Course presents theories germane to nursing. Overview of nursing history with an introduction to the legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks affecting professional nursing practice; includes active inquiry, critical thinking, and the formation of a personal philosophy of nursing.

Study of basic pathophysiology with emphasis on mechanisms of disease processes. Focus is on basic principles and concepts of alterations in health related to selected disease processes across the lifespan.

An introduction to psychomotor skills based on evidence-based practice, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning necessary to support the delivery of patient-centered nursing care. The course also focuses on the use of therapeutic interventions necessary for the delivery of multidimensional, culturally sensitive, safe, holistic, and competent care to diverse individuals and families. The student will also be required to integrate current, evidence-based information into performance of nursing care.

Course provides opportunities for students to study a single nursing topic in depth.

The introduction of complex psychomotor skills, and best practices which provide patient-centered care using a systematic approach, nursing process, informatics, evidence-based practice (EBP), and clinical reasoning to support clinical judgment. The course also focuses on the use of therapeutic interventions necessary for the delivery of multidimensional, culturally sensitive, safe, holistic, and competent care to diverse individuals and families.

Incorporate concepts learned in didactic courses for safe, compassionate, effective holistic multidimensional patient-centered nursing care of adult patients with common and complex health needs utilizing evidence-based nursing practice to provide a systematic approach to nursing care.

Provides holistic, patient/client-centered nursing care of culturally, ethnically, spiritually, identity, and socially diverse patient/clients, families, and populations across the lifespan who are experiencing psychopathology in multiple settings. Includes the application of theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, clinical reasoning, and judgment. Nursing strategies, nursing actions, and patient/client-centered care to promote mental health and prevent mental illness are examined for patients/clients across the lifespan. Therapeutic communication skills with individuals, families, and populations are utilized. Current best practices, theory, and pathophysiological and epidemiological considerations of psychiatric disorders are demonstrated. Social determinants of health, self-care, civility and safety, and principles of preventing workplace violence are applied. Various treatment modalities and care by the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team are observed. The legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks used when caring for persons with psychiatric disorders are applied. Quality nursing practice within a culture of safety and compassion that emphasizes professional boundaries is demonstrated.

Application of the role of the nurse as a member of the profession, provider of patient/client-centered care, patient safety advocate, and member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Explores holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families using evidence-based practice (EBP) and systems-based approaches. Assesses for the holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families. Focuses on the provision of health promotion and disease prevention in patients and families across the lifespan. Concepts to be applied include critical thinking, nursing process, nursing theories, caring, relationship skills, clinical reasoning, safe patient-centered care, cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, and teaching-learning principles.

Emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process across the lifespan. Students perform comprehensive patient-centered holistic health assessments to identify health promotion, risk assessment and disease prevention behaviors.

Focuses on holistic, patient/client-centered nursing care of culturally, ethnically, spiritually, identity, and socially diverse patient/clients, families, and populations across the lifespan who are experiencing psychopathology in multiple settings. Includes the incorporation of theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, clinical reasoning and judgment. The knowledge of nursing strategies and nursing actions in the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness are examined for patients/clients across the lifespan. Therapeutic communication skills with individuals, families, and populations are emphasized. Current best practices, and pathophysiological and epidemiological considerations of psychiatric disorders are introduced. Social determinants of health, self-care, workplace violence, civility and safety, and various treatment modalities and care by the interprofessional and intraprofessional health care team are discussed. The legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks and implications of caring for persons with psychiatric disorders are described. Quality nursing practice within a culture of safety and compassion that emphasizes professional boundaries is examined.

Introduction to principles of pharmacology and role of the nurse in the clinical application of pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan. Includes understanding of safe, evidence-based administration of medications within legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks. Nurse as a patient safety advocate is introduced.

Course introduces the role of the nurse as a member of the profession, provider of patient/client-centered care, patient safety advocate, and member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Explores holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families using evidence-based practice (EBP) and systems-based approaches. Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in patients and families across the lifespan. Concepts introduced include critical thinking, ethics, nursing process, nursing theories, caring, relationship skills, clinical reasoning, safe patient-centered care, cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, and teaching-learning principles.

Major emphasis is placed on utilization of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, nursing process, and nursing theories in planning nursing care for diverse adult patients with common and complex health needs in acute and rehabilitative care settings.

Course introduces the role of the nurse as a member of the profession, provider of patient/client-centered care, patient safety advocate, and member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Explores holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families using evidence-based practice (EBP) and systems-based approaches. Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in patients and families across the lifespan. Concepts introduced include critical thinking, ethics, nursing process, nursing theories, caring, relationship skills, clinical reasoning, safe patient-centered care, cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, and teaching-learning principles.

This seminar course will provide students who have not achieved the required benchmark on the standardized exit exam the opportunity to achieve the End of Program Student Learning Outcomes. This course will facilitate remediation necessary to attain the required benchmark on subsequent standardized exit exams and successfully progress into professional nursing practice.

Demonstrate developing roles of the professional nurse, including patient advocate, and as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team using clinical reasoning and judgment skills to provide safe, compassionate, holistic, and multidimensional nursing care. Focus is on adult patients with compromised multiple health states and their families. Students will learn to integrate system-based approaches, informatic technology, research, and evidence-based practices as a foundation of patient-centered care.

Provides safe and compassionate holistic client-centered nursing care to culturally, ethnically, and diverse clients, families, populations, and communities in multiple settings by incorporating theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. The community is viewed from a global perspective.

Coordinates safe, ethical patient/client-centered care as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Applies theories of leadership and management practices including the organization, planning, staffing, directing, and controlling of resources within the healthcare system in an ever-changing global society. Models the role of the professional nurse as healthcare planner, leader, and manager.

This course is designed to facilitate the transition of undergraduate nursing students to the professional nursing role, professional practice, and to the healthcare environment.

Apply concepts and evidence-based practice outcomes to synthesize clinical reasoning and judgment skills in caring for culturally and socially diverse parent-child families experiencing multiple health states. Utilize theories and evidence-based practices to guide health promotion, maintenance, restoration, risk reduction, and teaching activities of the parent-child family. The student will model the various roles of the professional nurse in providing safe, holistic, compassionate, multidimensional, patient-centered care to the parent-child family based on standards of nursing care and best practices.

Emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process across the lifespan. Students perform comprehensive patient-centered holistic health assessments to identify health promotion, risk assessment, and disease prevention behaviors.

Course presents theories germane to nursing. Overview of nursing history with an introduction to professional nursing practice and competencies in active inquiry, critical thinking, evidence-based practice (EBP), research, and the formation of a personal philosophy of nursing. Includes concepts of professional nursing with application to the RN transitioning to the BSN level of nursing and emphasizes legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks. Of importance is the use of technology in the online format for success in the RN to BSN track.

Focuses on concepts needed to provide safe, holistic, and compassionate client-centered nursing care to diverse clients, families, populations, and communities in multiple settings from a global perspective by incorporating theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. Explores multiple determinants of health status and healthcare, cultural and ethical influences, sources of health information, major local, state, national and global health issues and related health promotion/disease prevention, maintenance, restoration, and population risk reduction outcomes among clients, families, populations, and communities. Incorporates research findings and current public health practices related to the community into evidence-based nursing practice.

Explores coordination of safe, ethical patient/client-centered care as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Introduces theories of leadership and management practices including the organization, planning, staffing, directing, and controlling of resources within the healthcare system in an ever-changing global society. Focuses on the role of the professional nurse as healthcare planner, leader, and manager.

Synthesize theory and evidence-based knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to address delivery of healthcare to diverse populations in a variety of healthcare settings. Emphasis of this capstone course is placed on knowledge, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, best practices, and priority setting to provide quality and culturally sensitive care, as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team.

Focuses on basic elements of the research process, nursing inquiry and evidence-based practice including the acquisition, analysis, evaluation, and utilization of research findings for nursing practice.

Focuses on basic elements of the research process, nursing inquiry and evidence-based practice including the acquisition, analysis, evaluation, and utilization of research findings for nursing practice.

Emphasis on developing roles of the professional nurse, including patient advocate, and as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team using clinical reasoning and judgment skills to provide safe, compassionate, holistic, multidimensional nursing care. Course integrates a systems-based approach, informatic technology, nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice as a foundation of patient-centered care. Focus is on adult patients with compromised multiple health states and their families.

Synthesize theory and evidence-based knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to address delivery of healthcare to diverse populations in a variety of healthcare settings. Emphasis of this capstone course is placed on knowledge, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, best practices, and priority setting to provide quality and culturally sensitive care, as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team.

Focuses on concepts needed to provide safe, holistic, and compassionate client-centered nursing care to diverse clients, families, populations, and communities in multiple settings from a global perspective by incorporating theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. Explores multiple determinants of health status and healthcare, cultural and ethical influences, sources of health information, local, state, national and global health issues and related health promotion/disease prevention, maintenance, restoration, and population risk reduction outcomes among clients, families, populations, and communities. Incorporates research findings and current public health practices related to the community into evidence-based nursing practice.

Explores coordination of safe, ethical patient/client-centered care as a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Introduces theories of leadership and management practices including the organization, planning, staffing, directing, and controlling of resources within the healthcare system in an ever-changing global society. Focuses on the role of the professional nurse as healthcare planner, leader, and manager.

Analyze concepts, interpret evidence-based practice and synthesize clinical reasoning and judgment skills to care for culturally and socially diverse parent-child families experiencing multiple health states. Theories and evidence-based practices are utilized to guide health promotion, maintenance, restoration, risk reduction, and teaching of the parent-child family. This course differentiates the various roles of the professional nurse providing safe, holistic, compassionate, multidimensional, patient-centered care to the parent-child family based on standards of nursing care and best practices.

Explores the transition to the BSN professional nursing role and its relationship to practice. Synthesizes theory and evidence-based knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to address delivery of healthcare to diverse populations in a variety of healthcare settings. Emphasis of this capstone course is for the RN-BSN student to synthesize knowledge, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, best practices, and priority setting necessary in the development of the BSN professional role.

Explores advanced concepts of compromised multiple health states in the care of adult patients and families. Emphasizes and demonstrates the developing role of the professional nurse, including patient advocate and a member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team using clinical reasoning and judgment skills to provide safe, compassionate, holistic, multidimensional nursing care. Course integrates a systems-based approach, informatic technology, nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice as a foundation of patient-centered care. Focus is on adult patients with compromised multiple health states and their families.

This course introduces portfolio development and role delineation to the advanced nursing roles. Advanced nursing roles of expert clinician, collaborator, educator, teacher, consultant, advocate, researcher and leader are addressed.

This course investigates the philosophical and scientific underpinnings for nursing knowledge relevant to the role of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Students will identify and analyze concepts and middle range theories applicable to their practice setting and topic of interest.

This course addresses advanced leadership roles related to health care information technology, focusing on systems that monitor outcomes and quality improvement, patient safety, and selection of technology. Applications of information technology and current trends will be explored.

This practicum is the third of three sequential courses in the DNP program. The focus of this practicum is the planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to address a healthcare problem. The nurse leader's role in guiding and mentoring others in the selection of evidence-based interventions is explored.

This course provides an overview of the appropriate use of statistical techniques used to apply knowledge, solve practice problems, and improve health care outcomes. Students will be given the opportunity to develop competencies in the translation of research in practice, the evaluation of practice, the improvement of the reliability of health care practice and outcomes and participation in collaborative research.