Accelerated BS Nursing

NURS2003 Focuses on the development of critical- thinking skills in order to forumlate independent judgments, make decisions essential for nursing practice, and develop fundamental professional attitudes and values. To this end, students are introduced to critical thinking skills, nursing theory, the nursing process, role socialization and the nursing curriculum's conceptual model of caring as it applies to the well elderly population.

NURS2004 The major focus of this course is the theoretical basis of essential fundamental psychomotor skills necessary for professional nursing practice.

NURS2005 This course, which builds on the development of critical thinking skills, assists students to define who they are, as individuals, in relation to attitudes of self and interactions with others, including one's family. Topics covered include an assessment of self, stress- management, empowerment, family-systems concepts, cultural awareness and bereavement.

NURS2007 This course is designed to provide the students with current knowledge concerning the wide spectrum of pharmacologic agents. Emphasis is placed on the nurse's role in the administration of safe and therapeutically effective drug therapy. Major drug classifications are discussed in relation to administration methods, pharmacologic effects, toxicity, and nursing precautions and implications. Pharmacotherapeutics is discussed in relation to life span development changes, religious preferences and cultural customs.

NURS2200 The major focus of this course is the development of comprehensive Health Assessment skills. Measures of physical and functional status and health promotion strategies for each body system will be discussed.

NURS2210 This course focuses on alterations in biologic processes that affect the body's homeostasis, including etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and treatment of selected health problems. Knowledge of basic and clinical sciences is applied to simulated clinical nursing practice situations.

NURS3208 This course introduces the student to basic economic concepts and theories to analyze selected issues/problems in health care and to inform decision making and policy development. Fiscal management and basic budgeting concepts will also be covered.

NURS3209 An interdisciplinary exploration of ethical issues in today's health care practice with particular emphasis on the role of the professional in ethical decision making. Topics include: values clarification, ethical theories and principles, human subjects in research, informed consent, advance directives, euthanasia, and physican assisted suicide. Work assignments include case analysis using ethical decision-making models. Prerequisite: Nurs 3300, Nurs 3310, or Baccalaureate degree or permission of nursing faculty.

NURS3300 This course focuses on selected health needs on adult clients and integrates physiologic, sociocultural and behavioral alterations throughout. A broad scientific knowledge base is presented with an emphasis on prevention, caring, empowerment and critical thinking. Current nursing therapies for managing care of adults with pathopsychologic alterations are presented.

NURS3310 Within the context of exploding knowledge, increasing client acuity and increasing demand for professional accountability, the focus of this course is on application of crucial theoretical and clinical issues essential to the practice of psychiatric- mental health nursing in the 21st century.

NURS3320 This course focuses on women's health and its impact on families. Students address the health care needs of women throughout their life span, and nursing care needs of the child bearing family, from conception through the puerperium. Among the topics covered are the reproductive years, women's interface with the health care system, health problems unique to women, health care issues that affect women and women's role within the family.

NURS3340 In this course, students analyze the nursing care needs of the child from infancy to young adulthood within the context of a family. Emphasis is placed on the application of knowledge from the biological sciences, humanities and nursing to clinical nursing practice.

NURS4410 This course emphasizes holistic care of clients in the community, considering families and undividuals in a variety of settings, e.g., home, workplace, school, and clinics.

NURS4420 An exploration of the current health care environment with implications for beginning- level managers. Topics to be discussed include managed care, health care delivery models, interdisciplinary team building, resource management, performance improvement and conflict resolution.

NURS4430 The professional nurse as a research consumer. Critical appraisal skills developed as a basis for evaluating research finding for application to clinical practice. Learning activities designed to facilitate students' understanding of nursing research and professional role development.

NURS4440 This capstone course focuses on illness management strategies that integrate information from nursing, medicine, surgery, and pharmacotherapeutics. Current therapies and interventions are explored.

NURS4460 This course will focus on the application of critical thinking skills to the comprehensive NCLEX-RN preparation program. Managing test anxiety and building confidence needed to pass the NCLEX-RN examination are an integral part of this course.