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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the process of systematic and comprehensive health data collection and assessment. Emphasis is placed on strategies for interpersonal communication, skillful examination techniques, and data validation. Culturally and age appropriate health promotion and disease prevention activities are explored. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with NUR-320: Introduction to Professional Nursing and NUR-342: Advancing Nursing Practice. This course is campus based with a clinical component and is only open to Accelerated 2nd Degree BSN Program students.
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3.00 Credits
This course creates a foundation for achieving the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) educational outcomes and for transitioning to baccalaureate nursing practice. As such, it provides a broad overview of professional practice and patient outcomes issues including professional practices standards, educational requirements in nursing, evidence-based care, health information technology, and population-focused care. The course applies both ethical principles and models of cultural competence to nursing education and practice; in addition, students begin the development of a learning portfolio that will serve as a means to reflect on and validate professional and academic achievements and growth throughout the program.
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8.00 Credits
In this course, students are provided with the opportunity to examine the needs of individuals, families, and populations who are experiencing vulnerability at the psychosocial and physiological level. Using the nursing process, students identify client learning needs and implement measures to decrease risk and facilitate health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Evidence-based practice and professional nursing standards are used to validate judgments and enhance critical thinking in the provision of safe, quality care. Professional role performance is broadened by caring for clients with complex health needs in a variety of acute and community-based settings. The course is designed to be taken concurrently with NUR-443: Public Health Nursing and NUR-529: Health Policy and is only open to Accelerated 2nd Degree BSN Program students. Prerequisite: Completion of NUR-400: Nursing Care Across the Lifespan, NUR-418: Research in Nursing, and NUR-531: Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Issues. This course is campus based with a clinical component.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to evidence-based nursing practice and research. Students will focus on the critical-thinking skills required to identify and appraise the best evidence available to support nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on the components of the research process and the professional nurse's role in application of research as well as subsequent improvement in healthcare. Prerequisite: A course equivalent to HPS-200: Statistics for the Health Professions or STA-201: Principles of Statistics.
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9.00 Credits
In this course, students integrate advanced nursing concepts and leadership principles to plan and implement care for clients with critical care needs. Contemporary issues related to professional nursing practice are analyzed for their impact on the client, nurse, and the healthcare system. Assimilation into the professional nursing role is initiated with a final clinical transition experience designed to promote student independence and accountability through guidance and collaboration with nurse preceptors and other healthcare team members. Regular clinical hours may vary during this rotation. The student will work the same shifts as the assigned nurse preceptor. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with NUR-428: Leadership and Management in Nursing, NUR-445: Validating Nursing Competence, and NUR-582: Financial Management in Nursing Practice and is only open to Accelerated 2nd Degree BSN Program students. Prerequisite: Completion of NUR-410: Nursing Care of Vulnerable Populations, NUR-443: Public Health Nursing, and NUR-529: Health Policy.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the development of leadership and management skills needed by professional nurses. Theories and concepts essential to the role of the nurse as leader and manager in a variety of community and healthcare settings are explored.
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4.00 Credits
The promotion of health and prevention of illness is the focus of the Public Health Nursing course. Theories from public health, nursing, and social sciences as well as knowledge gained from previous learning, set the foundation for students to critically analyze the health of selected populations in a community. Healthy People 2020 serves as a guide for the identification of at-risk groups throughout the lifespan. Prerequisites: Permission from a nursing advisor. All other nursing courses except NUR 445: Validation Nursing Competence and 6 credits of general education must be completed. Evidence of current unencumbered RN license and malpractice insurance should be sent to American Data Bank (ADB) prior to registration at www.tesunursingbackground.com.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students synthesize prior learning experiences acquired from clinical practice and academic studies. Using standards of professional practice as guidelines for competence, students validate their clinical skills in nursing practice. With the use of reflective learning, critical thinking, knowledge of best practice, and transformative learning, students finalize their e-Portfolio, which provides evidence of their clinical competence as baccalaureate nurse generalists. Validating Nursing Competence, a Capstone course, is the final course in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program. Prerequisites: All other requirements for the BSN degree; may take one elective with this; may take NUR-443 and NUR-445 when all other nursing and non-nursing courses are complete.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the acquisition of advanced health assessment and clinical-reasoning skills. Students apply the diagnostic (clinical) reasoning process to develop a comprehensive plan of care for patients in a variety of settings throughout the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on advanced health assessment skills, health promotion, disease prevention, and risk assessment.
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3.00 Credits
During this course, students examine a comprehensive model of policymaking. Course emphasis is on healthcare trends, forces, and issues that shape health policy. Students, focusing on the core elements of health policy analysis, examine how politics, ethics, economics, and social and cultural variables influence policy development and impact healthcare outcomes. Students also explore the leadership role of nursing in policymaking.
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