Course Listing

Course Listing NSG 300: Professional Role Transition

3 credit hours This course examines the evolution of professional nursing, the health care system, and health care trends influencing nursing practice. This course explores functions, interdisciplinary relationships, and the future role of professional nursing.

NSG 301: Health Assessment

3 credit hours This course examines holistic health assessment of culturally diverse clients cross the lifespan. It includes comprehensive health assessment and communication of health assessment findings. The course engages students in clinical reasoning to safely and accurately performance a health assessment.

NSG 303: Healthcare Informatics

3 credit hours This course explores the use of informatics in nursing practice and its role in delivering safe and quality care. The course integrates nursing science with computer technology and information science to identify, gather, process, and manage information.

NSG 310: Research and Evidence-Based Practice

4 credit hours Prerequisite: MAT 201 This course will utilize prior knowledge of inquiry and introduce the nursing research process, theory, and methods for making informed decisions in nursing practice. The aim of this course is to promote the role of the nurse as a consumer of research and evidence-based practice. This course expands upon the role of the nurse as an advocate of evidence-based research throughout the utilization of health information technology.

NSG 325: Culture and Health

3 credit hours This course focuses on how cultural beliefs influence health decisions and shape the health and health related issues of cultures. Emphasis is placed on the development of cultural awareness and competence of healthcare workers in their interactions with non-Western cultures.

NSG 402: Community Health

4 credit hours This course focuses on nursing management of culturally diverse individuals, families, and aggregates within communities. There is an emphasis on health promotion, risk reduction, population-based care and epidemiology. The practicum experience in the course provides the student the opportunity to gain additional theoretical knowledge and to apply community health nursing concepts and principles. Learning experiences are individualized and guided by selected a preceptor and course faculty.

NSG 405: Healthcare Management and Quality

3 credit hours This course explores the U.S. healthcare system, including policies, financial, legal, and regulatory organizations. In addition, national efforts in performances measures, financial incentives, quality improvement, and satisfaction are discussed. The impact of these healthcare issues and initiatives on nursing practice and healthcare policy are addressed.

NSG 410: Nursing Leadership and Management

4 credit hours This course focuses on the concepts of nursing leadership and management essential to effectively lead individuals, groups, and organizations. This course includes principles of group dynamics, organizational behavior, concepts of conflict management, change theory, and basic management functions. The practicum portion of the course, with faculty and preceptor guidance, gives the student opportunity to identify an area for improvement in their practice setting.

NSG 425: Nursing Ethics

3 credit hours This course analyzes professional ethical issues with ensuing nursing dilemmas integrating the factors of professional laws/standards, personal ethical stance, social, spiritual, transcultural, economic, institutional, and political climate. Emphasis is given to the resolution of ethical dilemmas through ethical reasoning and ethical and legal obligations in professional patient relationships.

NSG 295/395/495: Special Topics

1-3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Special Topics course offerings will present leading edge thinking in relation to specific practice or policy changes, trends, areas, or issues in nursing. The specific topics will be developed in response to nursing practice or policy changes or needs identified by faculty or students.

NSG 392/492: Directed Study

1-3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of instructor This course will be a self-directed study on a nursing or healthcare related topic identified by the student. The course involves a faculty-student contract and mentoring relationship. A contract of expectations by the student and by the supervising faculty member must be approved by the Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to registration. No more than six (6) semester hours toward the baccalaureate degree can consist of directed study credit.

NSG 499: Independent Research in Nursing

3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of instructor This course involves planning, conducting, and disseminating the results of a small research study. The student, with assistance of a faculty member, will determine a topic and scope of research.