This course introduces skills of health assessment of persons across the lifespan. Content will be presented in didactic sessions and application will occur in laboratory.
Prereq: NURS 3001, NURS 3103.
This course focuses on nursing interventions of the art and science of human care, as foundations to reflective nursing practice. Content focuses on clinical judgment, basic nursing principles, key nursing interventions, facilitating health and understanding the patient as recipient-participant. Human care concepts are integrated throughout the clinical content of the course.
Prereq: NURS 3001, NURS 3103.
Lecture course of introductory pharmacology including general concepts (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, developmental pharmacology, interactions and adverse effects) and overview of major drug groups following a body systems approach. Autonomic system pharmacology and implications for monitoring, drug administration and patient education emphasized.
This course is divided into two content areas: general concepts and specific disease processes. General concepts include the topics of cellular environment, genetics, stress and disease, immunity, inflammation, and cellular proliferation. Exemplar disease processes from the major organ systems are presented.
Prereq: NURS 3002, NURS 3003.
This course focuses on the application of knowledge to clinical practice as it relates to care of childbearing families. Students will explore factors that affect individuals and families during the human experience of childbirth within the context of clinical judgment and critical thinking from a caring framework.
Prereq: NURS 3002, NURS 3103.
Nursing process directed toward health promotion and maintenance, disease prevention and health restoration for the child, adolescent and family is utilized in clinical practice, laboratory experience and class. Subsystem/pattern variation receives particular emphasis.
Prereq: NURS 3999.
Focuses on the nursing care of adolescents and adults in the promotion and restoration of mental health within a variety of clinical settings. Assessments and treatment approaches based on nursing diagnosis and DSM IV classifications will be incorporated into class lectures and clinical practice.
Prereq: NURS 3002, NURS 3003, NURS3103.
Nursing care of adults and older adults directed toward health promotion, disease prevention, maintenance and restoration of health is emphasized in both theory and clinical practice. The concepts of health, illness, healing and dying are investigated from a human science/caring perspective.
Prereq: Undergraduate statistics course.
Introduces foundational concepts of nursing research and promotes the development of the student as a research consumer. The ability to critically evaluate research findings and assess their potential use in clinical practice is an integral component of the course.
Social Justice, Issues & Trends
Prereq: NURS 3001, NURS 3002, NURS 3003, NURS 3103.
This course is one of a two-course sequence designed to enhance professional development. Content includes historical, philosophical, theoretical and ethical foundations of nursing, professional issues and trends and two selected practice/inquiry foci for theory-based, evidence-guided reflective nursing practice.
for Practice: Bioethical & Legal Foundations
Prereq: NURS 3002, NURS 3003, NURS 4051.
Examines societal context of nursing practice and health care delivery. Emphasis is given to environmental context of U.S. health care system and bioethical/legal parameters which influence professional nursing practice and achievement of quality/cost effective outcomes.
Prereq: NURS 3999.
Nursing Care directed toward maintenance and restoration of health for adult individuals experiencing multiple, complex alterations in health in both theory and clinical practice. Advanced concepts important in the understanding of health, illness, dying and death will be considered using a human science/caring perspective.
Synthesis of theory, research and practice to facilitate clinical reasoning for quality care and clinical outcomes improvement. Leadership and management competencies in organizational skills, communication, conflict management, delegations, interdisciplinary collaboration and decision-making support successful transition into practice and professional development.
Prereq: NURS 3999, NURS 4020.
Students learn the structure and functions of public health services, apply principles of environmental health and epidemiology, provide nursing care to vulnerable and diverse families and develop and implement a health promotion and/or disease prevention program with a community-based population.
This is a basic health assessment course for students who are enrolled in the RN-BS program. These individuals are currently licensed to practice nursing, but who are prepared at the ADN or the diploma levels.
Innovative integrated nursing case and care management models within the context of today’s managed care delivery system are considered in this course. Accountability, interdisciplinary collaboration, continuity of care, timeliness and cost effectiveness of health care delivery are evaluated within the context of care management.