2010-2011 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

NURS 4454 Professional Issues and Nursing Management
Prerequisites: GPA 2.5 or higher successful completion of the Graduating Level Curriculum Checkpoint, CHRI 1313 or
1323, CISM 1321, NURS 4414, 4434, and NURS 4444
This course focuses on professional issues in nursing, nursing management, and the use of research in clinical practice.
Students apply leadership and management behaviors and skills to providing care for a group of patients and promoting
positive consumer relationships. Students will manage resources in health care delivery, assess factors that impact
health care organizations, and manage quality and risks in delivering care. In addition, students will learn to manage a
career in nursing. The course is four semester hours, including 108 clinical hours.
NURS 4464 Health Care Administration for Nurses
Prerequisites: all requirements for graduation, NURS 4414 4434, 4444, 4294, NURS 4424; GPA of 2.5 or higher and
successful completion of the Graduating Student Level Curriculum Checkpoint. Co-requisite: NURS 4454
This course is a study of health administration from the nurse‘s perspective. Students analyze effectiveness and
efficiency of care delivery systems in promoting positive health outcomes. Students apply concepts and theories of
leadership, management to the health administrator role and systems operation. Methods for promoting system renewal
and development to deliver quality care and promote positive health outcomes are explored. A four-semester hour
course, including 72 clinical hours.
PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 1313 Introduction to Philosophy
A foundational course designed to familiarize the student with the meaning and relevance of philosophy through a
study of its main problems and the principal theories that have been proposed as solutions to them.
PHIL 3311 Hermeneutics
Prerequisites: CHRI 1313, 1323.
A course designed to introduce students to the basic issues, methods, and history of Biblical interpretation. The course
will also explore the application of hermeneutical principles to a selected contemporary topic. (Offered also as CHRI
3311.)
PHIL 3313 Logic
This course introduces students to the elementary principles of inductive and deductive reasoning, including formal and
informal fallacies, formal rules of deduction, and basic rules of syllogistic propositional and symbolic logic.
PHIL 3323 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
A study of the historical development of Western philosophy from its early beginnings in Greece to the end of the
Middle Ages.
PHIL 3334 Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (Apologetics)
Prerequisite: PHIL 1313.
An in-depth study of the philosophical foundations for Christian belief and practice, including engaging philosophical
criticisms of basic Christian beliefs and teaching.
PHIL 3335 Hermeneutics: Philosophy of Interpretation
Prerequisite: PHIL 1313.
An exploration of the assumptions and principles involved in hermeneutical theories, with an emphasis upon theories of
interpretation since Schleiermacher. (Note: Not the same as biblical hermeneutics)
PHIL 3344 Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
A continuation of PHIL 3323, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the more important philosophers of
recent times.
PHIL 4181, 4182, 4381, 4382, 4383, 4384, 4385 Special Topics in Philosophy
Prerequisite: PHIL 1313.
Careful study of a few topics in the history of philosophy—either one philosopher‘s treatment of several philosophical
problems or several philosophers‘ treatments of one or two closely related problems. Examples: selected topics in
Aristotle, theories of causation in early modern philosophy, and Kant‘s reaction to Hume.
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