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dynamically changing healthcare system. The student participates in educational activities that develop clinical competence, and enhance decision making, communication, commitment to professionalism, collaboration, and management of care. Leadership and management principles including prioritizing, delegating, and managing conflict are explored. This is a preceptorship guided by faculty. NUR3065C B ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT (3) This course focuses on the complete health assessment, nursing process, health behaviors education, and disease detection throughout the life span. Incorporated in this class is lab time to advance the development of assessment skills. This is an introduction to health history-taking methods, physical examination skills, health promotion techniques, and clinical assessment tools. Students will be provided the opportunity to: complete a health history, perform a physical examination, and document findings. NUR3145 B PHARMACOLOGY (3) This course builds on the principles of pharmacology learned in the AS Level. Pharmacokinetic factors in drug therapy are examined in relation to the major body systems and management of client health. The pharmacological aspects of nursing care are integrated using the nursing process. NUR3165 B NURSING RESEARCH (3) This course is designed to introduce the student to nursing research: its history, terminology, and steps in the research process. The need for nursing research as a basis for practice is emphasized. Students are expected to identify research questions relevant to clinical practice. Students are expected to become beginning consumers of research by learning steps to critique nursing research. NUR3655 B CULTURE IN NURSING (3) This course will explore philosophical commonalities and differences found in various cultures that may impact the health and health beliefs of clients. Additionally this course will explore the nurse's role in providing culturally sensitive care. NUR3805 B TRANSITIONS TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING (3) This course is a general survey course that provides a brief introduction to key topics that will be presented in a BSN program. It helps the nurse to delineate professional nursing through subject areas that are taught at the bachelor's level. The focus will be on the role of the nurse as the leader and manager of his or her practice and allows reflection on current and state of practice. NUR4636C B COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (3) This course emphasizes community health nursing practice. Diverse multicultural, social, and environmental factors that influence health will be studied. Students will focus on health promotion, disease prevention, health protection, health teaching and counseling, and coordinator of care as the nursing process is applied across the life span to clients with multidimensional health needs in a variety of community settings. NUR4684C B POPULATION-BASED NURSING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN (3) The intent of this course is to provide an understanding of nursing care to diverse populations in the community setting by incorporating principles of individual, family, and population-centered nursing, epidemiology, environmental health, health promotion, disease prevention, and disease management. NUR4826 B FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING: ETHICS (3) The course explores the theories, models, and principles that serve as guides for ethically sound decision making and behavior of the professional nurse. The role that values, beliefs systems, the legal system and 276