Course Archive, Undergraduate
Nursing, Undergraduate
NUR 3065CHealth Assessment, Wellness, and Prevention Across the Life Span (4)
This course introduces the beginning nursing student to the parameters, procedures, and skills required to perform and document a holistic assessment of clients in all age groups. Included are communication and interview techniques in compiling a health history, technical skills in performing a physical exam, and critical thinking skills in doing a health risk appraisal and formulating nursing diagnoses appropriate to identified problems. Clients' cultural differences, developmental stage, family structure, economic situation, and health behaviors are considered when evaluating health status.
NUR 3167
The Research Process for Professional Practice (2)
Generic BSN Program Prerequisite: Term I courses. RN to BSN Program Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major. This introductory course will assist students in conceptualizing both the basic research process and the importance of research to nursing, and will enable students to understand and use published healthcare research.
NUR 3286(3)
Nursing the Aging Family (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to nursing major.
Utilizing a holistic perspective, this course explores the older adult family, the aging process, client responses, adaptive behaviors, and nursing needs. The focus is on promoting client independence and maximizing quality of life among the age continuum through end-of-life care. Nursing and aging theories are utilized in the application of the nursing process.
NUR 3655
Multicultural Factors and Health (3)
A comparative analytical approach to the study of communication, current problems, issues, health care beliefs, values, and practices of different systems and cultural norms as they affect health care practices that conflict with ethnic or cultural communication related to standards and value systems.
NUR 3805
Nursing: Role and Scope (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to RN to BSN Program.
This course is designed for the returning registered nurse student. Current and emerging concerns of professional nursing are addressed within the context of nursing history, nursing practice, impact of global trends, and the influence of political and socioeconomic policies on nursing and health care. The roles of the baccalaureate nurse are examined in relation to individual, family, and community outcomes with emphasis on client advocacy, teaching, autonomy, accountability, change agent, research, critical thinking, and leadership. The legal and ethical framework for professional nursing and cultural diversity also are explored. Selected nursing practice models and health belief models are considered for applicability to nursing practice.
NUR 4069C
Advanced Health Assessment (3)
Pre- or Co- requisites: NUR 3167, 3286, 3805
Designed to develop students' knowledge of skills for advanced health assessment, including health history and physical examination.
NUR 4080
Nursing Concepts I (4)
Prerequisite: NUR 4069C
Co requisite: NUR 4080L
This course is designed for the returning registered nurse student. It emphasizes concepts related to health promotion, chronic illness, family, principles of group dynamics, domestic violence, addiction, grief and loss, and psychosocial needs. The planning for utilization of these concepts when caring for individuals, families, and communities also is highlighted.
NUR 4080L
Nursing Practicum I (1)
(S/U grade only)
Prerequisite: NUR 4069C
Co requisite: NUR 4080
This clinical laboratory course provides the returning registered nurse student with the opportunity to apply professional nursing strategies while assisting clients and families in maintaining and/or regaining an optimal level of wellness. Emphasis is given to the professional nursing roles of care provider/coordinator, teacher, collaborator, and problem solver in clients/family health care across the life span.
NUR 4107
Nursing and the Healthcare System (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I and II courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major.
This course is an introduction to current healthcare delivery systems on local regional, national, and global levels. Concepts of managed health care, case management, reimbursement, legal/ethical risk management, quality outcomes, diversity and complexity of population at risk, and conservation of resources are emphasized.
NUR 4637
Public Health Nursing (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835, 4835L
Co requisite: NUR 4637L
The course focuses on complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. The third fundamental aspect of nursing practice established by the American Association of Colleges of Nurses, "population based health care," is addressed. Topics include: the philosophy and concepts of public health nursing, comparison to community health, and the role of the public health nurse as a leader, change agent, case finder, and case manager in settings such as schools, industry, correctional institutions, group homes, sheltered workshops, and clinical settings. The family structure and its impact on healthcare, environmental safety, effects of poverty, epidemiology, communicable disease, resources (Centers for Disease Control and research), impact of violence in community settings, disaster (both natural and man-made), and global and environmental health also are examined.
NUR 4637L
Public Health Nursing Laboratory (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835, 4835L
Co requisite: NUR 4637
This course utilizes the findings from the community assessment performed in NUR 4619. Implementation of an appropriate project is performed. Clinical experiences are conducted with the guidance of a preceptor and may occur in a variety of settings.
NUR 4642
Substance Abuse and the Effects on Health, Family, and Profession (3)
Broad-based approach to substance abuse and the effects on health, family, and the profession; identifying groups at risk, prevention activities, and help approaches.
NUR 4826
Contemporary Clinical Ethics in Health Care (3)
Provides students with the opportunity to both explore the ethical dimensions of health care practices and develop skills in ethical decision making. Students will practice the clinical application of ethical theory in relation to current health care issues and concerns.
NUR 4835
Professional Nursing Leadership and Management (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4080, 4080L
Co requisite: NUR 4835L
This course focuses on concepts, principles, and theories of leadership, management, role development, and administration. Skills required by the professional nurse leader, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, case management, collaboration, budgeting, cost effectiveness and resource allocation, managing quality and performance, and teaching are emphasized.
NUR 4835L
Professional Nursing Leadership and Management Laboratory (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4080, 4080L
Co requisite: NUR 4835
Clinical experiences in a variety of settings will be examined.
NUR 4905r
Directed Individual Study (1–4)
May be repeated to a maximum of six (6) semester hours.
