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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.
B304 Professional Nursing Seminar I (3 cr.)
This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of professional nursing practice, including health, wellness, illness, self-care and caring, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students will be expected to explore theoretical premises and research related to the unique wellness perspectives and health beliefs of people across the lifespan in developing care outcomes consistent with maximizing individual potentials for wellness.
B404 Professional Nursing Seminar II (3 cr.)
This course focuses on the application of nursing theory and research findings in restoring and maintaining individual and family functioning for those dealing with multisystem alterations. Students will explore the ethical, legal, and moral implications of treatment options and identify tactics to maximize nursings effectiveness in facilitating individuals and families through the health care system. Students will complete a scholarly analysis as part of their practicum experience.
H365 Nursing Research (3 cr.)
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.
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.
