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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
For basic students only. This course examines advanced concepts related to patients experiencing complex multi-system biological problems and related physiological and psychological responses.
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2.00 Credits
For basic students only. The course provides the opportunity for students to apply advanced concepts and processes required to help adults with complex multi-system problems. Students examine adults from physical, social, psychological and developmental perspectives through a combination of laboratory and supervised clinical practice activities. Clinical experiences occur under faculty supervision in a variety of acute care settings.
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3.00 Credits
For basic students, pre-MSN students, or with instructor approval. This course examines key concepts in leadership and management within the health care system. Emphasis is on organizing and delivering health care, assessing financial resources, planning, managing human resources, improving quality and promoting positive change.
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3.00 Credits
For basic students and pre-MSN students. This course focuses on the community health system by examining it from historical, organizational and political perspectives. Emphases are on analysis of epidemiological trends and the relevance of community assessment to community health nursing practice. The impact of local, state and federal legislation is explored related to the impact on community health.
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2.00 Credits
For basic students only. The course provides the opportunity to synthesize and apply cognitive knowledge of community health nursing. Through supervised clinical practice, students provide culturally competent care to individuals, families and groups in a variety of community agencies. This course includes 4 hours of clinical per week plus a class seminar. For those students enrolled in the travel section of NUR 422L, 40-80 clinical hours will be gained through education abroad; the additional requisite hours will be completed in a local community setting plus a class seminar.
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3.00 Credits
This course will review the key concepts of palliative care and end-of-life nursing care. Topics covered utilizing the End-of-Life Nursing Consortium (ELNEC) training modules will include: pain and symptom management, ethical issues, cultural considerations, communication techniques, care during the final hours of life, and loss, grief and bereavement. In addition, the practice of palliative care in special populations and in various settings will be discussed. This course will be highly interactive and will include opportunities to hear from guest speakers that are experts in the field of palliative and end-of-life care.
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3.00 Credits
Open to non-nursing students. This course examines alternative health practices from a cross-cultural perspective. Healing interventions such as acupuncture, biofeedback, homeopathy, meditation, and traditional Chinese and herbal medicine are studied and demonstrated by practitioners. Emphases are placed upon the historical underpinnings of holistic health practices and the political/economic ramifications on global health. This course also compares and contrasts non-traditional modalities of health care with industrial models. (*once each year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites for basic students: NUR 201 and statistics.. Prerequisites or corequisites for RN to BSN students: NUR 301, and statistics. Introduction to nursing research with emphasis on the research process and the critique of nursing research studies. (*fall and spring semesters)
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3.00 Credits
For basic students only. This course introduces the novice nursing student to the field of nursing informatics. Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information technology and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, and knowledge to support nursing practice in providing safe patient care. Focus of this course includes identifying, researching, and presenting a proposal to update a specific health care technology device with the primary focus of patient safety.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An independent study that provides students with an opportunity to pursue a topic or project under the guidance of a nursing faculty member. By permission of instructor and department director. May include a practicum.
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