Nursing Courses
PNU 2030 NURSING NOTES (3 credits)
This course introduces the art and science of nursing. The philosophy, mission, vision, and values of the nursing program are explicated to help students develop an understanding of issues in the nursing profession. Emphasis is on history, trends, and socio-cultural influences on the practice of nursing. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) core competencies for health professions education are examined. Students are exposed to basic elements of nursing practice with a focus on developing critical thinking skills
Prerequisite: none
Offered: fall, spring, summer
NUR 3000 INTRODUCTION TO NURSING (3 credits)
The course provides an overview of professional nursing with a focus on professionalism, including but not limited to communication, ethics, accountability, social justice. A synthesis of current and projected trends in nursing is explored. This course is divided into five modules: nursing as a career, nursing as a profession, nursing as art and science, nursing as communication, and nursing as a team.
Prerequisites: NUR major only.
Co-requisites: NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 3010 HEALTH ASSESSMENT ACROSS THE LIFESPAN (3 credits)
This course introduces the knowledge and skills required to perform a systematic examination of a healthy adult and to document the findings. Focus is on conducting a comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessment using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches. Health assessment is framed through the use of the nursing process. Class (2 credits), Lab (1 credit).
Prerequisite: NUR major only
Co-requisite: NUR 3000, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 3040 FUNDAMENTAL NURSING CARE (5 credits)
This course introduces students to the psychomotor skills necessary for nursing while implementing the nursing process. Therapeutic nursing interventions as the foundation of nursing practice are implemented, including aseptic technique, medication administration, as well as other fundamental nursing skills. Class (3 credits), Lab (2 credits).
Prerequisite: NUR major only
Co-requisites: NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3110, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 3060 ADULT HEALTH NURSING I (7 credits)
This is the first of two courses focused on adult health nursing. Emphasis is on nursing process, theory and skills related to the care of adults, including elder adults, with commonly occurring acute and chronic health deviations. Etiology, clinical evaluation, and use of evidence-based nursing interventions that address professional nursing practice, decision-making processes, and interventions within cultural, socioeconomic, and personal contexts are applied. Class (4 credits), Clinical (3 credits)
Prerequisites: NUR major only; NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110
Co-requisites: NUR 4080, NUR 3150, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: spring
NUR 3070 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (5 credits)
An overview of community and public health nursing. Explores the role of the nurse in health promotion, disease prevention, and injury prevention across the lifespan. Students examine population-focused roles in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, including disaster management. (class (3 credits), clinical (2 credits)
Prerequisites: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110
Co-requisites: NUR 3060 or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: spring
NUR 3110 PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS FOR NURSES (4 credits)
This course applies the scientific underpinnings for nurses to provide safe and effective care related to pharmacotherapeutics throughout the lifespan. Drugs are studied by therapeutic or pharmacological class. Clinical assessment, analysis of clinical information, and clinical decision-making are examined in relationship to relevant pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic processes.
Prerequisite: NUR major only
Co-requisites: NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 3600 NURSING INFORMATICS (3 credits)
This course introduces you to the basic concepts relevant to health care informatics and the use of computerized information system in health care organizations. The main focus is to discover how computerized applications aid the health care team to evaluate health, wellness, and illness to provide and communicate positive patient outcomes across the lifespan.
Prerequisite: NUR major only or permission of the instructor
Co-requisites: None
Offered: fall, spring, and summer
NUR 4010 RESEARCH FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE (3 credits)
The course focuses on the translation of current evidence into nursing practice through the identification of practice issues, appraisal and application of evidence, and the evaluation of outcomes (AACN, 2008). Development of evidence is examined using the research process. Concepts explored include research ethics and legal precepts, clinical judgment in knowledge development and application, and the integration of client values and preferences. Students learn to use reliable evidence to inform practice and make clinical judgments to promote nursing best practice.
Prerequisite: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3080, NUR 3150, HCA 3500, NUR 4080, NUR 4060, NUR 3080, NUR 4050
Co-requisites: NUR 4040, NUR 4500 or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: Spring
NUR 4020 NURSING LEADERSHIP AND HEALTH POLICY (3 credits)
The course explores organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement, and national healthcare safety standards. Focus is placed on the importance of ethical decision-making, effective working relationships, delegation, and accountability when working in complex healthcare systems. Leadership skills to effectively negotiate change, provide safe quality care, and promote professional practice in the healthcare environment are analyzed and applied.
Prerequisites: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3070
Co-requisites: NUR 4060, NUR 4070, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 4040 MATERNAL CHILD NURSING (7 credits)
Nursing care of women, newborns, infants, children, and families during childbearing and child-rearing stages is described. Healthy transitions and physical alterations occurring from conception through adolescence are examined. The health needs of the family are discussed in terms of major morbidity/mortality risks and contemporary issues. This experience will integrate clinical experiences in a variety of acute and community clinical settings to build on theories of growth and development, pathophysiology, evidence-based practice. (Class (4 credits), Clinical (3 credits)
Prerequisites: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3080, NUR 3150, HCA 3500, NUR 4080, NUR 4060, NUR 4050
Co-requisites: NUR 4050, NUR 4500, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: spring
NUR 4060 ADULT NURSING II (7 credits)
Adult Nursing II is the second of two courses focused on adult health nursing for commonly occurring diseases in the acute care setting. The course builds on previously learned knowledge of physical assessment and technical skills to focus on key components of acute care nursing. Advanced skills and interventions required to care for clients with commonly occurring disease states will be included. (class (4 credits), clinical (3 credits).
Prerequisite: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3150, HCA 3500, NUR 4080
Co-requisites: NUR 3080, NUR 4050, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 4070 PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING (5 credits)
The course is designed to provide an understanding of acute and chronic mental illness across the life span. Neurobiological sciences, psychosocial concepts and traditional / nontraditional therapies are explored. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based practice supported by the Scope and Standards’ of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Topics include psychiatric mental health clinical settings, psychosocial interventions, psychotropic medications, and crisis intervention. Class (3 credits), clinical (2 credits).
Prerequisites: NUR major only; NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3070
Co-requisites: NUR 4050, NUR 4060, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: fall
NUR 4110 NURSE EXTERN (1 credit)
The Nurse Extern is an elective nursing course positioned after you have completed the NUR 3060: Adult Health I course. This nursing elective course enhances your learning experience of various disease pathologies and disorders that are frequently encountered as a future Registered Nurse caring for patients in today’s healthcare profession. The learning outcomes in the course are that you will provide quality, effective and efficient nursing care for patients, while working directly under the supervision of a CFV RN preceptor with oversight and evaluation by course faculty. To accomplish this, it will require you: 1) to synthesize information and concepts about illness and disease, 2) provide nursing care management, and 3) to utilize critical thinking and reasoning. This course will further require that you also incorporate all prior nursing knowledge and skills acquired from previous nursing courses, classroom and clinical settings, in order to be able to provide holistic care to patients with specific health deviations and needs.
Prerequisites: NUR major only and permission of the instructor
Co-requisites: None
Offered: fall
NUR 4120 NURSE EXTERN (1 credit)
The Nurse Extern is an elective nursing course positioned after you have completed the NUR 3060: Adult Health I course. This nursing elective course enhances your learning experience of various disease pathologies and disorders that are frequently encountered as a future Registered Nurse caring for patients in today’s healthcare profession. The learning outcomes in the course are that you will provide quality, effective and efficient nursing care for patients, while working directly under the supervision of a CFV RN preceptor with oversight and evaluation by course faculty. To accomplish this, it will require you: 1) to synthesize information and concepts about illness and disease, 2) provide nursing care management, and 3) to utilize critical thinking and reasoning. This course will further require that you also incorporate all prior nursing knowledge and skills acquired from previous nursing courses, classroom and clinical settings, in order to be able to provide holistic care to patients with specific health deviations and needs.
Prerequisites: NUR major only and permission of the instructor
Co-requisites: None
Offered: spring
NUR 4130 NURSE EXTERN (1 credit)
The Nurse Extern is an elective nursing course positioned after you have completed the NUR 3060: Adult Health I course. This nursing elective course enhances your learning experience of various disease pathologies and disorders that are frequently encountered as a future Registered Nurse caring for patients in today’s healthcare profession. The learning outcomes in the course are that you will provide quality, effective and efficient nursing care for patients, while working directly under the supervision of a CFV RN preceptor with oversight and evaluation by course faculty. To accomplish this, it will require you: 1) to synthesize information and concepts about illness and disease, 2) provide nursing care management, and 3) to utilize critical thinking and reasoning. This course will further require that you also incorporate all prior nursing knowledge and skills acquired from previous nursing courses, classroom and clinical settings, in order to be able to provide holistic care to patients with specific health deviations and needs.
Prerequisites: NUR major only and permission of the instructor
Co-requisites: None
Offered: summer
NUR 4400 NCLEX PREP (2 credits)
This is an elective course provided in the last semester of the nursing program in preparation for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) exam. During this course, the student will be engaged in case studies and interactive learning in a relaxed, active learning environment. The course reinforces nursing knowledge and to improve clinical judgment and decision-making skills using a concept-based approach.
Prerequisites: NUR major only
Co-requisites: None
Offered: spring
NUR 4500 NURSING CAPSTONE SEMINAR (4 credits)
This nursing capstone consists of seminars to provide an opportunity for transition to the professional nursing role and a 120 hour focused client care experience. Standardized testing is incorporated to provide feedback to facilitate analysis, synthesis, refinement, and integration of nursing knowledge. The focused client care experience is provided through a cooperatively designed learning experience under the supervision of a licensed preceptor. (Class 1 credit, clinical 3 credits).
Prerequisites: NUR major only, NUR 3000, NUR 3010, NUR 3040, NUR 3110, NUR 3060, NUR 3080, NUR 3150, HCA 3500, NUR 4050, NUR 4060, NUR 4080
Co-requisites: NUR 4010, NUR 4040, or permission of Department of Nursing Chair
Offered: spring
NUR 4850 SPECIAL TOPICS IN NURSING (1-3 credits)
The NUR 4850 Special Topics course is a course designed relating around a specific nursing topic or area of specialty. The course allows for professors/instructors to offer more education relating to a specific nursing topic area of interest.
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Co-requisites: None
Offered: as needed