BSN Course Descriptions TERM 9 NUR320 Adult Health Nursing III Prerequisite: NUR310; Co-Requisite: NUR321 Credits: 5.0 / Course Hours: 60
TERM 10 NUR421 Maternal Newborn Nursing Prerequisites: None; Course Corequisites: NUR423
Credit Hours: 3.0 / Contact Hours: 40 This course provides an overview of maternity and newborn health care needs. The course will include maternal health care, special reproductive issues, physiologic and psychological adaptation of the woman during pregnancy, role of the nurse in prenatal care and assessment, labor and the concept of pain management, postpartum and newborn care, and at-risk childbearing. Students will demonstrate nursing skill and understanding of content in the lab component. NUR422 Pediatric Nursing Prerequisites: NUR423, PSY201 Credit Hours: 3.0 / Contact Hours: 40 This course provides the foundation of pediatric nursing care including physical assessments, special procedures and treatments, chronic illness, and caring for children and their families. Also included in this course is a review of nursing care of the child with health disorders of the major body systems. Students will demonstrate nursing skill and understanding of content in the lab component. NUR 423 Clinical Nursing VII Prerequisites: NUR321; Corequisites: NUR421, NUR422 Credit Hours: 1.0 / Contact Hours: 30 This clinical course supports NUR421 and NUR422 and teaches the Registered Nurse nursing skills and procedures related to pediatric and maternal newborn nursing. The NCSBN clinical judgment measurement model and OMEGA-7 will support clinical judgment and critical thinking. On‐site clinical instruction, supervision, evaluation, and placement will be the responsibility of the qualified college nursing faculty in collaboration with practicing nurses. NUR434 Patient Safety and Continuous This course provides an exploration of quality improvement and safety concepts, strategies, and implications to patient outcomes. The role of nursing in high-quality, safe, and cost-effective care is examined. NCL450 NCLEX-RN® PREPARATION I Prerequisites: none Credits: 2.0 / Course Hours: 20 The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive review of nursing content identified in the current National council licensure examination for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN). The NCLEX-RN is a computerized test developed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to ensure you are a safe practitioner. The course is intended to provide valuable study tools and test-taking strategies of complex NCLEX-RN type questions. Awareness of what to expect and areas needing further development as well as confidence of success on the NCLEX exam is promoted. Quality Improvement Prerequisites: MAT309, NUR120 Credit Hours: 5.0 / Contact Hours: 50
This course is the final in a consecutive series of adult health/ medical surgical nursing, which further introduces the student to nursing assessment and management of problems related to regulatory and reproductive mechanisms; dermatologic disorders and burn injury, sensory (eyes and ears), neurologic function, and nursing care in specialized settings. Infectious diseases and disaster preparedness are discussed. The lab application content includes nursing professionalism; dosage calculations; electronic medical record (EMR) documentation; health history and physical assessment; thorough nursing assessment and management of the reproductive, integumentary, cerebrovascular, and neurologic systems. Triage for This clinical course supports NUR320 and teaches the Registered Nurse nursing skills and procedures related to adult health nursing. The NCSBN clinical judgment measurement model and OMEGA-7 will support clinical judgment and critical thinking. On‐site clinical instruction, supervision, evaluation, and placement will be the responsibility of the qualified college nursing faculty in collaboration with practicing nurses. NUR326 Community and Public Health Nursing Prerequisites: COM311, NUR120 Credit Hours: 5.0 / Contact Hours: 50 This course provides an overview of community and public health nursing. Concepts and methods of community assessment and health improvement are introduced. Topics include principles of biostatistics and epidemiology, policies impacting community health, environmental health and available or needed resources. Communication and collaboration with diverse population groups that make up the community is emphasized to form partnerships for public health promotion. NUR332 Healthcare Informatics Prerequisites: SOC207, NUR320 Credit Hours: 5.0 / Contact Hours: 50 This course provides a foundation for understanding nursing mass casualty incidents is also explored. NUR321 Clinical Nursing VI Prerequisite: NUR311; Co-Requisite: NUR320 Credits: 1.0 / Course Hours: 30 informatics including analysis of various applications of information systems used to support the data, information and knowledge needs in the delivery of healthcare. Topics include computer-based patient records, telehealth, patient and nursing applications, and the use of technology for quality improvement, education, and research. Legal, ethical and social issues in healthcare informatics are discussed.
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