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  • 4.00 Credits

    This course introduces concepts for professional nursing practice at a systems level. Emphasis is placed on leadership skills, collaborative practice, and working with populations who have experienced inequitable treatment. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This first of four professional roles courses serves as an introduction to the organization and delivery of healthcare. Professional roles, ethics and standards of professional nursing practice, as well as, the social contexts of health and health care are emphasized. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This simulation lab-based clinical course incorporates concepts associated with health promotion and illness prevention across the lifespan. Application of quantitative methods serves as the basis for clinical decision making. Emphasis is on the development of physical assessment skills, clinical interventions and communication in the provision of safe nursing care. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the health of women and infants through the childbearing experience, including pregnancy, childbirth and neonatal periods. Clinical hours focus on life transitions related to pregnancy and childbirth. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 5.00 Credits

    The first of three courses that integrates the health-illness continuum across the lifespan, including introductory principles of pathophysiology, pharmacology, genetics and the nursing process as a basis for clinical reasoning. This course will also introduce the use of health information in the provision, management and coordination of care. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This second of four professional roles courses introduces a systems-level focus to the role of the interprofessional team. Emphasis is placed on advocacy for diverse populations and on improving health through policy and interprofessional collaboration. The course includes collaborative, patient-centered care models for improving health outcomes and reducing health inequities. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 2.00 - 4.00 Credits

    This clinical course applies concepts related to the illness experience of individual pediatric and adult patients and families. Emphasis is placed on enhanced development of communication, information management, assessment, specified clinical interventions and evaluation of outcomes. upon completion of this course the student will be able to analyze data from a variety of sources for application in the provision of safe, holistic, evidence-based nursing care. Students must successfully complete 180 hours of clinical time to meet the requirements of this course. Clinical time may be completed in one or two calendar semesters, based on the student's selection of program of study. Clinical offerings may vary by semester; students may schedule 1-2 days per week (4.5-18 hours) in 4-week blocks. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course considers how nursing influences the health and healing capacities of children, adolescents and their families, as well as those of older adults. It focuses on the knowledge and skill acquisition needed to care for patients at particular moments, across the continuum of care and through transitions in an illness experience. It addresses major common pathways of pediatric illness from infancy through adolescence using a developmental systems approach. Emphasis is placed on family-centered care. The course also identifies the major milestones of aging and how nursing supports patients and families through the aging process and into end-of-life care. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    The second of three courses integrates the health-illness continuum across the lifespan, including principles of pathophysiology, pharmacology, genetics and the nursing process as a basis for clinical reasoning. Complex concept exemplars related to the care of adult and pediatric patients in the acute care setting will also be discussed. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Nursing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides a review of basic physiology of the major organ systems and includes an introduction to advanced topics in human physiology. Emphasis is placed on topics relevant to general nursing practice in individuals across the lifespan. Normal body function and the human response to illness will be a focus of the course.