School of Nursing
Nursing Courses Undergraduate
Following are undergraduate nursing courses, listed in alphanumeric order.
The university reserves the right to cancel courses for insufficient enrollment.
P = prerequisite R = recommended C = co-requisite
- NURS-B 216 Nursing Pharmacology (2 cr.) This course focuses on the physiological actions of drugs and their therapeutic use; the nurse’s role in administering drugs, and the need for continuous study of drug therapy. (P: ANAT-A 215, PHSL-P 215)
- NURS-B 222 Comprehensive Health Assessment and Practicum (5 cr.) 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. 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 223 Promoting Healthy Populations and Practicum (4 cr.) This course focuses on preventative health care and health promotion in individuals, families, and communities, considering the influence of culture and lifespan development. Using biophysical, environmental, sociocultural and economic determinants of health, students focus on improving health outcomes with individuals, families, and communities. Students assess individuals, families, and communities, providing needed education, preventative 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 233 Health and Wellness (3 cr.) This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsycosocial sciences to critically examine the determines of health, wellness, and illness across the lifespan. Enviromental, socioculteral, and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness and illness are related to health promotion, disese prevention and illness prevention nursing interventions.
- NURS-B 248 Science and Technology of Nursing (3 cr.) This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical research base. It provides an opportunity for basic care nursing skills development. Students will be challenged to use critical thinking and problem solving in developing the ability to apply an integrated nursing therapeutics approach for clients experiencing health alterations across the life span. (C: NURS-B 249)
- NURS-B 249 Science and Technology of Nursing: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the life span. (C: NURS-B 248)
- NURS-B 252 Pathophysiology (3 cr.) This course focuses on the development of student understanding of alterations in normal human physiological functioning. Students will explore alterations of health and related basic diagnostic tests related to the management of selected alterations. (P: ANAT-A 215, PHSL-P 215)
- 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 introduced to the scope and standards of nursing practice, roles of health team members, and components of professional practice. Students are introduced to leadership and ethical standards.
- NURS-B 260 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice (5 cr.) 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 (4 cr.) 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 disease with an application to nursing practice.
- NURS-B 304 Health Policy (3 cr.) This course focuses on CORE theoretical concepts of professional nursing practice, including health, wellness, illness, self care and caring, disease prevention and health promotion. Students will be expected to explore theoretical premises and research related to the unique wellness perspectives and health beliefs of people across the life span in developing care outcomes consistent with maximizing individual potentials for wellness. Students will complete a needs assessment as part of the practicum.
- NURS-B 331 Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing Practice (3 cr.) This course bridges the nurse to the essential elements of baccalaureate professional practice. Students examine inter- and intra-professional communication, collaboration, and teamwork to enhance quality patient care. Students explore nursing professional organizations, issues in professional practice, and the impact of lifelone learning on career development.
- NURS-B 344 Comprehensive Health Assesment (3 cr.) This course focuses on the complete health assessment, the nursing process, and its relationship to the prevention and early detection of diseases across the lifespan. Students learn the skills of interview, inspection/palpation, percussion, and auscultation in assessing clients across the lifespan and comparing normal from abnormal findings.
- NURS-B 403 Gerontological Nursing (3 cr.) This course promotes a holistic approach to persons in the later years of life. Death and dying, legal and ethical issues, family care giving, and future challenges will be discussed in the context of best practices as outlined by the John A Hartford Foundation: Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- NURS-B 404 Informatics (3 cr.) This course focuses on the application of nursing theory and research findings in restoring and maintaining individual and family functioning for those dealing with multi-system alterations. Students will explore the ethical, legal and moral implications of treatment options and identify tactics to maintain nursing effectiveness in facilitating individuals and families through the health care system students will complete a scholarly analysis as part of their practicum experience.
- NURS-H 351 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health (3 cr.) This course focuses on individuals and small groups experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disorders. Content includes the effect of the brain-body disturbances on health functioning. Other content areas are growth and development, stress, mental status, nurse-client relationships, psychopharmacology, and nursing approaches for clients experiencing DSM-IV neuropsychological disorders. (P: All sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 352)
- NURS-H 352 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disturbances related to psychiatric disorders. Student experiences will be with individuals and small groups in supervised settings such as acute care, community-based, transitional, and/or the home. (C: NURS-H 351)
- NURS-H 353 Alterations in Health I (3 cr.) This course focuses on the pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic problems. Students will use critical thinking and problem solving skills to plan interventions appropriate to health care needs. (P: All sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 354)
- NURS-H 354 Alterations in Health I: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Student will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alteration in health functioning, identify health care needs, and determine the effectiveness of interventions given expected care outcomes. (C: NURS-H 353)
- NURS-H 355 Data Analysis in Clinical Practice and Health Care Research (3 cr.) This course introduces nursing and other health sciences 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. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- NURS-H 361 Alterations in Health II (3 cr.) This course builds on Alterations in Health I and continues to focus on pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic health problems and their associated needs. (P: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 352, NURS-H 353, NURS-H 354, all sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 362)
- NURS-H 362 Alterations in Health II: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will continue to apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning. (C: NURS-H 361, P: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 352, NURS-H 353, NURS-H 354 and all sophomore courses)
- NURS-H 363 The Developing Family and Child (4 cr.) This course focuses on the needs of individuals and their families who are facing the phenomena of growth and development during the childbearing and child raising phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting, and restoring health status of family members will be emphasized. (C: NURS-H 364)
- NURS-H 364 The Developing Family and Child: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to work with childbearing and child raising families, including those experiencing alterations in health. (C: NURS-H 363)
- NURS-H 365 Nursing Research (2 cr.) This course is on development of students’ skills in using the research process to define clinical research problems and to determine the usefulness of research in clinical decisions related to practice. The critique of nursing and nursing related research studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice. (C: NURS-H 361, NURS-H 362, NURS-H 363, NURS-H 364). For RN to BSN students this is a 3 credit course.
- NURS-J 360 Operating Room Nursing/Peri-operative Nursing (lecture -- 2 cr., clinical -- 2 cr. cr.) This course is designed to enable the student to participate in the professional and technical components of peri-operative nursing practice with supervision. Learning opportunities include care of the patient undergoing the stress of surgery in the pre-, intra-, and post-operative phases. The student participates as a member of the surgical team in the circulating and scrub nurse’s role. The student will also participate in the care of the patient pre-operatively by doing admission assessments.
- NURS-K 301 The Art and Science of Complementary Health (3 cr.) This course will serve as an introduction to a variety of complementary therapies, including healing touch, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, aromatherapy, reflexology, and massage. The class will critically examine each therapy through assigned readings, literature reviews, presentations, guest lecturers, and optional experiential activities. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- NURS-K 304 Nursing Specialty Elective (3 cr.) This course allows the RN to BSN student to apply nationally recognized specialty nursing knowledge and skills to the BSN degree, through a portfolio or independent study approach. National specialty standards will be used to devise learning objectives, implementation and evaluation plan. This course is restricted to RN to BSN students only.
- NURS-K 305 New Innovation in Health and Health Care (3 cr.) This course explores emergent trends in health and health care, including technological advances in health care, developing approaches to care based on new knowledge and/ or research findings, and trends in health care delivery in a themed, survey or independent study format. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- NURS-K 415 Special Needs Children in the Community (2-4 cr.) This course focuses on children with special health needs in the community setting. Concepts of growth and development will be explored in relationship to the identified health needs. Principles of health education, health maintenance, and health promotion will be integrated in the experiential component of the course.
- NURS-K 432 Korean Culture and Healthcare (1 cr.) This course provides a forum for students to explore Korean culture in terms of history, culture, language, business, foods, traditions, perspectives, and healthcare. Students interact with their peers from a Korean University.
- NURS-K 433 Korean Culture and Healthcare: Practicum (2 cr.) This 2-week cultural immersion experience is based at a school of nursing in South Korea. Students will participate in classroom, laboratory, clinical, cultural and leisure time activities with Korean students. Prerequisites: Must be a student in good standing in the IU School of Nursing, successfully complete the Korean Culture & Healthcare course, and be selected to participate.
- NURS-K 434 Global Health Issues in Nursing (3 cr.) This course is designed to provide learning opportunities to acquire knowledge about global health issues, the diverse conditions that contribute to health and global health disparities, and an understanding of nursing's role in addressing these health problems. Issues addressed include infectious and chronic illness, reproductive and womens health issues, politics and public health policy, economics and health care, and health in conflict environments. Conceptual models and health equity concepts, evidence-based practice, and health care delivery systems are analyzed to explore strategies for addressing global health issues. Learning opportunities emphasize the knowledge and skills needed to use technology to investigate global health issues, advocate for health justice from a human rights perspective, and critically appraise global health issues.
- NURS-K 440 Critical Care Elective (2 cr.) Students will hear presentations and participate in discussions related to critical care concepts and hemodynamic monitoring. (P: Sophomore and junior level courses)
- NURS-K 441 Critical Care Clinical (2 cr.) Students will participate in a preceptored critical care clinical experiences and simulations to promote critical thinking. Students are selected for this practicum.
- NURS-K 490 Clinical Nursing Elective (1-6 cr.) Planned and supervised clinical experience in an area of concentration. Course is S/F graded. (P: Consent of instructor)
- NURS-K 492 Nursing Elective (1-6 cr.) Opportunity for the student to pursue study in an area of interest. (P: Consent of instructor)
- NURS-K 499 Genetics and Genomics (3 cr.) This course introduces a basic knowledge of genetics in health care, including genetic variation and inheritance; ethical, legal, and social issues in genetic health care; genetic therapeutics; nursing roles; genetic basis of selected alterations to health across the life span; and cultural considerations in genetic health care are all considered. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- 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-P 216 Pharmacology (3 cr.) This course focuses on basic principles of pharmacology. It includes the pharmacologic properties of major drug classes and individual drugs, with an emphasis on the clinical application of drug therapy through the nursing process.
- NURS-P 345 Pharmacology (3 cr.) This course focuses on principles of pharmacology for professional nursing practice. It includes the pharmacologic properties of major drug classes and individual drugs, with an emphasis on the clinical application of drug therapy through the nursing process.
- NURS-R 470 Clinical Baccalaureate Nursing Capstone (3 cr.) This course allows students to synthesize knowledge skills learned in the baccalaureate program and to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their nursing practice skills. Students will plan and organize learning experiences, design a project, and practice professional nursing in a safe and effective manner.
- NURS-S 470 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures (3 cr.) This course focuses on the pathophysiology and nursing care management of clients experiencing multisystem alterations in health status. Correlations among complex system alterations and nursing interventions to maximize health potential are emphasized. (P: All Sophomore and Junior level courses. C: NURS-S 471, NURS-S 472, NURS-S 473.)
- NURS-S 471 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures: Practicum (2 cr.) The students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multi-system alterations in health. (C: NURS-S 470, NURS-S 472, NURS-S 473.)
- NURS-S 472 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community (3 cr.) This course focuses on the complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. Through a community assessment of health trends, demographics, epidemiological data, and social/political issues in local and global communities, the student will be able to determine effective interventions for community-centered care. (P: All junior level courses. C: NURS-S 470, NURS-S 471, NURS-S 473.)
- NURS-S 473 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to apply the concepts of community assessment, program planning, prevention, and epidemiology to implement and evaluate interventions for community- centered care to groups or aggregates. Professional nursing will be practiced in collaboration with diverse groups within a community. (C: NURS-S 470, NURS-S 471, NURS-S 472.)
- NURS-S 474 Applied Healthcare Ethics (3 cr.) Building on the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, 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 of ethical dilemmas are applied. Note: some sections of this course are restricted to RN to BSN students.
- NURS-S 475 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community: RN to BSN (3 cr.) Basic epidemiological principles and community health nursing models are applied in collaboration with diverse groups. Disease prevention strategies are applied to individuals and populations to promote health. Students apply the concepts of community assessment, disease prevention, and health promotion to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for populations in the community. This course is restricted to RN to BSN students only.
- NURS-S 481 Nursing Management (2 cr.) This course focuses on the development of management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, change, managing quality and performance, workplace diversity, budgeting and resource allocation, and delivery systems. (P: All Sophomore, Junior, and First Semester Senior level courses. C: NURS-S 481, NURS-S 482, NURS-S 483, NURS-S 485.)
- NURS-S 482 Nursing Management: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles. (C: NURS-S 481, NURS-S 483, NURS-S 485.)
- NURS-S 483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3 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. (C: NURS-S 481, NURS-S 482, NURS-S 485.)
- NURS-S 485 Professional Growth and Empowerment (3 cr.) This course focuses on issues related to professional practice, career planning, personal goal setting, and empowerment of self and others. Students will discuss factors related to job performance, performance expectations and evaluation, reality orientation, and commitment to life-long learning. (C: NURS-S 481, NURS-S 482, NURS-S 483.)
- NURS-S 487 Nursing Management: RN to BSN (3 cr.) This course focuses on development of management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, and facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management, and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, delivery systems, change, managing quality and performance, budgeting and resource allocation, staffing, scheduling, evaluation and career development. This course is restricted to RN to BSN students only.