Course Listing For Nursing Courses

This course serves as the foundation for the transition to professional nursing, introducing concepts useful for advancement into a leadership and/or management role in healthcare. Principles of the professional nurses' role, effective leadership, and promotion of the profession are highlighted in this course. Prerequisite: Admission to program

This course is essential for the nurse leader/manager, as a member of the healthcare team, identifying the process for group collaboration for the purpose of decision- making. The focus of the course is aimed at development of effective leadership skills and strategies for collaboration and conflict management. Prerequisite: BSNU 360

The course will explore concepts and strategies that influence decision making, including negotiation strategies and considerations for the implication of professional values, motivation, education, and cultural competence. Prerequisite: BSNU 380

This course introduces the nurse’s role in sending and receiving healthcare information. Emphasis includes methods, tools, resources, and technology systems used in healthcare information exchange and decision-making. Prerequisite: BSNU 400

The focus of this course is consumer-ship of healthcare research and the application to evidence-based nursing practice. This course introduces types of research, data collection, analysis of data, and interpretation of data for implementation into practice. Prerequisite: BSNU 410

This course will provide the professional nurse with a broadened, population approach to wellness and health promotion as well as disease and injury prevention. The course includes examination of evidence- based strategies for health promotion/disease prevention for populations defined by criteria of healthcare disparity. Prerequisite: BSNU 420

This course will provide the nurse with a broadened, population-based approach to health and healthcare. This course includes principles related to the social determinants, social justice, health equity, diversity and inclusion. Students will develop an understanding of the nurse’s role in creating a culture of health for a population and will design an evidence-based population health intervention plan for a population at risk. Prerequisite: BSNU 420

This course will examine regulation of healthcare through ethics, law, and policy. Emphasis is placed on the implications for healthcare delivery as well as nursing leadership and management. Prerequisite: BSNU 435

The focus of this course is to provide an introductory perspective of the role of a nurse leader or nurse manager to complex healthcare delivery systems and to provide a greater understanding of the role of the professional nurse as a contributor to the transformation of healthcare organizations. This includes a 36 hour practicum experience. Prerequisite: BSNU 440 and meet all practicum requirements.

This course examines the role of the nurse leader in complex healthcare delivery systems and explores how the professional nurse contributes to transformation and performance improvement in healthcare organizations. Nursing employment trends, recruitment and retention, staffing and delegation, finance and budgeting, and strategic planning are emphasized. This course includes a 36-hour practicum experience focused on strategic leadership and performance improvement. Course Prerequisites: BSNU 440 and meet all practicum requirements.

This course provides a strategic view of nursing leadership and management issues encountered by professional nurses in roles across the healthcare continuum. Emphasis will include nursing employment trends; recruitment & retention; staffing & delegation; finance/budgeting, and strategic planning. This course requires a 36 hour practicum experience. Prerequisite: BSNU 470 and meet all practicum requirements.