Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Health and Human Development Across the Lifespan. This course focuses on development and health concepts across the lifespan with the context of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0
Conceptual Foundations of Nursing and Trends. Prerequisite: acceptance into the nursing program. This course introduces the student to the profession of nursing through an exploration of nursing history, philosophy, ethics, professionalism, legal aspects and regulatory matters, nursing education and licensure, and current trends in nursing and health care as a whole. The course exposes students to resources available to assist them in being successful in their nursing education.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Pathophysiology. Prerequisites: Biol 1110K and 1120K, two semesters of a general lab science, Biol 2300/2310 and acceptance into the nursing program. Corequisite: NURS 2040. The course is designed to facilitate the student's understanding of selected pathophysiological concepts and the body/mind response to associated disease and injury.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Pharmacology. Prerequisites: Biol 1110K and 1120K, two semesters of a general lab science, Biol 2300/2310 and acceptance into the nursing program. Corequisites: NURS 2040, NURS 2060. The course is designed to introduce the student to the basic principles of pharmacology in order to safely administer medications and educate clients in all clinical areas.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Basic Concepts of Nursing Care. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the nursing program. Corequisites: NURS 2040, 2060, 2061 and 2160. This course is designed to explore the basic concepts of nursing care across the life span in various settings. This course will explore the nurse's role in promotion of wellness, prevention of diseases and restoration of health. Students will utilize the nursing process to plan care for common clinical phenomena. An additional component of the course is mastery of medical terminology. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) courses required of all Nursing majors.
Credit Hour(s): 6.0
Basic Health Assessment and Nursing Skills. Prerequisites: acceptance into the nursing program. Co-requisites: NURS 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080 and HHS 3000. Four lecture hours and six laboratory hours a week. The course is designed to facilitate the student's acquisition of both health assessment and basic nursing skills. It is composed of three distinct components: health assessment theoretical content, basic skills theoretical content, and laboratory/clinical performance. In order to pass the course students must pass all three components. An additional component of the course is mastery of basic drug calculations.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Verification of Nursing Knowledge and Nursing and Health Assessment Skills. Prerequisite: NURS 2160 or equivalent. This course focuses on assisting pre-licensure students to prepare for verification of previous nursing knowledge and/or nursing skills so they can re-enter or transfer in to the undergraduate program in the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing (BFLSON). The student and faculty will determine the appropriate credit hour allocation based on previous nursing courses completed and the nursing knowledge and/or nursing skills that need to be confirmed.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Health and Human Development Across the Lifespan. FOR RN-BS STUDENTS. This course focuses on the development and health concepts across the lifespan with the context of physical, cognitive, social and emotional domains.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Human Services Policy, Planning and Trends. Prerequisites: NURS 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080 and 2160. This course focuses on the complex forces that influence public policy and program planning. Emphasis is placed on ecological, political, economic, and social issues and the role of the practitioner as advocate for the civil and social rights of the public. These components provide insight into future trending, forecasting and program planning in the public sector.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Research Methods. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the major research concepts as applied to the profession of nursing. Emphasis is on how to critically evaluate published and empirical research.
Credit Hour(s): 5.0
Caring for Adult Populations. Prerequisites: Nurs 2010, 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080, 2160, and HHS 3000. Corequisite: NUTR 3200. The course focuses on the nursing knowledge and skills needed to care for adults in acute care settings with the goals of assisting individuals and their families in promotion, maintenance, and restoration of optimal patterns of health. Under faculty supervision, the student develops and refines professional practice.
Credit Hour(s): 5.0
Caring for Childbearing Families Prerequisites: Nurs 2010, 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080, 2160 3510, 3810 and HHS 3000. Corequisite: NURS 3500. The course focuses on the nursing knowledge to care for childbearing families with the goal of assisting them in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of optimal patterns of health. Attention is given to early detection and intervention of altered health patterns during the childbearing period. Women's health issues will be discussed. Under faculty supervision, the student develops and refines professional practice.
Credit Hour(s): 5.0
Caring for Children and Adolescents. Prerequisites: Nurs 2010, 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080, 2160, 3510, 3810, and HHS 3000. Corequisite: NURS 3500. The focus of the course is on the nursing knowledge and application of the skill needed to care for children and their families with the goal of assisting them in the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of optimal patterns of health. Under faculty supervision, the student develops and refines professional practice.
Credit Hour(s): 5.0
Psychiatric/Mental Health Care for Populations. Prerequisites: Nurs 2010, 2040, 2060, 2061, 2080, 2160, HHS 3000 and PSYC 3140. Corequisite: NUTR 3200. The course focuses on the student's application of nursing knowledge to the care of individuals whose dysfunctional health patterns are associated with mental illness. The course builds upon requisite knowledge of therapeutic use of self, knowledge and application of the nursing process, principles and concepts of cultural diversity, communication theory, and psychopharmacology. In the clinical component of the course, the student assumes the role of the professional nurse in psychiatric settings under the supervision of clinical faculty. The major focus of the clinical component is on developing the student's ability to care for individuals whose dysfunctional health patterns are associated with mental illness.
Credit Hour(s): 2.0
Health Assessment. Prerequisite: acceptance into the RN-BS program. One hour lecture and three hours lab per week. The course is designed for registered nurse undergraduate students to familiarize themselves with the skills involved in the process of health assessment.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Directed Readings. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. The course provides the student with an opportunity to complete readings and/or literature review on a special topic in nursing under the guidance of an instructor with expertise in the selected topic area. The student may elect to complete one to three credit hours of study.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Critical Care. Prerequisites: Nurs 3510 and 3810. Corequisites: NURS 3610 and 3710. The course focuses on obtaining beginning nursing skills in caring for critically ill patients and families. An emphasis is placed on the day-to-day information required of a critical care nurse, such as pathophysiology, pharmacology technology, and nursing interventions that are based on these data.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Baccalaureate Nursing Perspective for Registered Nurses. Prerequisite: acceptance into the RN-BS program. This course provides the RN student with an introduction to the scientific and theoretical bases for professional nursing. The philosophical, historical and current influences on nursing as an applied science are examined. Theories regarding roles, change, teaching and learning, group processes, critical thinking, and cultural competence are discussed. Expanded settings for practice are exposed.
Credit Hour(s): 6.0
Caring for Families and Communities Prerequisites: 3510, 3610, 3710, 3810 for undergraduate generic students. NURS 3980 and 4490 for RN-BS students. Co-requisites: NIURS 3300, 3500. This course focuses on the acquisition and application of nursing knowledge needed to care for communities as clients with the goal of assisting families, aggregates and communities in the promotion, maintenance and restoration of optimal patterns of health. This course will have a theory component which will be graded and will be assigned 4 credit hours and a clinical practicum component which will be 12 hours per week for seven weeks in a clinical agency and will be pass/fail for 2 credit hours. Both components have to be passed to pass the course. The total credit hours for this course is 6 credits and the grade assigned to the theory portion will be the final grade for the 6 hours.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Leadership and Management in Nursing Prerequisites: Nurs 3500, 3510, 3610, 3710 and 3810. For RN-BS students: NURS 3980, 4490 and 3500. The course focuses on the application of principles of leadership and management of health care delivery systems. Emphasis is placed upon assuming responsibility for nursing practice including decision making and nursing actions. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) courses required of all Nursing majors.
Credit Hour(s): 4.0
Senior Practicum. Prerequisite: NURS 3510, 3610, 3710, 3810 and 3500. Prerequisites for RN-BS students: NURS 3980, 4490, and 3500. Corequisites: NURS 4510, 4600, 4620. 150 clinical hours over the semester. The course focuses on transition to professional practice. Under supervision, the student assumes the role of professional nurse. Nursing care of clients experiencing complex health care problems is emphasized. The specialty area for the practicum is selected with input from the student, faculty and the clinical agency.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Complex Health Care Problems Across the Lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 3510, 3610, 3710, 3810 and 3500. Prerequisites for RN-BS students: NURS 3980, 4490, HHS 3500. Corequisites: NURS 4510, 4600, and 4610. This course focuses on complex health care problems across the lifespan. The nurse's role in development, initiation and evaluation of care is studied.