RN-BSN TO MSN OPTION
PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
3 credits
This course examines professional nursing practice and clinical practice competencies specified by professional nursing organizations, nursing accrediting agencies, and private foundation and federal reports. Students expand knowledge of workforce issues and informatics to enhance patient and health care provider safety, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care. Professional writing, electronic portfolio development, and informatics skills are emphasized
HEALTH ASSESSMENT
3 credits
DEVELOPMENTS AND CONTROVERSIES IN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
3 credits
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
3 credits
This course focuses on the integration of evidence into clinical nursing practice. Sources of evidence will include nursing research, integrative reviews, practice guidelines, quality improvement data, and case studies. Students will have the opportunity to critically evaluate evidence for its validity and applicability to nursing practice. Historical perspectives of evidence-based nursing practice also will be explored.
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
3 credits
NURSING LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
3 credits
Students explore the political, organizational, social, cultural, and economic factors affecting nursing practice. Acute care, long-term care, and community-based settings are examined regarding their organizational structures, health-care financing, and reimbursement challengers. Budgeting principles are analyzed with an emphasis on creating a budget on a spreadsheet for a program of nursing services. Clinical data repositories and interdisciplinary efforts are scrutinized within the context of patient-centered, safe care, and process improvement initiatives. Prerequisite: NUR 301
SAFETY STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
3 credits
This course explores medication and other health-care errors that threaten patient safety. The impact of health-care errors is examined from the perspectives of consumers, health-care providers, professional organizations, legislators, hospitals, and health-care delivery agencies. Systems improvement initiatives are investigated with the goal of preventing health-care errors. Interdisciplinary and collaborative roles of consumers, legal counsel, and health-care providers, including nurses, pharmacists, and physicians, are emphasized. Prerequisite: NUR 301
NUR 607 ( Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADVANCED EDUCATION NURSING ADMINISTRATION IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
3 credits
This course examines the evolution of advanced education nursing in the context of changing health care delivery systems. Students explore health care policy development and examine systems of delivering patient care in relation to financial, ethical, legal, sociocultural, legislative-political, and professional concerns. Program development, informatics, fiscal management of health care services, budgeting, and reimbursement issues are emphasized. Students practice interdisciplinary collaboration and coalition-building skills in leadership roles extending beyond the traditional health care environment.
NUR 608 (Fall, Spring, Summer)
POPULATION-BASED CARE AND ADVANCED EDUCATION NURSING
3 credits
In this course, students develop cultural competence regarding the role of the advanced education nurse by meeting the health-care needs of diverse groups and populations. Health promotion, disease prevention, resource utilization, and health education responsibilities are examined. Students utilize basic epidemiological concepts, group theories, and needs-assessment approaches for vulnerable populations. They explore the varying needs of diverse groups in community settings through a cultural blueprint.
UNDERGRADUATE NURSING ELECTIVE
3 credits
CARING THEORY, CARING PRACTICE
3 credits
This course examines human caring and nurses’ contributions to the health and healing of the people served. It emphasizes the history, research, and aesthetics of caring from the perspectives of nursing and other disciplines. Emphasis is placed on critique of caring research, scholarly and aesthetic writing on caring, and resources available to study caring. International caring and self-care are analyzed.
