DUSON offers courses and specialties that include men’s health, community health for underrepresented populations, veteran’s health care, and diversity in the nursing environment:
ABSN
General pathophysiology and care of the patient with benign prostatic hypertrophy and post transurethral resection of the prostate are discussed. Human sexuality as it pertains to men is also discussed, focusing on men's sexuality. This includes priapism in sickle cell patients, erectile dysfunction with some cardiac medications, managing fatigue and sexuality with COPD, and complications with fertility in cancer patients. Age-specific concerns are also discussed, including age-related changes for men and sexuality, urology concerns and suicide risk for older males.
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Health Assessment and Foundations for Nursing Practice Across the Lifespan
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Wellness/Health Promotion across the Lifespan
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Community and Public Health Nursing
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Professional Nursing: Past, Present & Future
Additionally, our course, N395: Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family, includes content on providing inclusive care for transmen in the maternity setting by inviting a national birthworker educator and transman birthing person to speak with the students.
MSN/Graduate
General content is covered that addresses men's health as it pertains to the prostate and testicular health, including prostate cancer, epididymitis and testicular torsion. Students also work through case exemplars where they must identify risk factors and associated developmental/lifespan considerations for men and age considerations for the emergence fo varying conditions.
Male Discussion Topics
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N832: Male Infertility, Hypogonadism, Male Osteoporosis
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N596: Clinical Pharm Course - PDE5 inhibitor drugs for erectile dysfunction, drugs for BPH, hormonal/endocrine treatment for prostate cancer and its associated side effects
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N683: Adv Practice Care of Women Thru the Lifespan - men's sexual and reproductive health, and infertility and genitourinary complications in men
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N696: Synthesis for Women's Health Nurse Practitioner to address Trans Health and LGBTQ - with cultural videos on this content; men are also included during the Centering Workshop in the Pregnancy mock groups, so they may role play their involvement as a partner, father, and the Parenting group care model. It's family focused, so whatever the family looks like in an effort to be inclusive (i.e., grandparents, etc.)
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N760: Foundations of Psychiatric Assessment Across the Lifespan - as the program's foundations course, we cover gender-based variations in psychiatry as seen from a macroscopic level; and we also talk extensively about bias, to which gender is prominent, which creates opportunities to explore some of the gender-based misconceptions associated with psychiatric illness.
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N763: Psychopharmacology - we take a deeper diver into gender-based variations seen in psychopharmacology.
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N764: Diagnosis and Evidence Based Treatment of Mental Health Disorders Across the Lifespan - we take a deeper dive into gender-based variations seen in psychodiagnostics.
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N771: Delivering Evidence Based Mental Health Care to Vulnerable and Underserved Populations - mindful of intersectionality, varied subpopulations of men (i.e., veterans, first generation in America, GBTQ, etc.) are discussed in this course as it relates to SDH.
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N620: we have dedicated modules on male reproductive disorders, GU disorders and veteran-centric health care which includes mental health and behavioral adjustment disorders. Topics in the other modules include male sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, scrotal pain, epididymitis, UTI, prostatitis, and BPH. The course also includes a wider ranger of male cases across the lifespan from adolescent to older patient as well as a more culturally diverse group.
Specialties
DUSON additionally has two specialties that focus primarily on men’s health.
The Veterans Health Care concentration of the MSN Program allows students enrolled in the FNP, AGNP, WHNP, and PMHNP majors to gain the specialized knowledge and skills necessary to attend to the unique health care needs of the veteran population and their families. Students who enroll in the specialty also gain clinical experience in a veteran-centric environment at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. In addition to full enrollment in the specialty for NP students, the Foundations in Veterans Health Care course is available as an elective course for ABSN and other health professions students (MD, PA, PT, OT, Divinity school, social work, etc).
The HIV specialty is available to nurse practitioner students and licensed practicing nurse practitioners wishing to seek HIV specialty training. DUSON is one of five schools to receive funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) to provide professional development of nurse practitioners in HIV/AIDS care. The majority of people living with HIV are men, and the population group at the highest risk of HIV is MSM-particularly young, Black and African American MSM. The goal of this program is to train nurse practitioners