Nursing

This course will survey the history of the nursing profession, particularly in the United States, as influenced by societal needs and events throughout history, and follow the evolution to present contemporary nursing practice, environments, and roles.   

Foundational nutrition concepts will be explored and applied to human disease processes and treatment. Nutrition counseling is part of a nurse's role in effectively educating patients across the lifespan.  

This course will focus on significant microorganisms related to human welfare and their control. Emphasis will be on portals of entry and exit, modes of transmission, pathogenic mechanisms of infection and tissue damage, control of medically significant microorganisms, and our host defenses. The laboratory will focus on isolation, culture, identification, and control of medically-important microorganisms.

This course examines the evolution and future of professional nursing roles, nursing theories, nursing science and nursing processes. The course also examines health care systems, factors influencing nursing practice, interprofessional communication and collaboration and current trends.

This course emphasizes the mechanisms and manifestations of disease and disorders, recognition of symptomatology, and recommended nursing and pharmacological interventions through a conceptual approach.

This course emphasizes the mechanisms and manifestations of disease and disorders, recognition of symptomatology, and recommended nursing and pharmacological interventions through a conceptual approach.

This course focuses on the comprehensive health and physical assessments of diverse clients across the lifespan, communicating findings, and promoting health and wellness to individuals, families, and communities.

This course examines the evolution and future of professional nursing roles, introduction to nursing theories, nursing science, and nursing processes. The course also examines factors influencing nursing practice, interprofessional communication and collaboration, as well as current trends. This course is designed for the pre-licensure nursing student.

This course will outline how nursing students learn to think critically. It also introduces nursing concepts that will guide nursing diagnoses, planning, interventions, and evaluation throughout practice

This course examines the concepts of information management, in all its forms, and the use of technology in safe and effective nursing practice.

This course will explore information and communication technologies and informatics processes utilized in the provision of nursing care and decision making.

This course emphasizes the mechanisms and manifestations of disease and disorders, recognition of symptomatology, and recommended nursing and pharmacological interventions through a conceptual approach. This course is designed for the pre-licensure nursing student.

This course introduces students to foundational pharmacology concepts including pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, classification of drugs, and basic medication calculations. This is a core nursing course.  

This course provides a continuation of pharmacological concepts across the lifespan to treat medical conditions, including medical calculations for specific populations & delivery methods

This course focuses on the comprehensive health and physical assessments of diverse clients across the lifespan, communicating findings, and promoting health and wellness to individuals, families, and communities. A practicum is included.

This course examines foundational nursing concepts and skills necessary for beginning nursing practice. This course includes a 1 credit hour clinical component. Clinical will consist of 1 day/week lab or clinical facility experience. Successful completion of the didactic portion with a C or better and successful completion of clinical.   

This course will delve into nursing concepts, skills, and attitudes necessary for providing effective patient centered care to individuals. This course includes a clinical component.

This course will explore concepts and skills pertinent to caring for childbearing families and their children; and will explore application of nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide patient-centered and effective nursing care. There is a clinical component to this course.   

This course focuses on principles of leadership, management, power, ethics, organizations, and change within healthcare as related to the role of professional nurses.

This course explores the nursing research process and models as a basis for an understanding of research evidence as a guide to informing practice decisions.

This course emphasized the role of nursing as advocates for health, the politics of healthcare, and the influence health policy has on nursing practice. It also discusses the role of government, the processes of law making, policy development, implementation, and regulation.

This course focus is the population, considering diverse individuals, families, and aggregates. The emphasis is assessment, health promotion, and population-based care and management. A practicum allows students to build on the knowledge and apply community health concepts. Learning experiences are individualized and guided by the preceptor and course faculty.

This third pharmacology course continues exploring pharmacological interventions for more complex pathology and disease. This is a core nursing course.

This course explores the concepts of quality and patient safety in today’s healthcare environment. This course includes a practicum in which the student will build on theoretical knowledge by applying quality and safety competencies to a workplace project. Learning experiences are individualized and guided by the preceptor and course faculty.

This course will present concepts applicable to adults with complex care needs and will explore application of nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide patient centered and effective nursing care. There is a clinical component to this course.  

This course will explore mental health concepts across the lifespan and apply nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide effective, patient centered mental health. There is a clinical component to this course. Students will participate in multiple experiences in a variety of settings.  

Population concepts, considering social determinants of health, diverse individuals, families, and aggregates, are the focus of this course with emphasis on assessment, health promotion, and population-based care and management. A service project allows students to build on knowledge and apply community health concepts. Learning experiences are individualized and guided by the preceptor and course faculty. 

This course explores the concepts of quality and patient safety in today’s healthcare environments as well as the role of nurses as advocates for quality and safety practices in health systems.

This course will present concepts applicable to adults with complex care needs and will explore application of nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide patient centered and effective nursing care. There is a clinical component to this course. 

This is a culminating course where nursing students apply nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes learned throughout the program to patients under the supervision of a qualified preceptor. Students will gain an in depth understanding of the practice environment through an intensive clinical experience. This also includes a 2-day NCLEX review and ATI training modules  

The purpose of this course is to introduce the advanced professional role to nurses as well as integrate an understanding of nursing science & theory to the role development of advanced practice nurses.  Complementary content includes communication, teamwork, interprofessional relationships, and leadership theories as these are also integral to the role development of professionals within healthcare systems.

The purpose of this course is designed to further develop the student’s clinical decision-making process in a manner that integrates clinical experience, patient values, and the best available evidence to resolve practice issues and improve practice and outcomes. The course will cover topics related to the evidence-based practice process, framing clinical questions to enhance clinical decision-making, searching the literature, critical appraisal, integration, and evaluation of the evidence, grading levels of evidence and strength of recommendations, patient values, and statistical terminology related to evidence-based practice.

The purpose of this course is to provide the healthcare provider with a survey of relevant concepts, tools, and systems of healthcare informatics and technology. An understanding of informatics concepts and the skills related to the use of technology have been identified as critical for all modern healthcare professionals. Moreover, informatics and technology provide several distinct advantages to the modern healthcare system, including, but limited to cost savings, error detection, quality improvement, and improved patient outcomes.

This course has nurses apply culturally appropriate, client-focused or broad, varying levels of prevention, care, management, and evaluation to individuals, families, aggregates, or communities to improve health.

The course prepares advanced nurses with the leadership knowledge and skills necessary for promoting quality, providing safe patient care, effective decision-making, working in teams, utilizing a systems approach, and applying quality principles tools, methods, and performance measures within health systems and communities.

This course provides an understanding of the formulation, adoption and implementation of public policy, and its effects on health care delivery. Students will examine federal, state, and local political processes and focus on the role of healthcare administrators, as well as other key stakeholders, in implementing health policies into operational and organizational strategies.

Knowledge of the healthcare environment, systems thinking, foundational leadership skills, communication skills, business skills, and professionalism combined with clinical experience and evidence are the bedrock of effective administrators. This course delves into these competencies specifically related to the administrator role.

This course provides further exploration into the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for leading and managing in complex healthcare organization, combined with healthcare economics, policy, and managerial knowledge, to effectively identify and plan a change project.  This course includes a practicum.

This is a practicum course.  Students work in a precepted partnership with a nurse executive to continue the identified change project planned in NU601 through planning, implementation, and evaluation.

In this course, students will explore how ethics and legal issues impact corporate decision-making in the health care industry.  Students will identify, analyze and apply ethical and legal principles to resolve health care-related case studies.  Topics covered in this course include ethical principles in health care, health care regulatory and licensing laws, patient and staff protection laws, informed consent, end of life care and fraud/abuse.