This course provides registered nurses with an overview of the evolution of nursing as a profession. Examine changes in the U.S. healthcare delivery system, the importance of information technology, and measures that promote quality, safety, and better health outcomes in patient care. Consider major issues and trends in contemporary nursing and healthcare practice, including the influence of socioeconomic, ethical, legal, and political variables and professional values.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 2.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
This course focuses on the registered nurse’s synthesis of nursing knowledge and skills to perform a comprehensive health assessment of individuals across the lifespan.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
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This course facilitates the registered nurse’s development of systems to manage the health deviations of the individual therapeutically. Concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, disease progression, and treatment are approached from a cellular and multisystem perspective. Influences of genetic, ethnic, and cultural variables on human diseases are analyzed. Content aims at stimulating critical thinking for application to nursing practice in a variety of clinical settings.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
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This course introduces the basic concepts, processes, and applications of nursing research with a focus on the research role of the nurse in the delivery of quality patient care.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
This course provides a health-related work-based learning experience within the community setting.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 1.0
Corequisites:
This course examines the physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual aspects of aging within the context of family and society. Emphasis is on trends, theories, evidence-based findings and multidimensional changes of aging and the use of the nursing process for addressing issues related to health promotion, risk reduction and disease prevention in well and frail and vulnerable older adults.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 2.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
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This course examines the theoretical and conceptual bases of nursing to encourage the student to critique, evaluate and utilize appropriate nursing theory within their own practice. Focus will be on a variety of theories from nursing.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
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This course for the registered nurse (RN) synthesizes ethical/legal concepts required for examination of sound decision making in clinical practice and legal responsibility. The focus is on value clarification, application of ethical theory, ethical decision-making models, and professional ethical standards. Emphasis is on ethical obligations of professional nurses in their roles as citizens, members of a profession, providers of care, and designers and managers of care.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
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This course introduces the registered nurse to the concept of wellness across the lifespan. Students will examine the concepts of health and wellness, the determinants of health behavior, national health status, the history of health education and health promotion. The student will recognize health promotion as an important foundation for population-based health care.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
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This course discusses community health nursing including the history, structure, and economics of community healthcare systems, program development, and impact of health disparities, health education, and access to resources.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
Corequisites:
This course requires the registered nurse to synthesize the knowledge acquired in the RN- BSN curriculum toward the development of the Professional Nursing role. Integrated content expectations are evolving issues, lifelong learning, impact of cultural issues, and promotion of the nursing profession. Practicum project required. (8 Clinical Hours)
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 4.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
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This course explores leadership and management theories, resource allocation, the nurse as a change agent, member of the profession, communication, and quality improvement in the healthcare setting.
Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 4.0
Lecture hours: 4.0