RN to BSN Nursing (with Associate Degree)

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.

NURS3371 As the first offering of the sequence for the RN student, this course serves as a bridge from the RN's prior education to the BSN program. The focus of the course is to develop the professional self as the baccalaureate prepared nurse in today's changing health care system; examine the evolving health care delivery system and the context in which delivery takes place; and issues, opportunities, and constraints the profession faces today and into the next century.

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.

NURS6600 Philosophies of science, nursing theories and conceptual models will be analyzed as guides to nursing education, administration, research and practice.

NURS7702 This course critically analyzes the theories and research from biological and social sciences and the humanities which explain/ predict human responses to health and illness. The patholophysiological changes will be related to the cues and symptoms for diagnosis of episodic, common, and recurring health problems. Students will explore traditional and non-traditional approaches care. The focus of this course is nursing interventions that promote health, prevent illness, ameliorate pathological responses, and foster quality of life.

UNIV2001 In the third course in the University Core program, students learn to describe and analyze cultural phenomena in their own lives, to grapple with cultural differences and to understand cultural conflicts. Through a study of samples across a variety of cultures, students examine the fluidity and multiplicity of cultural identities and borders. Ways in which cultures changes, how cultures shape and are shaped by individuals, how misunderstands and conflicts arise within and between cultures, and how those differences evolve are central to the course. Critical thinking skills are a developed and brought to bear on these topics.

UNIV2002 In the fourth course in the University Core program, students develop essential aspects of critical thinking and apply those skills in evaluating international systems, environmental issues, and human rights questions. Not only will this course demonstrate the global dimensions of crucial contemporary issues, it will also develop the relational thinking that students will be expected to exercise in other academic contexts and throughout the rest of their personal and professional lives. In other words, this course is as much about how to study and think about global problems and relationships as it is a course about specific global issues.