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RN/BSN: Course Offerings
NSG 333. Health Assessment. 3 credits. The first health assessment course is designed to develop knowledge and skills necessary to gather, organize and present relevant health data. Emphasis is placed on systematic strategies, frameworks and skills used to conduct both comprehensive and need-specific health assessments for individuals in the context of their family and community.
NSG 461. Pathophysiology and Pharmacology. 4 credits. This course, offered for RN-BSN program students, provides an examination of complex physiologic responses and clinical sequel in major body systems in relation to pathologic processes. Emphasis is place upon physiologic compensation and defense response. Pharmacologic management of pathology is investigated.
NSG 462. Issues in Contemporary Nursing Practice. 3 credits. This course, offered for RN-BSN program students, examines issues and trends of greatest concern to professional nursing practice today. Historical, societal, political and economic influences and future trends will be explored. Legal and ethical dimensions of nursing will be discussed. A seminar format will be used emphasizing professional presentation of issues.
NSG 463. Professional Role Transition. 3 credits. This course, for RN-BSN students, provides an expansion of concepts/theories from the student’s initial education into the BSN program. Nursing as a profession, including professional socialization, historical review, nursing theory, leadership and management roles as well as coping strategies for role stress will be explored. Seminar format will be used.
NSG 464. Introduction to Nursing Research. 3 credits. This course, designed for RN-BSN students, will focus on the study of research methods that generate quantitative and qualitative data. Students will examine the research process with an emphasis on critique of research methodologies and application of research findings to nursing practice.
NSG 465. Clinical Practicum Elective. 1 credit. This course facilitates the RN student’s transition into a professional nursing role through a BSN/faculty mentored clinical practicum experience in a student selected clinical specialty area. The student will articulate individual objectives. An individual plan to meet the course and student’s objectives will be developed by the student and approved by the faculty.
NSG 466. Community Clinical Practicum. 1 credit. This practicum, for RN-BSN students, transitions practice into the BSN role through mentored clinical experiences at selected community sites. Emphasis is on collaborative nursing care with individuals, families, and groups within the community. Experiences include concepts of health promotion and disease prevention and management of acute or chronic illness.
NSG 468. Caring for the Public’s Health: Community Health Nursing. 4 credits. This web-enhanced course provides RN to BSN students a perspective of professional nursing at the community level of practice. Course content will provide an overview of specific issues and societal concerns that affect community health nursing practice including historical impact of public health, epidemiology, health promotion and disease prevention, vulnerable populations; communicable disease risk and prevention; and the diversity of the role of the community health nurse.
NSG 510. Health Informatics for the Advanced Health Professional. 2 credits. This course focuses on the nature and functions of present and future applications of health care informatics. Emphasis is on preparing advanced practice professionals to plan, design and utilize informatics for effective health care delivery, health organizational management and improved client outcomes.
NSG 523. Concepts in Aging. 3 credits. Examines the physiological, psychosocial, cognitive, legal and ethical aspects of aging within a care coordination context. A focus is on the issues that surround the concepts of aging and how the ethical aspects of care relate to the utilization of resources.
NSG 524. Health Care Environment. 3 credits. This is a survey course examining the U.S. health care system, federal and state health policy, and public and private providers. Comparisons of the U.S. system will be made with other systems in the industrialized world.
