Nursing

NUR110 Introduction to Healthcare Professions (2 semester hours)
This is an entry level course designed to introduce the students to a variety of healthcare professions. Emphasis will be placed on medical terminology, documentaiton, healthcare roles, issues related to social, political, ethical and legal aspects of the healthcare environment.
No prerequisites

NUR300 Professional Nursing (3 semester hours)
This course explores the development of the professional nursing role. Historical perspectives, selected nursing theories, and standards of nursing practice are presented. The concepts of health and illness as influenced by psychological, social, cultural, ethical, and legal issues are examined. The development of nursing knowledge, diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes are emphasized.
No prerequisites

NUR 303 Dimensions of Professional Practice (4 semester hours)
This course is a bridge course for RN students which introduces the nursing program themes of caring, health, learning, commitment to human dignity, and nursing. Examines the key dimensions of professional nursing, health care delivery, the development of nursing knowledge and theory, and legal and ethical issues in nursing and health care.
Prerequisites: R.N. students only

NUR309 Transcultural Nursing (4 semester hours)
This course examines the cultural influences on beliefs, values, and practices in relation to health, illness, and health-seeking behaviors. Applies the nursing process to clients with respect for diversity and individual differences. Transcultural nursing research, critical analysis of issues, and trends in international health are discussed. Required of RN students and an elective for basic nursing students.
No prerequisites

NUR310 Principles of Nursing I (5 semester hours - 3 theory/2 lab)
This course applies major concepts from the liberal arts and sciences to nursing interventions (physiologic, communicative, behavioral, environmental). Designed to achieve selected patient outcomes. Integrates clinical laboratory experience which focuses on development of ability to systematically synthesize information and recognize patterns of patient needs.
Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing; all BSN core courses; ENG101 and ENG102.

NUR311 Principles of Nursing II (5 semester hours -3 theory/2 lab)
This course applies major concepts from the liberal arts and sciences to nursing interventions to achieve selected patient outcomes. Integrates clinical lab experience and focuses on the ability to systematically analyze data and perform individualized nursing interventions in a clinical setting to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Prerequisite: NUR310.

NUR316 Pharmacological Concepts (3 semester hours)
The course will discuss principles of pharmacology with an emphasis on the mechanism of drug action, side/adverse drug responses. Considers broad classifications of drugs and commonly used drugs.
Prerequisites: BIO350, CHM120. Open to non-majors.

NUR327 Health Assessment, Education & Promotion (5 semester hours - 3 theory/2 lab)
Health assessment, education, and promotion throughout the life cycle is presented using concepts and theories from nursing, teaching, and learning, the humanities, and the sciences. Teaching/learning health promotion within the changing health care delivery system and in various client contexts will be explored. Integrates clinical laboratory experience.
Prerequisites: NUR310 or RN license.

NUR380 Nursing Care of Person with Acute Health Problems (8 semester hours - 3 theory/5 clinical)
This course focuses on nursing interventions with patients experiencing acute health problems. Emphasis is on critical thinking to achieve selected patient outcomes.
Clinical: Intermediate clinical decision-making for individualized patient care. Focuses on ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills in the clinical environment and ability to integrate multidimensional aspects of therapeutic responsiveness in meeting health needs of clients.
Prerequisites: NUR310, 311, 325; BIO350.
Concurrent Course: NUR316.

NUR405 Nursing Research (3 semester hours)
The significance of research in nursing is considered with emphasis on the scientific approach and its application in nursing practice. The major components of the research process are addressed with a focus on the professional nurse as a consumer of research. Critical thinking skills are emphasized in the analysis of current nursing research.
Prerequisite: NUR380 and ECN232 (or concurrent).

NUR406 Nursing Research/RN (4 semester hours)
The significance of research in nursing is considered with emphasis on the scientific approach and its application in nursing practice. The major components of the research process are addressed with a focus on the professional nurse as a consumer and beginning investigator of research. Critical thinking skills are emphasized in the analysis of current nursing research.
Prerequisites: SBS/ECN232

NUR440 Nursing of Populations at Risk (7 semester hours - 3 theory/4 clinical)
This course focuses on concepts from nursing, public health, the liberal arts and sciences as a basis for nursing interventions. Emphasis is placed on promotion, maintenance and restoration of optimal psychosocial adaptation for individuals, families and groups in community settings.
Prerequisites: All BSN core and NUR300-level courses.
Clinical: Focuses on application of nursing concepts from community health and mental health nursing with individuals, families and groups in community settings. Emphasis on nursing interventions from behavioral, family, health system and safety domains.

NUR441 Nursing of Populations at Risk/RN (6 semester hours - 3 theory/3 clinical)
This course focuses on concepts from nursing, public health, the liberal arts and sciences as a basis for nursing interventions. Emphasis is placed on promotion, maintenance, and restoration of optimal psychosocial adaptation for individuals, families, and groups in community settings.
Prerequisites: All BSN core and NUR300-level courses.

NUR460 Leadership and Management (5 semester hours - 2 theory/3 practicum)
This course focuses on the differences and similarities between nursing leadership and nursing management and are compared and contrasted. The concepts of power, control, problem solving, decision making, conflict resolution and change are explored. The course further focuses on commonalities within situational contexts for nursing practice in a variety of settings. Seminar format integrates student clinical experiences. A capstone course for the pre-RN-licensure student which operationalizes the nursing program themes and roles.
Prerequisites: All other 300 and 400 level NUR courses.

NUR461 Nursing Contexts/RN (6 semester hours - 3 theory/3 clinical)
A capstone course for RN/BSN completion students which operationalizes the nursing program themes of caring, health, learning, commitment to human dignity, and nursing. The student identifies a health problem of a self-selected client population and studies, in an appropriate setting, a nursing intervention strategy using the nursing process to assist clients to promote, maintain, and restore health. The student may or may not have an assigned preceptor.
Prerequisites: All NUR400-level courses.

NUR470 Nursing of Families at Risk (7 semester hours )
(3 theory/4 clinical)
This course focuses on family units in situational, maturational or physiological crisis. Nursing interventions to support family development and dynamics, child-bearing and child-rearing through adolescence are considered.
Clinical: Focuses on clinical decision-making in meeting the health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration needs of families at risk. Critical thinking skills and ability to utilize nursing interventions in situational, maturational, or physiological crises are emphasized.
Prerequisites: All BSN core and NUR300-level courses.

NUR475 Clinical Decision Making (4 semester hours )
(3 theory/1 lab)
A course emphasizing critical thinking and clinical judgment which operationalizes the nursing program themes of caring, health, learning, commitment to human dignity, and nursing. Examination of the decision making role of the nurse to effect desired patient outcomes in a variety of settings. Integrates clinical laboratory experience focusing on clinical decision making for individualized patient care.
Prerequisites: NUR380 or equivalent


NUR476 Ethical Decision Making (4 semester hours)
This course explores trends and issues in ethics and public policy. Values, ethical theory and decision making and the process of policy making in relation to the standards of nursing practice are examined.
Prerequisites: All NUR300-level courses

NUR480 Nursing Care of Persons with Complex Health Problems (8 semester hours - 3 theory/5 clinical)
This course focuses on nursing interventions with clients experiencing complex physiological health problems. Emphasis on critical thinking to achieve selected client outcomes.
Clinical: Complex decision-making for individualized patient care. Focuses on ability to demonstrate competent nursing care in complex clinical situations.
Prerequisites: All BSN core and NUR300-level courses.