Course Descriptions By Program
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NUR228 - Nutrition for Nurses
This course is for nursing students anticipating licensure as a registered nurse. The course focuses on the basics of healthy nutrition through the lifespan with selected cultural variation nutritional therapy, diet and physical activity, nutrition in selected diseases and medical conditions, and food safety.
NUR330 - Philosophy of Professional Nursing
This course focuses on the re-socialization of the RN student from a technical to a full professional nursing role through an overview/synthesis of the conceptual foundations of professional nursing practice. Facilitation of this change will be through incorporation of principles and concepts of self-awareness and self-directed learning throughout discussions of professional self-concept development, theoretical bases of professional nursing, and delivery of professional nursing as related to the various roles of the professional nurse.
NUR360 - Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice
This course is designed to increase the professional nurse’s knowledge and use of the research process. Emphasis is on reading, interpreting, and evaluating research findings considering ethical and practical aspects as the basis for evidence-based nursing practice.
NUR361 - Nursing Research
This course is designed to increase the professional nurse’s knowledge and use of principles, methods, and procedures related to the research process. Emphasis is on reading, interpreting, and evaluating research findings while considering ethical and practical aspects of conducting research as the basis for evidence-based nursing practice.
NUR375 - Leadership and Change in Nursing
This course focuses on analysis and synthesis of concepts in nursing and related fields regarding planned change and group development through study and experience in group process and leadership roles. Selected clinical experiences provide for application of theory in critical analysis of situations and decision-making within the practice of nursing to meet emerging health needs of consumers. *This course includes a clinical practicum experience.
NUR420 - Nursing Informatics
This course introduces the learner to the history and current state of health informatics, basic informatics concepts, health information management systems and the use of technology to improve healthcare within the framework of interprofessional communication. The course will provide the learner with the knowledge and skills needed to competently practice and provide patient care through the use of current and emerging healthcare technology. Content includes legal and ethical considerations associated with nursing informatics, as well as the exploration of patient care technologies to support clinical decisions, provide safe, quality patient care, document nurse sensitive indicators and the role of nursing informatics in communication strategies.
NUR430 - Evidence-based Practice in Nursing
This course is designed to enable professional nurses with the knowledge and skills to examine clinical/professional nursing problems with an evidence-based practice approach for the improvement in health and practice outcomes. Emphasis is on evidence-based practice steps and skills required to appraise different types of knowledge used in the process to determine strategies aimed to improve patient and/or professional nursing outcomes. Students will select a clinical nursing topic and critically appraise evidence-based practice knowledge. The results of their appraisal will be used by students to propose an evidence-based practice pilot plan for an improvement in clinical outcomes of their chosen topic.
NUR450 - Trends and Issues in Nursing
This course focuses on the analysis of professional nursing and bioethical issues within a systems framework. Implications for professional nursing practice in the health care delivery system are emphasized.
NUR465 - Nursing Assessment and Health Promotion for Individuals and Families
This course includes a clinical practicum experience and is designed to enable baccalaureate nursing students to deliver patient and family centered care as a member of an inter-professional healthcare team. Emphasis will be on family and individual health-wellness-illness, history taking and assessment using a systems approach, with consideration of multicultural and multi-identity perspectives. A variety of nursing and family theories will provide a framework for guiding individual and family assessment and intervention, and the significance that family nursing is conceptually and empirically distinct from nursing of individuals. Students will use Evidence Based Practice to guide their development of an inter-professional plan of care for the individual and family unit.
NUR475 - Community Health Nursing
This course includes a clinical practicum experience which focuses on the synthesis of wellness and population-based health concepts to promote, maintain, and restore health to communities/populations. Students will explore the various roles of the community health nurse. Theories from nursing and the public health sciences will be used to identify the needs of populations, including vulnerable populations, at risk for illness, disability or premature death. The course addresses the epidemiological processes and demography used to identify populations at-risk for the development of preventable illnesses. Emphasis will be placed on health determinants, health behavior theories, health disparity, social policy, social justice, legislative/political issues, human genetics, impact of globalization, environmental health, as well as, chronic disease prevention to impact the health of a population. Students will have the opportunity to participate in a community assessment, to identify health and safety risks within the community/population. Students will be given the opportunity to propose specific strategies to educate people/populations about health and safety issues and to increase access to healthcare.
NURPOR - Nursing Portfolio
Transfer Nursing Credits.