This course was created for the Accelerated BSN track. The course emphasizes clinical reasoning in providing client-centered care for individuals with complex health problems and unpredictable outcomes. As members of an inter-professional team, students will incorporate the best available evidence to determine appropriate nursing care in high acuity settings.

This course was created for the Accelerated BSN track. The course provides students with the skills for ongoing professional development and success in nursing. Students will be provided with guidance to apply for licensure through the state Board of Nursing. Students will practice interview skills in preparation for obtaining employment in their first professional nursing position and learn how to market themselves in the current health care environment.

This course was created for the Accelerated BSN track. This course was designed to provide the opportunity to develop independence and competence in applying principles of care management and leadership to nursing practice in a variety of clinical settings. This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK. There are three courses required to complete the Graduation Composition Communication Requirement (GCCR) which are NUR 321, NUR 328, & NUR 426.

This course provides the foundation to improve health outcomes for patient populations. National strategies, theories and methods to improve health outcomes will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on the systematic analysis of systems of care to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care. Students will learn how to optimize the translation of evidence into clinical practice to enhance quality and safety. Students will gain knowledge to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in health care systems.

This course focuses on general knowledge of tobacco dependence, prevalence, and counseling skills. Topics include background and current information on tobacco use trends, individual and population effects of tobacco control, principles of evidence-based treatment, including motivational counseling, and health effects of tobacco use.

This course focuses on specific knowledge and skills needed for delivering safe and effective tobacco dependence treatment in a variety of clinical settings. Students will learn about specific, evidence-based strategies for the systematic assessment of tobacco use as a basis for safe and effective treatment and treatment planning. Students will obtain the skills required for providing individual or group treatment, as well as treatment in a variety of care settings, such as in-person, telephonically and online.

This course focuses on specific knowledge of medications used in treating tobacco dependence, maintaining safe and effective treatment, preventing relapse, and the use of alternative treatments and electronic devices, such as e-cigarettes and vaping, and current recommendations for lung cancer screening. Additional content will explore alternative treatments, including the use and influence of electronic devices on treatment, relapse risk and identifying when to refer clients.

We will explore designs and methods for causal inference in research in public policy and administration. While the course will primarily be applied in nature, students will be expected to learn and understand the conceptual and mathematical foundations of research designs.

How is juggling like being a good person? What does the trapeze have to do with free will? What does circus have to do with truth? Intended for students with little to no experience in either circus or philosophy, this class uses the acquisition of circus skills as a springboard for basic philosophical inquiry. This class is fully participatory : we won't just be learning about the circus, we will be learning how to circus.

We are bombarded with arguments in our daily lives. That is, we are told that we ought to believe things for various reasons - that we ought to buy this car for these reasons; that we ought to vote for this politician for those reasons. Yet, what makes an argument a good argument? What allows us to make good decisions? This course will focus on the nature and principles of correct judgment. More exactly, we will be concerned with both the formal and informal ways in which arguments can be shown to be good or bad.