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.) 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.
- NURS-B 331 Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing Practice (3 cr.) This course addresses professional communication, inter-intra professional collaboration and professional engagement to foster growth and development in nursing. This course also focuses on issues related to professional practice, theory, development and use, professional organization participation, service, continuing education, autonomy and accountability.
- 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 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.) This course will introduce students to tools and techniques for presenting and analyzing quantitative data relevant to the health care situation for practice and research. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be addressed, with a focus on commonly reported statistics in the nursing literature.
- 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-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 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-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 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-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 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-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 2 credit hours may be awarded.
- NURS-Z 492 Individual Study in Nursing (1-6 cr.) Opportunity for registered nurses to participate in independent study of topics related to nursing practice under the guidance of a selected faculty member.
- 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.