Course Descriptions
Descriptions of Required and Elective Courses Needed to Complete a Major In Nursing

Nursing 135:
Lifespan Development
This class will provide a perspective on the changes that take place during an individual’s life from infancy to old age/death. Participants will study and describe the developing person at different periods in the lifespan. The processes of growth and change taking place in early, middle, and late adulthood will be considered as well as the more traditional concern with development in childhood.

Nursing 190:
Selected Topics
A topical course designed to investigate any relevant subject matter not included in any of the standard courses. The title, content, and credit will be determined by the current mutual interests of students and faculty.

Nursing 202:
Nursing in Specialized Care Settings
This course is designed to enable the student to study the role of the professional nurse in a specific health care setting. Clinical judgments, critical thinking, and the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills required to provide quality nursing care in the health setting will be emphasized.

Nursing 204:
Global Women’s Health
This course introduces women’s health with an emphasis on global issues. Women’s health will be examined using the influences of social, political, economic, cultural, and geographical factors. Students will examine the basic health needs of all women and compare the availability of and types of services in different parts of the world. A unique component of this course is the opportunity to work with women from another country to learn about other women’s health concerns.
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 90 or Sociology 3 or a beginning level anthropology course or permission of the instructor.

Nursing 230:
Computers in the Health Care System
This course examines the applications of computers related to provision of care, education, administration and research in the health care system. The principles of computers and types of computer systems will be included in the course. Hands-on computer experiences are incorporated into the course.

Nursing 231:
Philosophical Foundations in Nursing
The philosophy of baccalaureate education in nursing is introduced. The concept of holistic health, the health-illness continuum, and health needs of the individual related to the practice of the baccalaureate nurse are discussed. Nursing theories/models and nursing diagnoses are applied within the context of the nursing process in the clinical setting. Contemporary nursing issues influencing the delivery of health care and the nursing profession are explored.
Prerequisite: Admission to the B.S.N. program.
Corequisite: Nursing 231L.

Nursing 231L:
Philosophical Foundations in Nursing
Clinical component of Nursing 231.
P/F only.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with Nursing 231.

Nursing 233:
Health Assessment
An introduction to basic knowledge and skills necessary to obtain a detailed health assessment of individuals across the age continuum. The biological, sociological, and psychological aspects of human beings are addressed. Emphasis is placed on obtaining a systematic health history and physical exam using the techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Supervised laboratory and clinical allow the student the opportunity to practice the assessment skills introduced in class.

Nursing 234:
Ethics in the Health Care System
This course serves as an introduction to the study of ethics and representative systems of ethics, along with the study of specific areas of ethical importance to nursing such as advocacy, informed consent, death and dying, and newborn infant care. Its purpose is to help the student confront the ethical problems in a reflective and analytical manner, and aid the student in reaching his or her own position.

Nursing 236:
Introduction to Nursing Research
Study of the research process. The course will provide an opportunity to identify researchable problems in nursing and to develop beginning skills in addressing them. The course is designed to help the student develop competence as a consumer of nursing research through critical evaluation of selected nursing research.
Prerequisite: Admission to the B.S.N. program.

Nursing 240:
Management and Leadership in Nursing
This course assumes the student possesses basic leadership and management skills, and further examines the role of the baccalaureate nurse as a manager in health care organizations. The roles of the nurse manager are analyzed for each of the management functions: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. External factors influencing the nurse manager are also examined. Students are able to select their clinical experience in management from a variety of health care organizations and settings.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Nursing 231.

Nursing 245:
Nursing of Families and Groups in the Community
This course focuses on the application of community health nursing concepts with individuals, families, and groups. Emphasis is placed on applying the nursing process to problems of persons from a variety of cultural groups and to those with developmental and situational crises. In the clinical setting, students work with persons throughout the age span and in a variety of community settings.
Prerequisites: Nursing 231, 233 and a lifespan development course.

Nursing 250:
Population Based Nursing Practice
This course focuses on the application of community health nursing concepts with selected individuals, families, groups and communities. Health concerns of the group/community are identified and addressed using health program planning skills. Research is evaluated for its use in community health settings.
Prerequisites: Nursing 230, 231, 233, 234, 236, 240, and 245.

Nursing 296:
Special Projects
An opportunity for individual students to engage in a special project, research, clinical experience, writing, or guided readings. Conducted under the supervision of a member of the nursing program. Special projects may not duplicate courses described in the catalog.
Prerequisites: Admission to the B.S.N. program and approval of the program director.

Biology 270:
Pathophysiology
A survey of the mechanisms of diseases and fundamental disease processes of each organ system. Special topics related to the study of diseases will be assigned.
Prerequisites: Biology 160 and 170 and a course in anatomy or permission of the instructor.

Math 7:
Statistics
A study of topics essential to an understanding of statistics and their applications. Topics include probability, discrete and normal probability distributions, sample variability, the central limit theorem, and linear regression.