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NURS 320 · Nursing

Adult Health Nursing I: Acute Care

Nursing management of adult medical-surgical patients experiencing acute and chronic physiological alterations. Includes 3 lecture hours and 9 clinical practicum hours weekly.

How to enroll Where it fits Catalog Entry

Catalog overview

Course Essentials

Credits
6
semester credit hours
Level
300
Upper division
Typically offered
Fall
Fall semester only
Subject
Nursing
13 courses in the catalog

Prerequisites

NURS 210, 220, 230, and 310 with C+ or higher.

300-level courses: advanced, upper-division courses requiring prior foundational preparation. This course counts toward the 36 upper-division credits every bachelor's degree requires (Undergraduate Catalog §2.3). Details: Undergraduate Catalog §9.10.

Generative AI in this course

Every syllabus must state one of three levels: Level 1 (AI not permitted for graded work), Level 2 (AI permitted with disclosure for specified tasks), Level 3 (AI permitted broadly with disclosure). Check your section's syllabus in Canvas. Unless it says otherwise, the university default applies: generative AI tools may be used for brainstorming, studying, and feedback on your own drafts, but not to produce work you submit for a grade.

Details: Student Handbook §5.7 and Student Handbook §5.8. See what each AI level allows.

Offered by

Department of Nursing

Questions: Academic Advising Center

Office
Lovell Hall 101
Phone
(555) 555-0158
Email
advising@university.alkimi.ai

Degree planning

Where NURS 320 fits

What to take first, what this course opens up, and the requirements it can satisfy, from the Undergraduate Catalog.

This course

NURS 320

Adult Health Nursing I: Acute Care

6 credits · 300-level · Fall

Counts toward

Every course also counts toward the 120 credits needed for a bachelor's degree. Confirm your plan with your advisor or the Academic Advising Center.

AP credit

No AP exam awards credit for NURS 320. See the full AP equivalency table (Undergraduate Catalog §3.11).

2026–27 Instructors

Who teaches NURS 320

Portrait of Dr. Helen Zimmerman, RN

Dr. Helen Zimmerman, RN

Clinical Professor of Nursing

Instructor for NURS 320, Fall 2026

Office
Calder Health Sciences Building 230
Email
hzimmerman@university.alkimi.ai

Meeting times and rooms for each term are listed in AlkimiHub when registration opens.

Department chairs make teaching assignments each year (Faculty Handbook §5.1), and every instructor posts the syllabus in Canvas by the first day of classes (Faculty Handbook §5.2).

Registration

How to enroll in NURS 320

  1. Check the prerequisites

    NURS 210, 220, 230, and 310 with C+ or higher.

  2. Add it in AlkimiHub

    NURS 320 is typically offered in the fall semester. Register through AlkimiHub self-service registration, which opens by credit standing. Until the add deadline, you don't need instructor permission as long as seats remain and you've met the prerequisites. Details: Student Handbook §3.3.

  3. If the section is full, join the waitlist

    When a seat opens, AlkimiHub offers it to the first student on the waitlist and emails you. You have 24 hours to claim it before it goes to the next student. Details: Student Handbook §3.10.

Fall 2026 add deadline

Last day to add a course or change sections (11:59 p.m.).

Fall 2027 registration opens

By credit standing, in AlkimiHub.

All dates: academic calendar. Registration help: Office of the Registrar.

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