Apr 30, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

World Cultures and Literatures

  
  • WCL 2370 - Cultures of India

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction and exploration of cultural diversity and identity of South Asia. Emphasis on transnationalism, modernity, and development.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 2380 - Introduction to Jewish Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction to Jewish culture through literature, history, and arts.

  
  • WCL 3341 - Early Islamic Society: Literature and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Study of texts reflecting various trends in religious, political, philosophical, social and economic developments in early Islamic Civilization.

  
  • WCL 3351 - Introduction to Latino Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Basic cultural dimensions of U.S. Latino communities through literature and the arts, including ethnic minority formation, immigration and transnational processes.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 3355 - Women East and West: Global Representations of Female Divinities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or permission of instructor.

    Representations of female deities from an East -West perspective.

  
  • WCL 3362 - U.S. Latino Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major trends, traits, works, authors, and issues of Chicano, and other Latino literatures.

  
  • WCL 3364 - World TV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major TV Series and Miniseries from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Australia concerning contemporary issues. TV Fiction as a global art form.

  
  • WCL 3365 - World Fiction & Reportage

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Recent works of transnational literature or national literature with transnational appeal, including both fiction and reportage that highlight world issues and global awareness.

  
  • WCL 3366 - Latin American and Latino Film Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Latin American, Latino films, telenovelas and TV documentaries. Issues regarding immigration, urban/rural, ethnic, gender and class, border and transnational, poverty, violence, and aesthetics. Taught in English.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • WCL 3367 - National Cinema in a Global Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    National cinema in its relationship with global film industry, international production and transnational issues.

  
  • WCL 3368 - Pop Cultures and World Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Popular culture in its diverse forms with particular focus on visual media. Genres including films, music, reality television, social media, graphic novels, and literature.

  
  • WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303.

    Survey of science-fiction literature and film since 1945, including the Golden Age, the New Wave, Cyberpunk, and beyond.

  
  • WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Cities and urban life worldwide from the advent of modernity to postmodernity and globalization, as expressed in visual arts, film, theory and literature.

  
  • WCL 3372 - Indian Film: Bollywood and Beyond

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of the history, development, and evolution of Indian Film since Partition, the Golden Age, and New Wave through essay and film.

  
  • WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction to representations of gender and sexuality in important films from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe, and Australia, and to major developments in global feminist film theory.

  
  • WCL 3374 - Jewish Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Jewish culture, tradition, and history through film.

  
  • WCL 3376 - Visual Stories - Local and the Global

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or consent of instructor.

    Globalization of Houston is documented and analyzed conducting a visual and textual ethnography.

  
  • WCL 3377 - The Modern Middle East: Literature, Politics, and Ideas

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of major landmarks in the literature and thought of the Middle East after 1798, examining them in the context of the region’s political history.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 3380 - American Jewish Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of American Jewish culture from Eastern European immigration to the present. Analysis of literature, film, popular materials and everyday practices that illustrate the transformation of Jewish immigrants into American Jews.

  
  • WCL 3381 - Global Representations of HIV/AIDS

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Examination of representations of HIV/AIDS in literature and film from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe, and Australia, focusing on their relations to cultural responses to the epidemic.

  
  • WCL 3382 - Global Queer Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of queer culture in a global context through major historical and present-day works of literature, art, and film.

  
  • WCL 3384 - Jewish Women Through Biography

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Study of Jewish women’s history through the ages and across cultures.

  
  • WCL 3392 - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Basic dimensions of Latin American cultural processes. Focus on indigenous/Spanish/African/Asian heritages and transformations; including mestizaje, transculturation, hybridization. Globalization and transnational patterns.

  
  • WCL 3397 - Selected Topics in World Cultures & Literature

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Topics in world cultures and literature. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WCL 4301 - Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.

  
  • WCL 4322 - Seminar in Scholarly Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or consent of instructor.

    Advanced manuscript writing, critique and selection, editing, translating, proofing, and other skills relevant to scholarly publication. Related to WCL’s Global CASA and LACASA Publications series and Urban Research Initiative.

  
  • WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and WCL 2351 or WCL 2352 or permission of instructor.

    Major theoretical trends in Western & non-Western culture from the French Revolution to World War II.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major cultural trends in World Cultures from WWII to the present time: Existentialism, Structuralism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Globalization Studies, and Cultural Perspectives from Non-Western Areas.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4353 - Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.

  
  • WCL 4356 - World Film & Film Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    An introduction to the major trends in film criticism and film theory, from the 1920s to the present time, exemplified by classic world films that have generated critical debate.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4362 - Seminar in Latin American and Latino Literatures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

  
  • WCL 4364 - History of Drama in Northern and Central Europe

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: senior standing or consent of instructor.

    Historical and critical analysis of European theater from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Readings include dramas and theoretical essays as a means for understanding and representing cultural norms.

  
  • WCL 4365 - World Fiction & Reportage

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Recent works of transnational literature or national literature with transnational appeal, including both fiction and reportage that highlight world issues and global awareness.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4367 - Voices from Exile and Diaspora

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Examines the experience of exile, displacement, and diaspora reflected in 20th-21st century literature and film and theoretical approaches to migration and diaspora.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science. Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

  
  • WCL 4378 - Cultures of Dissent: A Global Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.

    Global opposition movements as reflected in literary, autobiographical, and theoretical writings of 19th through 21st century authors as well as in film and the visual arts.

  
  • WCL 4379 - Critical Theory and Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Intensive study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late 20th century social theory and literary criticism.

  
  • WCL 4380 - Jewish Expulsion and Aftermath: Spain, 1492 and After

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.

    Study of events leading to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and its consequences.

  
  • WCL 4381 - Seminar in Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Key themes and debates regarding Latin American/Latino cultural processes in the arts, politics, and everyday life. Modernity/postmodernity, coloniality/postcoloniality, globalization, urban, border, transnational, ethnic, genera, and subaltern perspectives. Taught in English.

  
  • WCL 4394 - Sexuality in Latino Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Sexual relationships in Latino culture, gender theory, art, politics, everyday life, transnational perspectives.

  
  • WCL 4396 - Special Topics in World Cultures and Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Topics in cultural and literary theory, criticism and history, major cultural trends in postmodernity and globalization. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WCL 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: senior standing and consent of instructor.


Nursing

  
  • NURS 3132 - Synthesis of Nursing Professional Role III

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Open discussion forum to enable development of leadership skills for nursing students. Assimilates content in evidence-based practice, leadership/management and symptom management.

  
  • NURS 3230 - Nursing Professional Role I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    This course will allow the student to compare past professional experiences with nursing practice. The art and science of professional nursing is examined from historical and contemporary perspectives, including the philosophy and theoretical foundations that define professional nursing practice.

  
  • NURS 3247 - Pharmacology for Collaborative Nursing Practice

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Corequisite: NURS 3631, NURS 3633

    A foundational overview of pharmacology emphasizing the basics of drug knowledge including pharmocotherapeutics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Drug therapy for all age groups is incorporated.

  
  • NURS 3310 - Professional Role Development and Practice Issues

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Focuses on the socialization of the student to the baccalaureate essentials for professional practice. Roles of the nurse, historical and theoretical foundations, and nursing philosophy and standards that define professional nursing are explored.

  
  • NURS 3311 - Health Assessment Across the Lifespan

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Presents health and cultural assessment concepts for individuals and families across the life span, building upon skills acquired in an initial licensure program. Emphasis is on history taking, data collection, and critical analyses of health and illness. Students practice clinical assessment skills in a laboratory setting.

  
  • NURS 3315 - Pathophysiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Focuses on the pathophysiological basis of disease processes. Central concepts include symptoms, treatment, and prognosis across the lifespan. Mechanism and principles that underlie pathogenesis provide a basis for evidence-based practice.

  
  • NURS 3331 - Nursing Professional Role II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: NURS 3230

    An open discussion forum to enable development of skills focusing on management principles and theories to provide professional nursing leadership.

  
  • NURS 3332 - Nursing Professional Role III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: NURS 3311

    This course focuses on political, legal, ethical and advocacy issues affecting health care and professional nursing practice.

  
  • NURS 3337 - Reading and Interpreting Scientific Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Statistics Course

    The study of statistical procedures and scientific methods to enable critique of nursing research, use of scientific literature and evaluation of evidence-based nursing practice.

  
  • NURS 3411 - Health Assesmt Across Lifespan

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 6    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • NURS 3440 - Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Corequisite: NURS 3631, NURS 3633

    Provides foundational overview of evidence-based nursing practice, health assessment, pathophysiology, and beginning data collection strategies. History, physical examination, data collection and critical analysis in situations of health and illness are emphasized..

  
  • NURS 3631 - Nursing Process for Symptom Management

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 6    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Corequisite: NURS 3247, NURS 3440, NURS 3633

    Focus is on the utilization of the nursing process as a systematic approach to symptom management and psychosocial care of patients across the life span.

  
  • NURS 3633 - Clinical Nursing Practice I

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: Prerequisites or Co-requisites: NURS 3440, NURS 3631, NURS 3247

    This course provides clinical practice opportunities in acute care and psychiatric settings to enable the beginning student to acquire basic symptom management and communication skills.

  
  • NURS 3634 - Clinical Nursing Practice II

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: NURS 3631, NURS 3633

    Corequisite: NURS 3636

    Provides clinical practice opportunities in acute care and maternal/child settings to enable the student to acquire intermediate nursing care skills.

  
  • NURS 3636 - Nursing Process for Collaborative Practice I

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 6    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: NURS 3631, NURS 3633

    Corequisite: NURS 3634

    Focuses on care of the older adult, adult, child, and child bearing families experiencing alterations in tissue integrity and healthcare needs.

  
  • NURS 3735 - Clinical Nursing Practice III

    Credit Hours: 7.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 21
    Prerequisite: NURS 3634, NURS 3636

    Corequisite: NURS 3737

    Provides clinical practice opportunities in high acuity and community settings to enable the student to acquire advanced nursing care and leadership/management skills.

  
  • NURS 3737 - Nursing Process for Collaborative Practice II

    Credit Hours: 7.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 7    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: NURS 3634, NURS 3636

    Corequisite: NURS 3735

    Focuses on health promotion, prevention, and management of complex health problems across the life span of patients, families and communities.

  
  • NURS 4102 - Nursing Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Independent Study, topics may vary.

  
  • NURS 4200 - Special Topic in Nursing

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approved by Instructor

  
  • NURS 4202 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Needs Instructor approval.

    Independent study with varied topics.

  
  • NURS 4210 - Concepts of Quality Care for Patients with Life-Limiting Illness

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing 2nd Degree BSN: NURS 3633 and NURS 3631, or approval by instructor.

    Explores concepts related to quality care for patients with lfe-limiting illness and their families. Particular emphasis is placed on spiritual needs and interventions, the nurse’s role to assist patients and families to cope through high-risk medical interventions, ethical decision making, and principles of communication. Elements of safety with high-level skills are also reviewed.

  
  • NURS 4212 - Informatics in Health Care

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing

    Introduces students to basic concepts and tools associated with the structure, management and communication of information to support the role of the nurse as a knowledge worker. Emphasis will be placed on use of clinical information systems, electronic health records and telecommunication technologies in nursing.

  
  • NURS 4214 - Integrative Nursing

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing

    Introduces integrative nursing techniques for symptom relief. Provides an overview of the importance of vital energy therapies toward mental/emotional, physical, and spiritual balance.

  
  • NURS 4222 - Trends & Issues / Prof Nursing

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • NURS 4300 - Selected Topics in Nursing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approved by Instructor.

    Topic will vary.

  
  • NURS 4302 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approved by Instructor.

    Topic will vary.

  
  • NURS 4312 - Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Practice

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: NURS 3310

    Focuses on leadership theories and management principles to provide the foundation for professional nursing administration. Contemporary workplace issues impacting the nurse leader are explored.

  
  • NURS 4314 - Nursing Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Statistic Course

    Introduces the research process and presents research methods commonly used by nurse researchers. The importance of critical appraisal of nursing research and appropriate utilization of research findings in professional nursing practice are emphasized.

  
  • NURS 4320 - Concept Integration of Complex Patient Care

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Formerly NUR 4420
    Prerequisite: NURS 3210, NURS 3311, and NURS 3440

    Provides foundation to enable students to provide complex chronic care in diverse settings.

  
  • NURS 4322 - Policy, Politics, and Ethics in Professional Nursing Practice

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly NURS 4222
    Prerequisite: NURS 3310

    Focuses on political, legal, ethical, and advocacy issues affecting health care and nursing practice. Personal, societal, and professional influences are explored.

  
  • NURS 4412 - Leadership & Mgmt/Nurs Practic

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • NURS 4520 - Concept Integration in Patient Care Management

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: NURS 3310; NURS 3311; NURS 3315; NURS 4312; NURS 4322; NURS 4314; and NURS 4521

    Focuses on integration of principles for interdisciplinary care management of patients, families, and populations across practice settings. Allows opportunities for knowledge synthesis in the provision of nursing care in varied settings utilizing the decision-making process. Expansion of the professional clinical role by demonstrating entry level competencies of BSN graduate roles to coordinate continuous quality care through the utilization of evidence-based practice in patient care management across practice setting is emphasized. Clinical instruction is individualized and focuses on application of the nursing process in direct care, teaching, interventions, and assessment of the clinical site for individuals and families.

  
  • NURS 4521 - Community Health Nursing

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: NURS 3310; NURS 3311; NURS 3315; NURS 4312; NURS 4322; NURS 4314

    Introduces the concept of community as client. The focus is on providing culturally appropriate care to populations within the public health framework. Allows opportunities for knowledge synthesis in the provision of nursing care in community-based and community health settings utilizing public principles. Expansion of the professional clinical role by demonstrating entry level BSN graduate role population focused competencies to coordinate continuous quality care through the utilization of evidence-based practice in patient care management across community-based practice settings is emphasized. Clinical instruction is individualized and focuses on application of the nursing process in direct care, teaching, interventions, and assessment of the clinical site for individuals, families, and groups.

 

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