2014-15-Undergraduate-Catalog

Course Descriptions • 441N 334 Health Disparities in Rural SettingsThis course will aid the student to develop the KSVME to critically analyze the complexity of health disparities inrural settings rooted in multiple levels of historic and contemporary inequities. These levels include health caresystems, health policies, distributions of and access to resources and health care professionals. The critical thinkingprocess throughout the course will emphasize ethical considerations. Existing multi-level intervention strategiesaimed at eliminating health disparities will be assessed, including those specific to rural settings as well ascommunity-academic partnerships that translate research into action. Three credits.N 374 Living with Grief and DeathThis course is designed to explore the knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences surrounding death anddeath traditions of selected global populations. It will focus on an in-depth analysis of grieving and dying. Thecourse will explore nursing measures that facilitate acceptance of the grieving and dying processes. Three credits.N 375 Adult and Adolescent Physical and Sexual AssaultThis course is designed to provide a basis for study of the evolving status of forensic nursing by exploring issues,identifying trends that will influence the development of this specialty, and interacting and working with membersof a multidisciplinary team of professionals involved in the care of victims of violent crime. Emphasis is placed onproviding interventions that are congruent with age, health status, culture, occupation and legal and ethicalconcerns. Knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences will be incorporated in the course presentation.Three credits.N 376 Evolution of the Nursing ProfessionThe focus of this course is to review the history of nursing and analyze its impact on contemporary nursingknowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences. The class examines historical nursing leaders and events thatinfluenced the development of the nursing profession. Prerequisite: N 214. Three credits.N 401 Health Across the Lifespan: CommunitiesThis course is designed to prepare senior students in the last semester for contemporary public and communityhealth nursing practice. Students will develop appropriate knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiencesassociated with public and community nursing of diverse individuals, families, groups, and aggregate communities.Concepts of community as partner, empowerment and healing, participatory research and ecology are explored.Clinical experiences will take place in a variety of community settings. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or equivalent.Corequisites: N 415 and NLAB 401. Five credits.NLAB 403 Health Across the Lifespan: Clinical ElectiveThis course provides the senior student with additional experiences in the provision, management andcoordination of professional and comprehensive nursing care in a variety of specialty practice areas. This coursealso begins to transition individuals from the role of student to the role of independent nurse. Post-conferencetime allows for discourse and analysis of specialty clinical experiences in preparation for the National Council ofLicensure registered nurse examination. Corequisite: N 401. Three credits.N 407 Transition to Professional PracticeThis course will prepare the senior student for transition to independent practice and licensure through theintegration of critical thinking skills, critical appraisal of comprehensive nursing knowledge and development of afocused plan of study. The student will demonstrate achievement of comprehensive nursing knowledge obtainedthroughout the curriculum via standardized testing. Corequisites: N 401, NLAB 403 and N 415. Three credits.N 414 Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing PracticeThis course continues to develop knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences associated with developingprofessional and ethical leaders and mentors in the delivery of comprehensive nursing care. A variety of nursingmanagement and leadership theories, principles and issues are examined. Students will have the opportunity toapply management, leadership, legal principles and models in simulated experiences. Prerequisites: N 391 andeither N 313 or N 314. Three credits.N 415 Emergency Preparedness and Disaster NursingThis course explores and prepares the nurse for response to various types of disasters, including natural,environmental, mass casualty, public health emergencies, terrorism and bioterrorism by utilizing essentialknowledge, skills, values, meanings and experience in the basic competencies of emergency preparedness anddisaster nursing. The RN-BSN track can register for this course. Co-requisite: N 401. Three credits.