NUR

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

(1 Lecture/1 Lab) Lecture: One 50-minute session per week for 10 weeks Lab: Two 50-minute sessions per week for 10 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned to 3 hours for lab and lecture weekly. NUR121 (Noticing Phase): This course focuses on the foundational skills required for nursing practice. Students learn to recognize normal and abnormal assessment findings, understand patient-centered care and informatics, identify the nurse's role in interprofessional collaboration and quality improvement, and demonstrate beginning professionalism and leadership skills. The course emphasizes the development of basic nursing skills and the application of the nursing process.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Lab) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Lab: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 4 hours weekly for lab for a total of 8 hours weekly. This is the first nursing course in the sequence for students enrolled in the generic Bachelor of Science degree program. The course introduces students to the foundations, basic principles, and practices of professional nursing. Health needs will be introduced and discussed at length. Emphasis will be placed on the implementation of the nursing process in the delivery of care and the development of beginning clinical skills that students are expected to be able to perform before starting Medical-Surgical Nursing I (NUR 221G). Mathematical concepts important in medical dosage calculations and intravenous flow rates are discussed. Concepts related to the health/illness continuum are introduced as the student begins to participate in client-nurse relationships. The professional, caring, and ethical delivery of proper nursing practice will be stressed, as well as knowledge, judgment, skills, and professional values as practiced within a legal/ethical framework. In the nursing arts laboratory, students demonstrate skills such as measuring vital signs, providing enteral feeding, performing wound care, urinary catheterizations, tracheostomy care, and medical administration with a focus on providing safe, patient-centered care, and recognizing and preventing patient complications. The course incorporates beginning critical thinking and clinical judgment, basic communication skills, and professional behaviors.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. NUR221 (Interpreting Phase): Building upon the foundational knowledge from NUR121, this course equips students with the ability to interpret assessment findings and develop individualized, evidence-based care plans for adult patients. Students collaborate with interprofessional teams, utilize informatics and technology, demonstrate advancing professionalism and leadership skills, and analyze patient data to guide clinical decision-making and prioritize care.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. This course utilizes the NLN Educational Competencies for Graduates of Baccalaureate Degree Nursing programs and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Model for Nursing Education in applying the nursing process as a problem-solving tool in health care delivery to clients experiencing a chronic and terminal illness. It is designed for students enrolled in the Generic BS program. Professional behaviors, communication, assessment, clinical decision making, caring interventions, teaching, and learning, provide the content in the classroom, and 87

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

5

Credits (max)

5

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

5-semester credits (3 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks. Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks. This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. This course is divided into two foci areas OB & Pediatrics with each covering half of the 15 week term.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. Parent-Child Health Nursing utilizes the NLN Education Competencies for Graduates of Associate Degree Nursing Programs and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Model for Nursing Education as the basis for providing nursing care. This course encourages the use of critical thinking and increasing self-direction in the utilization of the nursing process to the care of the childbearing/childrearing family. Normal growth and development patterns are considered throughout the course. Classroom and clinical experiences focus on the use of the nursing process as a major tool in assisting the family as it progresses through the childbearing/childrearing years. Health promotion, maintenance, restoration, and rehabilitation are major phases addressed as the nursing process is applied to clients in different health care settings.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 Lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. NUR224 (Reflecting Phase): NUR224, represents the culmination of the nursing program. Students synthesize assessment data, evidence-based practices, and nursing knowledge to design and implement complex, patient- centered care plans for critically ill patients, demonstrating advanced clinical judgment skills. They integrate patient-centered care, interprofessional collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics and technology, and professionalism and leadership, in the care of critically ill patients. Additionally, students 72

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

5-semester credits (3 Lecture/2 Clinical) 88

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

5

Credits (max)

5

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. This course focuses on the professional nurse's role in applying the principles of leadership and management in organizations across the healthcare continuum. Emphasis will be placed on approaches to integrate quality, safety education for nurses (QSEN), evidenced-based guidelines and protocols, and critical thinking skills that will promote effective and efficient nursing practice. The course incorporates and review concepts required for licensure examination and entry into the practice of professional nursing. This includes review of application process of National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) test plan, assessment of knowledge deficits, test taking strategies review and practice and remediation.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits (2 Lecture/1 Clinical) Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 9 weeks Clinical: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 9 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. This course is designed to explore current theories and practices in gerontological nursing for students in the Generic BS program. The focus of the course is to understand the nurse’s role in assessing and managing the aging individual and family adaptation to the aging process. The course incorporates outcomes, competencies, and professional standards from the following sources: ANA, CCNE Essentials, AACN Baccalaureate Geriatric Nursing Competencies, and Helene Fuld College of Nursing student learning outcomes for baccalaureate students.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. The course provides a strong foundation in basic pharmacologic principles. Such a foundation will enhance student understanding of drug therapies utilized for major disease processes. Emphasis is placed on the clinical applications of varied drug families. Nursing implications relative to the application of drug therapy to nursing practice are stressed.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 3 hours weekly for lectures. This course is an introduction to theory and reasoning in nursing. The student will analyze various theoretical nursing frameworks and explore the application of these theories to both clinical nursing practice and nursing research. Concepts of person, health, nursing, and the environment will be explored from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Students consider how these concepts are reflected in their nursing practice.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. This course is an introduction to theory and reasoning in nursing. The student will analyze various theoretical nursing frameworks and explore the application of these theories to both clinical nursing practice and nursing research. Concepts of person, health, nursing, and the environment will be explored from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Students consider how these concepts are reflected in their nursing practice.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 3 hours weekly for lectures. This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the integration of nursing science, computer technology, and information science to identify, gather, process, and manage information. Nurses will learn how to access, manage, and apply data to patient care. Current trends and issues in using, designing, and managing health care information systems will be examined. The course includes email, electronic discussion forums, computer applications, the worldwide web, and Internet assignments.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the integration of nursing science, computer technology, and information science to identify, gather, process, and manage information. Nurses will learn how to access, manage, and apply data to patient care. Current trends and issues in using, designing, and managing health care information systems will be examined. The course includes email, electronic discussion forums, computer applications, the worldwide web, and Internet assignments.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 3 hours weekly for lectures. The focus of this course is the identification of key concepts, processes, and applications of qualitative and quantitative clinical research to support evidence-based nursing practice. Differentiating among the steps of the research process, accessing and critiquing pertinent literature, and designing a research study are activities utilized to foster student learning. Additional topics include ethical and legal aspects associated with research.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. The focus of this course is the identification of key concepts, processes, and applications of qualitative and quantitative clinical research to support evidence-based nursing practice. Differentiating among the steps of the research process, accessing and critiquing pertinent literature, and designing a research study are activities utilized to foster student learning. Additional topics include ethical and legal aspects associated with research.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

4-semester credits Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 4 hours weekly for lectures. This course focuses on the theoretical foundations for understanding cultural diversity, and the impact of culture on health and illness beliefs, values, and practices that impact the health of individuals and groups. It also prepares students for their future roles in client teaching, health education, and health promotion by addressing the developmental, motivational, and sociocultural differences that affect teaching and learning. In this course, students use community resources to gain experience in gathering culturally relevant data to assess individuals from a variety of socio-cultural backgrounds and develop strategies for providing culturally competent nursing care. They will examine issues through a variety of academic experiences including reflecting on their own learning experiences and identifying their attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors concerning teaching and learning.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

4-semester credits Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture. This course focuses on the theoretical foundations for understanding cultural diversity, and the impact of culture on health and illness beliefs, values, and practices that impact the health of individuals and groups. It also prepares 90

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits (2 Lecture/ 2 Lab) Lecture: Two 50-minute sessions per week for15 weeks Lab: Two 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 4 hours weekly for lectures and lab. This course emphasizes skills that will enable the student to determine the mental, physical, and nutritional health status of an individual by obtaining a health history and performing and recording a mental, physical, nutritional, and environmental assessment. Learning experiences are organized to provide opportunities for gaining knowledge and practicing assessment skills.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks, is assigned 3 hours weekly for lecture. This course emphasizes skills that will enable the student to determine the mental, physical, and nutritional health status of an individual by obtaining a health history and performing and recording a mental, physical, nutritional, and environmental assessment. Learning experiences are organized to provide opportunities for gaining knowledge and practicing assessment skills.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Lecture: One 50-minute session weekly for 15 weeks (note this course may be delivered as a clustered class meeting for longer time periods but fewer meeting days during the term). This course offers a structured approach to student preparation for success in nursing school. The course includes opportunities for improvement in navigating the challenges of standardized testing, effective and efficient study habits, application of critical analysis and clinical decision-making, and personal barriers and strengths that impact success.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

1-semester credit Lecture: One 50-minute session weekly for 15 weeks (note this course may be delivered as a clustered class meeting for longer time periods but fewer meeting days during the term). This course offers a structured approach to student preparation for success in nursing school. The course includes opportunities for improvement in navigating the challenges of standardized testing, effective and efficient study habits, application of critical analysis and clinical decision-making, and personal barriers and strengths that impact success.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

1-semester credit Lecture: One 50-minute session weekly for 15 weeks (note this course may be delivered as a clustered class meeting for longer time periods but fewer meeting days during the term). This course offers a structured approach to student preparation for success in nursing school. The course includes opportunities for improvement in navigating the challenges of standardized testing, effective and efficient study habits, application of critical analysis and clinical decision-making, and personal barriers and strengths that impact success.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Total Semester Credits 12 Semester V – Winter

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

6

Credits (max)

6

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

6-semester credits (4 lecture/2 Clinical) Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Six 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course with breaks is assigned 4 hours weekly for lecture and 8 hours weekly for clinical. This course focuses on the impact of the environment on the health of individuals, families, and communities in urban settings. The role of the professional nurse in providing appropriate interventions for clients impacted by the environment will be emphasized. Course content includes identifying environmental toxins, their consequences on health, and safe alternatives. The role of the registered nurse and disaster preparedness is presented by providing instruction in basic nurse disaster competencies. This course also addresses legislation, governmental policies, current research, and the environmental health assessment of individuals and communities. 91

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

5-semester credits (3 Lecture/ 2 Clinical) Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks Clinical: Two 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 3 hours weekly for lectures and 8 hours weekly for clinicals. In this course, students synthesize previous learning and develop knowledge and skills relevant to leadership, management, and the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse. It focuses on interactions within the health care team and acquaints students with management theories, organizational behavior theories, and leadership styles that are relevant to nursing practice. Students will be expected to synthesize and analyze situations that occur within health care settings, and to formulate possible strategies for effecting positive change. This course will assist students in gaining an increased understanding of leadership techniques and principles, and allow them to gather insight about their resources for managing change.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

5

Credits (max)

5

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

3-semester credits Lecture: Three 50-minute sessions per week for15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 3 hours weekly for lectures. In this course, students synthesize previous learning and develop knowledge and skills relevant to leadership, management, and the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse. It focuses on interactions within the health care team and acquaints students with management theories, organizational behavior theories, and leadership styles that are relevant to nursing practice. Students will be expected to synthesize and analyze situations that occur within health care settings, and to formulate possible strategies for effecting positive change. This course will assist students in gaining an increased understanding of leadership techniques and principles, and allow them to gather insight about their resources for managing change.

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

Total Semester Credits 12 TOTAL PROGRAM 63 Credit Distribution: Up to 30-semester credits in nursing (lower division) and 44-semester credits in liberal arts and science (including 16 upper-division semester credits with a minimum grade of a C+ may be transferred. A minimum of 47-semester credits must be completed at Helene Fuld College of Nursing, including all 31 upper- division semester credits in nursing. 100

Subject

NUR

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu

4-semester credits Lecture: Four 50-minute sessions per week for 15 weeks This course, with breaks is assigned to 4 hours weekly for lectures. This course enables the student to develop an in-depth independent project that uses his/her understanding of an urban environmental issue. The student will use this opportunity to synthesize previous course content and major concepts of the curriculum in a project, which develops a practical solution. The capstone project focuses on an independent investigation using critical thinking, the research process, and evidenced-based information to present a written paper, and public presentation.

Subject

NUR

Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

www.helenefuld.edu