COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
The RN-BSN curriculum includes 24 semester units of nursing coursework:
NURS 305
Professional Nursing (3)
Professional nursing roles are examined including nursing history, ethics, research, theories and frameworks. Introduces advocacy, health promotion, genetics, genomics, inter-professional practice and patient safety. Instructional technologies and information literacy are explored. This course satisfies the university’s upper-division baccalaureate writing requirement.
NURS 310
Nursing Research/Evidence-Based Practice (3)
Pre/Corequisite: Statistics, NURS 305.
Emphasis is placed on understanding and appraising research evidence and on the role of research in developing nursing knowledge. Research methods are examined and current issues are analyzed in relation to integration and implementation of evidence-based practice
NURS 340
Health Assessment (2)
Pre/Corequisite: NURS 305; Corequisite: NURS 340L
Builds upon and explores skills necessary to perform assessments including interviewing, history taking, and foundational physical assessment The course emphasizes deviations from normal.
NURS 340L
Health Assessment Lab (1)
Corequisite: NURS 340.
Hands- on skill building in history and physical assessment techniques are practiced
NURS 345
Pathophysiology (3)
Pre/Corequisite: NURS 305, NURS 310.
Builds upon and explores major pathophysiologic concepts using a body systems approach that is critical to clinical decision making in nursing. Recognize pathophysiological manifestations as they relate to disease processes.
NURS 402
Population Health Nursing (3)
Pre/Corequisite: NURS 340, 340L, 345; Corequisite: NURS 402L
Introduction to population health, public health core functions and services related to community as client. Epidemiology, ethical principles, mandates, multidisciplinary theories/models, research utilization, and client advocacy applied to the nursing process for best practices for diverse, vulnerable, at risk populations.
NURS 402L
Population Health Nursing Lab (2)
Corequisite: NURS 402.
Practicum for community-oriented population nursing practice. Community assessment, epidemiology, environmental, health education, political action, and case-management frameworks are used to guide evidence-based nursing care delivery to persons, families, and populations in community settings.
NURS 452
Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing (4)
Prerequisite: 305, 310, 340, 340L, 345; Pre/Corequisite: 402, 402L.
Emphasizes integration of leadership role within professional nursing. Compares leadership, management, and organizational theories and their application. Explores concepts of professionalism, ethics, advocacy, power, quality, safety, inter-professional collaboration, change, group dynamics, finance and decision making.
NURS 470
The Art & Science of Nursing (3)
Prerequisite: 305, 310, 340, 340L, 345; Pre/Corequisite: 402, 402L.
Concepts of the humanistic art and science of nursing and inter-professional collaboration are explored. Competencies identified by regulatory/accrediting bodies and their association with student learning outcomes are examined with emphasis on transgenerational health behaviors.
