Department: NUR Nursing

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NUR105Nursing Concepts and ValuesThis course is designed to introduce students to the profession of nursing. The course provides an introduction to core values of nursing, insights into nursing as a profession, and a brief introduction to nursing history. Emphasis is on communicatio...
NUR225Pathophysiology/Pharmacology IThis course introduces the study of pathophysiology and pharmacology as a scientific foundation for nursing practice. The course focuses on specific pharmacotherapeutics employed in treating pathophysiologic conditions. Topics included are: cell biol...
NUR226Pathophysiology/Pharmacology IIThis course continues NUR 225 in the study of pathophysiology and pharmacology as a scientific foundation for nursing practice. The course focuses on specific pharmacotherapeutics employed in treating pathophysiologic conditions. Topics included are:...
NUR301Health AssessmentThis course introduces the student to the concepts, theory, and skills needed to perform a holistic health assessment, which is the basis for the nursing process and care of the patient across the lifespan.
NUR301LHealth Assessment LabNo Description Set
NUR302Theoretical BasesThis course identifies factors influencing the RN student's acculturation into baccalaureate nursing as presented at Ashland University. Students are assisted to integrate their existing roles, philosophies, and expectations with those of the nursing...
NUR303Individual HealthThe course focuses on the nursing process as a tool to facilitate nursing practice with individual clients. For BSN completion students, the course will enhance the RN student's established assessment and diagnostic skills/competencies and facilitate...
NUR304Health Foundations IIntroduces the fundamental nursing concepts and skills, which makes up the foundation of nursing practice across the lifespan. The nursing process, communication, and caring is emphasized. Students will have the opportunity to apply concepts and psyc...
NUR304CHealth Foundations I ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR304LHealth Foundations I LabNo Description Set
NUR306Health Foundations IIContinues to build on the concepts of NUR 304. Topics include the nursing process, problem solving, critical thinking, communication, physical assessment, and the psychomotor skills needed to provide holistic care for patients across the lifespan.
NUR306CHealth Foundations II ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR306LHealth Foundations II LabNo Description Set
NUR309International and Transcultural PerspectivesThe focus of this course is to gain an international perspective of health care issues. Through small group work, students will compare health- related values, beliefs, and practices in selected countries outside the United States with health-related...
NUR310Psychiatric Mental HealthFocuses on nursing care of individuals, families and groups; health promoting behaviors and strategies for optimal mental health; and prevention of illness. Course content further builds upon and develops relationship-centered caring; reflective and...
NUR310CPsychiatric/Mental Health ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR310LPsychiatric/Mental Health LabNo Description Set
NUR311Adult Health Concepts: Regulation and TransportThis course is one of two companion courses that combine the nursing process and evidence-based practice while caring for diverse patient populations with acute and chronic health alterations. This course prepares students to communicate, think criti...
NUR311CAHC: Regulat & Trans ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR311LAdult Health Concepts: Regulation and Transport LabNo Description Set
NUR312Adult Health Concepts: Protection, Sensation, and MobilityThis course is one of two companion courses that combine the nursing process and evidence-based practice while caring for diverse patient populations with acute and chronic health alterations. This course prepares students to communicate, think criti...
NUR312CAdult Health Concepts: Protection, Sensation, and Mobility ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR312LAdult Health Concepts: Protection, Sensation, and Mobility LabNo Description Set
NUR321Overview of Disaster Response NursingThis course provides an overview of the latest concepts in disaster response. The focus for study is specific roles and responsibilities of the civilian RN in response to natural and intentional disasters. Curriculum concepts emphasized are types of...
NUR325Introduction to Informatics in HealthcareThe course will introduce the student to healthcare informatics. The course will provide an introductory foundation in the history of healthcare informatics and the impact healthcare informatics has on the current and future healthcare landscape. Con...
NUR336Genetics in Nursing and HealthcareThis course will provide the student with the foundational information necessary to facilitate multidisciplinary care for patients from a genetic perspective. Professional nursing standards for genetics and genomics will guide the structure of the co...
NUR362Nursing Research and Evidence-Based PracticeThis course focuses on the contribution of theory and research to professional practice. The student is assisted in the development of skills for critical appraisal of research reports to determine scientific merit and clinical relevance. The emphasi...
NUR405Health Care SystemsThis course expands the utilization of the nursing process to health care delivery systems. The focus of the course is the professional nurse's leadership and management role in working effectively within various types of organizational systems. The...
NUR408Legal, Ethical, and Political PerspectivesThis course concentrates on the professional role of the nurse as change agent for the profession and society. Present and future nursing roles related to public policy formation are identified while exploring their ethical, legal and political dimen...
NUR410Complex Health AlterationsThis course focuses on the holistic nursing process of selected complex health problems and their impact on the patient, the family, and the adjustment to changes in patient and family lifestyles. The integration of conceptual models of nursing, nurs...
NUR410CComplex Health Alterterations ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR410LComplex Health Alterations LabNo Description Set
NUR414Community and Public HealthThis course applies the nursing process to care of individuals, families, groups, communities, or populations with a strong focus on health promotion and disease prevention. In addition, public health nursing practice and United States public health...
NUR420Community and Global HealthThis course engages students to extend the application of the nursing process to the community environment for clients, families, and aggregates, focusing on health promotion and disease prevention. Concepts of epidemiology, diverse and vulnerable po...
NUR420CCommunity & Global Health ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR420LCommunity & Global Health LabNo Description Set
NUR425Trends and Issues in Global HealthThe student will explore in-depth the impact of political, economic , social, ethical, and legal factors on the health care delivery systems, both in the United States and around the world. The interrelationships of these factors will be explored fro...
NUR428Leadership Management of Health OrganizationsStudents will explore various management, organizational, leadership and change theories, and discuss their application to the nursing care of patients and groups of patients. Examination of health care environments, with emphasis on safety and quali...
NUR430Advanced SimulationIn this course students will enhance their skills in the treatment of complex medical-surgical patients through active participation in a series of simulated studies scenarios. These simulations are designed to reinforce important concepts.
NUR430LAdvanced Simulation LabNo Description Set
NUR435Capstone PreceptorshipThe capstone experience provides students with concentrated precepted clinical opportunities in various health care settings, providing opportunities to refine development of nursing management of clients and groups of clients. Students synthesize k...
NUR435CCapstone Preceptorship ClinicaNo Description Set
NUR435LCapstone Preceptorship LabNo Description Set
NUR438Maternal Newborn NursingThis course provides evidence-based knowledge and skills essential to caring for women and families during the childbearing years. The experience of the healthy childbearing family, as well as the family with health alterations, is in the theoretical...
NUR438CMaternal Newborn Nursing ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR438LMaternal Newborn Nursing LabNo Description Set
NUR440Pediatric HealthThis course focuses on nursing care of infants, children, adolescents and families and is designed to provide the student with pediatric nursing knowledge and skills integral to the practice of professional nursing.
NUR440CPediatric Health ClinicalNo Description Set
NUR440LPediatric Health LabNo Description Set
NUR460Theoretical Foundations in Health ResearchThe application of nursing research to substantiate nursing theory and practice is explored. Appreciation for nursing theory evolution is developed as key nursing theorists are compared and contrasted. Research foundations are introduced, with emphas...
NUR498Independent StudyNo Description Set
NUR530Nurse Educator RoleThe course provides students in the Nurse Educator Certificate Program with the roles and responsibilities of nurse educators in any setting where healthcare is delivered. The scope of practice for highly qualified nurse educators will be emphasized...
NUR531Nursing Curriculum Development and DesignThe course provides students in the Nurse Educator Certificate Program with educational principles, theory, and research of curriculum development. Specific content will address professional techniques of curriculum development in terms of learning o...
NUR532Facilitating the Teaching and Learning ProcessThe course provides students in the Nurse Educator Certificate Program with information about learning theories and evidence-based teaching strategies. Content expands upon the role of the nurse educator as professional advisor and mentor and emphasi...
NUR533Principles and Practice of Assessment And EvaluationThe course provides students in the Nurse Educator Certificate Program with content specific to evidence-based assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes, item writing and analysis, assessment tools for laboratory and clinical experiences, and co...
NUR9110DNP Role and InterprofessionalismThis course provides an onsite and online orientation to the doctoral program, an overview of the advanced practice role. Students will initiate a personal DNP portfolio. Topics include legal dimensions and professional issues in advanced nursing pra...
NUR9210Advanced Pathophysiology IThis course provides an in-depth study of the physiological responses to altered health states and their impact on the functional status of patients. Students will focus on the essential knowledge of human health and disease across the lifespan neces...
NUR9211Advanced Pathophysiology IIThis course continues to provide an in-depth study of the physiological changes and responses to altered health states and their impact on the functional status of patients. Students will focus on the essential knowledge of human health and disease a...
NUR9220Advanced PharmacologyThis course focuses on concepts, principles, and application of pharmacotherapeutics used by nurse practitioners in the management of health problems encountered in primary care. Emphasis is placed on theories and principles of pharmacokinetics, phar...
NUR9221Advanced Pharmacology IIThis course continues to build on the concepts, principles, and application of pharmacotherapeutics used by nurse practitioners in the management of health problems encountered in primary care. Emphasis is placed on theories and principles of pharmac...
NUR9230Advanced Health Assessment and Promotion IThis course builds upon health assessment skills developed in the registered nurse's basic educational program. The theoretical and clinical basis for assessment in advanced nursing practice will be expanded upon. The process whereby the advanced pra...
NUR9231Advanced Health Assessment and Promotion IIThis course continues to build upon health assessment skills developed in the registered nurse's basic educational program. The theoretical and clinical basis for assessment in advanced nursing practice will be expanded upon. The process whereby the...
NUR9240Scientific Basis for Advanced Nursing PracticeThis course allows students to analyze and critique concepts, constructs, models, and theories that guide advanced nursing practice. The course builds on existing knowledge of nursing and borrowed theories and considers the progression of theory deve...
NUR9310Primary Care IThis course begins with a focus on health promotion, anticipatory guidance, counseling, and disease prevention, and progresses to the evaluation and management of common primary care problems. Clinical settings include populations across the lifespan...
NUR9310LPrimary Care I LabNo Description Set
NUR9321Primary Care IIThis seminar and practicum focuses on evidence-based approaches to care across the lifespan, particularly in childbearing and child rearing families and individuals. An emphasis is placed on gender-based issues, reproductive health, psychological, an...
NUR9321LPrimary Care II ClinicalClinical to accompany NUR 9321.
NUR9322Primary Care in Women's HealthThis seminar and practicum focus on evidence-based approaches to care across the lifespan, particularly in childbearing and child rearing families and individuals. An emphasis is placed on gender-based issues, reproductive health, psychological, and...
NUR9323Primary Care of PediatricsThis seminar and practicum focuses on evidence-based approaches to care of children from birth through young adult including well-child care and prevention/management of common pediatric acute illnesses and chronic conditions. Students will apply kno...
NUR9330Primary Care IIIThe course focuses on the evaluation and management of complex care problems across the lifespan in a variety of health care settings. Emphasis will be on seamless flow of patient data and continuity of care between alternative care settings. Geriatr...
NUR9330LPrimary Care III LabNo Description Set
NUR9341Primary Care IVThis course focuses on the scientific and theoretical basis for managing, co-managing, and coordinating care of individuals in acute and sub- acute care primary care settings. Emphasis will be on collaborative inter- professional practice. Students w...
NUR9341LPrimary Care IV LabNo Description Set
NUR9520Epidemiology & BiostatisticsIn this course students apply principles of epidemiology, environmental health, and bio-statistics to understand the etiology, progression, and prevention of disease. Emphasis is on identification of population - and geographically-based risk factors...
NUR9530Research Methods and Evidence-Based PracticeFundamentals of scientific inquiry prepare students for interpreting, critiquing, and synthesizing research findings to guide and inform evidence-based practice. Students conceptualize research problems, review and critique current literature, and se...
NUR9540Healthcare InformaticsThis course will introduce the student to healthcare informatics from a clinical perspective. The course provides a solid foundation in the history of healthcare informatics and the impact healthcare informatics has on the current and future healthca...
NUR9550Healthcare Delivery, Quality, and SafetyThis course examines concepts and strategies to assist the nurse leader in developing skills to improve and strengthen nursing practice, patient outcomes, and health care delivery. Goals for healthcare outcomes and the delivery of healthcare will be...
NUR9560Health Policy & AdvocacyThis course provides a study of historical and current healthcare policy determinants, the impact of policy on the health of society, how scarce resources are allocated, and funding for healthcare. Students analyze policy issues that impact nursing a...
NUR9570Principles of Practice ManagementThis course explores the professional and business aspects of advanced practice nursing. As future healthcare leaders, students focus on gaining expertise beyond direct patient care. Entrepreneur potential, nurse led patient centered health care home...
NUR9575The Healthcare OrganizationThis course provides a comprehensive overview of the health care system in the United States by examining the various components that collectively define the health care industry. The course will enable the student to develop a global understanding o...
NUR9576The Health Care Organization ClinicalThis course enables the student to begin to analyze the health care system in the United States by examining the various components that collectively define the health care industry. Students will apply the knowledge obtained in the on line course in...
NUR9577Manathing the Health Care Organization: The Financial PerspectiveThis course provides the student with a set of strategies and techniques from managerial finance and economics that can be applied to financial and operational problems in the health care industry.
NUR9578Managing the Health Care Organization: The Financial Perspective ClinicalThis course provides the student with an opportunity to evaluate the strategies and techniques learned in the on line course about managerial finance and economics in the health care setting. During this clinical rotation students will identify fina...
NUR9579Improving the Healthcare OrganizationThis course focuses on the application of business analytics, informatics, performance and quality improvement in the health care sector with the goal of integrating each of the factors into the overall improvement of a health care organization.
NUR9580Interprofessional SeminarThis interprofessionally focused course explores the perspectives of nurses and other healthcare professionals on current issues and trends in healthcare. Collaborative methods to equip the students with the skills to function effectively in multi-di...
NUR9581Health Care Organization: Leadership, Management, and CommunicationThis course examines leadership concepts, principles and styles. Students will evaluate themselves and employees, assist with career planning, and creation of a healthy work environment. Exploration of the concepts of human capital management, commu...
NUR9581LHealth Care Organization: Leadership, Mangement, and Communication ClinicalClinical for NUR*9581
NUR9582Improving the Health Care Organization ClinicalThis course allows students to analyze the concepts of business analytics, informatics, performance, and quality improvement in the health care sector. In this clinical rotation students will integrate each of these factors into the health care orga...
NUR9810Scholarly Project IStudents will conduct an evidence-based practice project to improve practice and patient outcomes. The project will serve as a basis for future projects. Projects are individualized according to the student's areas of interest, specialty, or expertis...
NUR9810SPScholarly Proj I-Child SectionNo Description Set
NUR9820Scholarly Project IIStudents will conduct an evidence-based practice project to improve practice and patient outcomes. The project will serve as a basis for future projects. Projects are individualized according to the student's areas of interest, specialty, or expertis...
NUR9820SPScholarly Proj Ii-Child SectNo Description Set
NUR9830Residency IThe DNP residency courses assist in the development and refinement of leadership skills and the completion of the scholarly project. With the assistance of faculty advisors, the student selects residency sites that facilitate growth in an area of int...
NUR9830RResidency I: Child SectionNo Description Set
NUR9831MSN-DNP ResidencyThe DNP residency courses assist in the development and refinement of leadership skills and the completion of the scholarly project. With the assistance of faculty advisors, the student selects residency sites that facilitate growth in an area of int...
NUR9831RMsn-Dnp Residency: Child SectNo Description Set
NUR9840Residency IIThe DNP residency courses assist in the development and refinement of leadership skills and the completion of the scholarly project. With the assistance of faculty advisors, the student selects residency sites that facilitate growth in an area of int...
NUR9840RResidency II: Child SectionNo Description Set
NURELCTNursing ElectiveNo Description Set