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Nursing Course Descriptions | General Education Cluster Course Distribution

Course Descriptions

B230   Developmental Issues and Health
4 credit hours (4 classroom clock hours/60 clock hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (4 classroom clock hours/60 clock hours per semester)
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 (2 classroom clock hours/30 clock hours per semester)
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.

B245   Comprehensive Health Assessment: The Practicum
2 credit hours (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours >>>75 actual hours per semester)
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 (2 classroom clock hours/30 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum hours/90 clock hours>>>75 actual hours per semester)
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the lifespan. C: B248.

H351   Alterations in Neuro-Psychological Health
3 credit hours (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours>>>75 actual hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours>>>75 actual hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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.

H361   Alterations in Health II
3 credit hours (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours >>>75 actual hours per semester)
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
3 credit hours (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (9 practicum clock hours/135 clock hours>>>112.5 actual hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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.

K492 Language for Healthcare Professionals (2 credits)
Open to all students. The course focuses on basic terminology, abbreviations and symbols commonly used in healthcare. By combining the meanings of prefixes, suffixes and root words, students will be able to determine the meaning of unfamiliar terms. Geared toward nursing, pre-nursing and allied health students, the goal is to make health topics easier to master and healthcare documents more meaningful. This course may be counted toward the School of Nursing Communication general education cluster.

K492 Multidisciplinary Care of Older Adults (3 credits)
ON-LINE COURSE. Offered Summer Session I, 2004. Open to all students.
Instructor: Patricia Allen
This interdisciplinary course explores topics in geriatrics from several perspectives:

  • Health Care of the Elderly, Medical Perspectives, on-line discussions May 10-23, assignments due June 7.
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine, on-line discussions May 24-June 2, assignments due June 15.
  • Biology of Aging, on-line discussions June 3-16, assignments due June 17.
This course may be counted toward the School of Nursing Cultural Diversity or Social Competence general education cluster.

K492 Nursing Pharmacology (1-2-3-4 or 5 credits)
Open to semester iv thru viii nursing students and to other majors by permission of instructor. Instructors: Patricia Allen and Bobbie Shea.
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours>>>75 actual hours per semester)
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 (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (6 practicum clock hours/90 clock hours>>>75 actual hours per semester)
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.

S474   Applied Health Care Ethics
3 credit hours (3 classroom clock hours/45 clock hours per semester)
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 (2 classroom clock hours/30 clock hours per semester)
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 (9 practicum clock hours/135 clock hours>>>112.5 actual hours per semester)
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 (9 practicum clock hours/135 clock hours>>>112.5 actual hours per semester)
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 to 2 credit hours (1 classroom clock hours/15 clock hours per semester to 2 classroom clock hours/30 clock hours per semester)
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 (2 classroom clock hours/30 clock hours per semester and 1 seminar clock hour/15 clock hours per semester)
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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Last updated: January 10, 2008
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