Course Details
- B232 Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing: Theory, Practice, Research (3 cr.)
- This course focuses on the core theoretical concetps 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.
- B233 Health and Wellness (4 cr.)
- This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinates of health, wellness, illness across the lifesspan. Evironmental, sociocultural and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health,, wellness, and illness are related to health promotion, disease prevention,and illness prevention nursing interventions.
- B244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2 cr.)
- This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive helath assessment, including physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed.
- B245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation,, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the lifespan in simulated and actual environments.
- B248 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 lifespan.
- B249 Science and Technology of Nursing: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the lifespan.
- B251 Life Span Development Practicum (1 cr.)
- This course deals with perspectives of growth and development across the lifespan, family theories and family adaptation to common health problems, promoting health across the lifespan and usual patterns of aging. Students will make assessment and observations of individuals and families various stages of growth and development.
- H351 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.
- H352 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- Students will provide nursing are to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuro-psychological disturbances related 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.
- H353 Alterations in Health (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.
- H354 Alterations in Health I: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- 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.
- H355 Data Analysis in Clinical Practice and Health Care Research (3 cr.)
- This course introduces nursing and other health science students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis neede in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and method by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the applcaition of fundamental concepts to real world situations in client care.
- H361 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.
- H362 Alterations in Health II: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- Students will continue to apply the science and technology of nursing to perform independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning.
- H363 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-rearing phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting and restoring health status of family members will be emphasized.
- H364 The Developing Family and Child: The Practicum (3 cr.)
- Students will have the opportunity to work with childbearing and child-rearing families, including those experiencing alterations in health.
- H365 Nursing Research (3 cr.)
- This course focuses 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 nurisng and nursing-related studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice.
- S470 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures (3 cr.)
- This course focuses on the pathophysiology and nursing care management of clients experiencing multi-system alterations in health status. Correlations among complex system alterations and nursing interventions to maximize health potential are emphasized.
- S471 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures: The Practicum (2 cr.)
- Students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multi-system alterations in health.
- S472 Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community (3 cr.)
- This course focuses on the complexity and diverstiy 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.
- S473 Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community: The 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.
- S481 Nursing Management (2 cr.)
- This course focuses on the development and management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management, and collaboration. Concepts addressed incldue organizational structure, change, managing quality and performance, workplace diversity, budgeting and resource allocation, and delivery systems.
- S482 Nursing Management: The Practicum (3 cr.)
- Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nurisng leadership roles.
- S483 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 organizaing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manner.
- S484 Research Utilization Seminar (1 cr.)
- 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 nursing care and in solving relevant problems arising from clinical practices.
- S485 Professional Growth and Empowerment (3 cr.)
- This course focuses on issues related to professional nursing 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.
- Z490 Clinical Experience in Nursing (1-6 cr.)
- Planned and supervised clinical experiences in the area of the student's major interest.
- Z492 Individual Study in Nursing (1-6 cr.)
- Opportunity for the nruse to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member.
