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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
The first of two adult nursing courses, this course emphasizes the nursing roles in health promotion, health restoration and health maintenance. Classroom and clinical learning experiences focus on integration of knowledge from previous coursework. Consistent with the organizing framework of the Nursing program, this course incorporates aspects of critical thinking into classroom and clinical learning experiences. Students have the opportunity to provide nursing care to clients with common health problems from young adulthood to older adults. Course content focuses on the common health problems of the population of clients, which include: urinary, intestinal, neurologic and musculoskeletal disorders; problems of metabolism, sensation and perception; and perioperative nursing care. Prerequisite: NU 310
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6.00 Credits
This course seeks to synthesize the philosophy and organizational themes of the Nursing program through reading, reflective writings and discussion on individual goal-directed experiences focused on clinical leadership. Areas covered include the skills of leadership, system of care and practices of leadership. Focus is on case management and the leadership activities and interventions required to be effective in the clinical environment of the new millennium. The skills of leadership are interrelated with practice and require a positive sense of self in conjunction with judgment based on experience and research. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor one semester in advance of enrollment; NU 200, NU 250, NU 320, NU 365, or NU 401, NU 430, NU 431, NU 433
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6.00 Credits
The second in the two-course sequence of adult nursing, this course emphasizes the nursing roles for the supportive, promotive and restorative functions of nursing practice, and continues to incorporate critical thinking into learning experiences. Students have the opportunity to provide individualized nursing care that includes the psychosocial and cultural aspects of care to adults with complex health problems, including the critically ill. Prerequisite: NU 340
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares nursing students to critically evaluate research for its application to the practice of professional nursing. The course reviews quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The ethical and policy agendas that influence research are considered throughout the course. Prerequisite: EN 110
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3.00 Credits
This clinical course focuses on leadership and management activities integral to the provision of health care for individuals, families and/or com- munities. These activities require assessment, collaboration and evaluation. The ability to work and communicate with others is fundamental to these activities. The transition to the role of the professional nurse is also explored. Themes of the course are health care as a system, professionalism and the role of the nurse in the provision of cost-effective quality care. Concepts and theories of leadership and management are integrated. Students analyze the health care delivery system and its relationship to the practice of nursing. Clinical experiences offer the opportunity to participate in aspects of the health care system that influence many patients. These activities may include, but are not limited to, quality outcome evaluation, planning for change, research assessing the cost of health care delivery, ethical deliberation, determining ways to enhance the work environment of employees, identification of ways to do the work, carrying a caseload of patients, developing a comprehensive individual patient care plan and participation in the use of information systems. Prerequisites: NU 340, NU 365
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the application of the elements of critical thinking to the care of children and families in their child-rearing experiences. Incorporating content from the liberal arts, sciences and humanities, students explore the roles of the nurse in relation to current research, issues, concepts and trends in family and child health. Culturally sensitive nursing practice embodies the care of children and families who range from healthy to at risk states along the continuum of their growth and development. Nursing interventions are supportive, restorative and promotive in nature, and include principles of effective communication and teaching. Clinical experiences provide students with opportunities to apply their critical thinking and knowledge base from family and child nursing to a variety of healthy to at-risk situations, and across a variety of settings. Prerequisite: NU 340
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6.00 Credits
Focuses on family and community as consumers of health services. The different perspectives, sensitivities and application of knowledge unique to nursing of families and the community are identified. Effectiveness of nursing practice is explored in relation to the problems, priorities, attitudes, culture and resources of the individual, family and community. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor one semester in advance of enrollment; NU 200, NU 250, NU 320 and NU 365, or NU 401, NU 430, NU 431
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5.00 Credits
This course focuses on the family and community as consumers of health services. Priorities and intervention strategies for health promotion, health protection and health restoration promoting optimal level of functioning of populations at risk are stressed. The effectiveness of nursing practice will be explored in relation to the problems, priorities, attitudes, culture and resources of populations along the lifespan with emphasis on aging populations in the community. Collaboration with community agencies/institutions and the health care delivery system result in health promotion activities that address current or emergent health needs of specific populations. Prerequisite: NU 360
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3.00 Credits
This course takes basic management concepts and applies them specifically to home care. Content includes financing home care including Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance; State and Federal regulations; accreditation regulations including quality improvement concepts of case management; trends and issues in home care; legal and ethical consideration in home care, and community resources. This course is only offered online.
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3.00 Credits
Examines holistic forms of health care that can add to the effectiveness of traditional allopathic care, including energy systems, art and imagery and meditation.
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