Nursing Core

Therapeutic Principles provides the theoretical principles and psychomotor skills associated with nursing interventions across health care delivery settings and populations. The course includes a classroom portion to enhance student comprehension of essential therapeutic principles and simulated learning opportunities to synthesize, apply, and refine clinical skills with the ultimate goal of providing quality and safe care to patients.

CARE includes a focus on Compassion, Awareness of self and cultural variance, Resilience, and Effective communication for interprofessional teams. This learner-centered seminar course facilitates student exploration of professional concepts foundational to safe, high quality, patient- & family-centered nursing care across all settings and populations and to enhance student awareness of self within the nurse-patient clinical encounter.

Using a common chronic disease, this seminar connects the patient to critical elements in the BSN Essentials and IOM Competencies. Real life, interactive opportunities connect the values and core professional concepts to patient experiences across the continuum of health care delivery. Students learn how care of the patient raises questions across multiple domains, such as basic science, culture & society, public policy, and healthcare costs.

Patient Centered Health Assessment focuses on obtaining a holistic health history and physical examination of the individual patient. The patient's developmental level and cultural, spiritual, and social dimensions provide the basis for developing a patient centered health assessment. Best practices are emphasized through the correct demonstration of physical examination techniques and the use of appropriate screening tools for clinical risks.

Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

Students delve into health policy, examining its effects on access, equity, quality, safety, and social justice. They analyze social, ethical, economic, and political factors impacting health and nursing services. The role of registered nurses in advocating and driving change in healthcare policies is also explored, focusing on improvements for patients, the nursing profession, and healthcare systems.

This course emphasizes the professional nurse's role in the care coordination of adults experiencing complex, multisystem health care needs. Clinical rotations provide students the opportunity to apply knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, health equity, person-centered compassionate care, clinical skills safety, and ethical concepts in a complex care setting. Prereq: Completion of all 3rd year BSN coursework and accelerated BSN coursework.

This course emphasizes the application of public health and population health theories. Students are introduced to a range of public health nursing roles and are able to integrate knowledge from previous clinical courses into this course. Students apply new skills and knowledge in a variety of community based and public health settings.

This course builds on acquired health assessment skills and introduces psychosocial research and theory needed to provide holistic care to clients across the lifespan. The course will explore mental health disorders and addictions experienced globally, evaluate research evidence to determine optimal interventions, master mental health nursing competencies, and learn resiliency principles needed to provide compassionate care for self and others.

This course equips students with essential competencies to advance nursing practice. Students review standardized taxonomies, conceptualize interprofessional collaboration, explore career pathways, practice proficiency in information technology, and expand mentorship strategies to achieve professional success. Activities and assessments emphasize critical thinking, scholarly analysis, and professional communication in writing and presentations.

This course analyzes and synthesizes knowledge, problem solving strategies, and experience from nursing education (prior and new) to cultivate clinical reasoning, inter-professional collaboration, and self-reflection. In addition, students incorporate professional development strategies that foster professional growth. Advance standing credits for prior nursing education are awarded upon successful completion of the course.

This course expands the student's understanding of baccalaureate generalist practice, societal and health care trends, and emerging nursing practice issues. Students propose solutions within the scope of nursing practice to address these issues. Students complete experiential learning projects focused on current trends and issues in health care, building upon their own nursing practice and previous learning experiences.

This course enhances the student's application of concepts used in population-focused nursing practice to promote and protect health in communities and populations and respond to public health threats. Students analyze relationships between determinants of health as they relate to the health of populations local to global, especially vulnerable populations. Students complete an experiential learning project focused on one community/population.

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in undergraduate nursing.

Using case studies and/or simulation activities, students synthesize knowledge and problem-solving strategies from all previous course work to cultivate critical and reflective thinking, clinical reasoning, decision-making, and a greater understanding of health promotion, specific disease-based processes and/or population health challenges. Students interact with experts as they complete each problem-based team learning activity.

Synthesis Practicum provides students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired from all previous courses. Students work directly with clinical preceptors in an intensive 168-hour clinical, refining their skills and exploring the professional nurse's role. They assume leadership roles and begin to transition to independent professional practice.

In this course, students will synthesize prior nursing knowledge to demonstrate proficiency in key competencies. Through preparation for national pre-licensure exams and engagement in the RN licensure process, students will deepen their understanding of baccalaureate generalist practice. The course also explores societal and healthcare trends and emerging issues in clinical nursing.