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NUR 200 - Fund Nurs & Hlth Asmt/Clc Prac
Fundamentals of Nurs Prac & Health Asmnt w/Clinical Prac
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course introduces nursing and roles of the nurse, as well as profession related and patient care concepts. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe, quality care. The theoretical foundation for basic assessment and nursing skills is presented, and the student is given an opportunity to demonstrate these skills in a clinical laboratory setting. An introduction to the nursing process provides a decision-making framework to assist students in developing effective clinical judgement skills. Utilization of the nursing process and developmental theories (primary Erikson), focus on the nursing role as communicator, provider of care, and patient teacher. Parameters of health are defined. Nursing fundamental concepts are introduced related to the physical and psychological assessment needs of the normal and ill individual; pain assessment, interventions, and evaluation; basic nutrition; and stress and adaption concepts. Variations in nursing care for individuals of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds will be explored.

0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 OR 3.000 Lecture hours
0.000 OR 3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 209 - Nutrition in Nursing
Nutrition in Nursing
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course is designed to introduce the nursing student to clinical dietary and nutritional principles and their role for proper growth and development as well as maintenance of health. This course introduces nursing students to the interrelationships among nutrition, food and the environment as they impact health status. This course covers healthy nutrition through the life cycle, selected cultural variation, diet and physical activity, medical nutrition therapy and selected diseases, and food safety. Through the processes of understanding and application students will learn how these factors influence a patients overall health status across the life span.

2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 311 - Adult Care Nurs I Clin Pract
Adult Care Nursing I with Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course introduces the student to the use of the nursing process in the care of adults with chronic or non-complex illness. A systems approach is used to discuss the effects of illness on the individual and the family, and to examine the disruption of growth and development patterns across the lifespan from young adult to senior years. The course includes clinical experience to allow the student the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts to clinical practice in diverse adult populations.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 312 - Adult Care Nurs II/Clin Prac
Adult Care Nursing II w/ Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

Building upon previously developed adult health knowledge and skills, the student plans, prioritizes, implements, and evaluates culturally appropriate, safe, quality nursing care of adults with complex health problems. Principles of collaborative care, health disparities, cultural and ethnic differences, genetics, ethics and legal aspects of care, cost and safety are threaded throughout the course.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 340 - Matern & Newborn Nur/Clin Prac
Maternal & Newborn Nursing Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course explores the concepts and skills necessary for the nursing care of childbearing families and neonates. The childbirth process from conception to postpartum is discussed. The course focuses on the role of the nurse in promoting, maintaining, and restoring health for the childbearing family and neonates including both normal and high-risk pregnancy. The course also includes topics related to women's health such as fertility and infertility, complications of menopause, sexually transmitted diseases, and female reproductive cancers. Clinical experiences provide the opportunity to develop assessment skills, communication skills, cultural awareness, nursing process, critical thinking skills, teaching skills, psychomotor skills, and collaborative skills.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 345 - Fam & Child Care Nur/Clin Prac
Family & Child Care Nursing with Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

Applying a family centered approach, this course focuses on health promotion, acute and chronic health conditions, and rehabilitative needs of children. Emphasis is placed on developmental, physiological, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual care of the child within the family unit. Using the nursing process, strategies are formulated for promoting and maintaining optimal functioning of the child-family unit and for enhancing the strengths of the family unit. Clinical activities emphasize the application of theory to practice in a variety of communities and acute care settings.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 372 - Pathophysiology
Pathophysiology
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course provides an in-depth study of human pathological processes and their effects on homeostasis. Emphasis is on interrelationships among organ systems in deviations from homeostasis. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of pathophysiology. Course topics include the etiology, physical signs and symptoms, prognosis, and complications of commonly occurring diseases and their management. The course also emphasizes manifestations of disease, risk factors for disease, and the principles of pathology underlying illness and injury to therapeutic nursing interventions and outcomes.

3.000 Credit hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 403 - Pharmatherapeut & Pharmacology
Pharmacotherapeutics & Pharmacology
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course introduces nursing pharmacology that integrates the concepts of physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, and nursing fundamentals to build a foundation for administering drug therapy to patients. Using a simple to complex approach, key content areas are presented to help conceptualize the important components related to nursing pharmacology. The basic concepts of pharmacology, such as drug testing, and approval, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, therapeutic and toxic effects, dosage calculations, challenges related to drug therapy, proved the foundation from which drug therapy associated with specific body systems can be addressed. Discussion of the major drug groups focuses on therapeutic actions and indication, pharmacokinetics, contraindications and cautions, adverse effects, clinically important drug-drug interactions, and nursing considerations which emphasize the nursing process and focuses on patient care and teaching. Prototypes of major drug groups are emphasized. Lifespan considerations, evidence for best practices, patient safety, critical thinking is integrated throughout the course.

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 410 - Comm & Publ Hlth Nur/Clin Prac
Community & Public Health Nursing with Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program This course introduces students to concepts of community health utilizing the population-focused nursing process. Includes levels of disease prevention, principles of epidemiology, community assessment, environmental health, disaster preparedness, and professional nursing roles and interprofessional collaboration in various community settings. Emphasis is on health promotion, risk reduction, and disease management across the lifespan in selected community setting. Practice experience is required and can be completed in the community.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 424 - Geriatric Nurs/Clin Practice
Geriatric Nursing with Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

Gerontological nursing offers students the knowledge that will enable them to provide competent, holistic, standardized care to the older adult in a variety of service settings, and to demonstrate the beauty and uniqueness of the art and science of nursing for seniors. The nursing process is applied in assisting older adults with adaptation to physiological, psychosocial, and developmental stressors. This course focuses on nursing interventions used to promote, maintain, and restore health in older adult clients. It provides students with opportunities to expand knowledge of the normal aging process; to identify variables that contribute to deviations in health; to discuss how formal and informal resources, including evidence-based data, contribute to older adults' health status; and to examine the implications of working collaboratively with individuals, families and communities to meet the health care needs of older adults.

4.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 432 - Psychiatric Nurs/Clin Practice
Psychiatric Nursing with Clinical Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course focuses on the study and application of modern concepts of psychiatric and mental health care and effective interactions with others. The student will learn to respond therapeutically to a variety of clients including those with maladaptive behaviors through the utilization of the nursing process by applying the principles of psychiatric and mental health care. Self-awareness and self-knowledge are incorporated throughout this course. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and clinical judgement to plan holistic, comprehensive nursing care. This course will prepare the student with the clinical knowledge and skills for entry level associate degree nursing practice.

3.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 437 - Evidence-Based Nurs Practice
Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This course introduces the importance of research to improve clinical practice, strategies to evaluate the quality of research and evidence, and increase integration of research into practice. This course is designed to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) skills that will enable students to conduct evaluations of existing literature to improve patient care outcomes. The course provides a comprehensive overview of EBP, and the components essential for implementation of EBP in a clinical setting. It is designed to focus on skills needed to critically evaluate information available from research findings and professional consensus statements. Essential topics for clinical inquiry are addressed, including developing PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) questions, evaluating existing clinical guidelines, critically analyzing and synthesizing research articles, and integrating evidence into practice.

2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 448 - Leadership & Mgmt in Nursing
Leadership and Management in Nursing
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

The content of this course prepares students for the changing role of the professional nurse in complex and diverse health care settings. The theories and methods of leadership and management are explored and applied in the clinical experience. There is an emphasis on critical thinking, team building, communication, priority setting, collaborative decision-making, advocacy and quality improvement, patient and staff safety, and fiscal management addressed within the role of baccalaureate prepared nurse leader and manager across a variety of healthcare settings. Students will use nursing leadership and management theory as well as the basic and applied sciences and humanities from previous courses.

2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 449 - Clin Jdgmt Complex Illnesses
Clinical Judgement for Complex Illnesses
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

Focuses on nursing care of diverse individuals and families integrating complex health concepts. Emphasizes clinical judgment, patient-centered care and collaboration. The course focuses on the application of complex health concepts that relate to the diverse client and family across the lifespan. Students could demonstrate reasoning to make effective nursing judgments when providing care for patients across the lifespan in a variety of health care and community-based settings. Concepts of prioritization, delegation and supervision, and global health are emphasized as students continue to demonstrate professional standards and adhere to legal and ethical guidelines.

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department

NUR 451 - Integrated Clin Nurs Prac
Integrated Clinical Nursing Practice
Prerequisite: Admission to BSN Nursing Program

This patient-centered clinical course helps students develop skills in providing and managing nursing care of diverse adult patients. Utilizing the framework of the nursing process, students will practice critical thinking, communication skills, application of technology, and professional responsibility while safely caring for patients with lifespan changes. Major emphasis will be on nursing care management and delegation of care of a group of patients with neurological, musculoskeletal, and oncology problems. the student will build clinical reasoning and develop beginning proficiency in patient management and evaluation through assignments in increasingly complex patient care settings. Working closely with staff and faculty, the student will gain the confidence and skill needed to function as a novice nurse who is a designer, manager and coordinator of care. This course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Students are required to pass this course to progress in the program.

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Health Sciences and Nursing Department


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