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Nursing

NUR1050 Health Care Terminology (2 semester hours)
This course is an introduction to the use of medical language in the health professions with emphasis on word structure and development of medical terminology. Basic concepts of reporting and documentation in nursing and health related records is addressed. Confidentiality, management of health care information, and electronic data systems is also presented.
No prerequisites; Open to non-majors.
Offered Fall.


NUR2050 Introduction to 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.
Offered Spring

NUR3030 Dimensions of Professional Practice (4 semester hours)
This course is a bridge course for RN students that 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

NUR3090 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


NUR3100 Principles of Nursing I (6 semester hours)
This course applies major concepts from the liberal arts and sciences to nursing interventions (physiologic, communicative, behavioral, environmental). The course introduces the nursing student to the professional nurse role and its influence on health and illness within the context of social, cultural, ethical and legal issues. The course is designed to achieve selected patient outcomes.
Clinical: An integration of laboratory and clinical experiences will focus on the development of the nursing student to systematically analyze information and recognize patterns of patient needs.
Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing; all BSN core courses; ENG1010 and ENG1020.
Offered Fall


NUR3110 Principles of Nursing II (6 semester hours)
This course builds on the conceptual framework developed in Principles of Nursing I. The course is designed to achieve patient outcomes through selected nursing interventions. Clinical: The integration of laboratory and clinical experiences will focus on the ability of the nursing student to systematically synthesize data and perform individualized nursing interventions to achieve patient outcomes.
Prerequisites: NUR3100
Offered Spring


NUR3160 Pharmacological Concepts (4 semester hours)
This course encompasses the study of drugs and their interactions with living systems. The focus of the course is based on the premise that scientific information is needed to understand the use of drugs as therapeutic agents. Pharmacological concepts is the study of the physical and chemical properties of drugs as well as their biochemical and physiologic effects on the client. In addition, this course includes knowledge of the history, sources, application and understanding of drugs as essential for nursing practice.
Prerequisites: BIO3050, CHM1200. Open to non-majors.
Offered Spring


NUR3270 Health Assessment, Education and Promotion (5 semester hours)

The course provides the framework for the systematic collection, organization, interpretation, integration, and communication of data reflecting the health status of individuals across the life cycle. This includes assessment of mental status, basic psychosocial status, functional health patterns, and physical assessment skills. National Health Objectives for the nation provide the organizing framework for promotion of health and reduction of risks that impact individuals, families, aggregates, and communities. Students identify, explore, plan, and implement wellness teaching through service learning projects that educate populations and promote healthy behaviors. Integration of clinical laboratory provides a setting for practicing and developing critical thinking skills.
Prerequisites: Taught concurrent with NUR3100.
Offered Fall


NUR3400 Behavioral Health Issues (4 semester hours)

This course explores the continuum of mental health and illness across the lifespan. The connection between physical illnesses and behavioral health is discussed. An emphasis is placed on wellness achieved through enhanced stress management and coping skills. In addition, concepts of psychobiology and neuronendocrinology are examined as they relate to disorders of mood, thought, emotional modulation and addiction. Clinical: Clinical opportunities for interpersonal skill development with individuals, families, groups and communities are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisites: NUR3100. Concurrent with NUR3110 and NUR3160.
Offered Spring


NUR4050 Nursing Research (4 semester hours)

The significance of research in nursing is considered with emphasis on the scientific approach and its application in evidenced based 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.
Prerequisites: All NUR3000 level courses and SBS2320
Offered Fall


NUR4060 Nursing Research/RN (4 semester hours)

The significance of research in nursing is considered with emphasis on the scientific approach and its application in evidenced based 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.
Prerequisites: SBS2320
Offered Fall


NUR4200 Nursing: A Global Community Outlook (4 semester hours)

This course incorporates concepts from nursing and applies them to public health functions in the community. The focus shifts from individual health to community health. The dynamic influence of social justice, political agendas, and culture on the collective values of prevention of illness or disease, health protection and promotion, and quality and accessibility of health service are emphasized. Current and culture challenges to global health are explored. CLINICAL: The clinical component for this course will apply nursing concepts and public health practices to selected populations to facilitate the promotion, maintenance and restoration of optimal health across the life cycle.
Prerequisites: NUR3000-level courses. Concurrent with NUR4050 and NUR4500.
Offered Fall


NUR4300 Medical Surgical Nursing I: Collaborative Practice in Health and Illness (8 semester hours)

This medical surgical course builds on the conceptual foundation learned in principles of nursing practice, physical assessment, pharmacology, and behavioral health nursing across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the acute care setting, and application of the nursing process in prevention, promotion, maintenance and restoration of health and illness through collaborative practice. Integral to the course are expanding concepts of health and illness including: health teaching, home care management and health care resources challenges transitioning from acute care to the home or rehabilitation settings. CLINICAL: The clinical practicum focus is on intermediate clinical decision-making skills within a collaborative practice setting using critical thinking skills to integrate multidimensional aspects of therapeutic responsiveness in meeting the health and illness needs of clients.
Prerequisites: NUR3000-level courses. Concurrent with NUR4050 and NUR4200.
Offered Fall

NUR4410 Nursing of Populations at Risk/RN (6 semester hours )
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 NUR3000-level courses.


NUR4500 Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family (4 semester hours)
This course focuses on the emerging family in situational, maturational or physiological crisis. The student applies critical thinking skills in meeting the health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration needs of families. Nursing interventions to support family development and dynamics from childbearing to child-rearing are considered and placed within a social, cultural and ethical context. Clinical: The clinical practicum focus is on the ability of the student to utilize nursing interventions and clinical decision making in the care and support of the childbearing family.
Prerequisites: All NUR 3000-level courses. Concurrent with NUR4600 and NUR4800.
Offered Spring


NUR4600 Leadership and Management (4 semester hours)
This course is the capstone course for the pre-RN student. The course facilitates the transition from the role of student to professional nurse. The course examines the roles, traits, and contribution of the nurse in leadership and managerial positions. Conceptual aspects of power, problem solving/decision making, effective communication, conflict resolution, delegation and team building are applied to a variety of situational contexts. The course is designed to facilitate student self- assessment of their leadership and management abilities as they develop the necessary skills.
Prerequisites: All NUR3000-level and NUR4000-level courses.
Offered Spring

NUR4610 Leadership and Management/RN ( semester hours)
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 NUR4000-level courses.


NUR4760 Ethical Decision Making/RN (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 NUR3000-level courses


NUR4800 Medical Surgical Nursing II: Collaborative Practice in Health and Illness (8 semester hours)
This medical surgical course will build on the student's previous knowledge gained through collaborative practice experience in the medical surgical acute care setting. The student will become increasingly sophisticated in the use of the nursing process and critical thinking skills to facilitate adaptation to seriously complex physiological insults across the lifespan. Students will have an opportunity to increase organizational skills, through the expanding complexity of patient acuity levels and workloads in advanced medical surgical settings. Emphasis is on complex decision making through collaborative practice in critical care settings. The student will conceptualize care of the medical surgical client from admission to discharge and beyond as a means of holistic practice that demonstrates prevention, promotion, maintenance, and restoration of the client with complex health problems. Clinical: The clinical will focus on complex decision making and facilitate the student's socialization to nursing as a profession by providing opportunities to participate in discussions and decisions related to patient education, issues and problems of health care and nursing practice, social, cultural, legal, and ethical responsibilities of the nurse. The student will transition to a novice in preparation for employment after completing a clinical preceptor experience.
Prerequisites: All NUR 3000-level courses. Concurrent with NUR4500 and NUR4600
Offered Spring

Posted 31 December 2003
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