| 236 safe, quality, and evidence-based care to the older adults. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing. NURS 330 Pharmacology in Nursing (3-0-3), fall only. Pharmacology in Nursing introduces students to the nurse’s role in safe medication administration and error prevention for the highest potential health outcomes. Medication classes and nursing implications will be discussed. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. NURS 335 Mental Health Nursing (2-1-3), spring junior year. Physiological and psychological aspects of mental health related to acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan will be examined. The role of the professional nurse in health promotion and illness prevention are key components. Emphasis is placed on the mental health milieu that exists within a community setting. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323 and 324. NURS 350 Clinical Skills I: Fundamentals of Nursing (0-12-4), fall only. Clinical Skills I introduces students to the competencies needed to understand and apply the evidence-based clinical reasoning, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice to adult patients across the continuum of care. The course includes simulation and clinical experience in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing. Corequisite: NURS 352. NURS 351 Nursing Assessment and Diagnostics (3-0-3), fall only. Nursing Assessment introduces students to the knowledge, judgment, skills, behaviors, and attitudes of holistic, comprehensive, and focused assessments needed to plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve the highest potential health outcomes. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing. NURS 352 Evidence-Based Fundamentals of Nursing (3-0-3), fall only. Evidence-based Fundamentals of Nursing introduces students to the knowledge, judgment, skills, behaviors, and attitudes needed to understand and apply the evidence-based clinical reasoning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Nursing. Co-requisite: NURS 350. NURS 360 Clinical Skills II: Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing (0-124), spring. Clinical Skills II: Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitatesstudent competencies needed to understand and apply the evidencebased clinical reasoning, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice to patients in acute care simulation and clinical experience in a variety of acute health care settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: 361. NURS 361 Evidence-Based Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing (4-0-4), spring. Evidence-Based Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitates student learning of knowledge, judgments, skills, and behaviors to implement evidence-based clinical competencies in professional nursing practice. The course will focus on patents requiring hospitalization in a variety of medical-surgical settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: 360. NURS 370 Clinical Skills II: Community and Population Health (06-2), spring only. Clinical Skills II: Community and Population Health introduces students to competencies needed to apply evidence-based nursing standards within the scope of nursing practice to groups, communities, or populations across the continuum of care, using simulation and clinical experiences in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: Completion of Level I of the School of Nursing. NURS 371 Evidence-Based Community and Population Health (2-02), spring only. Community and Population Health introduces students to the competencies and roles of community health and public health nursing for disease prevention, health promotion, health maintenance, health restoration, and health surveillance for communities and targeted populations in a variety of community health care settings. Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing program.
NURS 380 Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice (3-0-3), spring only. Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice introduces students to the knowledge, judgments, skills, and behaviors to initiate, analyze, and apply nursing research and evidence-based standards to nursing practice in health care environments. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. NURS 430 Clinical Skills III: Mental Health Nursing (0-6-2), fall only. Clinical Skills III: Mental Health Nursing introduces students to the competencies needed to understand and apply the evidence-based nursing practice to patients with mental health and psychosocial issues in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: NURS 431. NURS 431 Evidence-Based Mental Health Nursing (2-0-2), fall only. Evidence-Based Mental Health Nursing introduces mental health, cognitive pathophysiology, and psychosocial issues of patients of all ages in a variety of health care settings along the continuum of care. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: NURS 430. NURS 435 Community Health Nursing (3-0-3), fall, senior year. Presentation of key concepts, theories, and issues relevant to practice as a public health/community health nurse. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324, 335, 336; concurrent enrollment in NURS 443. NURS 450 Clinical Skills III: Maternity and Pediatric Nursing (012-4), spring only. Clinical Skills III: Maternity and Pediatric Nursing presents competencies needed to apply evidence-based nursing practice to childbearing women and children of all ages across the continuum of care. The course provides simulation and clinical experiences in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: NURS 453. NURS 452 Leadership and Management in Nursing (3-0-3), spring, senior year. Explore concepts of leadership and management through an examination of: various leadership/management theories, application of ethical and legal principles, organizational and resource management styles, meeting consumer needs and delegation of nursing care. Emphasis on the student demonstrating critical thinking in the application of the leader/manager role. Prerequisites: NURS 443; concurrent enrollment in NURS 451 and 495. NURS 453 Evidence-Based Maternity and Pediatric Nursing (4-0-4), spring only. Maternity and Pediatric Nursing introduces students to competencies needed to implement holistic, comprehensive, and safe nursing practice on childbearing women and children of all ages across the health continuum, and in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: NURS 450. NURS 462 RN - Evidenced-Based Practice II (4-2-6), spring. Examination of physiological and psychological responses to serious health problems with emphasis on clients who experience critical physiological deviations with a special focus on older adults. Prerequisites: NURS 443, 460 and 461. NURS 464 Nursing Leadership and Management (3-0-3), fall only. Nursing Leadership and Management introduces evidence-based concepts and competencies in nursing leadership and management to promote safety and quality care within complex health care systems. Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing program. A writing-intensive and capstone course. NURS 475 Clinical Skills IV: Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing (0-18-6), spring only. Clinical Skills IV: Advanced Nursing facilitates student competencies needed to apply the evidence-based leadership/management skills, and nursing process for safety and quality care in high acuity simulation and complex care settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program. Co-requisite: NURS 476. NURS 476 Evidence-Based Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing (30-3), spring only. Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitates student learning of competencies required to implement evidence-based safety and quality care to patients with complex needs in professional nursing