Sustainability Course Repository

Provides the foundational basis for the nursing care of older adults and their families. Students explore trends, theories and multidimensional changes associated with aging. Issues related to wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention in older adults are examined. The concept of geriatric syndromes is Introductionduced. Screening and assessment instruments used in the care of elders are discussed. Theoretical concepts of agining are examined. The phenomenon of aging populations is explo...

Read more about NURS-5028 : Gerontological Nursing

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 Introductionduces 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 Pub...

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

This course focuses on nursing strategies to promote health and reduce risk of illness related to family development, reproduction, and childbearing.

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. Introductionduction 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 : Healthcare Economics & Finance

Focuses on outcomes measures, including statistical and epidemiological measurement, and on health promotion, screening, and disease prevention across the life span. Clinical and public health strategies and interventions are examined, analyzed, and critiqued based on research methods and theoretical data for use in advanced nursing practice. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Read more about NURS-6020 : Epidemiology

This course focuses on advanced knowledge and skills necessary for the assessment and promotion of health across the life span. Emphasis will be placed upon collection and interpretation of comprehensive biological, cultural, psychosocial, and physical data from the history and physical examination in relation to both normal and abnormal findings. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Read more about NURS-6101 : Advanced Health Assessment: Theory

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 Social Justice