All Results
NursingCredits
Focuses on application of clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and family-focused care through use of simulated patient encounters. Students will incorporate knowledge of the social determinants of health as they work with health care teams.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
- Programs:
This course is designed to highlight and analyze the role of the nurse in the application and evaluation of national quality and safety guidelines, standards and informatics tools to create a culture of quality and safety. The course focuses on investigating solutions for the aim of preventing and reducing medical errors, and it emphasizes the value of nursing care in the healthcare system.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 320
- Programs:
Focuses on the critical inquiry of the physiological and psychosocial changes occurring with families during the childrearing period. Includes didactic and experiential learning designed to promote family-focused nursing care of children and adolescents (ages 0-18) to help improve family health outcomes.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
- Programs:
Think critically about the roles and responsibilities of the community oriented nurse in the context of disease prevention, health promotion, protection, maintenance, restoration, and surveillance of diverse populations. Examine foundational pillars of assurance, assessment and policy development to support population focused nursing care across the lifespan.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 363, NURS 364, NURS 365, NURS 366
Focuses on nursing management of chronic alterations in physiological integrity and meeting needs of patients with commonly occurring chronic health disorders. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of patients with chronic and rehabilitation needs.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 363, NURS 364, NURS 365, NURS 366
Focuses on the critical inquiry of families' health and illness experiences. Includes didactic and experiential learning designed to promote family centered nursing care during transitions within child, teenage, adult and older adult family transitions.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 363, NURS 364, NURS 365, NURS 366
Focuses on mental health and psychosocial concepts and the responsibility of nursing in promoting and maintaining psychosocial integrity of individuals. Application of therapeutic communication and caring relationships through evidenced based nursing actions and treatment of common clinical conditions.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 363, NURS 364, NURS 365, NURS 366, PSYC 101
This course provides an overview of the innovative and entrepreneurial process within healthcare environments. Students conceptualize and develop a workflow or process improvement plan that includes understanding the current state, identifying innovative solutions, forecasting financial and human resource needs, analyzing potential organizational outcomes, and designing an implementation and evaluation strategy.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 286
- Programs:
This course provides an overview of legal and ethical issues within health informatics as related to accreditation requirements, licensure and regulatory agencies, payment and reimbursement, management and use of data, information, knowledge, and the technology used to communicate.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 286
- Programs:
Focuses on nursing leadership and management skills, organizational structure, care processes; health policy and regulatory processes, quality improvement; and patient/family and consumer advocacy.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 410, NURS 411, NURS 413, NURS 416, NURS 417, NURS 426
- Programs:
Focuses on nursing management of complex or critical multi-system alterations in physiologic integrity. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of patients with complex, multi-system disorder and critical care needs.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 410, NURS 411, NURS 413, NURS 416, NURS 417, NURS 426
- Programs:
Focuses on the critical inquiry of family, societal, and global health. Expands health understandings and ethical care in addressing emerging global health crises throughout the lifespan.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 410, NURS 411, NURS 413, NURS 416, NURS 417, NURS 426
- Programs:
Focuses on knowledge synthesis and management of patients and families with multi-system alternations in physiologic integrity through use of simulated patient encounters. Students will collaborate with interprofessional teams when providing care and evaluating patients from diverse backgrounds.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 410, NURS 411, NURS 413, NURS 416, NURS 417, NURS 426
- Programs:
Focuses on experiential learning that integrates nursing science in preparing graduates for baccalaureate-generalist nursing practice. Family nursing science is evident in the coordination and provision of care.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 450, NURS 451
- Programs:
Focuses on nursing leadership and management skills, organizational structure, care processes; health policy and regulatory processes, quality improvement; and patient/family and consumer advocacy.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436
Focuses on nursing management of complex or critical multi-system alterations in physiologic integrity. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of patients with complex, multi-system disorders and critical care needs.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436
An examination of family dynamics and the nursing role focused on advanced family therapeutic communication, facilitation or family care meetings to make informed health care decisions. Examines system issues concerning health care delivery to decision maker within healthcare organizations.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436
Focuses on experiential learning that integrates nursing science in preparing graduates for baccalaureate-generalist nursing practice. Family nursing science is evident in the coordination and provision of care.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 463, NURS 464
This course takes an upstream approach to population-based public health care, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, determinants of health, and fundamental issues of health equity at individual, family, community, and system levels of practice. Learners apply public health science, principles of epidemiology, community assessment skills, systems-level thinking, and policy development to support population-based nursing practice.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 320, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Programs:
Workshop(s) with various topics and titles.
Workshop(s) with various topics and titles.
This capstone course synthesizes the underpinnings of Baccalaureate nursing education. Learners will analyze achievement of program outcomes through reflective journaling and be evaluated on the attainment of these outcomes. Learners explore leadership and management principles necessary for the professional nurse to function effectively in a changing health care system through theoretical and experiential learning. Learners plan an evidence-based capstone project that is designed to improve processes and/or enhance health outcomes while re-envisioning the professional nurse's role and personal power to influence positive change. Must be taken the last semester of the program as a final course, may be taken with other 400 level course(s).
- Prerequisites:
- RN Licensure; NURS 320, NURS 362, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.
- Programs:
This interprofessional course provides the opportunity for learners to synthesize knowledge, application and critical evaluation of integrative practices in providing holistic healthcare to individuals and families. The course focuses on theoretical, cultural, financial, historical, and ethical foundations. Safety, efficacy and the evidence base of integrative practices are explored. Interdisciplinary collaboration in providing integrative practices for holistic healthcare is emphasized.
This course provides clinical based learning opportunities to encourage application of theory and research bases knowledge in clinical practice. Students will engage in experiences to enhance the development of their professional nursing role.
Individual study according to outcomes developed by faculty and student(s).