Traditional and Accelerated BSN Course Descriptions
Required Courses
NURS-B 234 Promoting Healthy Populations (3 cr.) This course focuses on preventive health care and health promotion in individuals, families, and communities considering the influence of culture and lifespan development. Using biophysical, environmental, spiritual, sociocultural and economic detreminants of health, students focus on improving health outcomes with individuals, families and communities.
NURS-B 235 Promoting Healthy Populations Practicum (2 cr.) Students assess individuals, families and communities, providing needed education, preventive services, and support. Students provide individual and population based care in community based settings, giving consideration to the perspective of those being served.
NURS-B 244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2 cr.) This course introduces students to the skills necessary to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed as well as the nursing process.
NURS-B 245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: Practicum (2 cr.) This course is taught in both the laboratory and clinical settings. Both settings will offer students the opportunity to apply theories and basic knowledge obtained in B244. This will allow students the opportunity to assess adult clients in simulated and actual learning environments. Those assessment skills include interviewing, inspection/observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation and allow students to utilize B244 acquired psychomotor skills.
NURS-B 253 Professionalism in Collaborative Practice (3 cr.) Students practice communication skills for working with health team members and clients, including self-awareness, interpersonal communication, team skills, and technological communication. Students are introduced to ethics, scope and standards of nursing practice, roles of health team members, components of professional practice and leadership.
NURS-B 260 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice (5 cr.) This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical, evidence base. Students will gain a knowledge base for, and have an opportunity to apply, fundamental nursing concepts, skills and the nursing process. The evidence based knowledge gained forms a basis for clinical reasoning and decision making as students develop their nursing skills.
NURS-B 261 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for Nursing Practice (4 cr.) This course provides a foundation in the pathophysiology of key disease processes and pharmacological therapies. Principles of pathophysiology and pharmacology are presented in an integrated manner to provide a basis for study of selected medications that are used to treat or manage diseases with an application to nursing practice.
NURS-B 334 Transitional Care of Families and Populations (5 cr.) Using childbearing families as an extensive exemplar, this course focuses on family and community health: community assessment, epidemiology, and intervention with individuals, families, communities and populations. Students address prenatal care, normal and high risk pregnancy and childbirth, newborn care, genetic counseling, care coordination, complementary care, and environmental health.
NURS-B 444 Nursing Intensive: Managing Health and Illness across Care Environments (4 cr.) Students study a focused clinical area of concern for nursing, exploring the ways in which culture, health disparity, transitions between care environments, and health policy impact care for an aggregate, population, or specialty. Immersed in a care environment, students gain relevant clinical knowledge as well as an understanding of the aggregate health concerns.
NURS-B 453 Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (3 cr.) Students engage with interprofessional colleagues in seminar, simulation, and practice settings, focusing on effective nursing practice and interprofessional communication skills including self-awareness, interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, team skills, and technological communication. Students hone leadership, professionalism and ethical competencies in preparation for practice.
NURS-H 355 Data Analysis: Practice and Research (3 cr.) Introduces nursing and other health science students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences 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. PUL=1B
NURS-H 356 Clinical Nursing Care 1: Biophysical Processes (5 cr.) This course focuses on providing nursing care for individuals and families with acute and chronic biophysical illnesses across the lifespan. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at a beginning level.
NURS-H 360 Clinical Nursing Care 2: Interactive Processes (5 cr.) This course focuses on nursing care management of individuals and families experiencing acute and chronic health problems related to interaction with the environment and others: sensory, motor, cognitive, affective, and interpersonal processes. Using a holistic approach this course addresses health problems occurring across the lifespan.
NURS-H 371 Clinical Care 3: Adaptive Processes (5 cr.) The primary focus is on the nursing care and management of individuals and families experiencing acute and chronic health problems using an adaptive and holistic life span approach. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at an intermediate level.
NURS-H 476 Clinical Nursing Care 4: Complex Processes (5 cr.) The primary focus is on the nursing care management of individuals and families experiencing complex and significant illnesses across the lifespan. Particular attention is focused on developing clinical reasoning and competent nursing practice at an advanced level.
NURS-K 492 Nursing Elective (1 cr.) Many nursing elective courses are offered under this number. These elective offerings vary from year to year depending on student interest and available resources. Students are kept informed of elective offerings both through informational forums and through listings in the online course offerings. Variable Titles include: Operating Room Intensive, Critical Care, Spirituality in Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing.
NURS-L 230 Health Care Delivery Systems (3 cr.) Students examine health care delivery systems, leadership, health policy, regulation and economics. Students explore quality practices of health care organizations. Students analyze the impact of informatics on health care and nursing including the electronic health record, information technology in healthcare, and information literacy.
NURS-L 430 Leadership in Health Care Delivery (5 cr.) This course focuses on development of effective leadership skills relevant in health care systems. Students examine health policy, study information management, and employ processes that result in exceptional organizational outcomes. Students use healthcare data and research evidence in quality improvement and change initiatives.
NURS-R 375 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice (3 cr.) This course focuses on nursing research and evidence-based practice. Students develop skills in retrieving and appraising literature relevant to clinical problems, understanding the research process, and critiquing evidence from research publications and other sources to inform evidence-based nursing practice. PUL=1B, 4, 1C
NURS-S 474 Applied Health-Care Ethics (3 cr.) Building on the ANA Code of Ethics, this course explores the nurse's role in ethical clinical practice, academic work, health policy, and research conduct, focusing particularly on the advocacy role of the nurse. Common ethical problems are discussed and strategies for resolution are applied. PUL=6, 5, 4
NURS-S 483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3 cr.) Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their 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.
NURS-S 488 Synthesis for Professional Nursing Practice (2 cr.) Students integrate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program: critical thinking, information technology, cultural competence, care coordination, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills. Students demonstrate competence in evidence-based practice and quality and safety initiatives, as achieved in a complex and changing health care environment. Students begin the transition to professional practice.
NURS-Z 480 BSN Portfolio Review for Course Substitution (1 cr.) 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 student learning outcomes. The portfolio provides objective evidence that students have acquired the content and skills through prior learning and/or practice experiences.
NURS-Z 492 Individual Study in Nursing (1 cr.) Opportunity for the nurse to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member.
