Course descriptions for Nursing

Students will be given selected readings in the theories and issues of nursing and service learning and will explore the connection between professional nursing practice and service learning. The course will explore the issues of social justice, oppression, liberation, and how the issues influence health care delivery and the profession of nursing. The course includes community activities in a health care setting that has consistent exposure to the practice of a Registered Nurse.

Students explore the interaction of multiple co-morbidities in the aging adult population. Concepts of culture, genomics, psychology, ethnicity, sexuality, nutrition, polypharmacy, and community resources are discussed analyzed with students developing application strategies.

Seeks to nurture and grow the student's knowledge and attitudes toward the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Patient Centered Care. Promotes the development of student concept comprehension and application by sharing curriculum content between the Consortium Community College nursing programs and the CSUMB nursing program. Will be taken during dual enrollment with the student's first or in any subsequent semester in the Community College nursing program.

Seeks to nurture and grow the student's knowledge and attitudes toward the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Teamwork and Collaboration. Promotes the development of student concept comprehension and application by sharing curriculum content between the Consortium Community College nursing programs and the CSUMB nursing program. Will be taken during dual enrollment with the student's first or in any subsequent semester in the Community College nursing program.

Seeks to nurture and grow the student's knowledge and attitudes toward the Quality Safety Education of Nurses (QSEN): Evidenced Based Practice. Promotes the development of student concept comprehension and application by sharing curriculum content between the Consortium Community College nursing programs and the CSUMB nursing program. Will be taken during dual enrollment with the student's first or in any subsequent semester in the Community College nursing program.

Seeks to nurture and grow the student's knowledge and attitudes toward the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Safety and Quality Improvement. Promotes the development of student concept comprehension and application by sharing curriculum content between the Consortium Community College nursing programs and the CSUMB nursing program. Will be taken during dual enrollment with the student's first or in any subsequent semester in the Community College nursing program.

Seeks to nurture and grow the student's knowledge and attitudes toward the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Informatics. Promotes the development of student concept comprehension and application by sharing curriculum content between the Consortium Community College nursing programs and the CSUMB nursing program. Will be taken during dual enrollment with the student's first or in any subsequent semester in the Community College nursing program.

Students learn and apply computer skills to health and human service delivery. Emphasizes hands-on experience using computers for electronic communication and presentations, and to improve skills in the use of database management, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Students participate in online research, information resources evaluation, correct citation of Internet resources, and weekly online discussions. Introduces state-of-the-art health and human service software.

Applied Statistics/Research Methods for Health & Human Services: Introduces the fundamentals of research methods and applies basic data analysis skills in health and human service case studies. Introduces and utilizes appropriate software programs and their application in health and human service delivery and in designing student projects.

Students are introduced to public and nonprofit healthcare systems; approaches to analyzing these systems, and their ability to achieve their missions. Students discuss management strategies used when working within these systems to effect positive change and improve service delivery. Students will be expected to participate in a variety of activities that will supplement reading assignments and lectures including attending a meeting of the governing board of a public or nonprofit organization.

The course emphasizes models and methods for delivering health care in a post health care reform environment and includes an exploration of the multiple relationships between interdisciplinary healthcare team members, the central role of the nurse in care coordination, the presence of an authoritarian hierarchy, and gender effects in nursing. Using data-based studies and policy analysis the important but invisible sociopolitical environment in which the work of nursing is performed is discussed.

Studies a particular topic in Nursing. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

This course is to facilitate your understanding of the history, politics, and process of health and social policy making in the US and to develop policy analysis and writing skills. We will explore various social, political, and multiple cultural factors that affect policy making and discuss how and why the process of policy analysis and decision making has constructed health and social systems in the United States. There is a semester-long, team-based policy analysis project.

Use selected readings in genomic literature and its application in the aging adult population. Survey nursing theories that support the inclusion of genetics in human health and illness, providing a theoretical base for a discussion of the implications for pathophysiological changes in an aging population and the role of nursing in providing care. Use information technology to collect, organize and communicate patterns that support role of nursing in providing evidence based care.

Application of community health and service learning concepts. Student may elect placement in a local or out of country site. Co-listed as the final upper division service learning requirement.

Introduction to community health nursing concepts necessary for managing and/or delivering care in homes and various community sites to populations at risk of or in compromised health.

NURS 499S is a field experience in the community synthesizing service learning and community health nursing concepts necessary for registered nurses to manage and/or deliver care to individuals, families, and populations across the lifespan. The student integrates and unifies a community nursing skill set with concepts that inform the practice of nursing in multicultural populations focusing on health promotion and disease prevention. Letter Grade Available.