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B232 Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing: Theory, Practice, Research (3 cr.)
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 nursings unique contributions to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research, and practice.
B233 Health and Wellness (4 cr.)
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, and nursing interventions.
B244 Comprehensive Health Assessment (2 cr.)
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.
B245 Comprehensive Health Assessment: Practicum (2 cr.)
Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the lifespan in simulated and actual environments.
B248 Science and Technology of Nursing (2 cr.)
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.
B249 Science and Technology of Nursing: Practicum (2 cr.)
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the lifespan.
H351 Alterations in Neuropsychological Health (3 cr.)
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.
H352 Alterations in Neuropsychological Health: The Practicum (2 cr.)
Students will provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disturbances related to psychiatric disorders. Student experiences will be with individuals and small groups in supervised settings such as acute care, communitybased, transitional, and/or the home.
H353 Alterations in Health I (3 cr.)
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 intervention appropriate to health care needs.
H354 Alterations in Health I: The Practicum (2 cr.)
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 outcomes.
H361 Alterations in Health II (3 cr.)
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.
H362 Alterations in Health II: The Practicum (2 cr.)
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.
H363 The Developing Family and Child (3 cr.)
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.
H364 The Developing Family and Child: The Practicum (3 cr.)
Students will have the opportunity to work with childbearing and child-rearing families, including those experiencing alterations in health.
H365 Nursing Research (3 cr.)
This course focuses on development of the 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.
K490 Lifespan Practicum (1 cr.)
Students will make assessments and observations of individuals in various stages of growth and development. NOTE: B310 and K490 substitute for B230 Developmental Issues and Health, offered on other IU campuses.
S470 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures (3 cr.)
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.
S471 Restorative Health Related to Multi-System Failures: The Practicum (2 cr.)
Students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multi-system alterations in health.
S472 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community (3 cr.)
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.
S473 A Multi-System Approach to the Health of the Community: Practicum (2 cr.)
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.
S481 Nursing Management (2 cr.)
This course focuses on the development of 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.
S482 Nursing Management: The Practicum (3 cr.)
Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles.
S483 Clinical Nursing Practice Capstone (3 cr.)
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.
S484 Research Utilization Seminar (1 cr.)
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.
S485 Professional Growth and Empowerment (3 cr.)
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.
Z480 B.S.N. Portfolio Review for Course Substitution (0-6 cr.)
Noncredit course. The portfolio review process is available to all undergraduate students who believe that they can meet the learning objectives/competencies required of a specific nursing course within their program of study. The portfolio is a mechanism used to validate the acquisition of knowledge and skills congruent with course expectations and student learning outcomes. The portfolio provides objective evidence that students have acquired the content and skills through prior learning and/or practice experiences.
Z490 Clinical Experience in Nursing (1-6 cr.)
Planned and supervised clinical experiences in the area of the students major interest.
Z492 Individual Study in Nursing (1-6 cr.)
Opportunity for the nursing student to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member.
