Introduction to medically oriented terminology, including roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and common abbreviations. Emphasis on using terminology related to anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnoses, medical procedures, pharmacology, and instrumentation. Not for major credit.

Select topics in professional nursing. Topics vary depending on faculty expertise and student interest. Course may be taken more than once if topics are different.

Nutritional needs across the life span and related strategies for promotion and maintenance of health. Concepts include nutrients, food groups, nutritional guidelines, and common diet modifications.

Concepts and theories that have shaped professional nursing practice. Topics include critical thinking skills in the decision-making process, exploration of strategies and methods of effective communication, and emphasizes professionalism when exchanging with various populations, patients, peers, and nursing leaders.

Expansion of critical thinking and understanding of the human disease process.

Comprehensive health assessment of well individuals across the life span. Emphasis is on data collection and the application of concepts and skills used in the comprehensive health assessment of patients as a basis for critical thinking in nursing practice. For Four-Year track.

The skills needed to perform a systematic and individualized health assessment of individuals across the lifespan. Two laboratory contact hours per week are required.

Comprehensive health assessment of well individuals across the life span. Emphasis is on data collection and the application of concepts and skills used in the comprehensive health assessment of patients as a basis for critical thinking in nursing practice. For RN-BSN Track.

Application of knowledge and skills to integrate fundamentals of nursing care using the nursing process to build on knowledge and skills attained from health promotion, health assessment, nursing foundations, and introduction to professional nursing.

Implementation of fundamentals of nursing care utilizing knowledge, cognitive, and psychomotor skills, and the nurse process in a variety of adult focused health care settings. A minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Introduction to the language and underlying concepts as a basis for reading, understanding, and utilizing research as a source of evidence for guiding practice.

Evidence-based nursing practice with adults experiencing health alterations, moving from simple to complex states of health and levels of care.

Implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in a variety of settings with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in an international setting with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required. Language course preparation may be required.

Theories of nursing, systems, family, teaching-learning, practice, education, role and change that are central to current professional nursing practice.

Evidence-based psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Emphasis is on the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness, and on nursing interventions related to primary mental health alterations across the life span.

Evidence-based psychiatric mental health nursing practice in a variety of settings. Emphasis is on promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness and on nursing interventions with individuals and groups of clients experiencing mental health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Evidence-based psychiatric mental health nursing practice in an International setting. Emphasis is on promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness and on nursing interventions with individuals and groups of clients experiencing mental health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Concepts underlying the pharmacotherapeutics of major drug classifications, including pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse drug reactions, and fundamental nursing decision making situations as related to pharmacology. Drug dosage computation is included.

A concentrated preceptored experience in nursing enabling the student to expand previous clinical practice experiences and further develop skills in clinical reasoning, critical thinking, organization, and prioritization. For three externship credit hours, a minimum of 135 hours of scheduled clinical experiences, weekly seminars, and consultation with the instructor are required. A minimum of 45 hours for each additional credit hour is required. A student may repeat NURS U398 once in a different clinical setting for a total of not more than eight hours of undergraduate credit. Pass/Fail credit.

An individual learning experience in an area of special interest planned in conjunction with a nursing faculty member.

Builds upon Health Alterations I and continues to focus on evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in a variety of settings with adults experiencing health alterations, moving from simple to complex states of health and levels of care.

Builds upon Health Alterations I and related practicum and continues implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in a variety of settings with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Guided practicum experience utilizing clinical decision-making skills in a health care setting. For two internship credit hours, a minimum of 90 hours of scheduled clinical experiences, seminars, and consultation with faculty are required. A minimum of 45 hours for each additional credit hour is required.

Builds upon Health Alterations I and related practicum and continues implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in an international setting with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required. Language course preparation may be required.

Intensive study in a specialized area of professional nursing or a topic related to current health care practice. Selected area or topic is based on student interest and faculty expertise. Experiential learning activities may be required. Selected topics may be of interest to non-nursing majors. Non-nursing majors who have completed at least 60 credit hours, including completion of 6 hours of Group VIII General Education Requirements and one course which includes basic research methodology, and who have a collegiate summary GPA of 2.5 or higher may enroll with consent of instructor. A student may take the course more than once as long as the repeat course is a different topic from previously completed NURS U420 course.

Language and underlying concepts of evidence-based practice as a basis for reading, understanding, and utilizing research as a source of evidence for guiding practice.

An intensive study of essential digital, media, and information literacies and their conceptual underpinnings critical to nursing practice in increasingly technology-mediated health-care environments. Learners engage with new technology uses and skills while practicing proficient information analysis, synthesis and management with specific emphasis on nursing and health-care contexts.

Learn and utilize quality and safety competencies to improve quality of nursing care to understand and use quality improvement concepts, process, and outcome measures. Learn to conduct basic quality and safety investigations; development of quality improvement action plans and outcome measures; and monitor the results of those action plans within the clinical microsystems.

Principles of leadership, management, and followership as they relate to the role of the professional nurse within the sociopolitical health care system. Emphasis is on first level management, team leadership, client advocacy, communication, critical thinking, decision making, role development within the profession, theoretical models, cultural diversity, and ethical leadership issues.

Evidence-based nursing practice for women and parent-newborn dyad. Focus is on nursing interventions that promote, maintain and restore health of well and high-risk families during the childbearing process and women's health throughout the life span.

Implementation of concepts and skills to provide for families throughout the childbearing process and women throughout their life span. Practica are in traditional and non-traditional facilities. A minimum of 56 practicum hours required.

Implementation of concepts and skills to provide for families throughout the childbearing process and women throughout their life span. Practica are in traditional and non-traditional facilities. A minimum of 56 practicum hours required.

Evidence-based nursing practice for children. Topics include health promotion, maintenance and restoration, using a family-centered approach.

Implementation of evidence-based nursing practice for children and their families, in both acute care and community settings. A minimum of 56 practicum hours required.

Implementation of evidence-based nursing practice for children and their families, in an international setting. A minimum of 56 practicum hours required.

Builds upon Health Alterations I & II and continues to focus on evidence-based nursing practice with adults experiencing health alterations, moving from simple to complex states of health and levels of care. For Four-Year track.

Builds upon Health Alterations Practica I & II and continues implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in a variety of settings with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 56 practicum hours required.

Builds upon Health Alterations Practica I & II and continues implementation of evidence-based nursing practice, progressing in complexity, in an international setting with adults experiencing health alterations. Minimum of 56 practicum hours required. Language course preparation may be required.

Evidence-based nursing with individuals across the life-span, families and other diverse population groups. Levels of prevention are explored in relationship to epidemiology and the effects of environment and life-style on client health. For Four-Year track.

Implementation of evidence-based community and public health nursing practice in health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in individuals across the life-span, families, and other diverse population groups in community settings. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Evidence-based nursing with individuals across the lifespan, families and other diverse population groups. Levels of prevention are explored in relationship to epidemiology and the effects of environment and lifestyle on client health. For RN-BSN track.

Implementation of evidence-based community and public health nursing practice in health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in individuals across the life-span, families, and other diverse population groups in community settings. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required.

Implementation of evidence-based community and public health nursing practice in health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in individuals across the life-span, families, and other diverse population groups in an international setting. Minimum of 84 practicum hours required. Language course preparation may be required. For Four-Year track.

Nursing concepts to support successful licensure and transition into nursing practice. Assessment of knowledge gaps and targeted course content are included.

Critical exploration of interrelated historical, sociopolitical, and cultural issues impacting the professional nurse and the quality and delivery of health care.

Principles of leadership, management, and followership as they relate to the role of the professional nurse within the sociopolitical health care system. Emphasis is on first level management, team leadership, client advocacy, communication, critical thinking, decision making, role development within the profession, theoretical models, cultural diversity, and ethical leadership issues.

Capstone practicum, in a precepted setting, that provides opportunities to synthesize and apply knowledge and skills necessary to function as a beginning professional nurse. Emphasis is on the application of evidence-based knowledge in planning, delivering and evaluating nursing consisting of 126 hours or practicum. Pass/Fail credit.