3000   Professionalism in Nursing. One credit. Exposes the novice nursing student to the profession of nursing. Concept of professionalism explored and related to nursing. Includes a brief historical review of nursing and nursing theories. Professional values, practice standards, and communications with health care professional introduced. Legal implications for nursing explored.

3010   Pathophysiology. Three credits. (Same as BIOL 3340.) Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2020, and 2230. Basic mechanisms of disease processes and their role in disrupting normal physiology. Three hours lecture.

3030   Health Assessment. Three credits. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010 and 2020. Corequisite: NURS 3040. Principles and techniques required for the assessment and analysis of data (diagnosis). Normal assessment findings and selected abnormal findings studied. Cultural variations and assessment variations across the lifespan explored.

3040   Health Assessment Laboratory. One credit. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010 and 2020. Corequisite: NURS 3030. Opportunity to practice the basic principles and techniques required for the assessment and analysis of data (diagnosis). Normal assessment findings in the adult as well as selected abnormal findings studied. Cultural variations and assessment variations across the lifespan explored. Three clock hours per week.

3110   Concepts of Nurse Agency. Two credits. Prerequisites: Admission to upper-level nursing and completion of majority of lower-division required courses. Philosophy and objectives of the program, Self-Care Deficit Theory, and other concepts and theories relevant to nurse agency. Two hours lecture.

3111   Professional Role Development. Three credits. Socializes the returning R.N. into the role of a baccalaureate nurse. Professionalism in nursing, role transition, history of nursing education, and issues pertinent to returning adult learners.

3130   Health Assessment for Nurse Agency. Two credits. Prerequisites: BIOL 2230, 3130, 3140, and 3340. Corequisite: NURS 3140. Physical and psychosocial assessment skills developed to provide a basis for reorganizing and meeting client self-care deficits. Two hours lecture.

3140   Health Assessment Clinical. One credit. Prerequisites: BIOL 2230, 3130, 3140, and 3340. Corequisite: NURS 3130. Practice in physical and psychosocial assessment. Two hours laboratory.

3150   Self-Care Assistance. Five credits. Prerequisites: Admission to the upper-division nursing program and completion of the lower-division required courses. Knowledge and skills necessary to apply Self-Care Deficit Theory. Five hours of lecture.

3160   Assistance Clinical. Five credits. Prerequisite: Admission to upper-division nursing. Corequisite: NURS 3150. Self-Care Deficit Theory applied in clinical settings. Ten hours laboratory.

3170   Pharmacological Requisites for Nurse Agency. Three credits. Prerequisites: General Education Natural Science; BIOL 2230, 2010, 2020; NURS 3010. Knowledge and responsibility necessary for the assessment and monitoring of clients receiving pharma-cotherapeutics.

3230   Developmental Promotion in Childbearing. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: 3240. Concepts of the family as a societal unit emphasizing the childbearing function. Stresses nurse agency assistance with developmental tasks and crisis intervention from preconception through the late postpartum period. Three hours lecture.

3240   Childbearing Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: 3230. Care of clients from the prenatal through the postpartum period in clinical settings. Six hours laboratory.

3250   Mental Health Requisite Care. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: NURS 3260. Nurse agency in the promotion of mental health and the care of clients with acute and chronic mental health deficits. Three hours lecture.

3260   Mental Health Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: NURS 3250. Care of clients with acute and chronic mental health deficits in the clinical setting. Six hours laboratory.

3270   Educative/Supportive Health Care. Four credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: NURS 3280. Incorporates concepts from nursing and public health to emphasize the role of nurse agency in primary care settings with an orientation toward individuals, families, groups, and communities. Four hours lecture.

3280   Educative Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3110, 3130, 3140, 3150, 3160, and 3170. Corequisite: NURS 3270. Nurse agency support of individuals, families, groups, and communities in a variety of settings. Six hours laboratory.

3350   Introduction to Nursing Practice. Five credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3010, 3030, 3040, and 3370. Prerequisite or corequisites: NURS 3170 and 3570. Introduces nursing care concepts necessary to support basic care of clients across the lifespan; foundation for subsequent nursing courses.

3360   Introduction to Nursing Practice–Clinical. Four credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3010, 3030, 3040, and 3370. Corequisite: NURS 3350. Nursing practice applied in laboratory and clinical settings. Twelve clock hours per week.

3370   Health and Gerontology. Three credits. Focuses on the normal aging process and related health care issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Incorporates concepts of health promotion, prevention, and adaptation for those who are aging and their families.

3530   Caring for Adult Clients I. Five credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3350 and 3360. Corequisite: NURS 3540. Professional nursing care in a variety of settings for the adult client with simple and chronic health problems.

3540   Caring for Adult Clients I–Clinical. Four credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: NURS 3530. Applying the nursing process in a clinical setting with the adult client experiencing acute and chronic health deviations. Twelve clock hours per week.

3550   Caring for the Childbearing Family. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3350 and 3360. Corequisite: NURS 3560. Incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking skills into the professional nursing care of the childbearing female and the family. Focuses on health promotion, prevention, and adaptation for the childbearing client.

3560   Caring for the Childbearing Family–Clinical. Two credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3350 and 3360. Corequisite: NURS 3550.  Nursing process for applying the clinical application and principles of nursing and family theory to childbearing families. Focuses on health promotion, prevention, and adaptation for childbearing families.

3570   Health Care Research. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3350 and 3360; MATH 1530; or permission of the director of the School of Nursing. Utilizes systematic inquiry and analysis by reinforcing the problem-solving method. Utilization of research in the improvement of health care practice to affect positive client outcomes examined. Attention given to a thorough search and critique of current research literature related to a problem area selected by the student.

4005   Independent Health Care Study. One to three credits. Prerequisites: Admission to the upper division of the nursing program and permission of instructor. Allows the student to pursue individual interests in nursing by contracting with an instructor and documenting the plan of learning as well as its fulfillment. One to three lectures or two to six laboratory hours.

4035   Special Topics in Nursing. Three credits. Explores selected nursing topics in depth. Specified topic offered each semester according to student interest and faculty availability.

4055   Informatics for the Health Care Professional. Three credits. Theoretical foundations of informatics for health care professionals. Examines information technology and tools on the Internet. Emphasis on impact of automated data management through information systems in health care.

4130   Health Deviation Requisite Care. Six credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3230, 3240, 3250, 3260, 3270, and 3280. Corequisite: NURS 4140. The nursing process in the care of the adult client with physical self-care deficits in acute and long-term care settings. Six hours lecture.

4140   Health Deviation Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3130, 3240, 3250, 3260, 3270, and 3280. The nursing process applied in the clinical setting to clients with physical self-care deficits. Six hours laboratory.

4150   Developmental Assistance in Childrearing. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3130, 3240, 3250, 3270, and 3280. Corequisite: NURS 4160. Unique body of knowledge and skills essential to the delivery of safe, comprehensive care to children, adolescents, and their families when deleterious factors threaten to interrupt development. Three hours lecture.

4160   Childrearing Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3130, 3240, 3250, 3270, and 3280. Corequisite: NURS 4150. Care of children, adolescents, and their families in various settings. Six hours laboratory.

4210   Health Care Research. Three credits. Prerequisites: MATH 1530 and CSCI 1000 or permission of instructor. The research process in developing a research proposal for a student-identified problem in the health care delivery system. Discussion and critique of related research findings and research proposals of peers. Three hours lecture.

4230   Compensatory Health Care. Four credits. Prerequisites: NURS 4130, 4140, 4150, and 4160. Knowledge base for working with critically and terminally ill clients requiring wholly compensatory care. Legal and ethical considerations arising in critical care settings are explored and professional responsibilities are refined. Four hours lecture.

4240   Compensatory Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 4130, 4140, 4150, and 4160. Corequisite: NURS 4230. Clinical course taken concurrently with NURS 4230. Provides clinical experience in critical care areas and with clients requiring wholly compensatory care. Requires nine (eight hour) days in hospital plus simulated labs.

4250   Leadership in Nursing Systems. Four credits. Prerequisites: NURS 4130, 4140, 4150, and 4160. Concepts of leadership applied to the practice of nurse agency. Technical, administrative, and human relations skills are identified for the purpose of adjusting the goals of a group. Four hours lecture.

4260   Management of Nursing Systems. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 4130, 4140, 4150, and 4160. Corequisite: NURS 4035. Clinical course taken concurrently or after NURS 4035. Provides independence in management of nursing systems in various health care institutions. Requires eleven (eight-hour) days in hospital plus simulated labs.

4330   Caring for Adult Clients II. Five credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisite: NURS 4340. Incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking skills into the professional nursing care of the adult client experiencing complex, multi-system illness, failure, and trauma. Opportunities for the nursing student to combine acquired knowledge from previous nursing courses and courses from other disciplines with new phenomena encountered in a variety of  high acuity care settings.

4340   Caring for Adult Clients II–Clinical. Four credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisite: NURS 4330. Opportunity for nursing students to integrate didactic and empirical knowledge and skills for clients with critical needs into the acute care setting. Understanding of complex, multi-system illness, failure, and trauma in providing nursing care. Twelve clock hours per week.

4350   Caring for Children and Teen Clients. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisite: NURS 4360. Incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking skills into the professional nursing care of children, adolescents, and their families. Principles of growth and development and family-centered care.

4360   Caring for Children and Teen Clients–Clinical. Two credits.  Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisite: NURS 4350. Provides assistance in transferring knowledge to the implementation of nursing care of children, adolescents, teens, and their families in a variety of clinical settings. Six clock hours per week.

4530   Caring for the Community as Client. Three credits. Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts and epidemiological principles related to health promotion and preventive services. Primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention covered. Focuses on the work of an interdisciplinary health care team and concepts of nursing and public health when working with the individual, family, group, and community as client.

4550   Caring for Clients with Mental Health Alterations. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisites: NURS 4560. Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts relating to mental health and psychiatric nursing. Interpersonal and group communication, psychopathology, and legal and ethical issues explored. Methods used in providing nursing care for clients with alterations in mental health presented. Interdisciplinary health care team and its function in the psychiatric setting explored.

4560   Nursing Care of Vulnerable Aggregates Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisites or corequisites: NURS 4530 and 4550. Familiarizes the undergraduate nursing student with ways to care for aggregates. Emphasis on clients in the community and in in-patient psychiatric facilities. Nine clock hours per week.

4570   Professional Practice and Leadership. Three credits. Prerequisites: NURS 3530 and 3540. Corequisite: NURS 4580.  Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts relating to leadership in nursing. Theories of leadership and management including legal and ethical issues explored.

4580   Professional Practice and Leadership Clinical. Three credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: NURS 4570. Clinical application of professional practice and leadership principles. Provides independence in the management of nursing systems in various health  care institutions. Six clock hours per week.

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