Fundamental Nursing Concepts & Practice
NURS 332 Course Description (5 credits)
This course addresses basic nursing concepts, therapeutic and evidence-based nursing processes, beginning skills, techniques and procedures for professional registered nursing practice across the life span with a focus on the health end of the health-illness continuum. Safe, therapeutic, legal, and ethical medication administration and complementary/alternative modalities are examined.
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Guadalupe Regional Medical Center
Age-Span Assessment
NURS 330 Course Description (4 credits)
This course addresses concepts related to holistic health assessment across the lifespan for evidence-based nursing practice, including interviewing, health history, and physical assessment techniques. Emphasis is on recognition of normal findings, common functional health pattern deviations associated with pathologies, and pharmacological concepts related to assessment.
Evidence-Based Professional Nursing I
NURS 334 Course Description (3 credits)
This course addresses the historical, contemporary, and global perspectives related to the role of nursing in society, professional nursing roles, and regulatory requirements within the context of contemporary health care delivery systems. Emphasis is on ethical and legal foundations of nursing, selected nursing theories and standards of nursing practice to guide the student in development of professional nursing practice.
Healthcare in the 21st Century
NURS 336 Course Description (2 credits)
Introduction to 21st century healthcare environment, influencing factors involved in current healthcare and the philosophical and theoretical basis for professional nursing in this environment. Emphasis is on various methods of healthcare financing, types of healthcare organizations and the role of government in healthcare.
Complex Nursing Concepts & Practice I
NURS 340 Course Description (7Â credits)
The first of two courses that focus on complex nursing concepts related to age specific clients with acute and chronic health alterations. Emphasis is on the impact of communications and life experiences on health status, collaborative management of medications, therapeutic procedures/treatment, restoration and rehabilitation and patient and caregiver education. Application includes critical reasoning, skills and judgment in providing nursing interventions and evidence-based practice in acute and chronic care areas.
Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital
Behavioral Health/Psych Nursing
NURS 342 (5 credits)
Focuses on behavioral/psychiatric nursing concepts related to preventive and therapeutic measures for psychiatric and behavioral health applied to individuals of all ages, families and communities. Emphasis includes cultural and social influences and perceptions related to mental illness, as well as concepts related to emotions such as mood, affect and anxiety, coping and stress and cognitive functioning including psychosis and maladaptive behavior related to addiction, violence and sexuality.
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Laurel Ridge Treatment Center
San Marcos Treatment Center
Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice
NURS 344 (3 credits)
Focuses on comparison of qualitative and quantitative nursing research with emphasis on the basic research process as the foundation for evidence-based nursing practice and identifying systems to determine validity and reliability of research. Application includes understanding of key research terminology, use of research techniques to monitor nurse sensitive client care indicators and leadership outcomes, and critical appraisal skills to become competent research consumers.
Nursing Special Topics - Nursing Informatics
NURS 479 (2 credits)
This course is designed to introduce nursing students to the role of informatics in nursing and to provide them with tools for utilizing nursing informatics while caring for patients in order to improve health outcomes.
Nursing of Childbearing Families
NURS 430 (5 credits)
This course covers the physiologic and psychological aspects of pregnancy and birth as well as the clinical skills and judgement in assisting families and individuals during childbearing and rearing, health maintenance and promotion. Application of concepts, processes and practice of nursing commonly encountered with individuals and families in the childbearing years, as well as newborns, children, and adolescents. Emphasis is on development, culture, family systems structure, variances, and dynamics.
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Methodist Children's Hospital
Complex Nursing Concepts & Practice II
NURS 432 (7 credits)
The second course that focuses on complex nursing concepts related to age specific clients with acute and chronic health alterations, including complex, multi-system health issues such as shock, trauma, transplantation, disaster management. Emphasis is on the impact of communications and life experiences on health status, collaborative management of medications, therapeutic procedures/treatment, restoration and rehabilitation, and patient and caregiver education at a higher level of practice. Application includes critical reasoning, skills and judgment in providing nursing interventions and evidence-based practice in acute and critical care areas.
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Christus Santa Rosa New Braunfels
Leadership and Management of Nursing Care
NURS 434 (3 credits)
Designed to develop clinical-leadership and management skills and competencies for the novice professional registered nurse as a member of the healthcare team delivering high quality, patient-centered care. Emphasis is on theories, evidence-based practice, and research applied to unit and middle management leadership and within the healthcare system, along with personal attributes for nursing leadership in direct patient care areas, including adult care, maternal-child units, behavioral mental health, and community agencies.
Community Health Nursing
NURS 440 (5 credits)
Designed to develop clinical-leadership and management skills and competencies for the novice professional registered nurse as a member of the healthcare team delivering high quality, patient-centered care. Emphasis is on theories, evidence-based practice, and research applied to unit and middle management leadership and within the healthcare system, along with personal attributes for nursing leadership in direct patient care areas, including adult care, maternal-child units, behavioral mental health, and community agencies.
Evidence-Based Professional Nursing II
NURS 442 (3 credits)
Further develops the evidence-based professional nursing competencies to practice in healthcare organizations now and in the future. Emphasis is on nurse practice standards and values as described in the Texas Nurse Practice Act and the American Nurses Association as applied to management skills, professional ethics, regulatory requirements, delegation, and supervision of unlicensed personnel to ensure the safe, orderly and effective delivery of healthcare in complex systems.
Capstone - Nursing Leadership Practice
NURS 443 (6 credits)
Focus on a practicum experience for the student under the guidance and supervision of a preceptor (registered nurse) in assuming various roles of the professional nurse, including member of the profession, provider of patient-centered care, patient safety advocate and healthcare team member, in a variety of clinical settings. Specific roles emphasized are leader and manager of care for a group of patients, communicator, teacher and consumer of research applicable to evidence-based practice. Implementation of an appropriate senior capstone project will demonstrate application of the principles and concepts of nursing practice.
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Christus Santa Rosa New Braunfels - Obstetrics Unit, 240 hours