Sustainability Courses

This course introduces students to population based nursing, community-focused nursing and public health nursing. Assumptions, definitions, key concepts, and select models and theories to understand population based nursing, community-focused nursing and public health nursing health issues will be explored in the course. Students will collaborate with key stakeholders to use assessment and intervention strategies to identify population-based and community-focused health needs and develop appropr...

Read more about NURS-4590 : Populations and Communities

This course critically examines the role of the nurse as leader, emphasizing the utilization of effective interprofessional communication skills, delegation, and coordination that effect change and create a culture of safety. The nurse's role in shaping and addressing policies on issues of equity, affordability and social justice are addressed. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Read more about NURS-5013 : Leadership and Management

This course focuses on nursing management, physiological, and psychosocial factors influencing altered health in infants, children, and adolescents. An integrated approach to nursing therapies for promoting wellness and restoring health across the spectrum of childhood is explored. Emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate care. Emphasized is an ecological approach to care of children in the contexts of families and communities.

Read more about NURS-5108 : Nursing Care of Children: Theory

The focus of this course is holistic nursing care that promotes health, prevents disease, reduces disability, and supports recovery for individuals of various developmental stages and sociocultural backgrounds who have alterations in mental health. Knowledge and research evidence from the biological and social sciences, genetics and genomics, pharmacology, humanities, and nursing are enlisted in the study of mental disorders, their care and treatment, and the impact of these disorders on the qua...

Read more about NURS-5121 : Promoting Mental Health: Theory

This course introduces students to the nursing care of populations through the exploration of systems theory, nursing science, public health science and community engagement. Students will explore the roles and competencies of public health nurses in identifying determinants of health and addressing health promotion and disease prevention across the life span. Four frameworks will guide their work: 1) the Ten Essential Services of Public Health; 2) Core Public Health Functions; 3) the Public Hea...

Read more about NURS-5131 : Promoting Population Health: Theory

This nursing theory course explores the health and composition of the childbearing family, as well as nursing interventions to promote health, manage complications that may occur, and provide support throughout the reproductive lifespan.

Read more about NURS-5212 : Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family: Theory

Engages students in an examination of health care policies that lead to or detract from a just and humane world. Students examine the ethical, socioeconomic, political, legal, and power considerations in the development of state and national health care policy. They engage in critical analysis of health care policy, with a goal of developing leadership skills to influence policy at the local, state, and federal levels by educating policy makers. Focus is on professional values, advocacy, and cul...

Read more about NURS-6010 : Health Care Policy

This course applies management and microeconomic principles for planning, control, and decision making in health care programs. Introduction of financial concepts, financial management, and cost accounting as they apply to health services. Analysis of cost, quality, and outcomes as factors in the development and evaluation of health care programs. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Read more about NURS-6017 : Health Care Economics and Finance

Explores major ethical systems as they impact health care with sensitivity to the vulnerability of all persons and populations. Social justice theory, social justice tradition, and determinants of health are frameworks used to examine the phenomenon of vulnerabilities associated with inequities and disparities. Responses to vulnerability are analyzed via known and postulated determinants, direct and indirect outreach to limit or reduce vulnerability, and structural and policy level endeavors to ...

Read more about NURS-6110 : Ethical Care for Social Justice

This course focuses on the context of primary care for populations with identified risk factors, vulnerabilities, and health disparities. Principles of epidemiology are applied in assessing the health needs and outcomes of communities and populations. Students will assess multiple dimensions of inter-professional interventions that address community-based health promotion, evidence-based care, and evaluation. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instruct...

Read more about NURS-6120 : Population Based Health Care