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NURS 501 - Introduction to Nursing
Credits:
4.00
Examines the values and philosophy of the Department of
Nursing. Explores the four domain concepts of nursing:
health and how it is defined, the diverse clients served by
nursing, nursing as a profession, and the complex
environment within which nursing is practiced. The nature
of nurse-client encounters is explored with an emphasis on
teaching students the skills to interact in a caring,
facilitative manner. Prereq: permission.
NURS 502 - Concepts of Pathophysiology/Pharmacology
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on concepts of pathophysiology/pharmacology
relevant to nursing practice. The physiologic response and
manifestations of alterations in normal body functioning
are analyzed and the effects of pharmacological agents on
these alterations are examined. Prereq: ZOOL 507-508; MICR
501; majors only.
NURS 508 - Foundations of Nursing Judgment
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on the knowledge and analytical skills required to
adequately assess the health status of individuals.
Students learn how to collect data using an assessment
framework, analyze the data, and identify client resources
and problems. Emphasizes the implications of the
individual's developmental status, culture, and biologic
variations at all points in the assessment process. Prereq:
ZOOL 507-508; NUTR 400; MICR 501; PSYC 401; NURS 501;
majors only.
Co-requisites:
NURS 502, NURS 514
NURS 514 - Techniques of Clinical Nursing
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on the acquisition of psychomotor and assessment
skills required for the delivery of safe nursing care.
Students begin by learning clinical skills in the
simulation setting and then using those skills with
supervision in the clinical setting. An additional focus of
this course is understanding fundamental nursing concepts
as they pertain to providing safe, effective care. Prereq:
ZOOL 507-508; NURS 501; majors only. Lab. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 508
NURS 535 - Death and Dying
Credits:
4.00
Encompasses peoples' responses to death throughout the
lifecycle. Theories of death, dying, and grieving
discussed. Students explore cultural influences, legal, and
ethical dilemmas; the biopsychosocial needs of people
facing life-threatening situations; resources for care of
the dying; death rituals; and surviving a major loss.
Writing intensive.
NURS 595 - Women's Health
Credits:
4.00
Examines women's health and women's health care from
historical, political, and social perspectives. Discussion
of societal and health-care constraints that hinder women
from achieving their full health potential. Also presents
information on women's health care practices, including the
concept of self-care, and relates this to development of
educated consumerism in the health-care system.
NURS 606 - Seminar on Professional Nursing
Credits:
7.00
The role of health professionals from historical, social,
political, economic and technical view points. Individual
student examinations of values, attitudes and beliefs
regarding professional role in relation to current nursing
theory and practice. Open to RN students only by
permission. Prereq: NURS 646. Special fee. Writing intensive
NURS 615 - Adult Health Nursing
Credits:
4.00
Addresses the professional nursing practice, decision
making processes, strategies and interventions as they
relate to the care of adults who are experiencing chronic
illnesses, acute illnesses, or impending death. The
perspective adopted emphasizes the functional issues of
daily living that these illnesses impose and the meanings
these illnesses have for adults and their families within
cultural, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, physical, and
personal contexts. Prereq: first semester junior nursing
major. Prereq: NURS 502, 508, 514. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 615C
NURS 615C - Adult Health Nursing Clinical
Credits:
4.00
Prereq: NURS 502, 508, 514. Special fee.Co-requisites:
NURS 615
NURS 617 - Nursing and Healthcare Policy
Credits:
3.00
Examines the nature and quality of health care delivery
systems and health related social programs from a nursing
perspective. Critical thinking skills and strategies needed
by professional nurses to participate in health care
planning and health care consumer advocacy for improved
health services emphasized. Prereq: for R.N.s with at least
one year of clinical experience or permission.
NURS 618 - Caring for People with Alterations in Mental Health
Credits:
2.00
Provides an understanding of the concepts of mental health
and major factors affecting human behavior and
interaction. Specific theoretical concepts guiding
nurse-client interactions are used as a vehicle for
supporting the person's and family's optimum state of
well-being. Prereq: NURS 622. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 618C
NURS 618C - Caring for People with Alterations in Mental Health
Credits:
2.00
Emphasis on the practice of psychiatric nursing as being
grounded on certain empirical, aesthetic, personal, and
ethical knowledge. Nursing process and a situation-based
interpretive approach serve as a framework for professional
action. Through a variety of clinical experiences, the
student applies mental health concepts/principles of
interaction. Prereq: NURS 622. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 618, NURS 624C
NURS 619 - Clinical Decision Making I
Credits:
4.00
To practice effectively nurses must be able to gather
data, interpret its meaning, take actions based on an
understanding of the data, and evaluate outcomes. They also
must be aware of the processes used to reach conclusions
and be prepared to revise, adapt, or reject them. The
course focuses on teaching learning theory, ethical
decision making, and helping clients and families deal with
situational and maturational crises, using a critical
thinking framework. Prereq: first-semester junior nursing
majors; NURS 501; 502; 508; 514 Writing intensive.
Co-requisites:
NURS 615
NURS 620 - Caring for the Childbearing and Childrearing Family
Credits:
4.00
This course has family as the focus for nursing practice,
introducing the student to the care of young families
throughout pregnancy, birth and child-rearing periods.
Healthy transitions and physical alterations occurring from
conception through adolescence are examined. The health
needs of the family are discussed in terms of major
morbidity/mortality and contemporary issues. Experience in
various clinical settings provides opportunities for the
development of professional practice roles. Prereq: second
semester junior nursing major. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 620C
NURS 620C - Caring for the Childbearing and Childrearing Family
Credits:
4.00
Special fee.Co-requisites:
NURS 620
NURS 622 - Clinical Decision Making II
Credits:
4.00
Emphasizes the clinical decision making process in the˙
nursing care of individuals, families, and communities
across the lifespan and from diverse backgrounds. Builds
upon the theoretical foundation developed in 619, Clinical
Decision Making I. Students strengthen expertise in
developing clinical judgments, interventions, and outcome
evaluations. Skills predicated upon attending to and
processing relevant information from clinical situations.
Students apply knowledge from clinical nursing courses in a
variety of ways. Prereq: second-semester junior nursing
majors; NURS 619; or RN student.
NURS 624 - Nursing in the Community
Credits:
2.00
Explores the role of community health nursing in health
promotion, disease prevention, and long-term care.
Analyzes contemporary community health problems with
implications for community health nursing. Explores a
variety of clinical and population-focused roles in
primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of health
problems. Prereq: second semester junior nursing major.
Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 624C
NURS 624C - Nursing in the Community
Credits:
2.00
Special fee.Co-requisites:
NURS 618C, NURS 624
NURS 645 - Research
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on enhancing the student's ability to evaluate,
read, comprehend, participate in, and apply research to
the practice of nursing. Pre or Coreq: statistics.
NURS 645W - Research
Credits:
4.00
See description for NURS 645. Writing intensive.
NURS 655 - Community Health Nursing I
Credits:
3.00
Explores role of community health nursing in health
promotion, disease prevention and long term care at the
population level. Identifies population at risk and
implications for aggregate level nursing care. Open to RN
students only by permission. Prereq: NURS 606. Special fee.
NURS 656 - Community Health Nursing II: Individuals, Families, and Aggregates
Credits:
2.00
Explores a variety of contemporary topics relevant to
community health and community health nursing practice at
the individual, family, and aggregate levels. Students have
the opportunity to the explore clinical focused roles of
the community health in nurse in primary, secondary, and
tertiary prevention of health problems in individuals,
families, and aggregates at risk across the life span.
Evolving roles and responsibilities of a variety of
community health nurse specialists introduced. Students
collaborate with multidisciplinary health professionals in
planning, providing, and evaluating health services to
these specific at risk populations. May be repeated.
Prereq: registered nurses only; NURS 606; permission.
Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 656C
NURS 656C - Community Health Nursing II/Clinical
Credits:
1.00
Experience in various clinical settings to provide
opportunities for the development of the community health
nursing role. Students collaborate with multidisciplinary
health professionals in planning, providing, and evaluating
health services to population at risk. Prereq: open to RN
students only by permission.
Co-requisites:
NURS 656
NURS 694 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Specialized courses covering information not normally
presented in regular course offerings. Description of
topics will vary. May be repeated but not duplicate areas
of content. Prereq: permission. (Not offered every year.)
NURS 695 - Independent Study
Credits:
2.00 to 4.00
In-depth study with faculty supervision. Prereq: junior
standing and approval of adviser and faculty of the area
concerned. May be repeated for different topics.
NURS 703 - Nursing Leadership/Management and the Organizational Context
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on understanding ways in which the nurse can
affect the organizations in which practice occurs and ways
in which the organizations affect the individual's
practice. Emphasizes issues of leadership; management;
power; change; motivation; and interfacing of autonomous,
dependent, and interdependent nursing functions in current
and future health care delivery systems. Prereq:
first-semester senior nursing majors; NURS 622. RN students
should take NURS 703W. Special fee.
NURS 703W - Nursing Leadership/Management and the Organizational Context
Credits:
4.00
See description for NURS 703. Writing intensive.
NURS 710 - Families in Health and Illness
Credits:
4.00
Seminar focuses on the family environment as a context for
the experience of health and illness. Current middle-range
theories and research from nursing and other disciplines
analyzed for their application to family health. Public
policy initiatives related to family health explored.
NURS 719 - Professional Nursing Practice: Transitions
Credits:
7.00
Provides opportunity for students to refine and integrate
previously learned knowledge and skills into professional
practice through a cooperatively designed learning
experience/environment. Open to R.N. students only, by
permission. Prereq: NURS 606, 655, 656, 656C. Special fee.
NURS 720 - Clinical Decision-Making III
Credits:
6.00
Provides the student with the opportunity to integrate
prior learning and experience, reflect on individual
practice, and transition to professional practice in a
career as a Registered Nurse. Emphasizes the refinement of
professional skills related to leadership, management,
problem solving, clinical and ethical decision-making,
critical thinking, interpersonal communication, information
management, and working as a productive team member. The
weekly seminar provides an opportunity for the analysis,
synthesis, refinement, and integration of nursing knowledge
and practice. Regularly scheduled standardized tests are
used to assess student progress and to provide timely
feedback to facilitate the student's transition to
professional practice. Special fee. Prereq: all nursing
major courses.
Co-requisites:
NURS 720C
NURS 720C - Clinical Decision-Making III Clinical
Credits:
6.00
Refine and integrate previously learned knowledge and
skills into professional practice through a cooperatively
designed learning experience/environment. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 720
NURS 794 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Specialized courses covering information not normally
presented in regular course offerings. Description of
topics varies. May be repeated but not in duplicate areas
of content. Prereq: permission. Special fee on some sections
NURS 794W - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
See description for NURS 794. Writing intensive.
NURS 797 - Honors Thesis
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Honors seminar designed to expand the knowledge and skills
presented in previous honors in major courses. Focuses on
a project relevant to the discipline of nursing under the
direction of a faculty adviser. Open to honors-in-major and
senior nursing majors. Students must complete two semesters
of work 1cr. in fall, and 4cr. in spring. Writing intensive.