Subject Code: NURS • Section 9.10
Undergraduate courses offered by the faculty in Nursing, supporting major curricula, academic minors, and the Alkimi Core.
Catalog Documentation
Courses in Nursing are designed around rigorous empirical, theoretical, and applied principles. Coursework builds systematically from 100-level introductory surveys through 400-level advanced capstones and research seminars.
Prerequisites must be completed with a grade of C- or higher (unless specified otherwise by the academic department). Students who have not satisfied course prerequisites may only enroll with explicit written permission of the instructor and department chair.
Catalog Citation
Official descriptions, credit distributions, and prerequisites authorized by the Faculty Senate.
Subject Summary
Complete Listings
Historical, ethical, and theoretical foundations of nursing; nurse-patient therapeutic communication; infection prevention; patient safety; medication administration principles. Includes skills lab.
Mechanisms of disease across body systems, as a foundation for nursing assessment and care.
Systematic comprehensive health history acquisition and head-to-toe physical assessment techniques across the lifespan, with supervised clinical simulation skills laboratory.
Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical therapeutic indications, adverse reactions, contraindications, and safe nursing administration of major drug classifications.
Nursing management of adult medical-surgical patients experiencing acute and chronic physiological alterations. Includes 3 lecture hours and 9 clinical practicum hours weekly.
Advanced clinical nursing care for adults with multisystem, critical, and unstable physiological conditions. Includes 3 lecture hours and 9 clinical practicum hours weekly in hospital intensive units.
Psychiatric nursing principles, therapeutic milieu, psychopharmacology, and clinical care of clients experiencing mood, anxiety, psychotic, substance-use, and cognitive disorders. Includes clinical rotations.
Maternal, fetal, and neonatal nursing care throughout pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum recovery, and neonatal stabilization. Includes acute labor and delivery clinical rotations.
Pediatric nursing care addressing developmental milestones, acute childhood illnesses, chronic genetic disorders, and family-centered pediatric clinical nursing. Includes pediatric hospital rotations.
Epidemiological principles, environmental health, disease prevention, health policy, and community-based interventions for vulnerable populations. Includes clinical field placements.
Critical appraisal of quantitative and qualitative nursing research, evidence hierarchies, translation of empirical research to clinical protocols, and protection of human research subjects.
Organizational leadership theory, clinical delegation, conflict negotiation, healthcare finance, legal jurisprudence, quality improvement, and professional transition.
Intensive clinical immersion paired one-on-one with a practicing registered nurse preceptor (180 clinical hours), consolidating clinical judgment, patient delegation, and NCLEX-RN synthesis.
