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  • 2.00 Credits

    Introduces students to the core concepts of professional nursing practice. Nursing process, domains of nursing practice, health policy, evidence-based practice, legal and professional standards will be introduced. Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment in NURS 2340, NURS 3745, NURS 3790, and PHCY 3450.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Includes concepts of basic care/comfort, technical skills, medical equipment, asepsis, medication administration, nurse/client safety, and client rights. Students learn to assess and document normal variations and potential alterations of physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental dimensions of individuals across the lifespan. Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment in NURS 2340, NURS 3730, NURS 3790, and PHCY 3450.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Using system analysis, students assess the physiological, psychology, spiritual, socio-cultural, developmental variables of individual clients across the life span. Nursing process and evidence-based nursing practice are used to promote/protect health of clients through health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention of the client/client systems. Process skills and professional roles are integrated. Prerequisites: previous Bachelor's degree; admitted to BRAND program; concurrent enrollment in NURS 3710.
  • 9.00 Credits

    Discern critical elements of professional nursing medical-surgical concepts for adults experiencing acute/chronic health alterations progressing to complex health alterations. Focuses on patient safety principles; quality initiatives; evidence-based nursing; information technology; interprofessional collaboration, communication; health promotion strategies; and critical thinking in the planning of client centered nursing care for the adult. Prerequisites: NURS 3710, NURS 3750, NURS 3730, NURS 3780.
  • 7.00 Credits

    Application of critical elements of professional nursing practice with adults experiencing acute and chronic health alterations. Focus is on incorporation of patient safety principles; quality initiatives; evidence-based nursing practice; information technology; interprofessional collaboration and communication; health promotion strategies; and critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the provision of nursing care. Prerequisites: NURS 3710, NURS 3750, NURS 3730, NURS 3780.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prepares nursing students to engage in evidence-based practice in nursing, specifically how to search the literature and databases, ask meaningful clinical questions, find relevant evidence, critically appraise evidence, integrate best evidence with clinical expertise and patient/community values. Prerequisites: admission to the BRAND program, concurrent enrollment in NURS 3770.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Components of the nursing process and evidence-based nursing practice are used to protect the health of clients through health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention. Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment in NURS 2340, NURS 3730, NURS 3745, and PHCY 3450.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Junior students integrate the physiological, psychological, spiritual, developmental and socio-cultural dimensions of adults as they study nursing care during wellness and illness. Focus is on neurological, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal systems and genetics, diagnostics and pre-operative care. Students learn the professional nursing role in planning care of the adult client. Prerequisites: NURS 3440 and 3475; NURS 3020, or concurrent enrollment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the physiological, psychological, spiritual, developmental and socio-cultural dimensions of the older adult and addresses the 30 AACN/Hartford Foundations' Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for Geriatric Nursing Care. Prerequisites: NURS 3440 and 3475; NURS 3020 or concurrent enrollment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores psychiatric illnesses and mental health concepts consistent with the roles of the professional nurse. Emphasis is on the nursing process, DSM-IV criteria, therapeutic communication, treatment modalities, legal and ethical concerns, community resources, and inter-related client needs in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisites: NURS 3440 and 3475; NURS3020 or concurrent enrollment.