Courses
NURS-107 Nursing Seminar (FR) (0)
Nursing students who are actively engaged with liberal arts and sciences courses benefit from a linkage between these foundational courses and their professional aspirations. The nursing seminars provide this invaluable connection between the past, the present, and the future. Nursing faculty members coordinate discussions and guest speakers in order to reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary nursing practice to the beginning student. Required for all full-time fall semester first-year students; recommended for part-time fall semester first-year students.
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Attributes: NLIB
FallNURS-108 Nursing Sem (FR) (0)
Nursing students who are actively engaged with liberal arts and sciences courses benefit from a linkage between these foundational courses and their professional aspirations. The nursing seminars provide this invaluable connection between the past, the present, and the future. Nursing faculty members coordinate discussions and guest speakers in order to reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary nursing practice to the beginning student. Required for all full-time spring semester first-year students; recommended for part-time spring semester first-year students.
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Attributes: NLIB
SpringNURS-205 Nursing Seminar (SO) (0)
Nursing students who are actively engaged with liberal arts and sciences courses benefit from a linkage between these foundational courses and their professional aspirations. The nursing seminars provide this invaluable connection between the past, the present, and the future. Nursing faculty members coordinate discussions and guest speakers in order to reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary nursing practice to the beginning student. Required for all full-time fall semester second-year students; recommended for part-time fall semester second-year students.
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Attributes: NLIB
FallNURS-206 Nursing Sem (SO) (0)
Nursing students who are actively engaged with liberal arts and sciences courses benefit from a linkage between these foundational courses and their professional aspirations. The nursing seminars provide this invaluable connection between the past, the present, and the future. Nursing faculty members coordinate discussions and guest speakers in order to reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary nursing practice to the beginning student. Required for all full-time spring semester second-year students; recommended for part-time spring semester second-year students.
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Attributes: NLIB
SpringNURS-251 FIND SO Seminar I (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the fall semester of the sophomore year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities.
Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-202 SNURS-252 FIND SO Seminar II (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the Spring semester of the sophomore year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities.
Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-251 SNURS-300 Intro Discipline Nursing (0 OR 6)
The essential concepts, processes, and models of the discipline of nursing are introduced. Focus is on professional role development through the study and practice of the theory and skills basic to developing clinical judgment and effecting therapeutic outcomes with an emphasis on critical thinking, the nursing process, and psychomotor skills.
Requires one day of clinical each week, a weekly lab session, and a simulation experience.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall and SpringNURS-301 Population Health & Well I (2)
This Community Engaged Learning Course is a foundational undergraduate nursing course designed to provide students with an introductory understanding of population health and wellness principles. This course explores the determinants of health, health disparities, and the role of nursing in promoting the health of communities. Students will analyze stakeholders’ roles and enhance communication and collaboration skills within interdisciplinary teams to address community needs. They will assess community health, apply public health knowledge, and propose strategies for improvement. Epidemiological principles will be used to identify health trends. Through volunteer work, students will apply academic concepts and develop self-awareness to foster fair and equitable care. Students will develop a strong foundation in population health, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural competence, epidemiology, and community engagement.
Attributes: NLIB ZCIV ZEXLNURS-304 Nursing Leadership IPC (3)
This hybrid course focuses on the theory and skills for effective professional communication, and the foundations of informatics and healthcare technologies used in diverse health care settings. Explored is the importance of professional communication in order to achieve interpersonal, therapeutic, and interprofessional relationships that contribute to desired health promotion, quality outcomes, and person-centered care. Students are exposed to an overview of nursing informatics practice; health care information systems; the impact of informatics on the socio-cultural, ethical, and legal environments of health care; and the infrastructure needed to support informatics in health care systems. Professional development discussions support ongoing student socialization to the discipline and the profession of nursing.
Additional fees apply.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & SpringNURS-312 Palliative/End of Life (2)
This Community Engaged Learning (CEL) course provides students with content on compassionate and ethical person/family-centered care focused on individuals at the end of life, or those receiving palliative care. Students will obtain the knowledge and competencies that address end of life health beliefs, cultural practices, communication, physical care, psychosocial support, team collaboration, holistic care, and life closure skills to apply in future clinical settings. Using interdisciplinary resources, students will gain confidence to assist communities, families, and individuals across the lifespan to achieve comfort at the end of life. Students support community engagement by volunteering at comfort care/hospice settings and supporting those sites throughout the semester. At the completion of this course students receive the national End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) certificate for undergraduate students.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCIV ZEXL
Fall & SpringNURS-313 Health Assessment (0 TO 3)
This course focuses on the development of physical assessment skills and health pattern evaluation skills that are essential to culturally sensitive clinical judgments, therapeutic interventions, and achievement of desired health outcomes across the lifespan. This class contains a lab component.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall and SpringNURS-317 Adult/Older Adult Hlth I (0 OR 6)
This clinical course examines evidence-based practices and desired outcomes related to nursing management of adults, older adults, and intellectual developmental disability population experiencing selected common diagnoses and critical illness. Professional role development in critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, communication, and interventions to facilitate therapeutic outcomes across the four spheres of care are integrated didactically and within the clinical setting. Experiential learning includes the use of human patient simulation, skills lab, virtual reality, and acute care clinical placement.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-300 C AND NURS-313 CNURS-320 Path & Appl Pharm I (2)
This first of two courses uses a systems approach to explore the interrelationship among pharmacology, pathophysiology, and the therapeutic goal of physiologic integrity from a nursing perspective. Fundamental pharmacologic processes such as drug actions, the therapeutic response of drugs, and the side effects/adverse effects of drugs will be examined within the context of pathogenesis of common diseases. This introduction to pharmacology has a focus on nursing implications and patient outcomes.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-300 C AND NURS-313 CNURS-323 Childbearing Family (0 OR 4)
This course focuses on the management of nursing care of childbearing families. The predicted adaptations to childbearing are explored as well as those conditions that can complicate pregnancy and delivery. Students provide evidence-based nursing care for childbearing women and their families in acute and primary care. This course focuses on professional nursing role development in clinical judgment, critical thinking, communication, and interventions to facilitate therapeutic outcomes for childbearing women and families. Wellness, health promotion, and social determinants related to maternal child health are explored. Experiential learning includes human patient simulation labs, skills labs, virtual reality, and clinical placements for developing clinical competencies in the care of obstetric patients and their families.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-300 C AND NURS-313 CNURS-331 Nursing as a Profession (3)
This online course examines contemporary nursing in the context of the history of the profession and the theory, knowledge, and reasoning that are needed for current and evolving nursing roles. In addition, students are challenged to identify and a personal philosophy of nursing.
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Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-332 Caring for Populations (4)
This online course focuses on the social determinants of health and health disparities that may positively or negatively influence the community population health and well-being. It examines population evidence-based practice, systems, and health policies at the neighborhood, community, regional, national and global levels of care. The impact of social determinants of health; diversity, equity and inclusion; communicable diseases; vulnerable populations; global health and disaster preparedness are examined. Students complete a 32-hour clinical practice experience with on-site community clinical and volunteer experiences to include an analysis of Redlining Impact and a community windshield survey.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
VariableNURS-351 FIND JR Seminar I (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the Fall semester of the junior year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities. Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-252 SNURS-352 FIND JR Seminar II (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the Spring semester of the junior year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities.
Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-351 SNURS-370 IPE: TeamSTEPPS (0)
This training is designed for nursing students with special focus on development of basic skills in Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance & Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) needed for provision of team-based interprofessional practice. At the completion of this training, students will acquire skills to: recognize opportunities to improve patient safety; assess organizational culture and existing Patient Safety Program components; improve team-related competencies; and integrate TeamSTEPPS into daily practice.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: -NURS-398 J1 Test Block (0)
Testing block for all first semester junior nursing students
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: -NURS-399 J2 Testing Block (0)
Testing for all J2 clinical courses.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall and Spring
Pre-requisites: -NURS-403L Mental Health Nursing Lab (0)
The laboratory component of NURS 403 includes inpatient and community based mental health clinical experiences and assessments, psychiatric nursing skill labs, violence prevention training, and simulation opportunities to assist the student with developing mental health nursing clinical competencies.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & SpringNURS-403 Mental Health Nursing (0 OR 4)
This course concentrates on the theories, processes, and desired outcomes related to nursing management of individuals, their families, and groups with mental health needs. There is a focus on professional nursing role development in clinical judgment, communication, and interventions to facilitate therapeutic outcomes in inpatient, outpatient, and community mental health settings.
Requires one day of clinical each week, in addition to simulation and skills labs.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-320 C AND NURS-317 C AND NURS-323 CNURS-406 Nursing Leadership E&P (2)
This course concentrates on the development of practice focused leadership skills and in gaining the essential knowledge surrounding contemporary nursing topics. Current regulatory, political, legal, economic, and ethical issues relevant to the professional nurse and implications for interprofessional person-centered care are analyzed. In-class discussions support ongoing student socialization into the discipline and profession of nursing and provide an opportunity for purposeful dialogue and reflection on an array of professional issues facing nursing today.
Additional fees apply.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & SpringNURS-423 Adult/Older Adult Hlth II (0 OR 6)
This clinical course examines evidence-based practices, and desired outcomes related to nursing management of adults and older adults experiencing selected common diagnoses and critical illness. Professional role development in critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, communication, and interventions to facilitate therapeutic outcomes across the four spheres of care, are integrated didactically and within the clinical setting. Experiential learning includes the use of simulation, skills lab, virtual reality, and acute care clinical placement.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-317 C AND NURS-320 C AND NURS-323 CNURS-428 Path & Appl Pharm II (2)
This second of two courses continues with a systems approach to explore the interrelationship between pharmacology, pathophysiology, and the therapeutic goal of physiologic integrity from a nursing perspective. Fundamental pharmacologic processes such as drug actions, the therapeutic response of drugs, and the side effects/adverse effects of drugs will be examined within the context of pathogenesis of common diseases. A holistic perspective prepares the student to provide safe, culturally sensitive, individualized care to the adult and older adult..
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-317 C AND NURS-320 CNURS-431 Care of Children & Families (0 OR 4)
This course concentrates on the theory, processes and desired outcomes related to nursing management of children and families. This course focuses on professional nursing role development in clinical judgment, critical thinking, communication, and interventions to facilitate therapeutic outcomes for children and families. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, injury prevention, and providing trauma informed developmentally appropriate care to children and their families. Experiential learning includes skills lab, simulation, acute and community care clinical placements.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall and Spring
Pre-requisites: -NURS-433 PopulationHealth & Well II (4)
This clinical course focuses on public health as a means to prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health through an organized community effort. Students will learn to develop, implement, and evaluate public health strategies, in partnership with community stakeholders at varying levels of care. Students will identify gaps in service delivery across systems with the goal of addressing inequities and advocating for the needs of diverse populations. Experiential learning includes the use of simulation and working with interprofessional teams in the community to improve health outcomes of vulnerable populations.
Attributes: NLIB ZCIV ZEXL
Pre-requisites: NURS-301 CNURS-446 Nursing Leadership Q & S (0 OR 2)
This course focuses on the development of leadership and management knowledge and skills for the professional nurse in current healthcare organizations and systems. Content includes managerial practices for delivering nursing care, organizational design, and effectiveness, change implementation, quality improvement and measurement, fiscal resources and management, creating healthy work environments, staff performance and development. Leadership theories, roles, and application to today’s complex healthcare environment are discussed. Current regulatory standards, nursing certification and competencies for health professions are explored. Planning personal strategies for successful new graduate transitions including reality shock, wellbeing, self-care, resiliency, and stress management. Professional development discussions support ongoing student socialization to the discipline and the profession of nursing.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: -NURS-450 Leadership:Systems of Care (4)
This online course focuses on advanced theory, processes, skills, behaviors, and emotional intelligence self-awareness to effectively lead and manage within an increasingly diverse and complex health care delivery system. Personal and professional leadership development is advanced by expanding students’ knowledge of systems-based practice; organizational structures in evolving health systems; reimbursement and financing of health care; legal and ethical issues applied to managing and leading; communication strategies and managing conflict; problem solving and decision-making, workforce development, and healthy workplace environments. Application of these principles are incorporated into a 32 hour required clinical practice experience working with a nurse leader in a health care setting.
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VariableNURS-452 Holistic Health Assessment (4)
This online course focuses on the holistic and multi-dimensional approach to health assessment and the development of physical assessment skills essential for critical thinking, culturally sensitive clinical decisions, therapeutic interventions, and achievement of desired health outcomes across the life span. Students refine competencies in critical thinking and physical assessment skills in self-directed, precepted practice sessions.
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Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-456 Informatics in Health Care (3)
This online course examines the foundations of informatics and healthcare technologies used in diverse health care settings. Explored is the application of current and future technologies in health care systems to promote administrative decision support, research/evidence-based practice, patient care delivery, clinical care decision support, eHealth, integrated communication, and distributed education. Students are exposed to an overview of nursing informatics practice; health care information systems; the impact of informatics on the sociocultural, ethical, and legal aspects of health care; and the infrastructure needed to support informatics in health care systems.
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Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-458 Contemporary Prof Issues (4)
This online course concentrates on professional nursing role socialization through critical analysis of the interdisciplinary effects of sociopolitical, economic, ethical, and legal frameworks on an increasingly diverse and complex health care delivery system. There is a focus on critical thinking and role development in ethical decision making, professional accountability, and advocacy. The student participates in experiential learning by engaging with local legislators and/or government officials to advocate for policies designed to improve the health care of individuals, support the healthcare workforce, or provide for equitable distribution of resources within the healthcare system.
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Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-471 FIND SR Seminar I (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the Fall semester of the senior year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities.
Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-352 SNURS-472 FIND SR Seminar II (0)
The FIND (Fisher Improves Nursing through Diversity) grant requires a zero credit FIND seminar in years 1-4 of the students’ education. These dedicated seminars will help to build a sense of community and belonging among the FIND students. This seminar which occurs during the Spring semester of the senior year will provide opportunities for relationship building, cohort building and empowerment, and personalized attention to meet the needs of the FIND students. During the seminar, social determinants of health will be introduced to the students, helping them understand the potential impact nurses may have on under- represented minority (URM) communities.
Graded S/U.
Attributes: NLIB
Pre-requisites: NURS-471 SNURS-488 S1 Test Block (0)
Testing block for all first semester senior nursing students.
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Attributes: NLIB
Variable
Pre-requisites: -NURS-489 S2 Test Block (0)
Testing block for all second semester senior nursing students.
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Attributes: NLIB
Fall & SpringNURS-490 Nursing Internship (1)
Students may register for a one credit student internship to gain clinical experience after completion of all junior level nursing courses. Internships may be existing programs offered by clinical agencies or student-initiated. Students interested in an internship must meet with the Undergraduate Chair for approval before registration.
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Attributes: NLIB ZCLX
Fall & Spring
Pre-requisites: NURS-300 C AND NURS-317 C AND NURS-323 CNURS-496 Independent Study (1 TO 4)
An opportunity for a student to engage in research or study in an area or topic not regularly covered in the program.
Students must meet with the Undergraduate Chairman of Nursing and complete the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form.Typically offered:
Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-498H Honors Project (3)
Required for students who are accepted into the Nursing Honors Program. May also be used to satisfy an honor’s course requirement for senior nursing students in the college Honors Program. The intent to develop an honors project must be declared prior to the beginning of the senior year. The student should meet with the UG Nursing Chair to discuss the project and select a faculty mentor. Provisional admission to the Nursing Honors program is made in the first semester of the senior year when the Honors Project proposal is finalized. The project proposal must be approved by the UG Nursing Chair and the Dean of the WSON. The Honors Project is completed and presented at a colloquium in the second semester of the senior year.
Students must meet with the Undergraduate Chairman of Nursing and complete the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form.
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Attributes: NLIB
VariableNURS-3991 Advanced Research Writing (3)
This hybrid Core course focuses on the development of an inquiry-based research question and a review of the literature using discipline-specific practices that result in transferable research and writing skills. Students build on the critical thinking and writing competencies they have previously acquired to engage topics and ideas in the nursing profession. Students identify, examine and evaluate appropriate sources, and use evidence from research to substantiate their own claims. Students formulate an evidenced-based recommendation for practice based on their research review and evaluation of the current literature. Additional content includes the exploration of the ethics of medical and nursing research to gain a better understanding of historical socio-cultural disparities and the influence on current practice. Students disseminate and discuss results of their literature review orally with peers and in written format. As a hybrid course, students complete the podcast lectures and class prep prior to class meetings. During the scheduled two-hour synchronous class meetings students and faculty meet together for in class writing workshops, research assistance, and hands-on activity-based learning.
Additional fees apply.
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Attributes: AWC NLIB
Fall & SpringNURS-3992 Evidence Based Practice (4)
This online course focuses on the state of nursing science through the use of foundational skills in nursing research. Building on critical thinking and writing competencies previously acquired, students explore issues and topics related to nursing practice. Students first identify a clinical question, then examine, appraise, synthesize, and determine the applicability of evidence gleaned from multiple sources. Based on this review, students formulate an evidenced-based recommendation for a practice change. Finally, students disseminate and discuss the results of their literature review in written format and through a class presentation focusing on the possible implementation of the practice change. Additional content includes the exploration of the ethics of medical and nursing research to gain a better understanding of historical sociocultural disparities and their influence on current practice. The integration and dissemination of evidenced-based research into nursing practice prepares the professional nurse to assume the role of an innovator and leader within the interprofessional team.
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Attributes: AWC NLIB
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Pre-requisites: -NURS-4991 Cardinal Experience (0 TO 5)
This capstone core course, aligned with the Fisher Outcomes, prepares the senior nursing student for success on the registered nursing licensure examination. The four major categories of client needs, which are the basis of the NCLEX-RN test plan design, give structure to a review of concepts and processes that are fundamental to the practice of nursing. Students explore the transition from nursing student to graduate nurse through a three-week inclusive clinical preceptorship in a community or acute care clinical settings. Students apply person-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics concepts to operationalize a culture of safety and quality in the delivery of health care services. Experiential learning includes the use of simulation, skills lab, and acute care clinical placements.
Additional fees apply.
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Attributes: CE NLIB ZCAP ZCIV ZCLX ZTRA
Fall and SpringNURS-4992 Patient-Centered Care/Qual (4)
This online core capstone course explores the transformation of the healthcare system into an individualized person-centered care environment. This environment concentrates on respect for individual needs, provision of a safe environment, and achievement of quality outcomes. Examined is the current and future role of the professional nurse in person-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics to operationalize a culture of safety and quality in the delivery of healthcare services. Investigated are external factors, internal structures, and roles in a healthcare system that drive patient safety and quality improvement structures, processes, and outcomes through a quality improvement project and 32-hour clinical practice experience.
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Attributes: CE NLIB
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