The course will provide didactic and clinical experiences to traditional BSN students. This will enable the students to provide professional nursing care to adults with complex health conditions and families requiring interventions, encompassing end of life considerations. Students will build on key concepts of clinical judgment and teaching- learning in the care of people with alterations in ability to meet human needs. Content related to providing a quality and safe care environment will be addressed.

This course is a supplemental cognate for students who are interested in pursuing a career working with critically ill adults. The pathophysiologic changes that occur in critically illness will be explored with a focus on those conditions common to Kentucky. Pharmacologic therapies unique to the critically ill will also be discussed. This is a companion course for interested students enrolled in NUR 434- Complex Nursing Management of Adults.

The course will provide students with the skills for ongoing professional development and success in nursing. To enhance their national licensure examination success upon graduation, students will learn about the examination process, complete practice NCLEX-type questions and standardized tests, and engage in remediation activities based on specific client need category results. Professional skillsets that will be addressed are interviewing and marketing skills, employee benefit discussions, and personal finance management.

This course was designed to provide the opportunity to develop independence and competence in applying principles of care management and leadership to nursing practice while using all aspects of the Clinical Judgment Model. Students will identify and analyze cues to generate hypotheses and solutions to attain desired patient outcomes. Actions will be based on the highest care priorities and will be evaluated and altered for outcome achievement.

Registered nurses should not enroll in NUR 310: Evidence-based research for nursing practice; registered nurses should enroll in NUR 450. This course provides an introduction to the research methodology essential to providing evidence-based nursing care. Students who are registered nurses will acquire the fundamental basics in quantitative and qualitative nursing research. Legal and ethical issues are discussed. The students wil also develop the knowledge and skills necessary to appraise research and apply evidence-based nursing practice.

Registered nurses should not enroll in NUR 310: Evidence-based research for nursing practice; registered nurses should enroll in NUR 450. This course provides an introduction to the research methodology essential to providing evidence-based nursing care. Students who are registered nurses will acquire the fundamental basics in quantitative and qualitative nursing research. Legal and ethical issues are discussed. The students wil also develop the knowledge and skills necessary to appraise research and apply evidence-based nursing practice.

Registered nurses should not enroll in NUR 310: Evidence-based research for nursing practice; registered nurses should enroll in NUR 450. This course provides an introduction to the research methodology essential to providing evidence-based nursing care. Students who are registered nurses will acquire the fundamental basics in quantitative and qualitative nursing research. Legal and ethical issues are discussed. The students wil also develop the knowledge and skills necessary to appraise research and apply evidence-based nursing practice.

This course was created for the RN to BSN Track. Registered nurses should not enroll in NUR 413 Synthesis of Clinical Knowledge for Nursing Practice; registered nurses should enroll in NUR 463. NUR 463 is a capstone graduation course designed for RN students working toward completion of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The course provides the opportunity to apply principles of patient safety, quality improvement, interprofessional teamwork, informatics, leadership, and evidence-based research to nursing practice in a variety of settings.

This course focuses on the application of economic and financial principles and practices to health care. Within this framework, content related to finance and economics, health care reimbursement models, incentive structures, market dynamics, economic evaluations, and quantification of outcomes are examined . The emphasis will be on critically analyzing the actual and potential impact of these dynamics on the structure and functioning of the health care system.

This course focuses on critical evaluation and synthesis of the comprehensive evidence base including interventional and non- interventional research and non-research sources of evidence to elucidate the best available evidence and state of the science in a particular focused area to provide a foundation for the development of practice change based on best evidence, and to illuminate significant gaps in current knowledge to support the development of research studies.