Indiana University School of Nursing Bloomington Campus

B107 Drugs and Supplements: Use, Misuse, and Addiction (Offered as Intensive Freshman Seminar)
3 credit hours
Over-the-counter drugs such as cold medications are common drugs of abuse among the population. The incidence of occurrence continues to climb with more and more individuals experiencing a wide range of harmful body effects.

As a part of this course, students will learn about the basic physiology of how drugs work in the body and why they are both good and bad at the same time. Throughout this seminar, we will investigate the complicated world of the drug approval process, and follow drugs as they rise to official drug status for the market, and sometimes, their subsequent fall from the market.

Students will also become more familiar with claims and uses of nutritional and herbal supplements that are popular for enhancing muscular performance and for weight control. This seminar will equip students with the skills to thoroughly evaluate claims being made by drug and supplement manufacturers.

Finally, students will critically analyze the pharmacological properties of some over-the-counter drugs that make them popular abuse drugs. All the while, students will improve their written and oral communication skills, become better equipped to critically analyze Internet and written resources, and have a jump start on taking collegiate level exams.

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B230 Developmental Issues and Health
4 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the theoretical perspectives of growth and development, family theories and family adaptation at different stages, and usual patterns of aging. Students will make assessments of individuals in various stages of life to identify developmental issues and their impact on health phenomena of interest to nursing. P: Introduction to Psychology. C: B232, B232. Recommended: Cultural Diversity.

B231 Communication Skills for the Health Professionals
3 credit hours didactic
Students in this course will focus on basic communication skills essential for working with clients of various ages and health care professionals. Content includes interpersonal communications and group dynamics. Students will practice communication skills with individuals, within groups, and through electronic media.

B232 Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing: Theory, Practice, Research
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of nursing practice: health, wellness, illness, wholism, caring, environment, self-care, uniqueness of persons, interpersonal relationships and decision-making. This course helps the student understand nursing's unique contribution to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research and practice.

B233 Health and Wellness
4 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinates of health, wellness and illness across the lifespan. Environmental, sociocultural and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness, and illness are related to health-promotion, disease-prevention, illness-prevention nursing interventions.

B244 Comprehensive Health Assessment
2 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including the physical, psychological, social, functional and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed. C: B245; P or C: Anatomy: Physiology: Introduction to Psychology; Introduction to Sociology.

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B245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments. C: B244.

B248 Science and Technology of Nursing
2 credit hours
This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical research base. It provides an opportunity for basic care nursing skills development. Students will be challenged to use critical thinking and problem solving in developing the ability to apply an integrated nursing therapeutics approach for clients experiencing health alterations across the lifespan. C: B249; P or C: Anatomy: Physiology: and Microbiology.

B249 Science and Technology of Nursing: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the lifespan. C: B248.

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H351 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on individuals and small groups experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disorders. Content includes the effect of the brain-body disturbances on health functioning. Other content areas are growth and development, stress, mental status, nurse-client relationships, psychopharmacology, and nursing approaches for clients experiencing DSM-IV neuropsychological disorders. C: H352; P: All sophomore level courses.

H352 Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuro-psychological disturbances related to psychiatric disorders. Student experiences will be with individuals and small groups in supervised settings such as acute care; community-based, transitional, and/or the home. C: H351.

H353 Alterations in Health I
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic problems. Students will use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to plan interventions appropriate to health care needs. C: H354; P: All sophomore level courses.

H354 Alterations in Health I: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning, identify health care needs and determine the effectiveness of interventions given expected care outcomes. C: H353.

H355 Data Analysis/Practice & Research
3 credit hours didactic
This course introduces nursing and other health sciences students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and unvariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world situation in client care.

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H361 Alterations in Health II
3 credit hours didactic
This course builds on Alterations in Health I and continues to focus on pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic health problems and their associated needs. C: H362; P: H353; H354: All sophomore level courses.

H362 Alterations in Health II: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will continue to apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning. C: H361.

H363 The Developing Family and Child
4 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the needs of individuals and their families who are facing the phenomena of growth and development during the childbearing and child rearing phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting and restoring healthy status of family members will be emphasized. C: H364; P: All sophomore level courses.

H364 The Developing Family and Child: The Practicum
3 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to work with child bearing and child rearing families, including those experiencing alterations in health. C: H363.

H365 Nursing Research
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on development of students' skills in using the research process to define clinical research problems and to determine the usefulness of research in clinical decisions related to practice. The critique of nursing and nursing related research studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice. C or P: Statistics.

H399 Honors Proposal Development
3 credit hours
In this course, students seeking to achieve departmental honors will work with a faculty member in the literature review and development of a research proposal. The proposal will be the basis for the honors study completed in H499 the subsequent semester. This is an individually negotiated course requiring faculty approval prior to enrollment.

H499 Honors Research
3 credit hours
After completion of H399, students pursuing departmental honors will work with a faculty member to implement the research study designed in H399. After data collection and analysis, the student will prepare a manuscript of the study suitable for publication. This is an individually negotiated course requiring faculty approval prior to enrollment.

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K492 Multidisciplinary Care of Older Adults (3 credits)
3 credit hours.
This online course is offered in Summer Session I. Taught by Prof. Patricia Allen. This course counts as one of the following: Critical/Analytical/Science cluster course OR Cultural Diversity cluster course OR Social Competence cluster course OR an elective course. This is an online course that you can take from any location as long as you have internet access. NOTE: This course is open to nursing and pre-nursing students.

K492 Nursing Pharmacology (1-2-3-4 or 5 credits)
Online course open to semester iv thru viii nursing students and to other majors by permission of instructor. Taught by Prof. Patricia Allen. Clinical pharmacology is the study of drugs used for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of disease and symptoms associated with health alterations. This course progresses from basic to complex client therapeutics, and is designed to meet the needs of nursing students and practicing nurses wishing to strengthen their pharmacology knowledge. Maybe counted toward general electives.

S470 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the pathophysiology and nursing care management of clients experiencing multi-system alterations in health status. Correlations among complex system alterations and nursing interventions to maximize health potential are emphasized. C: S471; P: All junior level courses.

S471 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures: The Practicum
2 credit hours
The students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multi-system alterations in health. C: S470.

S472 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community
3 credit hours didactic
This course focuses on the complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. Through a community assessment of health trends, demographics, epidemiological data, and social/political-economics issues in local and global communities, the student will be able to determine effective interventions for community-centered care. C: S473; P: All junior level courses.

S473 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community: The Practicum
2 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to apply the concepts of community assessment, program planning, prevention and epidemiology to implement and evaluate interventions for community-centered care to groups or aggregates. Professional nursing will be practiced in collaboration with diverse groups within a community. C: S472.

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S474 Applied Health Care Ethics
3 credit hours didactic
This course is designed to introduce the student to major ethical theory, principles, and models for the recognition, analysis and resolution of ethical dilemmas in health care practice.

S481 Nursing Management
2 credit hours
This course focuses on the development management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, change, managing quality and performance, workplace diversity, budgeting and resource allocation, and delivery systems. C: S482; P: All junior courses.

S482 Nursing Management: The Practicum
3 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles. C: S481.

S483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone
3 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their nursing care practice skills. Students will collaborate with faculty and a preceptor in choosing a care setting, planning and organizing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manner. P: All junior level courses.

S484 Research Utilization Seminar
1 credit hour
This course focuses on students abilities to refine their critical/analytical skills in evaluating clinical research for applicability to nursing practice. Students will examine the role of evaluation, action research, and research findings in assuring quality of nursing care and in solving relevant problems arising from clinical practices. C: S483.

S485 Professional Growth and Empowerment
3 credit hours
This course focuses on issues related to professional practice, career planning, personal goal setting, and empowerment of self and others. Students will discuss factors related to job performance, performance expectations and evaluation, reality orientation, and commitment to life-long learning. P: All junior level courses.

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RN to BSN Completion Program Courses

B231 Communication for Health Care Professionals: RN BSN
(3 cr.)
Note: this course must be taken in the first term for RN BSN Students
Course Description: This course addresses professional communication, inter/intra professional collaboration, and professional engagement to foster growth and development in nursing. This course also focuses on issues related to professional practice, theory, development and use, professional organization participation, service, continuing education, autonomy and accountability.

H355 Data Analysis in Clinical Practice and Health Care Research
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course introduces nursing and other health sciences students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health-care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization, and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real-world situations in client care.

H365 Nursing Research
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course focuses on development of students' skills in using the research process to define clinical research problems and to determine the usefulness of research in clinical decisions related to practice. The critique of nursing and nursing-related research studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice.

B 304 Professional Nursing Seminar 1: Health Policy
(3 cr.)
Course Description: Social, ethical, cultural, economic, and political issues that affect the delivery of health and nursing services globally are critically analyzed. Government and entrepreneurial interests are examined. Emphasis is placed on the impact of policy decisions on professional nursing practice and health services.

B 404 Professional Nursing Seminar 2: Informatics
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course addresses nursing informatics: state of the science and issues for research, development, and practice. It clarifies concepts of nursing, technology, and information management; and comprises theory, practice, and the social and ethical issues in nursing and health care informatics.

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S487 Nursing Management: RN BSN
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course focuses on development of management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, and facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management, and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, delivery systems, change, managing quality and performance, budgeting and resource allocation, staffing, scheduling, evaluation and career development.

S475 Community Health: RN BSN
(3 cr.)
Course Description: Basic epidemiological principles and community health nursing models are applied in collaboration with diverse groups. Disease prevention strategies are applied to individuals and populations to promote health. Students apply the concepts of community assessment, disease prevention, and health promotion to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for populations in the community.

S474 Applied Healthcare Ethics
(3 cr.)
Course Description: Building on the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, this course explores the nurse’s role in ethical clinical practice, academic work, health policy, and research conduct, focusing particularly on the advocacy role of the nurse. Common ethical problems are discussed and strategies for resolution of ethical dilemmas are applied.

S483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone: RN BSN
(3 cr.) Note: this course must be taken in the final term for RN BSN Students
Course Description: This course allows students to synthesize knowledge and skills learned in the baccalaureate program and to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their nursing practice skills. Students will plan and organize learning experiences, design a project, and practice professional nursing in a safe and effective manner.

Electives: Students choose THREE
(6 cr. – 9 cr.)

K301 Complementary Health
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course will serve as an introduction to a variety of complementary therapies, including healing touch, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, aromatherapy, reflexology, and massage. The class will critically examine each therapy through assigned readings, literature reviews, presentations, guest lecturers, and optional experiential activities.

K499 Genetics and Genomics
(3 cr.)
Course Description:
This course introduces a basic knowledge of genetics in health care, including genetic variation and inheritance; ethical. Legal, and social issues in genetic health care; genetic therapeutics; nursing roles; genetic basis of selected alterations to health across the life span; and cultural considerations in genetic health care are all considered.

B244 Comprehensive Health Assessment: RN BSN
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course focuses on the complete health assessment, the nursing process, and its relationship to the prevention and early detection of disease across the life span. Students learn the skills of interview, inspection/observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span and comparing normal from abnormal findings.

K305 New Innovations in Health and Health Care
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course explores emergent trends in health and health care, including technological advances in health care, developing approaches to care based on new knowledge and/ or research findings, and trends in health care delivery in a themed, survey or independent study format.

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B403 Gerontological Nursing
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course promotes a holistic approach to persons in the later years of life. Death and dying, legal and ethical issues, family care giving, and future challenges will be discussed in the context of best practices as outlined by the John A Hartford Foundation: Institute for Geriatric Nursing.

P216 Pharmacology
(3 cr.)
Course Description: This course focuses on basic principles of pharmacology.
It includes the pharmacologic properties of major drug classes and individual drugs,
with an emphasis on the clinical application of drug therapy through the nursing process.

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