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T NURS 340 Clinical Nursing Phenomena (3)
Examines selected clinical phenomena from the perspective of physiologic, pathophysiologic, experiential, and behavioral responses to life events and alterations in states of health and illness. Identifies relationship of nursing therapies to each perspective and influence of life span and socio-cultural factors.
T NURS 350 Critical Analysis and Writing to Improve Decision Making (3)
Focuses on critical thinking and writing relevant to learning and practice in nursing. Includes self-assessment, collaborative learning, problem solving approaches, and clinical decision making. Applies critical analysis to health-related issues.
T NURS 402 Families in Society (3) I&S
Review of family theories with emphasis on the analysis of families in society, including their development and transitions across the life-span. Examines families within the context of concepts such as social support, loss and grief, violence, and chronic illness. Focuses on diversity in families, family assessment, and family strengths.
T NURS 403 Introduction to Research in Nursing (3) QSR
Describes the systematic steps of the research process. Introduces approaches, frameworks, and concepts used in investigating nursing problems. Emphasizes integration of research findings to establish evidence-based nursing practice. Required background: introduction to statistics; prerequisite: T NURS 350.
T NURS 407 Diversity: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion (3) I&S/VLPA
Examines the ways that difference is defined, used, and experienced in society. Analyzes the intersections of multiple forms of oppression. Attention given to the ideological and institutional manifestations of oppression in U.S. society. Diversity taught as a social context for nursing practice.
T NURS 408 Individuals, Families, and Groups: Promoting Health through Partnership (3) I&S
Emphasizes working in partnership to facilitate health and well being of individuals, families and groups in the community. Focuses on social, cultural, political and economic factors that influence the well being of clients. Applies concepts and strategies through field experience in community settings. Prerequisite: T NURS 350.
T NURS 409 Health, Communities, and Populations (6) I&S
Introduces concepts and strategies used to promote health for communities and populations. Stresses working in partnership with community members and agencies. Applies concepts and strategies through group work and field experience in community settings. Prerequisite: T NURS 350; T NURS 403.
T NURS 410 Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice (3) I&S
Identifies ethical issues relevant to the profession of nursing. Uses multiple ethical perspectives to identify, describe, and analyze selected ethical dilemmas relevant to professional practice, the delivery of health care, and the health of individuals and populations.
T NURS 412 Nursing and Health Care Systems (3)
Introduction to analyzing current health care systems and their effectiveness in achieving desired health outcomes for selected client populations. Emphasizes leadership behaviors and the role of nurses as advocates for system change.
T NURS 414 Health, Communities, and Populations I (5) I&S
Emphasizes working in partnership to facilitate health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. Examines concepts and strategies used to promote health in the context of social, cultural, political, and economic factors. Applies concepts and strategies through group work and field experience in community setting. Prerequisite: T NURS 350; T NURS 403. Offered: W.
T NURS 415 Health, Communities, and Populations II (4) I&S
Examines concepts and strategies used to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions and promote change in public policy. Emphasizes collaborative work in and with communities. Applies concepts and strategies through group work and field experience in community setting. Prerequisite: T NURS 414. Offered: Sp.
T NURS 430 Interpersonal Relationships in Nursing (1-3, max. 3) I&S
Addresses communication skills, patterns, and practices. Examines nonverbal and verbal modes of communication. Explores a variety of communication domains: cultural, personal, professional, group interaction, and conflict. Emphasizes application of conceptual models in interpersonal processes. Prerequisite: T NURS 350.
T NURS 450 Initial Connected Learning (1, max. 9)
Assists students with transition into their role as a BSN student and with the development of portfolios. Emphasis on problem solving for purposes of synthesizing, integrating, and deepening understanding about material students are learning in current courses. Opportunity to address mechanics of upper division academic standards.
T NURS 451 Final Connected Learning (1)
Dialogue with faculty and peers about professional goals and the effects of the BSN program on scholarship and practice. Discusses transition from the BSN program into a new role in professional practice.
T NURS 497 Selected Topics in Nursing (1-12, max. 12)
Survey and discussion of current literature and topics in nursing. Seminar with analysis and discussion of selected topics and readings. May have clinical component. Emphasizes implications for nursing and health care.
T NURS 498 Special Project in Nursing (1-12, max. 12)
Further development, critical examination, and synthesis of nursing care in a specialized setting. Increasing depth of clinical practice, including care to groups and communities as clients, applying leadership skills, assessing problems affecting quality health care delivery.
T NURS 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 12)
Supervised individual research on a specific nursing problem.
T NURS 502 Dynamics of Community Health Practice (3-5, max. 5)
Focuses on the conceptualization, analysis, and application of the concepts of community and health. Discusses theories and models of current and potential community health practice. Examines sociocultural concepts for their interrelationship with and impact upon community and health.
T NURS 503 Advanced Fieldwork (2-6, max. 12)
Provides students with a substantive field experience in their setting of interest. Assists students in the delineation of advanced practice nursing roles and application of theoretical concepts in a real-world context. Prerequisite: T NURS 510; T NURS 520; T NURS 521; T NURS 527; at least 3 courses in study option, or permission of instructor.
T NURS 504 Communities, Populations, and Health: An Overview (3)
Focuses on the conceptualization, analysis, and application of the concepts of community, populations, and health. Discusses theories and models of current and potential community health practice. Examines sociocultural concepts for their interrelationship with and impact upon communities, populations, and health.
T NURS 507 Leadership Behaviors for Evolving Health Care Organizations (3)
Covers changes in the health industry that require new ways of leading organizations. Evaluates leadership values and behaviors, and identifies new leadership strategies integral to the change-agent role necessary in leading teams and in guiding changes as healthcare organizations transitions from hospital-based structure to interdependent systems.
T NURS 509 Evaluation and Decision-Making in Health Care (3)
Examines the various strategies in health care services evaluation and identifies frameworks for improved decision-making. Emphasis is on the application of evaluation techniques in leadership/management positions. Prerequisite: T NURS 520; T NURS 521; or permission of instructor.
T NURS 510 Society, Justice, and Health (3)
Explores how social factors and context influence health and illness, including concepts of oppression, discrimination, power, and privilege. Analyzes how health and illness are socially constructed; effects of social location on health and access to care; and how inequities affect health and illness. Considers relationship between social justice and health.
T NURS 511 Curriculum Development in Nursing and Health Education (3)
Theoretical rationale for curriculum development that reflects contemporary health trends. Bases curricula design and implementation decisions on educational principles, theory, and research.
T NURS 512 Evaluation of Academic and Clinical Performance in Nursing Health Care (3)
In-depth examination of the evaluation of learning. Includes assessment of a range of evaluation strategies and evaluations of clinical performance. Focuses on evaluation issues relevant to both academic and health care settings.
T NURS 513 Theories and Methods of Teaching and Learning (3)
Addresses theories and methods of teaching and learning, tools and resources for teaching, role development, and current issues faced by those who teach in higher education and staff development. Partly Web-based.
T NURS 514 Challenges and Issues in Patient Education (3)
Provides overview of selected challenges and issues in patient education: low literacy, patient acuity, health status, early discharge, evolving health policy, cost of health care and staff proficiency. Considers the role of the advanced practice nurse in creating and managing patient education programs for individuals, groups, and populations.
T NURS 515 Online Teaching Strategies (3)
Addresses pedagogical and design issues as well as technical skills required to successfully teach in the online environment by integrating experiential online interactions and face-to-face meetings.
T NURS 520 Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice (3)
Analyzes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical knowledge as a basis for evidence-based practice. Examines methodological approaches to scholarly inquiry and research applied to nursing practice. Evaluates role of advanced practice nursing in research.
T NURS 521 Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice II (3)
Builds on scholarly inquiry and research knowledge gained in T NURS 520. Specific foci include measurement, study design, and data collection issues as well as enhancing data analysis and interpretation abilities. Emphasized application of scholarly inquiry methods in nursing practice. Prerequisite: T NURS 520.
T NURS 522 Theory Development for a Practice Discipline (3)
Explores the evolutionary development of nursing theory and its contribution to the development of nursing science. Emphasizes the philosophical foundation, the hierarchical structure, and the evaluative criteria used in theory development and its practice application.
T NURS 523 Community Health Assessment (3)
Survey of approaches and tools to measure health status and health-care problems in defined communities. Topics include uses and limitations of available data, community surveys, public health surveillance, measurement of community health indices, and research methods specific to health assessment of communities and populations.
T NURS 527 Health Care Systems and Health Policy (3)
Analyzes the organizational and financial aspects of clinical services, and public health systems with an emphasis on access and resource utilization patterns among diverse populations. Explores health policy development, strategies to affect policy aimed at enhancing quality and population-system fit, and the relationship between policy and health care system change.
T NURS 537 Concepts of Organization (3)
Demonstrates how concepts of organizations and the metaphors used to describe them affect the analysis, management, and ethical dimensions of organizational environments. Students analyze their own work environments from a variety of perspectives, both to improve their understanding of work contexts and as a basis for planning managerial action.
T NURS 538 Concepts of Clinical Care (3)
Examines theoretical concepts that explain the wide range of human responses to illness. Explores the interrelationship of physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of human response. Address the assessment, measurement, management, and evaluation of commonly encountered, protypical clinical phenomena from a research-based perspective.
T NURS 539 Healthcare Business Strategies: Optimizing Resources (3)
Explores strategies to address challenges of optimizing resources utilization in a dynamic, changing healthcare environment that has an increasing business-oriented focus. Examines human and fiscal resource management strategies, focusing on personnel issues relevant in healthcare organization, gaining working knowledge of budgetary processes, and fiscal decision-making expertise.
T NURS 540 Concepts of Hospice and Palliative Care (3)
Examines models of care and theoretical frameworks that guide and evaluate patient-family centered end-of-life care. Addresses symptom distress, psychosocial and spiritual aspects, as well as educational, communicative, and ethical components of hospice and palliative care.
T NURS 553 Health Policy Development and Analysis (3)
Examines health policy development within the context of the U.S. political system at the national, state, and local levels. Discusses legislative and budget processes, the role of interest groups, and strategies to affect public policy.
T NURS 561 Community Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation (3)
Examines community planning, intervention, and evaluation. Emphasizes the importance of negotiation, community development, and partnerships. Discusses integrated models of community planning, implementation, and evaluation for the purpose of facilitating community wide interventions for health. Prerequisite: T NURS 504; T NURS 520; T NURS 521; T NURS 523.
T NURS 588 Concepts of Health Promotion and Community Change (3)
Provides opportunities to critically examine concepts and theories of health promotion and community change. A wide variety of disciplinary perspectives is presented and discussed within the context of diversity. Gives students the skills needed to critically analyze health promotion and community change.
T NURS 590 Special Topics in Nursing Research (2-3, max. 9)
T NURS 598 Scholarly Projects (1-12, max. 12)
Scholarly inquiry with in-depth, focused analysis, culminating in a written product/report for dissemination. Credit/no credit only.
T NURS 599 Selected Readings in Nursing Science (1-3, max. 18)
T NURS 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
T NURS 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Credit/no credit only
