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COURSES:

NURSING (NUR)

*See the Fees bulletin for information about possible fees to cover insurance and additional costs for laboratory courses in nursing.

101 Terminology for Health Care Professionals and
Consumers. (2)
Vocabulary used in nursing and related health fields. Includes terms related to diagnostic tests and pharmacology. Implications for use in communication and education of health care consumers.

102 Diabetes Education for Health Care Consumers. (2) Describes the types of diabetes, causes, complications, and management modalities for health care consumers.

103 Health Behavior: Cultural Variations. (3)
Examines culturally based health beliefs and values, preventive and therapeutic health practices and caring behaviors in diverse cultural and ethnic groups in the United States. Classroom and experiential activities address cultural assessment, awareness, and competence.

201 Complementary and Alternative Health Modalities. (2) Focuses on an introduction to complementary and alternative modalities through essential concepts of holistic healing including the philosophical basis and information about various healing modalities for society at large.

*230 Health Appraisal Across the Lifespan. (3)
Begins application of nursing process and professional role development using a holistic approach with emphasis on assessment. Focuses on psychomotor skills, data collection and interpretation, communication, and interviewing skills, and beginning health promotion activities with clients across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
Prerequisite: ANAT 201; BIO 113; CHEM 101; PSYSC 100; PHYSL 215; SOC 100; departmental permission.
Parallel: NUR 232.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing students.

*232 Basic Concepts. (4)  
Introduces professional role development, nursing process, communication, health promotion, illness and disease management, information and health care technologies, ethics, health care systems, human diversity, theory, and research.  Focuses on selected psychomotor skills in the nursing care of clients in a variety of settings.  
Prerequisite: ANAT 201; BIO 113; CHEM 101; PSYSC 100; PHYSL 215; SOC 100; departmental permission.  
Parallel: NUR 230.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

234 LPN Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing. (5)  
Enhances application of nursing process using a holistic approach emphasizing assessment. Integrates previous knowledge and skills in building psychomotor skills, data collection and interpretation, and communication and interviewing skills with clients across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
Prerequisite: ANAT 201; BIO 113; CHEM 101; PHYSL 215; PSYSC 100; SOC 100; departmental permission.
Open only to LPN students entering baccalaureate Nursing program.

299X Experimental/Developmental Topics. (1-6)
Topics relevant to the discipline. Course titles to be announced before each semester.
A total of 6 hours of credit may be earned.

300 Environmental Contexts in Health Care. (3)
Multidimensional aspects of health based on ecological, economic and ethical issues. Environment related to internal and external dimensions (psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, physical) of health. Environment and health care in individual, family and community at local, national, and international levels.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or departmental permission; completion of all other courses in minor (other than ID 400).
Open only to minors in environmentally sustainable practices or by instructor permission.

301 Sexual Health: Significance for Nursing. (2)  
Information about nursing assessments and interventions that will help clients and families cope with sexual problems related to a variety of stressors. Encompasses a broad range of clinically pertinent topics amenable to nursing approaches.
Prerequisite: NUR 230 or 232.
Parallel: NUR 230 or 232.

302 Nursing Foundations and Issues. (3)  
Examines the role of the professional nurse: provider of care, designer/manager/coordinator of care, and member of profession.  Expands knowledge of nursing as related to information/health care technologies, ethics, global health care, health care systems, policy, research, human diversity, and theory.  
Prerequisite: ANAT 201; BIO 113; CHEM 101; COMM 210; EDPSY 250, 355; FCSFN 340; PHYSL 215; SOC 100; departmental permission.  
Open only to nursing majors with RN licenses.

*303 Health Assessment. (3)  
Enhances skills in performing total health assessment of diverse clients across the lifespan.  Learning experiences include selected case studies and performance of health assessments in a variety of health care settings.  
Prerequisite or parallel: NUR 302; departmental permission.  
Open only to nursing majors with R.N. licenses.

304 Health Policy: Issues and Impact. (3)
Examines current health policy issues: history, contest, and stakeholders. Applies World Health Organization primary health care principles. Reviews decision making processes. Includes health care delivery and reform issues.

307 Gerontological Nursing. (3)
Introduces nursing approaches aimed at managing unique needs of the elderly with best care practices. Normal and pathological changes, common disease processes, cultural diversity, psychological function, nutrition, pain, pharmacology, abuse, dying, legal and ethical concerns are among topics included.
Prerequisite: NUR 230; departmental permission.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing students and registered nurses.

314 Nursing Statistics. (3)
Focus is on understanding the basic statistical analysis methods, their application, computation, and interpretations. Linking statistical analysis procedures to research will be emphasized. Learn how and why to select specific statistical methods and then interpret the results.
Prerequisite: departmental permission.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing students and registered nurses.

320 Pharmacotherapeutics. (2)
Applies the problem-solving process to the nurse's role in administering medication using nursing knowledge from previous science and nursing courses.
Prerequisite: NUR 230 or 232.

322 Research in Nursing. (3)  
Develops skills to be a consumer of nursing research.  Applies research findings for improved nursing practice, and explores ethical aspects of research. Provides a foundation for graduate research.  
Prerequisite: NUR 230, 232 (NUR 302 for RN's only); departmental permission.  
Parallel: PSYSC 241 or SOC 382.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*330 Adult Health 1: Nursing Care Across the Adult Lifespan. (6)
Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and nursing care of adults with acute/chronic/disabling conditions across the lifespan. Includes emphasis on critical thinking, communication, diversity, and professional role development. Learning experiences occur in classroom, laboratory, hospital, and community settings.
Prerequisite: COMM 210; EDPSY 250, 355; FCSFN 340; NUR 230, 232; PHYSL 215; departmental permission.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*340 Adult Health 2: Nursing Care Across the Adult Lifespan. (6)  
Continues focus on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and nursing care of adults with acute/chronic/disabling conditions across the lifespan. Includes emphasis on critical thinking, communication, diversity, and professional role development. Learning experiences occur in classroom, laboratory, hospital, and community settings.  
Prerequisite: NUR 330; departmental permission.  
Parallel: NUR 322, 350.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*350 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. (4)  
Focuses on the role development of the professional nurse who provides care to clients experiencing behavioral and psychological problems in a variety of psychiatric settings. Emphasizes health promotion, holistic assessment, therapeutic communication, environmental (milieu) management and psychiatric illness management.  
Prerequisite: NUR 330; departmental permission.  
Parallel: NUR 322, 340.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*351 Operating Room Nursing. (2)
Concepts and theories of the professional nurse's role in the operating room setting. Provides selected experiences for application to clinical nursing.
Prerequisite: NUR 330.

*352 Oncology Nursing. (2)
Provides knowledge about cancer pathology, prevention, advances in therapy, cancer research, and skills needed to care for cancer clients. Reviews computer and video technologies used in client care. Discusses psychosocial concepts related to care of clients and caregivers.
Prerequisite: NUR 340; departmental permission.

375 Economic Issues of Nursing. (2)
Introduces basic concepts of economics in relation to nursing practice. Content will include the current and future economic issues facing the health care industry, especially those affecting nursing practice.

*401 Applied Nursing Concepts. (4)
Synthesizes professional role with individuals and families across the lifespan experiencing acute, chronic, disabling, and multisystem crisis in a variety of settings.  Synthesizes concepts of illness and disease management, health promotion, information and health care technologies, policies, theory, ethics, human diversity, and research.
Prerequisite: NUR 302, 303; departmental permission.
Open only to nursing majors with RN licenses.

*404 Community Health. (4)
Applies nursing process with individuals, families, and aggregates across the lifespan in various community settings. Uses concepts of public health, nursing, health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, epidemiology, information/health care technologies, human diversity, research, and health care systems/policies emphasizing collaborative practice and use of community resources. Prerequisite: NUR 322, 340, 350; HSC 180; PSYSC 241 or SOC 382; (NUR 401 for RN’s only); departmental permission.
Parallel: NUR 406, 408.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing students.

*405 Management and Leadership. (3)  
Evaluates the professional nurse's role as a care designer, coordinator and manager. Emphasizes traditional management functions such as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, collaborating, delegating, and evaluating.  
Prerequisite: NUR 302; departmental permission.  
Open only to nursing majors with R.N. licenses.

*406 Nursing of Childbearing Families. (4)
Applies professional role as provider, designer, manager, and coordinator of care with women and childbearing families in a variety of settings. Applies strategies for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention with diverse childbearing families. Prerequisite: NUR 322, 340, 350; HSC 180; PSYSC 241 or SOC 382; departmental permission.
Parallel: NUR 404, 408.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*408 Pediatrics. (4)
Applies professional role as provider, designer, manager, and coordinator of care with families and the pediatric population in a variety of settings. Applies strategies for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention with diverse populations. Prerequisite: NUR 322, 340, 350; HSC 180; PSYSC 241 or SOC 382; departmental permission.
Parallel: NUR 404, 406.
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*423 Seminar: Transition to Practice. (2)  
Examines trends in nursing and health care: historical, legal, political, and ethical perspectives. Includes assessments and practice opportunities for NCLEX-RN.  
Prerequisite: NUR 404, 406, 408; departmental permission. 
Parallel: NUR 425, 430.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

*425 Leadership and Management. (4)  
Applies leadership and management principles to nursing and health care systems. Emphasizes communication, negotiation, delegation, coordination, and evaluation skills. Outcome based practice and interdisciplinary teamwork are utilized in diverse clinical settings.  
Prerequisite: NUR 404, 406, 408; departmental permission. 
Parallel: NUR 423, 430.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

426 Health Assessment. (2)
Enhancement of skills in performing total physical assessment with clients of diverse ages. Learning experiences include lecture, demonstration, and practice in clinical laboratory.
Prerequisite: departmental permission.

*430 Adult Health 3. (4)  
Synthesizes concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and nursing care of adults with multisystem crises.  Emphasizes critical thinking, communication, diversity, and professional role development in a variety of settings.  
Prerequisite: NUR 404, 406, 408; departmental permission. 
Parallel: NUR 423, 425.  
Open only to baccalaureate nursing majors.

456 Issues in Health, Illness, and Aging. (3)  
Focuses on issues in health as a multidimensional experience for older adults.  Includes the topics illness management, ethical decision making, health care delivery systems, wellness, disease prevention, family caregiving, economic perspectives, and cultural concerns. Emphasizes application of information by consumers and health care professionals, specifically nurses.  
Open to all students.

499 Independent Study. (1-4)
Designed for students who want to pursue independent study in nursing under the direction of a faculty advisor.
Prerequisite: departmental permission.
A total of 4 hours of credit may be earned.

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