample and two-sample
tests of hypothesis for means, variances, proportions, and correlation
coefficients. SPSS for Windows will be used.
NURSP
2075: Introduction to Health Informatics (3 credits)
NUR
2030: Professional Communications (2 credits)
Prerequisites: NUR
2000
NUR 2800: Coordinating Clinical Trials (2 credits)
Prerequisites: NUR
2000
A research elective from course offerings outside of the School of Nursing
(2 credits). Example electives may include additional training in statistics,
independent study, or epidemiology.
In addition to the above courses, the student must write a scholarly research
paper, overseen by the Coordinator of the Nursing Research Advanced Roles Specialty
Program. |
