FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE

NURSING 448

Learning is centered on advancing knowledge of professional attributes necessary in healthcare settings. Expand the understanding of core concepts related to ethics, advocacy, safe therapeutic care, technology, and health informatics at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Broaden the understanding of nursing's role in the healthcare delivery system regarding quality improvement, emergency preparedness, care coordination, and palliation.

NURSING 315

Focuses on professional nursing attributes and interactions essential to professional competence. Study concepts that allow for providing care unique to an individual, family, community, and systems, and to the context in which they live. Concepts related to the health care delivery system are included to provide a foundation for beginning nursing practice. Knowledge from sciences, social studies, and humanities education is integrated into nursing practice and builds foundational knowledge of the science of nursing.

CNP 306

Designed to advance knowledge of nursing as it is embedded in clinical practice, address current and emerging health care trends, and examine healthcare workforce data and health care policy as it impacts opportunities for and impediments to nursing practice.

NURSING 313

Focuses on foundational concepts necessary to provide person-centered, evidence-based nursing care, including the nursing process and health and illness concepts. Active learning is emphasized by gaining confidence with applying the nursing processes and begin to develop clinical judgment and assessment skills. Complements a companion experiential course [NURSING 316].

NURSING 709

Examination of the substantive foundations of the discipline of nursing from a broad range of perspectives and domains of knowledge. The emphasis is on the identification and analysis of phenomena of concern to nursing, scientific and theoretical underpinnings of the discipline, the centrality of health and environment, hallmarks of scholarliness, and nursing leadership and collaboration to actualize the goals of nursing. Provides a foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for nursing leadership and population health.