This course is designed to support the registered nurse in the development of evidence-based practice and critical thinking to become a clinical leader and confident, collaborative professional. Nurses will have opportunities to discuss and apply knowledge about scope of practice, patient & family-centered care, stress management, communication, identifying and intervening in patient deterioration, conflict resolution, ethics, leadership at the bedside, and professional development.

This course was developed for undergraduate nursing students in the BSN program. While addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder, we have for too long treated addiction as an acute condition. This introductory course covers addiction models, including the medical/disease, psychological, moral, sociocultural, and biopsychosocial models. Students will explore harm reduction and abstinence philosophies to drug and alcohol use.

Study and analysis of current and topical problems and issues in nursing. Directed by a faculty member with expertise in the topic under study. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits.

Study and analysis of current and topical problems and issues in nursing. Directed by a faculty member with expertise in the topic under study. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits.

This course will introduce the student to the perioperative nursing process. Students will learn basic information about planning patient care for all three perioperative phases-preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. Class will meet for 4 hours (1 hour didactic; 3 hours lab)every other week for 8 weeks.

This course provides health professions students with an interactive, seminar-based forum within which to explore the characteristics and implications of collaborative interprofessional practice around a contemporary health care issue with interprofessional implications.

This seminar is designed to enhance the nursing knowledge gained throughout the nursing curriculum. Students will study major nursing concepts in-depth, roles of the professional nurse and apply them to their clinical practice experiences.

This nursing research internship is an independent study elective designed to provide students with experience in conducting nursing research. Students will work with a nursing research faculty mentor on a research project.

This nursing research internship is an independent study elective designed to provide students with experience in conducting nursing research. Students will work with a nursing research faculty mentor on a research project.

This nursing research internship is an independent study elective designed to provide students with experience in conducting nursing research. Students will work with a nursing research faculty mentor on a research project.