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NURS-B 234 Promoting Healthy Populations (3-4 cr.) C: NURS-B235 This course focuses on preventive health care and health promotion in individuals, families, and communities considering the influence of culture and lifespan development. Using biophysical, environmental, spiritual, sociocultural and economic determinants of health, students focus on improving health outcomes with individuals, families and communities.

NURS-B 235 Promoting Healthy Populations Practicum (1-2 cr.) C: NURS-B234 Students assess individuals, families and communities, providing needed education, preventive services, and support. Students provide individual and population based care in community based settings, giving consideration to the perspective of those being served.

NURS-B 244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2-3 cr.) P: or C: Anatomy & Physiology, or Microbiology. C: NURS-B244 This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including the physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed.

NURS-B 245 Health Assessment: Practicum (1-2 cr.) P: or C: Anatomy & Physiology, or Microbiology. C: NURS-B 244. Students will have the opportunity to use techniques of interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments.

NURS-B 253 Professionalism in Collaborative Practice (3 cr.) Students practice communication skills for working with health team members and clients, including self-awareness, interpersonal communication, team skills, and technological communication. Students are introducted to ethics, scope and standards of nursing practice, roles of health team members, components of professional practice and leadership.

NURS-B 260 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice (5 cr.) P: Anatomy & Physiology. C: NURS-B 261. This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical, evidence base. Students will gain a knowledge base for, and have an opportunity to apply fundamental nursing concepts, skills and the nursing process. The evidence based knowledge gained forms a basis for clinical reasoning and decision making as students develop their nursing skills.

NURS-B 261 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for Nursing Practice (1-4 cr.) P: Anatomy & Physiology. C: NURS-B 260. This course provides a foundation in the pathophysiology of key disease processes and pharmacological therapies. Principles of pathophysiology and pharmacology are presented in an integrated manner to provide a basis for study of selected medications that are used to treat or manage diseases with an application to nursing practice.

NURS-B 290 Transcultural Health Within a Global Context (3 cr.) Students apply a model of cultural competence to one's own and a different culture to appreciate the intercultural complexity in health and healthcare of diverse peoples. Students examine global cultures regarding economic, political, and environmental health and healthcare issues to develop a critical understanding of perspectives that support respectful communication.

NURS-B 334 Transitional Care of Families and Populations (5 cr.) Using childbearing families as an extensive exemplar, this course focuses on family and community health: community assessment, epidemiology, and intervention with individuals, families, communities and populations. Students address prenatal care, normal and high risk pregnancy and childbirth, newborn care, genetic counseling, care coordination, complementary care, and environmental health.

NURS-B 444 Nursing Intensive: Managing Health and Illness Across Care Environments (3-5 cr.) Students study a focused clinical area of concern for nursing, exploring the ways in which culture, health disparity, transitions between care environments, and health policy impact care for an aggregate, population, or specialty. Immersed in a care environment, students gain relevant clinical knowledge as well as an understanding of the aggregate health concerns.

NURS-H 303 Pediatric Clinical Immersion (1 cr.) This clinical course addresses the specific needs of the pediatric population who are experiencing acute and chronic health problems using a patient and family centered approach. Emphasis will be placed on growth and development, family centered care, and the inter-professional approach to the care of this complex population.

NURS-H 355 Data Analysis for Practice and Research (3 cr.) Introduces nursing and other health science students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world situations in client care.

NURS-H 356 Clinical Nursing Care 1: Biophysical Processes (5 cr.) This course focuses on providing nursing care for individuals and families with acute and chronic biophysical illnesses across the lifespan. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at a beginning level.

NURS-H 360 Clinical Nursing Care 2: Interactive Processes (5 cr.) This course focuses on nursing care management of individuals and families experiencing acute and chronic health problems related to interaction with the environment and others: sensory, motor, cognitive, affective, and interpersonal processes. Using a holistic approach this course addresses health problems occurring across the lifespan.

NURS-H 371 Clinical Care 3: Adaptive Processes (5 cr.) The primary focus is on the nursing care and management of individuals and families experiencing acute and chronic health problems using an adaptive and holistic life span approach. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at an intermediate level.

NURS-H 476 Clinical Nursing Care 4: Complex Processes (5 cr.) The primary focus is on the nursing care management of individuals and families experiencing complex and significant illnesses across the lifespan. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at an advanced level.

NURS-L 230 Health Care Delivery Systems (3 cr.) Students examine health care delivery systems, leadership, health policy, regulation and economics. Students explore quality practices of health care organizations. Students analyze the impact of informatics on health care and nursing including the electronic health record, information technology in healthcare, and information literacy.

NURS-L 430 Leadership in Health Care Delivery (3-5 cr.) This course focuses on development of effective leadership skills relevant in health care systems. Students examine health policy, study information management, and employ processes that result in exceptional organizational outcomes. Students use healthcare data and research evidence in quality improvement and change initiatives.

NURS-R 375 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice (3 cr.) This course focuses on nursing research and evidence-based practice. Students develop skills in retrieving and appraising literature relevant to clinical problems, understanding the research process, and critiquing evidence from research publications and other sources to inform evidence-based nursing practice.

NURS-S 474 Applied Health Care Ethics (3 cr.) Building on the ANA Code of Ethics, this course explores the nurse's role in ethical clinical practice, academic work, health policy, and research conduct, focusing particularly on the advocacy role of the nurse. Common ethical problems are discussed and strategies for resolution are applied.

NURS-S 483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3-4 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their nursing care practice skills. Students will collaborate with faculty and a preceptor in choosing a care setting, planning and organizing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manner.

NURS-S 488 Synthesis for Professional Nursing Practice (2-3 cr.) Students integrate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program: critical thinking, information technology, cultural competence, care coordination, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills. Students demonstrate competence in evidence-based practice and quality and safety initiatives, as achieved in a complex and changing health care environment. Students begin the transition to professional practice.