NRSG - Nursing

Introduces foundation concepts and essential components of the professional baccalaureate prepared nurse role. Examines nursing theory, quality practice, and ethical/legal issues.  Analyzes historical nursing advocates/issues as well as professional nursing topics/trends of today.

Examines effective communication skills needed in today's complex health care environment.  Introduces theoretical principles and applications to enhance productive interaction with internal and external customers, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team members, in a variety of diverse health care settings.

Focusing on health promotion concepts, theories, and tools, learners explore nursing care of individuals, families, and special populations from a cultural perspective. Promoting culturally relevant age-specific healthy lifestyles across the life span are addressed. Cultural perspective is expanded through health risk assessment screening, leveraging health educational resources, and the use of targeted strategies for promoting the health and well-being of diverse populations. Using the concepts of cultural awareness, sensitivity, and humility, learners explore the social determinants of health important to equitable care domestically and internationally.

Explores the impact of the vast amount of technology used in today's health care organizations.  Focuses on information technology as related to health care safety, quality improvement, resource utilization, and data management to improve outcomes.  Other topics include the ethical and legal issues impacting the use of technology in health care.

Course explores cellular functions and pathology and the changes that occur within the human body as a response to various disease processes.  Discusses the role of the professional nurse in the management of specific health problems across the lifespan.  Prerequisites:  Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, and NRSG 30000 Professional Nursing Theory, Roles, and Practice.

Students will focuses on expanding and refining knowledge and assessment skills needed in performing a complete nursing health assessment across the life span. Students will describe and analyze assessment findings. Techniques explored: Interviewing, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation utilizing selected volunteers, and virtual high fidelity simulation

experiences. Prerequisite: NRSG 32006 Human Pathophysiology 

Examines the development of health care policy in the U.S. and the influences of societal, political, and economic environments on the health care industry.  Explores the interaction of government and other regulatory agencies within the health care industries.  Cross-listed with OAD 46000 Health Care Policy and Regulations.

Course serves as an introduction to the concepts of nursing research methods and theoretical principles.  Focuses on providing students with the knowledge base to define and critically analyze and evaluate clinical research problems and develop techniques to practically implement the evidence in leadership or professional practice roles.  Prerequisite:  PSY 36000 Statistics for Social Sciences or equivalent statistics course.

Examines health issues, disease prevention, and current trends in public health within diverse urban and rural settings.  Topics include evaluation of evidence-based nursing and various epidemiological principles to develop an effective understanding of the role of the professional nurse in the community setting.  Prerequisites:  NRSG 32003 Health Promotion Across the Life Cycle, NRSG 46003 Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice, and PSY 36000 Statistics for Social Sciences or equivalent.

Course utilizes theoretical principles of management to provide the student with the foundation to become an effective change agent/leader/manager in today's complex health care setting.  Topics include strategic planning, quality improvement, and organizational/system leadership.  Prerequisites:  NRSG 46003 Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice and NRSG 46000 Health Care Policy and Regulations.

Capstone course that provides the opportunity to reflect, integrate, and synthesize key concepts from previous courses as well as observations from "real-world" experiences.  Students prepare a written proposal on an approved topic of their choice which addresses a plan related to a relevant and timely nursing/health care concern.  Proposal incorporates knowledge obtained from previous program courses to include such areas as evidence-based research, patient safety, performance improvement, cultural competence, ethical leadership, and health care access.  Prerequisite:  Successful completion of all BSN courses or permission of the Director of Nursing.

This course focuses on advanced physiology and pathophysiology across the life span with emphasis on clinical decision-making when caring for patients with acute and chronic diseases.  Disease prevention and health promotion are also emphasized.

This course builds upon the student's previous health assessment knowledge and experience.  Emphasis will be placed on holistic assessment, intervention and evaluation using a family centered approach as well as an exploration of evidence-based strategies for prevention and management.

Uses the principles of epidemiology to evaluate disease prevention and health promotion data when advocating for health care policies that meet the needs of diverse population groups. In addition, there is a deeper exploration of cultural diversity and cultural humility with a special emphasis on vulnerable populations.