RN Baccalaureate Completion (BS)

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of evidence-based practice, research, critical inquiry development and application to inform nursing practice that promotes healthcare and facilitates equitable health outcomes of individuals, families and society.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: RN licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.

This course investigates the concepts related to family as client, nurse-family relationships, and the family health experience by examining family literature and family research. Utilizing family nursing theory as a framework, learners will develop nursing actions and interventions for healthy families and families experiencing acute, chronic, and critical illness. Healthcare policies will be evaluated related to family and societal health to advance equitable care.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: RN licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.

This course explores the nurse¿s role in providing care to individuals and families of diverse spiritual, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds across the lifespan. Learners examine cultural diversity, spirituality, marginalized populations, and the integration of complementary and alternative therapies to provide holistic care. Learners perform comprehensive health, spiritual and cultural assessments, create a plan of care, and evaluate the effects of the care plan to promote a holistic approach to nursing.

Prerequisites: RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion Program.

Diverse Cultures: Gold

This course examines application of concepts and strategies for psychosocial and interprofessional communication to elevate professional nursing roles, responsibilities, and interactions that enhance intraprofessional and interprofessional collaboration for equitable healthcare optimization, maintenance, experiences, and outcomes for individuals, families, and society.

Prerequisites: none

This course is designed to highlight and analyze the role of the nurse in the application and evaluation of national quality and safety guidelines, standards and informatics tools to create a culture of quality and safety. The course focuses on investigating solutions for the aim of preventing and reducing medical errors, and it emphasizes the value of nursing care in the healthcare system.

Prerequisites: NURS 320

This course takes an upstream approach to population-based public health care, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, determinants of health, and fundamental issues of health equity at individual, family, community, and system levels of practice. Learners apply public health science, principles of epidemiology, community assessment skills, systems-level thinking, and policy development to support population-based nursing practice.

Prerequisites: NURS 320, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.

This capstone course synthesizes the underpinnings of Baccalaureate nursing education. Learners will analyze achievement of program outcomes through reflective journaling and be evaluated on the attainment of these outcomes. Learners explore leadership and management principles necessary for the professional nurse to function effectively in a changing health care system through theoretical and experiential learning. Learners plan an evidence-based capstone project that is designed to improve processes and/or enhance health outcomes while re-envisioning the professional nurse's role and personal power to influence positive change. Must be taken the last semester of the program as a final course, may be taken with other 400 level course(s).

Prerequisites: RN Licensure; NURS 320, NURS 362, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.