Nursing Courses
NURS-B 232 Intro to the Discipline of Nursing: Theory, Practice, Research (3 cr)
This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of nursing practice: health, wellness, illness, wholism, caring, environment, self-care, uniqueness of persons, interpersonal relationships and decision-making. This course helps you understand nursing’s unique contributions to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research, and practice. Offered fall semesters.
NURS-B 233 Health & 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, and illness across the lifespan. Environmental, 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. Offered fall semesters.
NURS-B 244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2 cr)
This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including the physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Corequisite: B245
NURS-B 245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: Practicum (2 cr)
Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Corequisite: B244
NURS-B 248 Science & 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. Offered during the spring and summer.
- Corequisite: B249.
NURS-B 249 Science & Technology of Nursing: Practicum (2 cr)
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the lifespan. Offered during the spring and summer.
- Corequisite: B248.
NURS-B 251 Lifespan 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 assessments and observations of individuals and families in various stages of growth and development.
NURS-B 304 Professional Nursing Seminar I (3 cr)
This courses focuses on core theoretical concepts of professional nursing practice, including health, wellness, illness, self-care, and caring, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students will be expected to explore theoretical premises and research related to the unique wellness perspectives and health beliefs of people across the lifespan in developing care outcomes consistent with maximizing individual potentials for wellness. Offered fall semesters.
NURS-B 404 Professional Nursing Seminar II (3 cr)
This course focuses on the application of nursing theory and research findings in restoring and maintaining individual and family functioning for those dealing with multi-system alterations. Students will explore the ethical, legal, and moral implications of treatment options and identify tactics to maximize nursing’s effectiveness in facilitating individuals and families through the health care system. Students will complete a scholarly analysis as part of their practicum experience. Offered spring semesters.
NURS-H 351 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. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses;
- Corequisite: H352
NURS-H 352 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health: Practicum (2 cr)
Students will provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disturbances related to 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. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses;
- Corequisite: H351
NURS-H 353 Alterations in Health I (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. Offered fall semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses;
- Corequisite: H354.
NURS-H 354 Alternations in Health I: Practicum (2cr)
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. Offered fall semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses;
- Corequisite: H353.
NURS-H 355 Data Analysis in Clinical Practice and Health Care Research (3 cr)
This course introduces nursing and other health sciences students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and unvariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Difference in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world situations in client care. Offered in the summer.
- Prerequisite: All 200-level courses or permission of instructor.
NURS-H 361 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. Offered spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses, H353, H354;
- Corequisite: H362
NURS-H 362 Alterations in Health II: The Practicum (2 cr)
Students will continue to 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. Offered spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses, H353, H354;
- Corequisite: H361.
NURS-H 363 The Developing Family & 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 healthy status of family members will be emphasized. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses
- Corequisite: H364.
NURS-H 364 The Developing Family & Child: The Practicum (3 cr)
Students will have the opportunity to work with childbearing and child-rearing families, including those experiencing alterations in health. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses
- Corequisite: H363.
NURS-H 365 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 nursing and nursing-related research studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice. Offered spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All sophomore-level courses.
NURS-S 470 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. Offered fall semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S471.
NURS-S 471 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. Offered fall semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S470.
NURS-S472 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community (3 cr)
This course focuses on the complexity and diversity 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-economic issues in local and global communities, students will be able to determine effective interventions for community-centered care. Offered fall and summer semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S473.
NURS-S 473 A 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. Offered fall and summer semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S472.
NURS-S 481 Nursing Management (2 cr)
This course focuses on the development management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management, and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, change, managing quality and performance, workplace diversity, budgeting and resource allocation, and delivery systems. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S482.
NURS-S 482 Nursing Mgmt.: The Practicum (3 cr)
Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S481.
NURS-S 483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3cr)
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine your nursing care practice skills. Students will collaborate with faculty and a preceptor in choosing a care setting, planning and organizing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manner. Offered spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S482.
NURS-S 484 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 of nursing care and in solving relevant problems arising from clinical practices. Offered spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S483.
NURS-S 485 Professional Growth and Empowerment (3 cr)
This course focuses on issues related to professional 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. Offered fall and spring semesters.
- Prerequisite: All junior-level courses;
- Corequisite: S470, S471, S472, S473, S481, S482, S483, S484.
NURS-Z480 BSN Portfolio Review for Course Substitution (0-6 cr)
Non-credit course. The portfolio review process is available to all undergraduate students who believe that they can meet the learning objectives/competencies required of a specific nursing course within their program of study. The portfolio is a mechanism used to validate the acquisition of knowledge and skills congruent with course expectations and students learning outcomes. The portfolio provides objective evidence that students have acquired the content and skills through prior learning and/or practice experiences.
NURS-Z490 Clinical Experience in Nursing (1-6 cr)
Planned and supervised clinical experiences in the area of the student’s major interest. Offered fall, spring and summer semesters.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of junior level courses or permission of instructor.
NURS-Z492 Individual Study in Nursing (1-6 cr)
Opportunity for the nurse to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member. Offered fall, spring and summer semesters.
- Prerequisite: Successful completion of junior level courses or permission of instructor.
