Online RN to BSN Program

This course introduces the Registered Nurse (RN) student to the role of the baccalaureate prepared nurse generalist. Through an examination of values, ethics, and practice standards, the RN will promote competencies for safe and effective nursing care. Concepts essential to professional nursing practice will be analyzed.

Prerequisite: Admission to the program.

This course focuses on comprehensive health assessment. Assessment skills are applied to the practice of nursing across the lifespan. The focus is on assessing cultural, psychosocial, behavioral, physiological, and spiritual health parameters to maintain homeostasis.

Pharmacological principles essential to promoting clinical reasoning will be examined. Laboratory experiences are provided for comprehensive skill acquisition.

Prerequisite: Admission to the program.

This course reviews models, concepts, and theories that serve as the basis for professional nursing. The RN will demonstrate an understanding of nursing theorists’ approach to patient centered care across the lifespan in diverse settings. Historical, legal, cultural, economic, and social factors that affect nursing and healthcare delivery are analyzed. The RN will develop a framework for future nursing practice.

Prerequisite: Admission to the program.

This course introduces the RN to contemporary changes in the internal and external environment affecting nursing practice. The RN will examine trends in healthcare and regulatory policies to establish an appreciation of factors influencing professional practice in a global society. Core concepts of quality and safety in nursing education will be analyzed. Legislative processes on the state and national level are examined.

Prerequisite: Admission to the program.

This course serves as the foundation for the use of the research process to critically analyze research studies. Through an introduction to the language and skills of evidence-based nursing practice, the RN student will focus on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs.

Through an exploration of current and past studies, the RN student is introduced to the use of data as the basis for decision making in the healthcare environment.

Prerequisite: NURS 320, 321, 322, 323

This course focuses on the wellness-illness continuum across the lifespan with an emphasis on disease process and the bodies’ response to illness. Principle of genetics and genomics as determinants of health are examined. Disease prevention, early diagnosis and rehabilitation strategies are examined. Health patterns across the lifespan will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: NURS 323, 324

This course explores the use of informatics within healthcare delivery systems. An examination of electronic health records management, practice standards, and data analysis will prepare the RN student to utilize informatics within the dynamic healthcare environment. Information literacy and its application to safe and effective nursing care will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: NURS 323, 324

This course will emphasize health promotion and disease prevention within communities. The communities consist of individuals, families, groups, and societies within a local, state, national, or international setting. Principles of epidemiology within vulnerable populations will be highlighted. Community based social justice, cultural sensitivity, health disparities, and equity of care will be addressed. A practicum experience will focus on nursing’s role in health promotion, disease, and injury prevention preferably within selected practice settings.

Prerequisite: NURS 323, 324

This course focuses on evidence-based leadership and management theories, principles and models. The RN student will analyze current practices related to the leadership role within healthcare systems. Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration will be examined. Quality management and safe patient centered care will be emphasized. A practicum experience will focus on the nurses’ role within the attributes of leadership in selected practice settings.

Prerequisite: NURS 420, 421, 422

This course examines the effects of social, cultural, economic, legal and political factors affecting healthcare delivery and practice. Resources and best practice methods for financial health services are identified. Healthcare reimbursement principles as related to the delivery of cost-effective healthcare services in a variety of settings will be discussed.

Prerequisites: NURS 420, 421, 422