Courses
Nursing
Nursing (NURS)
- NURS-B 231 Comm Skill for Hlth Profsnl (3 cr.) Students in this course will focus on basic communication skills essential for working with clients of various ages and health care professionals. Content includes interpersonal communications and group dynamics. Students will practice communication skills with individuals, within groups, and through electronic media.
- NURS-B 232 Introduction to the Discipline (3 cr.) This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of nursing practice: health, wellness, illness, wholism, caring environment, self-care, uniqueness of persons, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. This course helps the student understand nursing's unique contributions to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research, and practice.
- NURS-B 233 Health and Wellness (4 cr.) P: All 200 level Nursing Courses This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinates of health, wellness, and illness across the life span. Environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness, and illness are related to health promotion, disease prevention, illness prevention, and nursing interventions.
- NURS-B 236 Developmental Issues in Nursing (3 cr.) P: NURS-B 231, NURS-B 232, NURS-B 244, and NURS-B 245 The course focuses on theories of individual development and family adaptation across the lifespan and health promotion/risk reduction topics for specific age groups. Students will perform assessments on individuals in various age groups.
- NURS-B 244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2 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.
- NURS-B 245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: Practicum (2 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments.
- NURS-B 248 Science and Technology of Nursing (2 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.
- 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.
- NURS-B 304 Health Policy (3 cr.) Social, ethical, cultural, economic, and political issues that affect the delivery of health and nursing services globally are critically analyzed. Government and entrepreneurial interests are examined. Emphasis is placed on the impact of policy decisions on professional nursing practice and health services.
- 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 lifelong learning on career development.
- NURS-B 344 Comprehensive Nursing Health Assessment (3-3 cr.) This course focuses on the complete health assessment, the nursing process, and its relationship to the prevention and early detection of disease across the life span. Students learn the skills of interview, inspection/observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span 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 caregiving, and future challenges will be discussed in the context of best practices as outlined by the John A. Hartford Foundation; Institute for Geriatric nursing.
- NURS-B 404 Informatics (3 cr.) This course addresses nursing informatics: state of the science and issues for research, development and practice. It clarifies concepts of nursing, technology, and information management; and comprises theory, practice, and the social and ethical issues in nursing and health care informatics.
- NURS-H 351 Alterations in Neuropsychological Health (3 cr.) P: sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 352, NURS-H 353, and NURS-H 354. 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.
- NURS-H 352 Alterations in Neuropsychological Health: The Practicum (2 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses C: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 353, and NURS-H 354. 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.
- NURS-H 353 Alterations in Health I (3 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 352, and NURS-H 354. 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 intervention appropriate to health care needs.
- NURS-H 354 Alterations in Health I: The Practicum (2 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses. C: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 352, NURS-H 353. Students will 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, identify health care needs, and determine the effectiveness of interventions given expected outcomes.
- NURS-H 355 Data Analysis/Pract & 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 361 Alterations in Health II (3 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses: NURS-H 351, H 352, H 353, and H 354. C: NURS-H 262, H 363, H 364, H 365. 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.
- NURS-H 362 Alterations in Health II: The Practicum (2 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses; NURS-H 351, H 352, H353, and H354. C: NURS-H 361, H 363, H 364, and H 365. 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.
- NURS-H 363 The Developing Family and Child (3 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses; NURS-H 351, H 352, H 353, and H 354. C: NURS-H 361, H 362, H 363, and H 365. 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-rearing phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting, and restoring healthy status of family members will be emphasized.
- NURS-H 364 The Developing Family and Child: The Practicum (3 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses; NURS-H 351, H 352, H 353, and H 354. C: NURS-H 361, H 362, H 363, and H 365. Students will have the opportunity to work with childbearing and child-rearing families, including those experiencing alterations in health.
- NURS-H 365 Nursing Research (3 cr.) P: All sophomore-level courses; NURS-H 351, H 352, H 353, and H 354. C: NURS-H 361, H 363, and H 364. This course focuses on development of the student's 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.
- NURS-I 630 Introduction to Nursing Informatics (3 cr.) Introduction to the field of nursing informatics, current state of the science, and major issues for research and development. Includes theoretical models of nursing informatics; nursing roles; information processing and data management; data acquisition and data representation; information system standards system architecture and networking; evaluation; and ethical/social issues in healthcare informatics.
- NURS-J 692 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURSING (3 cr.) P: MS in Nursing Students Only Individual assignments arranged.
- NURS-K 301 Complementary Health Therapies (3 cr.) This course is designed to introduce the student to non-mainstream health care therapies. The course will serve as an introduction to a variety of therapies, including healing touch, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, aromatherapy, reflexology and massage, to name a few.
- NURS-K 305 New Innovations in Health & 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.
- NURS-K 434 Global Health Issues In Nurses (3 cr.) The course focuses on global health issues, the conditions that contribute to global health disparities, and nursing interventions. Conceptual models and health equity concepts, evidence-based practice, and health care delivery systems are analyzed to explore strategies for addressing global health issues. Students investigate issues and advocate for health justice.
- NURS-K 490 Life Span Practicum (1 cr.) P: PSY-P 101. C: NURS-B 310. Students will make assessments and observations of individuals in various stages of growth and development.
- NURS-K 492 Nursing Elective (1-6 cr.) P: Successful completion of junior-level courses or permission of instructor. Opportunity for the nursing student to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member.
- NURS-L 574 Administrative Management for Nursing (3 cr.) Concepts, theories, perspectives, and research relevant to administration of nursing services. Emphasis on management principles and organizational processes related to patient care delivery systems. Examines contemporary literature in nursing and business.
- NURS-L 671 Financial Management: Nursing (3 cr.) P: Admission to MSN in Administration program. This course acquaints students with budget preparation and fiscal management. Fiscal management and strategic change are analyzed. Students use computerized spreadsheets in budget preparation.
- NURS-N 502 Nursing Theory for Advanced Nursing Practice (3 cr.) This course focuses on analyzing the relationships between theory and research for effective translation to practice. Emphasis is placed on selection and evaluation of theories, interprofessional perspectives, and using theory to guide practice and research.
- NURS-N 504 Leadership for Advancing Nursing Practice (3 cr.) This course addresses organizational and leadership knowledge and skills required to advance health outcomes and influence policy. Key leadership issues and challenges affecting advanced practice nurses will be examined and effective leadership and advocacy skills will be applied.
- NURS-N 525 BIOETHICS AND HEALTHCARE (3 cr.) This online seminar emphasizes contemporary controversies about methodology, including the role of theory, principles, cultural systems, cases, and virtues. It seeks to give the student a background in the historical developments that led to modern bioethics as well as grounding in the major theories or methods of bioethical decision-making.
- NURS-P 345 Pharmacology for Professional Nursing Practice (3 cr.) P: Admission to the RN-BSN program. 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 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-R 470 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3 cr.) This course must be taken in the final term for RN BSN students. This course allows students to synthesize knowledge and 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-R 500 Nursing Research Methods (3 cr.) This course emphasizes using research for decision-making in the delivery of quality evidence-based health care. Emphasis is placed on identifying problems and searching, appraising and synthesizing evidence for application or generating new knowledge using research methods. Strategies for disseminating findings across inter-professional contexts are examined.
- NURS-R 505 Measurement and Data Analysis (3 cr.) Principles and applications of scientific measurement, data summarization, inferential statistics, and practical derivations of the general linear model. Considers the research purpose and the phenomenon under study as determinants of measurement techniques and data analysis.
- NURS-R 590 Scholarly Project (1 cr.) A guided experience in identifying a researchable nursing problem and in developing and implementing a research project.
- NURS-S 410 Emergency Preparedness (3 cr.) This course focuses on the theoretical and practical perspectives of disaster response and emergency management for nursing professionals. Students will explore disaster/ emergency response preparedness, leadership principles, decision-making, and recovery training measures for health care providers devoted to supporting community disaster resilience.
- NURS-S 420 Care Coordination (3 cr.) Students will synthesize knowledge and skills relevant to care coordination to ensure smooth care transition. Students will develop an understanding of the role of the RN as a member of an interprofessional team, as well as options for the most appropriate care setting for an individual patient.
- NURS-S 470 Restorative Health Related to Multisystem Failures (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS-S 471, S 472, and S 473. 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.
- NURS-S 471 Restorative Health Related to Multisystem Failures: The Practicum (2 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS-S 470, S 472, and S 473. Students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multisystem alterations in health.
- NURS-S 472 A Multisystem Approach to the Health of the Community (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS-S 470, S 471, and S 473. 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/economics issues in local and global communities, the student will be able to determine effective interventions for community-centered care.
- NURS-S 473 A Multisystem Approach to the Health of the Community: Practicum (2 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS-S 470, S 471, and S 472. 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.
- 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 475 Community Health: RNBSN (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.
- NURS-S 481 Nursing Management (2 cr.) P: All junior-level courses; NURS-S 470, S 471, S 472, and S 473. C: NURS-S 482, S 483, S 484, and S 485. 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.
- NURS-S 482 Nursing Management: The Practicum (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses: NURS-S 470, S 471, S 472, and S 473. C: NURS-S 481, S 483, S 484, and S 485. Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles.
- NURS-S 483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses; NURS-S 470, S 471, S 472, and S 473. C: NURS-S 481, S 482, S 484, and S 485. 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 484 Evidence-Based Practice (1 cr.) P: All junior-level courses; NURS-S 470, S 471, S 472, and S 473. C: NURS-S 481, S 482, S 483 and S 485. This course focuses on students' abilities to refine their critical/analytical skills in evaluating clinical research for applicability to nursing practice. Students will examine the role of evaluation, action research, and research findings in assuring quality of nursing care and in solving relevant problems arising from clinical practices.
- NURS-S 485 Professional Growth and Empowerment (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses; NURS-S 470, S 471, S 472, and S 473. C: NURS-S 481, S 482, S 483, and S 484. 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 lifelong learning.
- NURS-S 487 Nursing Management: RNBSN (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, delivers systems, change, managing quality and performance, budgeting and resource allocation, staffing, scheduling, evaluation and career development.
- NURS-T 615 Nursing Curriculum (3 cr.) Focus is on the process of developing a curriculum of nursing within a peer setting. Emphasis is also directed toward individual investigation of a nursing curriculum issue.
- NURS-T 670 Teaching of Nursing (3-6 cr.) Seminar and guided experiences in teaching of nursing, including planning, developing, implementing and evaluating classroom and clinical instruction.
- NURS-Y 510 Advanced Practice Nursing Concepts I (3 cr.) Analyzes selected nursing concepts and related research with a focus on ethics, professional role development, human diversity and social issues as well as health promotion and disease prevention. Relationship of concepts to advanced practice models is explored.
- NURS-Y 520 Advanced Practice Nursing Concepts II (3 cr.) Analyzes selected nursing concepts and related research with a focus on health care policy, organization of health care delivery systems, health care financing and health care economics. Relationship of concepts to advanced practice models is explored.
- NURS-Z 480 B.S.N. Portfolio Review for Course Substitution (1-6 cr.) The portfolio review process is available to all undergraduate students who believe that they can meet the learning objectives/competencies required of a specific nursing course within their program of study. The portfolio is a mechanism used to validate the acquisition of knowledge and skills congruent with course expectations and student learning outcomes. The portfolio provides objective evidence that students have acquired the content and skills through prior learning and/or practice experiences.
- NURS-Z 490 Clinical Experience in Nursing (1-6 cr.) Opportunity for independent study of clinical experience related to nursing practice. Includes elective credit awarded to registered nurses holding valid specialty certification from a professional nursing organization in an appropriate area of nursing. A maximum of 3 credit hours may be awarded.