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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the child, infancy through adolescence, within a family system. Content is presented to provide the student with the knowledge and skills needed to apply the nursing process in activities directed toward assisting in the health promotion and health restoration of children and adolescents. Students will provide care to children and adolescents in a variety of settings, including hospitals and primary care centers. Course includes 84 clinical hours. Prerequisite: Successful completion of NURS 350, 351/353, and 352. 6 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to promote a knowledgeable and enthusiastic interest in nursing research and to provide a foundation for the use of research findings as a basis for practice. It prepares the student to understand the language of science, the steps of the scientific research method, and to read, interpret, and evaluate selected nursing studies and appropriately determine the clinical relevance of study findings and their implications for nursing practice. This course is designated as a writing enriched course. Prerequisite: Successful completion of NURS 350 or 357. 3 semester hours
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5.00 Credits
This course builds upon learning activities included in the mental health integration in NURS 350 Care of the Adult. Content includes patterns of behavior related to coping/stress and alterations in cognition, sensory perceptions, and thought. Concepts of group process, family process, cultural/spiritual variations, and psychological theories are included. Clinical practice emphasizes the application of therapeutic communication. Course includes 56 clinical hours. Prerequisite: Successful completion of NURS 350, 351/353, and 352. 5 semester hours
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5.00 Credits
This undergraduate elective provides a concentrated experience for nursing students to apply theoretical, conceptual, and psychomotor skills in a structured clinical medical and/or surgical inpatient environment and under the supervisor of clinical faculty. The objectives of the course are achieved through the patient care assignments which students will assume and implement. Course includes 80 clinical hours. Prerequisites: Successful completion of NURS 350, 351/353, 352, 363, 364, and either 360 or 361. 1.5 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
The Senior Honors Project is a two-semester effort. The first semester is devoted to planning the project with a faculty mentor. The student conducts extensive readings and study in a particular area of nursing practice. The student's project must demonstrate evidence of independent, abstract, analytic, and critical thinking. By invitation. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
The second semester of the senior honors project is devoted to implementing and presenting the project designed in the first semester. The student continues to conduct extensive readings and study in a particular area of nursing practice. A final paper and presentation are prepared describing the completed work. Presentation of the project is during Honors Week or on Student Project Day in the spring semester of the senior year. The student's project must demonstrate evidence of independent, abstract, analytic, and critical thinking. By invitation. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course expands the student's view of the community as a client and teaches concepts and principles necessary to apply the nursing process to improve and maintain community health. Sociocultural, environmental, political, and economic factors influencing health and the delivery of health care are included, particularly as they impact on the developing family. The health of the community is viewed from the context of systems theory. The role of the nurse as change agent in the promotion of health is emphasized. An opportunity is provided to apply the concepts of community nursing practice in developing and presenting a health promotion program to a selected population. Course includes 28 clinical hours. Prerequisites: NURS 363, 364, and either 360 or 361. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course requires students to synthesize experience and new knowledge of nursing roles and issues to develop professional attitudes and values and to prepare graduates to function effectively in the health care delivery system. Leadership and management roles and theories are differentiated, and related research is applied to professional nursing practice. Leadership content focuses on change process, legislative action, and legal and ethical issues. The management component places emphasis on planning, priority setting, human resource management, and budgeting. Concepts of personal, professional, and staff development are discussed and applied. The tools of technology and management systems are integrated throughout. This course is designated as a writing enriched course. Prerequisites: Successful completion of NURS 350, 364, and either 360 or 361. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on multidimensional roles in nursing. In addition, the legislative process, legal and ethical issues, and their impact on the nurse, the consumer, and society are addressed. Issues of professional and personal development are discussed. Prerequisite: NURS 357. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a beginning knowledge of the managerial role of the professional nurse with groups of clients and caregivers within a variety of health care settings. Management process, organizational theory, styles of leadership, change models, and conflict resolution are addressed. An independent clinical practicum is included to provide the student with an opportunity to observe and analyze these concepts within a health care setting. Prerequisite: NURS 357. 3 semester hours
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