Curriculum
This curriculum includes:
NURS 325 — Critical Issues Shaping Professional Nursing
During the last decade the health care system has undergone dramatic shifts, driven by changing economic, demographic, and technological forces. This course explores the impact of these forces on health care delivery, and the concerns relating to ethical, legal, and social issues that influence nursing practice. The readiness and flexibility of the profession to adapt to a changing society will be explored as well as the new opportunities these qualities have for career development. Concepts necessary for succeeding in the nursing profession will be studied.
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NURS 462 — Science, Technology, & Health: A Nursing Perspective
This course is overview of the latest discoveries and trends in science and technology that have implications for the broader health of mankind. The course is further designed so nurses can be exposed to current scientific findings in biology, environmental science, chemistry, engineering, informatics, and other disciplines and ascertain how these finings might have application to nursing practice and nursing science. Students will explore the ethical implications of advances in science and technology and examine critique the relevance of these findings to diverse populations. Finally, students will discuss what a nursing scientist is and how nurses can study the phenomena of nursing and advance discovery and improve health through the development of nursing science. This course will also be designated as a writing intensive course.
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NURS 375 — Nurses Building a Healthy Community: Theory & Practice
This course focuses on the professional role of the community/public health nurse working collaboratively with aggregates, community partners and health officials within the community as part of an interdisciplinary team in order to promote a healthier community. An introduction to conceptual frameworks that guide community-based, population-focused practice and research is included in both the classroom and the clinical portions of the course. The student uses skills in community assessment; program planning and nursing interventions to help identified populations within the community attain and maintain their optimum level of health. Selected measures for evaluating the outcomes of community health nursing programs are discussed as well as those that may be broader in scope.
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