NRSG - Nursing

Introduces foundation concepts and essential components of the professional baccalaureate prepared nurse role. Examines nursing theory, quality practice, and ethical/legal issues.  Analyzes historical nursing advocates/issues as well as professional nursing topics/trends of today.

Course focuses on improving cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competency among health care professionals.  Serves to expand understanding of cultural diversity in relation to health care beliefs and practices. Prepares students to better implement and evaluate individualized plans to improve health care delivery in diverse settings and population groups, including the under-served.

Examines effective communication skills needed in today's complex health care environment.  Introduces theoretical principles and applications to enhance productive interaction with internal and external customers, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team members, in a variety of diverse health care settings.

Explores the impact of the vast amount of technology used in today's health care organizations.  Focuses on information technology as related to health care safety, quality improvement, resource utilization, and data management to improve outcomes.  Other topics include the ethical and legal issues impacting the use of technology in health care.

Examines age-specific/trans-cultural strategies to promote and improve healthy life styles across the life span. Explores effective risk assessment screening and health care educational resources in a variety of diverse settings. Global health concerns/trends are also evaluated.

Course explores cellular functions and pathology and the changes that occur within the human body as a response to various disease processes.  Discusses the role of the professional nurse in the management of specific health problems across the lifespan.  Prerequisites:  Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, and NRSG 30000 Professional Nursing Theory, Roles, and Practice.

Focuses on expanding and refining knowledge and assessment skills needed in performing a complete nursing health assessment across the life span.  Students will describe and analyze assessment findings.  Techniques explored: Interviewing, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation utilizing selected volunteers and/or simulated experiences.  Prerequisite:  NRSG 32006 Human Pathophysiology.

Examines the development of health care policy in the U.S. and the influences of societal, political, and economic environments on the health care industry.  Explores the interaction of government and other regulatory agencies within the health care industries.  Cross-listed with OAD 46000 Health Care Policy and Regulations.

Course serves as an introduction to the concepts of nursing research methods and theoretical principles.  Focuses on providing students with the knowledge base to define and critically analyze and evaluate clinical research problems and develop techniques to practically implement the evidence in leadership or professional practice roles.  Prerequisite:  PSY 36000 Statistics for Social Sciences or equivalent statistics course.

Examines health issues, disease prevention, and current trends in public health within diverse urban and rural settings.  Topics include evaluation of evidence-based nursing and various epidemiological principles to develop an effective understanding of the role of the professional nurse in the community setting.  Prerequisites:  NRSG 32003 Health Promotion Across the Life Cycle, NRSG 46003 Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice, and PSY 36000 Statistics for Social Sciences or equivalent.

Course utilizes theoretical principles of management to provide the student with the foundation to become an effective change agent/leader/manager in today's complex health care setting.  Topics include strategic planning, quality improvement, and organizational/system leadership.  Prerequisites:  NRSG 46003 Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice and NRSG 46000 Health Care Policy and Regulations.

Capstone course that provides the opportunity to reflect, integrate, and synthesize key concepts from previous courses as well as observations from "real-world" experiences.  Students prepare a written proposal on an approved topic of their choice which addresses a plan related to a relevant and timely nursing/health care concern.  Proposal incorporates knowledge obtained from previous program courses to include such areas as evidence-based research, patient safety, performance improvement, cultural competence, ethical leadership, and health care access.  Prerequisite:  Successful completion of all BSN courses or permission of the Director of Nursing.