97 courses with the subject NUR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
NUR 010LPN Assessment Module0
The LPN Assessment Module is designed to prepare the licensed practical nurse to make the transition to professional nursing. During the module, the LPN will be assisted in defining the difference between the roles of the licensed practical nurse and the roles of the professional nurse. Holistic assessment skills are practiced and applied to case studies addressing health and wellness across the lifespan.
Students who register for NUR 010 must also register for a NUR 010 clinical. For example, if you register for NUR 010 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 0101C
This course provides opportunities for the student to explore, practice, and apply fundamental nursing principles, concepts and skills necessary for providing client centered care through classroom and clinical experiences.
This course provides the student the opportunity to explore professional nursing identity and concepts related to protection, homeostasis, and oxygenation. The student will apply theoretical knowledge to organize and prioritize safe, holistic client centered care.
The evolution of professional nursing as it relates to history, theories, laws, policies and ethics is explored with emphasis on professional responsibility, clinical decision making and implementation of caring, holistic nursing practice.
This course provides opportunities for students to develop foundational nursing principles, concepts, and skills. Classroom and clinical learning experiences provide a framework for students to provide safe, client-centered care.
This course provides opportunities for the student to explore concepts of adaptation and psychological alteration. Concepts of community and mental health nursing are introduced in this course.
This course expands on the student's knowledge of health promotion and illness prevention with a focus on human development. Classroom and clinical experiences focus on client centered care of child-bearing families, pediatric clients, and specialized populations.
This course provides the student the opportunity to expand their knowledge of oxygenation, homeostasis, and adaptation while providing client centered care focusing on acute and chronic health processes.
This course provides the student with the opportunity to explore concepts of health and illness with specific focus on diversity and psychological alterations.
This course provides the student the opportunity to synthesize previously learned knowledge, skills, and concepts into managing the holistic care of clients with complex health problems.
This course introduces the learner to the principles of pharmacology with an emphasis on the clinical application of medication administration. Topics include: pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, mode of action, indications, effects, interactions, contraindications, lifespan considerations, and nursing implications.
In this course, learners develop health history and physical assessment skills. Assessment findings and common variations, cultural differences, life span changes, disease prevention, and health promotion interventions are discussed.
This course focuses on concepts of pathophysiology essential to understanding the disease and disabling conditions that can affect the body systems across the lifespan. Content will enhance the learner's comprehension of the scientific complexity and associations of nursing assessments, clinical manifestations, and holistic interventions for various conditions.
This course focuses on the role of the nurse as a leader in practice incorporating collaboration as a member of the interprofessional health care team.
This course provides learners the opportunity to explore wellness and illness concepts with a focus on protection, psychological alterations, and regulatory mechanisms.
This course explores the historical and theoretical foundations of nursing. Characteristics of the profession, critical thinking, and the concepts of safety and quality as they apply to nursing practice, are examined and analyzed.
Students will investigate nursing care to promote health equity for all populations by examining the impact of their beliefs and values on culturally competent care, while understanding factors impacting diverse populations.
Students will investigate nursing care to promote health equity and social justice in systematically disadvantaged populations by examining the impact of beliefs, values, and biases for the purpose of developing culturally aware nursing care. The course also exposes students to the meaning, benefits, and components of service-learning.
This course explores foundational and applied concepts of information and communication technologies (ICT) in contemporary nursing and healthcare practice. Students explore how electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision-support systems, and emerging data technologies enhance the delivery of safe and high-quality care. Emphasis is placed on the nurse’s role in using health information and data analytics to improve outcomes, coordinate care, and promote individual, population, and global health. Through experiential learning and simulation assignments, learners apply ICT principles to evaluate quality, safety, interoperability, and ethical considerations. This course develops competencies in the effective use of ICT to gather data, generate knowledge, support clinical judgment, and foster technology-enabled, evidence-based nursing practice.
This course is designed to assist the learner in building on prior health assessment skills and knowledge with an emphasis on the critical appraisal of health assessment data. Interprofessional collaboration strategies, patient- and family-centered approaches, and evidence-based practice techniques will be emphasized.
This course is a structured internship that allows learners to be immersed in the clinical environment while they investigate a clinical nursing specialty. Learners have opportunities to gain experience and confidence as they actively engage in the interdisciplinary health care team.
This course expands on the learners' knowledge of health promotion and illness prevention with a focus on human development across the lifespan. Concepts of community health nursing are introduced.
This course highlights health policy concepts and frameworks. Exploring health policies through engaging assignments, students will gain knowledge regarding nursing advocacy, medical, legal, and ethical issues to assess healthcare systems.
This course focuses on the role of research as it informs professional health care practice. Students will have an opportunity to analyze, critique and interpret quantitative and qualitative research. It serves as a means to incorporate evidence-based practice in the evaluation and modification of current practice.
The course explores evidence-based practice and research as it informs practice with an emphasis on critiquing and appraising the evidence in the evaluation and modification of current practice.
This course provides learners the opportunity to expand their knowledge of regulatory mechanisms and psychological alterations. Learners synthesize previously learned knowledge, skills, and concepts into managing the holistic care of clients with complex health problems.
This course is designed to expand the students’ perspective on health by considering the whole person. Emphasis is placed on physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects. Insight will be gained which fosters a cooperative relationship among allopathic, complimentary, and alternative health care models.
The student explores the principles of palliative care nursing with an emphasis on providing care across the life span that is individualized to the patient and family rather than the diagnosis.
This course focuses on leadership and management theory and provides practical applications in today's health care settings. Course content focuses on management skills, including problem solving, decision making, team building, communication, facilitating change and conflict resolution. Concepts related to interdisciplinary collaboration and application of management strategies in diverse settings are addressed. Strategies for managing stressors within today's health care environment, as well as strategies for building a professional nursing career, are incorporated.
This course focuses on leadership and management theory, provides practical applications in today's health care settings, and emphasizes the synthesis of nursing process, nursing diagnoses, and interdisciplinary collaboration and care for clients with complex multidimensional health needs. Course content includes leadership skills such as problem solving, decision making, team building, communication, facilitating change critical thinking, and conflict resolution. Strategies for transition into practice in today’s health care environment, continued professional development, and life-long learning are incorporated.
This course explores the physiological, psychological, and social effects of chronic illness and palliative care across the lifespan, with an emphasis on patient-centered, evidence-based nursing care. Students will examine the unique and evolving needs of individualsand their families—beyond the diagnosis—while considering the broader impact on communities, healthcare providers, and the healthcaresystem. The course highlights interdisciplinary collaboration, ethical principles, and strategies to enhance quality of life and provide compassionate care for those with chronic and serious illnesses.
This course exposes the student to the major concepts and topics related to the specialty of community/public health nursing. The health of the community as a client is explored using wellness principles, epidemiology, emerging health risks, and health policy. Strategies to promote, protect, and preserve a community’s health are formulated. Current issues surrounding the social, cultural, political, and environmental influences on global health will be examined.
Students are introduced to the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) role and the population-focused nurse practitioner competencies. The historical and theoretical foundations for the evolution of advanced nursing practice are explored.
This course focuses on social determinants of health for diverse populations and critical analysis of various theories and practices for health promotion and disease prevention. Levels of prevention, population health, environmental health, epidemiology and culture are addressed. Health disparities and vulnerable populations are considered.
This course provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative research methods commonly used for systematic inquiry in health care. Current research literature is evaluated. Quantitative and qualitative techniques of data analysis are also examined.
In this course, students will create an individualized plan to integrate previous knowledge as well as increase expertise within a focused area of nursing care.
In this course students apply knowledge of best practices in nursing education. Emphasis is placed on professional role development and socialization of becoming a Nurse Educator within the academic setting.
Pathophysiologic processes of diseases across the lifespan are explored within the context of health promotion, disease prevention and evidence-based practice.
The pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse drug effects, precautions and drug interactions of broad categories of drugs are examined. Safe prescribing of therapeutic agents are addressed within the context of specific populations.
This course focuses on developing advanced health assessment skills needed to formulate differential diagnoses in the care of individuals across the lifespan.
This course focuses on the neuroscientific concepts underlying common mental health disorders. The relationships between neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry to neuropsychiatric symptoms and behaviors are emphasized.
Advanced concepts and methods of epidemiology and related topics as they relate to population-based practice are emphasized. Social determinants of health and illness are examined within the context of care delivery for individuals and aggregates/populations.
Students increase knowledge of clinical leadership in the practice environment. In collaboration with a health care leader and their faculty advisor, students develop personalized learning outcomes that will enhance their professional expertise.
Health care technologies used in clinical decision-making, improvement of health information literacy, assessment of population health data, and evaluation of quality of care are investigated. Ethical use of technology in health care and the value of telehealth technologies for improvement of care are emphasized.
This course provides the basis for clinical scholarship development. Students will explore the concept of practice-based knowledge and the process of translation of research into practice.
This diagnosis and management course introduces the student to strategies for health promotion, disease prevention, assessment and management of selected episodic and chronic health conditions commonly encountered in the primary care setting. Students who register for NUR 720 must also register for NUR 721 Practicum I. For example, if you register for NUR 720 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 721.
Students begin integrating the Family Nurse Practitioner competencies in the clinical setting. Emphasis is on the refinement of skills needed for accurate diagnosis and management of common conditions encountered throughout the lifespan. Students who register for NUR 720 must also register for NUR 721 Practicum I. For example, if you register for NUR 720 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 721.
This course focuses on increasing competence in analytic skills for clinical decision-making in assessment and management of individuals with acute and chronic health deviations. Students who register for NUR 722 must also register for NUR 723 Practicum II. For example, if you register for NUR 722 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 723.
In this second clinical practicum, students demonstrate increased competency in the diagnosis and management of episodic and chronic medical conditions for individuals across the lifespan. Improved accuracy in data collection, depth of knowledge and efficiency of performance are emphasized. Students who register for NUR 722 must also register for NUR 723 Practicum II. For example, if you register for NUR 722 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 723.
This diagnosis and management course focuses on refinement of analytic skills used for clinical decision-making in assessment and management of individuals and families presenting with acute and chronic health deviations encountered in primary care. Students who register for NUR 724 must also register for NUR 725 Practicum III. For example, if you register for NUR 724 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 725.
Students demonstrate proficiency and flexibility of thinking in the analytical skills required for clinical decision making. Emphasis is on skills needed for smooth transition to practice as a nurse practitioner. Students who register for NUR 724 must also register for NUR 725 Practicum III. For example, if you register for NUR 724 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 725.
This diagnosis and management course introduces strategies for health promotion, disease prevention and management of selected mental health conditions commonly encountered in mental health settings. The theoretical basis for the application of individual psychotherapeutic approaches is emphasized.
Students begin integrating the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner competencies in the clinical setting. Emphasis is on the performance of the comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and the application of psychotherapeutic modalities needed for accurate diagnosis and management of mental health disorders across the lifespan.
This second diagnosis and management course in psychiatric/mental health care focuses on increasing competence in the analytic skills used for clinical decision-making in assessment and management of individuals and families presenting with selected mental health conditions. Emphasis is on the theoretical basis for family-centered psychotherapeutic modalities.
In this second clinical practicum, students demonstrate increased competency in the diagnosis and management of mental disorders. Emphasis is on improved accuracy in data collection, depth of knowledge and efficiency of performance.
This final diagnosis and management course in psychiatric/mental health care focuses on refinement of analytic skills used for clinical decision-making in assessment and management of individuals and families presenting with selected mental health conditions. Emphasis is on the theoretical basis for group psychotherapeutic modalities.
In this final clinical practicum, students demonstrate proficiency in the diagnosis and management of mental disorders. Emphasis is on skills needed for smooth transition to practice as an independent nurse practitioner.
This diagnosis and management course introduces the student to the critical thinking needed for assessing and managing the care of acute and complex chronically ill young adults through older adults with medical illnesses. Students who register for NUR 740 must also register for NUR 741 Practicum I. For example, if you register for NUR 740 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 741.
This second diagnosis and management course focuses on increasing competence in the care of acute and complex chronically ill young adults through older adults with emphasis on selected illnesses related to medical and surgical sub-specialties. System influences on health outcomes are emphasized. Students who register for NUR 740 must also register for NUR 741 Practicum I. For example, if you register for NUR 740 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 741.
This second diagnosis and management course focuses on increasing competence in the care of acute and complex chronically ill young adults through older adults with emphasis on selected illnesses related to medical and surgical sub-specialties. System influences on health outcomes are emphasized. Students who register for NUR 742 must also register for NUR 743 Practicum II. For example, if you register for NUR 742 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 743.
In this second clinical practicum, students demonstrate increased competency in the diagnosis and management of acute and/or complex chronic illness in young adults through older adults in medical and surgical sub-specialties. Improved accuracy in data collection, depth of knowledge and efficiency of performance are emphasized. Students who register for NUR 742 must also register for NUR 743 Practicum II. For example, if you register for NUR 742 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 743.
This final diagnosis and management course in acute care focuses on increasing competence in the analytic skills used for clinical decision-making in assessment and management of the critical and/or unstable, complex chronically ill young adults through older adults. Students who register for NUR 744 must also register for NUR 745 Practicum III. For example, if you register for NUR 744 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 725.
In this final clinical practicum students demonstrate proficiency in managing complex adult and older adult patients in critical care settings with conditions that may result in rapid physiologic deterioration or life-threatening instability. Emphasis is on skills needed for smooth transition to practice as an independent nurse practitioner. Students who register for NUR 744 must also register for NUR 745 Practicum III. For example, if you register for NUR 744 you must, at the same time, register for a section of NUR 745.
This doctoral level course will provide an overview of quality and safety concerns in the health care environment. Students will develop leadership strategies to address quality and safety concerns.
Students participate in decision-making, policy-making and organizational change through mentored clinical experiences with a health care leader. Students will apply problem-solving skills to propose innovation changes to improve health care delivery.
Students incorporate knowledge of clinical leadership in the practice environment. In collaboration with a health care leader and their faculty advisor, students develop personalized learning outcomes that will enhance their professional expertise.
Health care technologies used in clinical decision-making, improvement of health information literacy, assessment of population health data, and evaluation of quality of care are investigated. Ethical use of technology in health care and the value of telehealth technologies for improvement of care are emphasized.
Students integrate knowledge of health policy, evidence-based practice, leadership skills, informatics, and population health, as appropriate for the clinical setting.
In this culminating clinical immersion, students fully integrate knowledge of health policy, evidence-based practice, leadership, informatics, and population health in a clinical area of interest.
This course provides the basis for clinical scholarship development. Students will explore the concept of practice-based knowledge and the process of translation of research into practice.
Students plan and develop an evidence-based practice change that improves health outcomes in a practice setting. Knowledge of organizational structures and behaviors, program planning and evaluation and translation methods are applied in leading an implementation team.
Enhanced oral and written communication skills are utilized to disseminate outcomes of practice innovations and promote adoption of improved care delivery models.
