UMDNJ-School of Nursing - Accelerated BSN Courses

BSN Degree Part-time Program

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Curriculum effective Summer Term 2011.

Course #	Course Title	Cr. Hrs.
Level 1: Summer: 9 Credits
NURS 301	Health Promotion in a Multicultural Society	3
NURS 314	Comprehensive Health Assessment	3
NURS 318	Pathophysiology	3
Level 2: Fall: 7 Credits
NURS 304	Foundations of Nursing Practice	4
NURS 312	Health Informatics	3
Level 3: Spring: 8 Credits
NURS 321	Pharmacology	3
NURS 370	Mental Health Nursing	5
Level 4: Summer: 6 Credits
NURS 341	Adult Health Nursing I	4
NURS 330	Gerontological Nursing	2
Level 5: Fall: 7 Credits
NURS 342	Adult Health Nursing II	4
NURS 411	Application of Research in Evidence-Based Nursing Practice	3
Level 6: Spring: 8 Credits
NURS 390	Pediatric Nursing	4
NURS 380	Women’s Health & Newborn Nursing	4
Level 7: Summer: 9 Credits
NURS 413	Policy & Politics in Health Care Systems	3
NURS 415	Community Health Nursing	6
Level 8: Fall: 8 Credits
NURS 419	Capstone	5
NURS 420	Nursing Leadership & Management	3

Total Credits : 62

NURS301 Health Promotion in a Multicultural Society

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: NURS 304, NURS 314, NURS 312, NURS318

This course explores issues that impact health promotion and the role of the nurse in promoting health and preventing disease. Such factors as population changes, health policy, ethics, and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship are discussed. Assessment of health in individuals, families, and communities is examined. Interventions for health promotion are discussed along with their application across the lifespan. Finally, future trends in health promotion are reviewed.

NURS304 Foundations of Nursing Practice

Credits: 4

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: NURS 301, NURS 312, NURS 314, NURS 318

This course enables students to explore the historical and theoretical foundations of the profession of nursing. Students will focus on Maslow�s Hierarchy of Needs in providing nursing care. Classroom experience and seminars provide students with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills to explore concepts basic to nursing. Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice and clinical experiences enable students to apply acquired knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

NURS312 Health Informatics

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: NURS 301, NURS 304, NURS 314, NURS318

This course introduces students to informatics as it applies to health care in general and nursing practice in particular. Core informatics concepts, competencies, skills and tools that promote safety, improve quality; foster patient-centered care and efficiency are introduced. Nursing Informatics theories, information technologies and their applications to nursing care are examined. Finally competencies as defined by the QSEN, AHRQ and IOM are explored.

NURS314 Comprehensive Health Assessment

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: NURS 301, NURS 304, NURS 312, NURS 318

This course helps the student develop and apply holistic health assessment, including assessing the patient at the various stages of the lifespan. The student will be able to apply the skills learned to perform a complete health history and physical examination. Differences between normal and abnormal assessment findings are explored. Students will also discuss the ethical, social and cultural differences of health. Accurate documentation of findings will be discussed in the laboratory setting.

NURS318 Pathophysiology

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: NURS 301, NURS 304, NURS 312, NURS 314

This course reviews and extends fundamental concepts of physiology. The course explores the changes that produce signs and symptoms of disease as well as the body�s remarkable ability to compensate for these illness related changes. Pathophysiologic findings establish the database for formulating appropriate nursing strategies.

NURS321 Pharmacology

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: All Level One Courses

Co-requisites: NURS330, NURS341, NURS370, NURS411

This course explores the basic science of pharmacology from the perspectives of pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics of the most commonly prescribed drug classes in American society today. Cultural, ethical, legal, and political variables impacting clinical pharmacology and the pharmaceutical industry are also explored.

NURS330 Gerontological Nursing

Credits: 2

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites:

This course reviews and analyzes issues of aging from a physiological, psychosocial, and cognitive perspective. Emphasis is placed on health maintenance, ethical considerations and legal issues as they relate to the care of the aging population.

NURS341 Adult Health Nursing I

Credits: 4 Clinical Hours: 90

Pre-requisites: All Level One Courses

Co-requisites: NURS321, NURS330, NURS411, NURS370

This course enables students to identify multicultural human-environmental interactions as they relate to nursing practice. Classroom experience and seminars provide students with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills to explore concepts basic to nursing care of adult humans (18 years and older). Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice and clinical experiences enable students to apply acquired knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

NURS342 Adult Health Nursing II

Credits: 4

Pre-requisites: All Level I and Level II Courses

Co-requisites: NURS380, NURS390, NURS413

NURS370 Mental Health Nursing

Credits: 5

Pre-requisites: All Level One courses

Co-requisites: NURS330, NURS341, NURS321, NURS411

This course enables students to expand their understanding of human-environmental interactions and evolving mental health patterns within diverse cultures to promote optimal health. The student is provided with an opportunity to understand the organization of mental health patterns as they appear in normative growth and developmental, as well as the alterations in the patterns with the resulting nursing implications. The progression will be from common to more complex mental health patterns as they relate to nursing practice.

NURS380 Women's Health & Newborn Nursing

Credits: 4

Pre-requisites: All Level I and Level II Courses

Co-requisites: NURS342, NURS390, NURS413

This course enables students to expand their understanding of human-environmental interactions and evolving family patterns within diverse cultures to promote optimal health. The student is provided with an opportunity to understand the family as a unified whole, its patterns and organization and the implications of common and complex health patterns from conception through birth.

NURS390 Pediatric Nursing

Credits: 4

Pre-requisites: All Level I and Level II Courses

Co-requisites: NURS342, NURS380, NURS413

This course enables students to expand their understanding of human-environmental interactions and evolving family patterns within diverse cultures to promote optimal health. The student is provided with an opportunity to understand the patterns and organization of families, growth and developmental perspectives, and the nursing implications of common and complex health patterns from infancy through adolescence.

NURS411 Application of Research in Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: NURS 304

Co-requisites:

Students are introduced to the concepts and process of research in nursing. Emphasis is placed on critiquing published studies and developing plans for using research findings in practice.

NURS413 Policy & Politics in Health Care Systems

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites:

The focus of this course is the professional nurse's role in health care policy and finances within health care systems. The multi-faceted aspects of health care policy making and financing within today's ever-changing health care environment are explored. Risk management and quality care are integrated into the course. This course gives the student a financial understanding of the health care delivery system. Students are exposed to the political and legislative process within health care agencies and health care policy development at the state and federal levels. Ethical and legal issues in nursing and health care are explored.

NURS415 Community Health Nursing

Credits: 6

Pre-requisites: All Level I, II, and III courses

Co-requisites: NURS419, NURS420

This course will explore how community health nurses use concepts from nursing and public health to provide comprehensive, continuous, preventive healthcare thereby promoting health for communities, populations at risk, aggregates, families, and individuals. Students will use critical thinking skills to formulate healthcare strategies which consider the bio-psychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal and economic issues impacting the community as a client. The clinical practicum focuses on community as client with individuals, families, groups and populations with diverse needs in a variety of community based settings.

NURS419 Capstone

Credits: 5

Pre-requisites: All Level I,II, and III courses

Co-requisites: NURS415, NURS420

This course examines issues that must be addressed for the nursing student to successfully transition to the role of professional nurse. The emphasis is on the application of the professional role in the clinical setting.

NURS420 Nursing Leadership & Management

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: All Level I,II, and III courses

Co-requisites: NURS415, NURS419

The focus of this course is the professional nurse�s leadership and management role within health care delivery systems. The multi-faceted aspects of the role of the nurse as leader and manager are explored in depth, with emphasis on the role of the nurse as change agent. Organizational behavior, decision-making, the change process and the management of health care organizations are components of this course. The concepts of professionalism, leadership-management, research and teaching-learning are integrated with the professional nurse�s role as a manager. This course prepares students to function as change agents in the health care delivery system.

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