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2025-2026 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Jul 18, 2026
 
2025-2026 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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NUR 3018 - FOCUS GROUP PRACTICUM


Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 6
This course builds upon the student’s didactic knowledge gained in NUR 3055 or equivalent through the supervised experience of planning, conducting, analyzing, and preparing reports for focus groups. Emphasis is placed upon the student’s mastery of the ability to formulate questions, facilitate discussion, including the management of difficult participants, note taking, and analysis of data and preparation of the report. Students will be expected to lead at least two focus groups and to serve as note taker in at least two additional groups. It is expected that a secondary component of the practicum will be to develop an understanding of cultural differences in approaches to health and health care through the conduct of focus groups among different cultural groups as well as learning from the focus group experiences of others.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Grad HSU Basis


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