Nursing
Courses
NURS 120 Contemporary Health Care 3.0 Credits
Students will examine the role of nursing within the health care system; recognizing historical influences on current practice, organizational structures of healthcare, and informatics to promote quality care. Nursing standards, ethics, scholarship, policy and government are introduced.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 221 Concepts of Pathophysiology in Nursing 3.0 Credits
This course builds upon the theoretical foundations of nursing theory, human anatomy, and physiology by addressing basic concepts, principles, and processes associated with common genetics, pathologies, physiologic alterations in body systems, and the body’s ability to compensate for these changes.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSCI 103 [Min Grade: C] and MATH 101 [Min Grade: C] and BIO 226 [Min Grade: C] and (NURS 120 [Min Grade: C] or NURS 121 [Min Grade: C])
NURS 225 Health Assessment for Nursing Practice 5.0 Credits
This course will focus on the concepts, skills, and attitudes of health assessment that is fundamental to professional nursing practice within a framework of clinical decision-making. It will also emphasize the professional nurse/patient relationship that promotes and assesses health throughout the lifespan.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NACE or major is NURS.
Prerequisites: HSCI 103 [Min Grade: C] and MATH 101 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 226
NURS 226 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice 6.0 Credits
This course will focus on the concepts, skills, and attitudes fundamental to professional nursing practice within a framework of clinical decision-making. It will also emphasize the professional nurse/patient relationship within the framework of relationship based care that promotes health throughout the lifespan.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NACE or major is NURS.
Prerequisites: HSCI 103 [Min Grade: C] and MATH 101 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 225
NURS 310 Courageous Action: Leading Authentically 3.0 Credits
This course is the first in a series of three courses included in the Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellow’s Program. Completion of all courses earns students nine credits and recognition as a Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellow. Courageous Action: Leading Authentically will enable students in the undergraduate health professions programs an opportunity to embark on paths of personal leadership development; gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of differences; provide students with ideas, techniques, and tools to assist them in their leadership development journeys; explore concepts such as the power of your life story, discovering your authentic self, knowing and clarifying your values, leadership principles, ethical boundaries, and understanding your motivated capabilities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NURS.
NURS 311 Group Dynamics and Leading Teams 3.0 Credits
This course is the 2nd in a series of 3 courses of the Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellow’s Program. NURS 311 focuses on leading teams and understanding group dynamics that are inherently linked to interpersonal processes/relationships and structural characteristics that influence teams and individual behavior during interactions. This course will explore various aspects of group dynamics such as emotional intelligence, power, perception, motivation, leadership, and decision-making. The goal is to develop skills in diagnosing opportunities and threats that face teams, enhance teamwork expertise as well as one’s judgment, understanding, and competence to be better facilitators of one’s own and others’ learning in a variety of group situations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 310 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 312 Leadership in Action and Community Health 3.0 Credits
This course is the third in a series of 3 courses of the Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellow’s Program. Grounded in a social justice perspective, this course encourages critical thinking about health outcomes framed by the broad context of the political and social environment. This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to explore what it means to be civically engaged since they are required to engage in 40 hours of service in the community throughout Spring Quarter. The goals are to support understanding of complex health issues and to empower students in their development as agents of positive change. This course will draw heavily on students' involvement in service and will weave these together with elements of other academic coursework and future academic/career goals.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 310 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 311 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 317 [WI] Genetics for Healthcare Professionals 3.0 Credits
This course will explore genetic concepts and principles as they pertain to human variation in health and disease. Theoretical research and literature on selected disorders including immunity and cancer will be reviewed and discussed with emphasis on clinical application. Multidisciplinary approaches to intervention will be discussed from a nursing perspective. Political, social and ethical issues raised by recent advances such as genetic engineering, gene therapy, reproductive technology and the Human Genome Project will be analyzed. Clinical application of moral, ethical and legal issues will be integrated throughout the course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 320 Health and Illness Concepts I 6.0 Credits
This course will focus on nursing care of common health alterations for the adult population. Emphasis will be on the development of evidence-based, holistic care pertaining to the prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term management of alterations related to the concepts of oxygenation, homeostasis, and perfusion.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 120 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 221 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 225 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 226 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 323
NURS 321 Health and Illness Concepts II 6.0 Credits
This course will focus on nursing care of common health alterations. The focus will be on the development of evidence-based, holistic care pertaining to the prevention, treatment, recovery, and long term management of alterations related to homeostasis and protection and movement.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 329
NURS 322 Concepts of Mental Health Nursing 6.0 Credits
This course focuses on the development of competencies for the practice of mental health nursing with emphasis on the use of self in relationships with patients and health team members. An understanding of the brain-behavior connection and the importance of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship will provide the framework for exploring factors which contribute to stress, maladaptive behaviors and mental illness. Emphasis will be on the development of evidence-based, holistic care pertaining to the prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term management of alterations related primarily to the concepts of coping and stress tolerance, emotions, cognitive functions, and maladaptive behavior.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: PSY 120 [Min Grade: C] (Can be taken Concurrently) and NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 323 Nursing Pharmacology Concepts I 3.0 Credits
This course introduces the professional nursing student to the concepts of pharmacology and drug therapies, pharmacological-therapeutic classes of drugs, and important drug information resources. Knowledge of pharmacology provides the nurse with information to provide drug related patient care; optimizing beneficial effects of medications while minimizing adverse effects. The focus of the course is pharmacology basics and drugs affecting the cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, and endocrine systems. In addition, immune and biologic modifiers, chemotherapeutic agents, and psychotherapeutic drugs are presented. Legal, ethical, and cultural considerations in pharmacology as well as lifespan considerations with regard to pharmacotherapeutics and medication administration are addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 120 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 221 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 225 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 226 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 320
NURS 325 [WI] Critical Issues in Nursing 4.5 Credits
The health care system has undergone dramatic shifts, driven by changing economic, demographic, and technological forces. This course explores the impact of these forces on health care delivery, and concerns relating to ethical, legal, and social issues that influence nursing practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
NURS 326 Reproductive Health Across the Lifespan 6.0 Credits
This course focuses on management of human reproductive health and sexual issues with an emphasis on women and newborn health. It explores social determinants of health and their impact on health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention for the child bearing family. Women’s health clinical settings will be utilized for clinical practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 322 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 327 Population Health Concepts 6.0 Credits
The focus of this course is the professional nurse's role in working with aggregates in the community. The principles of health promotion and illness prevention form the basis of effective population health nursing practice. Epidemiological and multiple sources of data are used to understand the social and ecological determinants of health.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 322 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 328 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 328 Pediatric Health Concepts 6.0 Credits
The concepts of human development and family dynamics in healthcare will be introduced. Building upon the concepts from previous courses, students will develop evidence-based, holistic, and ethically sound plans of care for pediatric populations. Prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term management of health alterations in pediatric populations will be addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 322 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 329 Nursing Pharmacology Concepts II 3.0 Credits
This course will introduce the professional nursing student to the concepts of pharmacology and drug therapies, pharmacologic-therapeutic classes of drugs, and important drug information resources. Pharmacological knowledge goes beyond medication preparation and administration and involves knowledge of the mechanism of action, drug effects, therapeutic uses, side effects, and adverse effects. The focus of the course will be on pharmacology basics and drugs affecting the gastrointestinal, immunological, neurological, musculoskeletal, and dermatological systems. Legal, ethical, and cultural considerations in pharmacology, herbal, botanical and nutritional supplements, and lifespan perspectives for medication administration will also be discussed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 320 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 321
NURS 330 [WI] Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice 4.5 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the theoretical and research bases on which practice is built. Students will examine the knowledge that guides nursing interventions and critique published research reports. The importance of reviewing the nursing literature in order to maintain currency in practice will be addressed. Ethical issues as they relate to research, theory, and practice will be discussed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
Prerequisites: HSCI 345 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 325 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 333 Appreciative Inquiry into Nursing: Science, Theory, and Patterns of Knowing 4.5 Credits
This course examines the scientific, theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical bases of professional nursing. Students explore classic literature and essays that have shaped and guided the development of the nursing profession. Nursing theories, grand and middle-range, are reviewed, critiqued, and considered as opportunities to influence the context of nursing care and to positively impact nursing outcomes. Students draw connections between theory and practice and consider how nurses’ ways of knowing influence allyship, advocacy, and activism.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 334 Nursing Research: Investigations to Improve Health Outcomes 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing process as a whole and explores each of its component parts. Students will contrast quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. Critical appraisal tools will guide research study evaluations to determine the quality of selected studies. Institutional Review Board processes will be considered in the pursuit of human subjects’ protections. Nursing science will be examined as a component of empirical ways of knowing within the nursing profession.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSCI 345 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 335 Genetics and Genomics: Application to Nursing Practice 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on current issues in genetics, genomics, and pharmacogenomics and healthcare. Genetic and genomic influences across the healthcare continuum (health prevention, health promotion, disease management, and personalized medicine) are addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 338 Introduction to Complementary & Integrative Health 3.0 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the underpinning philosophy and practice of complementary and integrative health (CIH). It presents an evidence-based review of the major categories including: phytomedicine, clinical aromatherapy, mind-body interventions, and the role of spirituality in health and healing. In addition, students explore effective relaxation techniques that help to integrate the mind-body-spirit connection, which support health and well-being.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 340 Transformational Leadership 4.5 Credits
The purpose of this course is to broaden the Registered Nurse’s scope of knowledge in transformational leadership and how it can be implemented formally and informally in the healthcare setting. Clear communication improves patient outcomes as well as creating a healthier work environment for all providers. These two themes (Communication and Healthy Work Environments) are crucial elements introduced in this course. The course also expands the learner’s skills of self and situational leadership.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 341 Using Genetics and Genomics to Inform Nursing Care Delivery 4.5 Credits
The course focuses on pharmacogenetics with integration of related nursing practice concerns including ethical, legal, and social issues. This course focuses on specific diseases, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, prenatal diseases, and psychiatric illnesses. Students learn to conduct individual and family genetic risk assessments, construct human pedigrees, and identify red flags that necessitate comprehensive evaluation. Students investigate current issues in genetics, genomics, and pharmacogenomics and healthcare as well as genetic and genomic influences across the healthcare continuum.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 342 Inclusive and Equitable Health Assessment: Promoting Health; Respecting Diversity 4.5 Credits
This course seeks to enhance professional nurses’ expertise in health assessment by broadening and deepening their comfort with and knowledge of healthcare system barriers to equitable and inclusive care. Current practices, particularly typical health assessment practices, are critiqued and opportunities for creating a clinical milieu and care encounter experience that are respectful and excellent are investigated. Physical examination, patient/client interviewing, history-taking and diagnostic tests are explored from the perspective of diversity, equity, and inclusion during care delivery, particularly health assessment. LGBTQ+ and other marginalized groups’ health assessment needs are explicated and explored.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 343 Leading and Managing Complex Systems of Health 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on nursing leadership and management in the healthcare environment with the goal of enhancing students’ development as effective and productive leaders and team members. Leadership and management are differentiated. Just culture and quality and safety competencies, including patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration, safety, quality improvement and informatics, are examined. The nurse leader’s responsibility for policy development and implementation are discussed. Personal opportunities for professional development are analyzed. Systems theory is explored and applied to nursing care delivery systems. Basic ideas of healthcare economics are identified and related to healthcare decision making and delivery.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 344 Safety Science and Quality Improvement: Delivering a Safe and Excellent Care Experience 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on evidence-based strategies and resources that are designed and implemented to enhance the safety and improve the quality of delivered care in healthcare systems. QSEN competencies are examined as expectations of professional nursing practice. Safety science is investigated, and quality improvement methods are introduced. Events that pose patient safety threats and responses to safeguard patients are considered. Workplace violence in the healthcare environment and its negative implications to the healthcare team and patient safety are explored.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 345 Holistic Self-Care 3.0 Credits
Holistic Self-Care provides students with an A-Z approach to “living” a holistic, balanced life, complete with step-by-step guidelines necessary to incorporate dietary and lifestyle changes and effective stress reduction and stress management techniques to assist in navigating through the common challenges associated with student life and beyond. Students will be required to purchase a "Holistic Student Stress Reduction Kit", complete with specific essential oils, Meditation DVD, and guided stress reduction techniques.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 346 Health Assessment 6.0 Credits
This course is designed to assist professional nurses in developing interviewing skills, physical assessment techniques, and preventive health interventions when working with diverse and vulnerable populations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
Prerequisites: NURS 325 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 347 Educating Patients, Professionals, and the Public to Improve Health Outcomes 4.5 Credits
This course is designed to teach students best practices for educating patients, family members, professional and ancillary staff, and interprofessional colleagues. Students explore the contemporary challenges of health education with keen consideration of health maintenance; health restoration; and disease and disability prevention. Heath literacy in the adult population, including those clients living with disabilities and chronic illnesses, is emphasized. Assessment of instructional materials is practiced and opportunities for technology use in education are explored.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 348 Responding to the Challenges of Global and Population-based Health Needs 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on global heath needs and population-based, aggregate-focused nursing care using epidemiology, public health models, population health nursing principles, and health agency reports. Students learn about social and structural determinants of health and the influence of these factors on the circumstances of health within community aggregates locally and internationally. Current health issues are analyzed and discussed from a nursing perspective with a focus on health outcomes. Disparities in health are examined.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 349 Transitions of Care: Investigating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care across the Life Span 4.5 Credits
This course explores palliative and hospice care delivery models and differentiates them by investigating their goals, priorities, insurability, and impact on the patient and family health experience. Students examine these transitions in care and consider published databased literature and gray literature to develop a rich understanding of the opportunities inherent in these specialized approaches to symptom management, curative treatment, and end-of-life care. Opportunities for professional development are considered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 350 Independent Study in Nursing 1.0-3.0 Credit
This is a guided independent study. Students study a subject under the supervision of the nursing faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 9 credits
NURS 351 Healthy Aging: Personal and Professional Opportunities to Promote Aging Well 4.5 Credits
This course is designed to stimulate new ways to think about aging and creative, evidence—based opportunities to promoting aging well when guiding personal health and promoting the health of others. Critical and timely issues concerning aging are explored including aging in place, dementia care, transitions, hand-offs, and safety. Professional resources are investigated. Aging is examined within the context of intersectionality; and diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges and opportunities are prioritized.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 380 Complex Systems of Care: Technology, Patient Safety & Quality 6.0 Credits
The course explores potential and actual ethical implications of advances in science and technology and the importance of creating a culture of safety within the healthcare environment. The course provides learners with opportunities to explore and create linkages between technology, cost-effectiveness, safety, quality outcomes and the delivery of care. Course activities promote critical reflection and communication skills needed for learners to become active, effective, and safe members of interdisciplinary care teams.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
Prerequisites: NURS 325 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 407 [WI] Issues in Aging and Longevity 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on current issues in promoting longevity with healthy aging. Current biopsychosocial theories on aging are explored. The multidisciplinary needs of older adults, including relationship challenges, are addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
Prerequisites: NURS 325 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 330 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 410 Pharmacology for Practicing Nurses 5.0 Credits
This course builds upon the practicing nurses’ educational and experiential foundation in pharmacotherapeutics. Course emphasis includes the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drug classes commonly encountered by the professional nurse. The interaction between pharmacodynamics and pathophysiology of disease states is analyzed. Critical evaluation of complex safety and interaction issues is developed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
NURS 420 Health and Illness Concepts III 6.0 Credits
This course will focus on the nursing care, assessment and management of patients with complex healthcare needs related to the constructs of homeostasis, regulation, perfusion, oxygenation, protection, and attributes and role of the nurse.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 326 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 328 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 421 Holistic Gerontological Nursing 6.0 Credits
This course will focus on a holistic and interprofessional approach to nursing care and coordination to meet the unique health needs of a diverse and growing population of older adults. The continuum of aging, including normal changes of aging, health and illness, acute and chronic conditions, and the end of life will be emphasized. Students' clinical experiences will be in a variety of settings reflective of health promotion and palliative care delivery options available to meet the health and illness trajectory needs of the older adult.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 320 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 323 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 328 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 422 Leadership Concepts in Nursing 0.0-3.0 Credits
This course will focus on the professional nursing role in applying principles of leadership and management across the continuum of care. Emerging and new roles for nurse entrepreneurs and professional practitioners will be explored. Also emphasizes the role of the professional nurse in efficient patient care management in complex health care settings and advocacy in health policy.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 423 [WI] Research Basis of Nursing Practice 4.0 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the theoretical and research basis on which practice is built. Students will examine the knowledge that guides nursing interventions and critique published research reports. The importance of reviewing the nursing literature in order to maintain currency in practice will be addressed. Ethical issues as they relate to research, theory and practice will be discussed. This course is for BSN Co-Op students only.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 321 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 329 [Min Grade: C] and HSCI 345 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 455 The Science and Art of Self-Care 3.0 Credits
The objective of this course is designed to familiarize students with an understanding of the theoretical basis that underlies the principle of stress and the need for self-care. The intention of the course is to help students evaluate current stressors in order to initiate healthier coping skills and other self-care modalities. This course emulates the current mood of the American Nurses Association’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 460 Population Health: Local & Global 6.0 Credits
Using the framework of Social Determinants of Health (Healthy People 2020) this course explores the skills, research, and roles needed by a community/public health professional working as part of an interdisciplinary team including community/global -based partners and health officials to promote a healthier community. The student will apply skills in community assessment; program planning and evidence-based population health interventions in order to help identify populations within the community attain and maintain their optimum level of health. In this course, ‘community’ may be defined as either a local or global community of the student’s choice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL or major is NURS.
Prerequisites: NURS 330 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 325 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 465 Senior Capstone in Nursing 4.5 Credits
The student, with faculty supervision, plans a project that will be implemented this quarter. This project will integrate the academic and practical knowledge the student has acquired in the RN-BSN curriculum. Students will develop objectives relevant to the project, critique the literature, and present a plan for implementation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL and classification is Senior.
Prerequisites: NURS 407 [Min Grade: C] (Can be taken Concurrently) and NURS 325 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 330 [Min Grade: C]
NURS 481 Issues & Resolutions in End of Life Care 3.0 Credits
Promotes understanding of complexities associated with care of clients and families across the lifespan at end-of-life. Explores nursing management of individuals and families facing end-of-life care and decisions. Emphasis on evidenced-based practice in legal, ethical and professional decision-making framework. Conforms with AACN/ELNEC model.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NURS and classification is Senior.
NURS 482 Cultural Dimensions of Nursing Care 3.0 Credits
The focus of this course will be on strategies for providing culturally competent nursing care in a multicultural society. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based nursing practice within a framework of ethical, legal, and professional decision making.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NURS and classification is Senior.
NURS 483 Human Trafficking 3.0 Credits
This course introduces students to what human trafficking is, how to identify victims, what health problems are common among this population, special considerations to be aware of when working with trafficking victims and how to access services for them. In addition, the course will distinguish between various types of human trafficking/slavery such as sex trafficking, bonded and forced labor, domestic servant labor and child soldiers. It will also provide an overview of the history of human trafficking and counterstrategies, discuss the causes and physical, emotional and social consequences of human trafficking, and will assess the achievements of counter-strategies devised and implemented by governments, international organizations, private sectors and NGOs.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NURS 485 Perioperative Nursing I 3.0 Credits
This course is an introduction to the scope and standards of practice of the nurse in the perioperative environment. Emphasis will be on the development of essential foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes aligned with the fundamentals of perioperative practice designed for nursing schools by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Guidelines and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. Interrelated concepts of thermoregulation, homeostasis, hemostasis, protection, and safety will be stressed to enhance clinical judgement and clinical application. Simulation and perioperative units will be used for the evaluation of student’s ability to deliver care in the perioperative setting.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
NURS 486 Perioperative Nursing II 3.0 Credits
This course builds upon the foundation of Periop Nursing I and the scope, standards, and practice of the nurse in the delivery of patient centered, team based, collaborative, safe, evidence based and quality care for the perioperative patient. Emphasis will be on the continuation of essential foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes aligned with the fundamentals of perioperative practice designed for nursing schools by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Guidelines and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. Interrelated concepts of aseptic practices, universal protocol, quality and safety, positioning the perioperative patient, teamwork, collaboration and leadership will be stressed to enhance clinical judgement and clinical application.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits
Prerequisites: NURS 485 [Min Grade: B]
NURS 487 Perioperative Nursing III 3.0 Credits
This course builds upon the foundation of Periop Nursing II and the scope, standards, and practice of the nurse in the delivery of patient centered, team based, collaborative, safe, evidence based and quality care for the perioperative patient. Emphasis will be on the continuation of essential foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes aligned with the fundamentals of perioperative practice designed for nursing schools by the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Guidelines and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. Interrelated concepts of aseptic practices, universal protocol, quality and safety, positioning the perioperative patient, teamwork, collaboration and leadership will be stressed to enhance clinical judgment and clinical application.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits
Prerequisites: NURS 485 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 486 [Min Grade: B]
NURS 495 Comprehensive Nursing Concepts 3.0 Credits
This course will serve as a comprehensive review of important and essential concepts from the nursing curriculum. Students will focus on those concepts that they need to improve for the successful practice of professional nursing. Students will utilize the Nursing Academic Clinical Support Services (NACSS) to review procedures practiced throughout the nursing curriculum, in particular the core professional skills, and will use computerized testing to gauge their mastery of professional nursing content.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
Prerequisites: NURS 421 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 328 [Min Grade: C] and NURS 326 [Min Grade: C]
Corequisite: NURS 420
NURS I199 Independent Study in Nursing 1.0-3.0 Credit
The doctoral student works under the guidance of a faculty member to study in depth a topic related to their program of study. Independent study courses can be undertaken when there is no specific formal coursework available to support either the student's dissertation topic, or area of interest. Specific objectives and requirements are negotiated individually and the student will sign an Independent Study Contract. The course may be repeated more than once provided different faculty members supervise the learning experience.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 9 credits
NURS T180 Special Topics 0.0-3.0 Credits
Course consists of content that faculty or students have requested to meet special needs or interests. Content is variable and offered on a one-time, infrequent, or trial basis. Actual course description will be determined by the instructor. May be repeated up to 3 times for credit if topics vary.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits
NURS T280 Special Topics 0.0-3.0 Credits
Course consists of content that faculty or students have requested to meet special needs or interests. Content is variable and offered on a one-time, infrequent, or trial basis. Actual course description will be determined by the instructor. May be repeated up to 3 times for credit if topics vary.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits
NURS T380 Special Topics 0.0-3.0 Credits
Course consists of content that faculty or students have requested to meet special needs or interests. Content is variable and offered on a one-time, infrequent, or trial basis. Actual course description will be determined by the instructor. May be repeated up to 3 times for credit if topics vary.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits
NURS T480 Special Topics 0.0-3.0 Credits
Course consists of content that faculty or students have requested to meet special needs or interests. Content is variable and offered on a one-time, infrequent, or trial basis. Actual course description will be determined by the instructor. May be repeated up to 3 times for credit if topics vary.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits
