Academic Catalog

Nursing (NUR)

NUR-221  HEALTH ASSESSMENT LAB  (2 Credits)  

This lab course focuses on health assessment skills that include obtaining a history, vital signs, documentation, and a head to toe assessment. Must be in the BSN program.

Prerequisite: Take MAT-108, BIO-241, BIO-242, ENG-212, COM-112, and BIO-151  
NUR-231  PATHOPHYSIOLOGY  (2 Credits)  

This didactic course relates disease manifestation and risk factors regarding the underlying illness or injury as it relates to nursing interventions.

Prerequisite: Take MAT-108, ENG-212, COM-112, BIO-151, BIO-241 and BIO-242  
NUR-241  COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course emphasizes holistic care, which is respectful, compassionate, and coordinated. Topics include recognizing differences, preferences, values, needs and resources of the person or designee as the source of control and full partner in healthcare. Person-centered care is informed by evidence and supports the achievement of positive health outcomes within the community context. Must be in the BSN program.

Prerequisite: Take MAT-108, BIO-241 BIO-242, ENG-212, COM-112, and BIO-151, Take NUR-242 concurrently  
NUR-242  COM HEALTH NURSING CLINICAL  (1 Credit)  

This clinical course focuses on the application of concepts from lecture and lab. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have hands on application experience in simulation and the community. Must be in the BSN program.

Prerequisite: Take MAT-108, BIO-241, BIO-242, ENG-212, COM-112 and BIO-151  
NUR-243  NURSING SKILLS LAB  (2 Credits)  

This lab course focuses on establishing emerging principles of safety and quality in nursing and health care as an essential component of skill obtainment and practice.

Prerequisite: Take NUR-221, 241 and NUR-242  
NUR-245  FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course engages students in health care partnerships to learn how to support and improve equitable, population health outcomes.

Prerequisite: Take NUR-221, 241 and 242  
NUR-251  MENTAL HEALTH NURSING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course explores evidence-based practice and historically relevant mental health concepts. Students have the opportunity to explore therapeutic communication and interviewing strategies.

Prerequisite: Take NUR-252  
NUR-252  MENTAL HEALTH NURSING CLINICAL  (2 Credits)  

This clinical course focuses on the application of concepts from lecture. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have application experience in simulation and mental healthcare settings.

Prerequisite: Take NUR-251 concurrently  
NUR-341  ADULT HEALTH NURSING I  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course discusses teamwork across professions and with care team members, patients, families, and communities to optimize care, enhance the experience, improve outcomes, and reduce costs.

Prerequisite: Take PSY-235 and successfully complete all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-342 concurrently  
NUR-342  ADULT HEALTH NURSING I CLINICAL  (2 Credits)  

This clinical course focuses on the application of concepts from lecture and lab. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have hands on application experiences in simulation and in adult healthcare environments.

Prerequisite: Take PSY-235 and all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-341 concurrently  
NUR-346  PHARMACOLOGY I  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on the basic drug classification, concepts and principles of pharmacology with special consideration for the nurse's role.

Prerequisite: Take CHM-110, BIO-352 and all previous NUR courses  
NUR-347  PHARMACOLOGY II  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on the advanced drug classification, concepts and principles of pharmacology with special consideration for the nurse's role.

Prerequisite: Successfully complete all previous NUR courses  
NUR-351  ADULT HEALTH NURSING II  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course expands the response to adult health needs and concepts of leading within complex systems of health care.

Prerequisite: Successfully complete all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-352 concurrently  
NUR-352  ADULT HEALTH NURSING II CLINICAL  (2 Credits)  

This clinical focuses on the application of advanced concepts from lecture and lab. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have hands on application experiences in simulation and in adult healthcare environments by working up the ability to care for half a typical patient assignment.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-351 concurrently  
NUR-357  NURSING ETHICS  (2 Credits)  

This didactic course allows formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition and comportment that reflects nursing's characteristics, norms and values.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses  
NUR-380  INTERNSHIP  (1-6 Credits)  

This course provides an opportunity to work in a supervised biological setting (e.g., DNR, nature center, public health agency). The experience must include opportunities to apply the theories and concepts learned in the discipline or to enhance biological science research skills.

Prerequisite: Complete all 200-level NUR courses  
NUR-427  MATERNAL HEALTH NURSING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on the health care needs of the prenatal, delivery and postpartum population.

Prerequisite: Take NUR-347, 351, 352 and 358  
NUR-429  RESEARCH IN NURSING PRACTICE  (2 Credits)  

The didactic course covers topics such as generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

Prerequisite: Take BUS-211 or MAT-151 and all previous nursing courses  
NUR-431  HEALTH & AGING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on the role of the nurse in relation to the needs of aging patients in an adapting healthcare delivery system. Topics include providing holistic nursing care for the aging population addressed through discussions of social and cultural considerations, wellness, management of chronic disease, and navigation of end-of-life care.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses  
NUR-441  MATERNAL/PED HEALTH NURSING  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on the health care needs of the pediatric population.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-442 concurrently  
NUR-442  PEDIATRIC/MATERNAL HEALTH NURS CLINICAL  (2 Credits)  

This clinical course focuses on the application of concepts from lecture and lab. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have hands on experiences in simulation within pediatric and maternal healthcare environments.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses, Take NUR-441 concurrently  
NUR-445  NURSING INFORMATICS  (2 Credits)  

This didactic course focuses on informatics, which encompasses healthcare technologies and information communication technologies, to manage and improve the delivery of nursing and health care services in accordance with best person-centered HER/EMR practice and professional and regulatory standards.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous NUR courses  
NUR-451  NURSING CAPSTONE  (3 Credits)  

This didactic course offers participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and wellbeing, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous nursing courses, Take NUR-452 concurrently  
NUR-452  NURSING CAPSTONE CLINICAL  (2 Credits)  

This clinical course focuses on the application of concepts from lecture and lab. Under the guidance of a registered nurse, students will have hands on application experiences in simulation and in healthcare environments to pull together all the clinical skills and care for a full patient assignment.

Prerequisite: Complete all previous nursing courses, Junior or Senior status required