Nursing - Undergraduate (NURSE-UN)
NURSE-UN 4 Nursing Cohort Seminar (0 Credits)
Typically offered Fall
The First-Year Nursing Cohort seminar is designed for traditional, first-year students to build community and engagement within the Meyers College of Nursing prior to entering their nursing clinical sequence courses in their junior and senior years. The seminar will serve as an in-depth introduction to New York University, the Meyers College of Nursing, and New York City. The seminar will provide detailed information pertaining to resources, academic support programs,
student organizations, and activities within the College of Nursing and the University. The seminar will also connect first-year students to sophomore Nursing Cohort Leaders (NCLs), who will partner with an Academic Advisor to conduct bi-weekly cohort sessions. In addition, the NCLs will plan and execute community-building activities with their cohort.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 6 First-Year Nursing Honors Cohort Seminar (0 Credits)
Typically offered Fall
The First-Year Nursing Honors Cohort Seminar is
designed for traditional, first-year students participating in the LEAD
Honors Program at NYU Meyers to build community and engagement within NYU
Meyers and to provide an introduction to the honors education experience.
The seminar will serve as an in-depth introduction to New York University,
NYU Meyers, and New York City. The seminar will provide detailed
information pertaining to resources, academic support programs, student
organizations, and activities within NYU Meyers, NYU, and New York City.
The seminar will also introduce students to their LEAD Academic Advisor and
LEAD Honors Advisor and review the four-year curriculum and requirements
for successful completion of the LEAD Honors Program and graduation with
Honors in Nursing. Finally, the seminar will connect first-year students to
sophomore Nursing Cohort Leaders (NCLs) who will collaborate with the LEAD
Academic Advisor and LEAD Honors Advisor to conduct bi-weekly cohort
sessions. In addition, the Nursing Cohort Leaders will plan and execute
community-building outings with the honors cohort.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 7 Honors Seminar: Nursing and the Health Professions (2 Credits)
Nursing and the Health Professions is designed to
introduce traditional, first-year students participating in the LEAD Honors
Program at NYU Meyers to professional roles within the healthcare
community. The seminar encourages discussion of interprofessional roles
and how different nursing roles contribute to patient care. The seminar
introduces students to policy and appropriate ways to advocate for
healthcare needs of the public. This seminar introduces the evaluation the
role of continuing professional education in improving the quality of
nursing practice.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 8 Honors Seminar: Nursing Practice, Research, Education, and Service (1 Credit)
This nursing honors seminar is designed to introduce
scholars in the LEAD Honors Program at NYU Meyers to the four nursing
pillars of the LEAD Honors Program model: nursing practice, research,
education, and service. The seminar encourages discussion of the role of
the nurse in each of the four pillars, including serving as leaders in
nursing and interprofessional teams. The ANA (2015) Standards and Scope of
Practice will be evaluated as it impacts student and professional practice.
The teaching methodologies impacting the learning pillar will be evaluated.
The seminar provides a forum for the LEAD Scholar to explore the four
domains in relation to personal preference and goals and promotes
individual leadership development as a precursor to the selection of the
LEAD Honors Capstone pillar and topic in the junior and senior years.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 9 Honors Global Perspectives on Health (4 Credits)
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to nursing
in the context of global health and global health competencies. Students
will examine the major causes of morbidity and mortality and their
variations between high-, middle-, and low-income regions, as well as major
public health efforts to reduce healthcare disparities globally. The
effects of globalization on health, health systems, and the delivery of
healthcare will be discussed. Students will also focus on social, economic,
and environmental determinants of health. The topics of health equity,
social justice, and sociocultural and political awareness, and their impact
on global health, will also be explored.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 70 Anatomy & Physiology (3 Credits)
Typically offered Spring
45 hours lecture plus lab. 3 credits. The course focuses on the structure and function of the human body and how it affects health and wellbeing. The structure and function of each body system is studied and their inter-relationships explained.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 75 Microbiology (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall
45 hours lecture. 3 credits. This course introduces the principles of the
infectious disease process with respect to the properties of infectious
agents, modes of transmission, manifestations of infections, their
prevention and treatment, and the properties of the immune system. Major
infectious diseases in humans, including the methods used for their
identification in the clinical lab, are covered. Modes of transmission are
described, as well as treatments and prevention. The application of
principles of microbiology to the work of health professionals is also
discussed.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 80 Statistics I (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall
45 hours lecture. 3 credits. This course is an introduction for undergraduate students into the field of statistics as it is used in nursing, epidemiology, public health, and clinical research. It will concentrate on understanding what the statistics are used for and what they tell us rather than mathematical theory. Knowledge of high school algebra is assumed.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 120 Integrating Evidence into Clinical Practice (3 Credits)
Typically offered Spring and Summer
45 hours lecture. 3 credits. The course focuses on the conceptual and research development of nursing knowledge that forms the basis of evidence-based practice. Areas of nursing inquiry currently investigated are presented. The validity of quantitative and the conformability of qualitative methods used to answer nursing research questions are discussed. Students critically evaluate current nursing research and assess applicability to clinical practice. They also evaluate and assess applicability of related research reported in the media.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 121 LEAD Honors Integrating Evidence into Clinical Practice (3 Credits)
This course introduces the basic principles of critical
appraisal of research for use in professional healthcare practices.
Students will apply critical appraisal skills using appropriate theoretical
and conceptual grounding, addressing the critical elements of research
design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Emphasis is placed
on acquisition of competencies necessary for knowledgeable research
consumerism including information literacy skills, critical evaluation of
published research, and application of research findings. Students will
apply course content and critical appraisal skills to the development of
the LEAD Honors Program Capstone Project topic.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 239 Health Assessment & Promotion (4 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
60 hours lecture plus lab. 4 credits. This course focuses on the
development of comprehensive health assessment skills, including measures
of physical and functional status, documentation of the assessment
findings, and health promotion strategies for each body system.
Considerations of racial and cultural differences are discussed with
respect to health assessment as well as health promotion strategies.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 240 Adult & Elder Nursing I (6 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the development of the concepts and skills used by the professional nurse. Using nursing theory, students apply the nursing process and nursing skills in the on-campus laboratory practice and in the care of adult clients and their significant others in clinical settings such as acute care facilities and skilled nursing facilities.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 241 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered Spring and Summer
This course focuses on the application of evidenced-based standards ofpsychiatric mental health nursing in promoting mental health andcaring for persons with mental healthconditions and/or substance usedisorders. The role of nurse as a member of the interprofessionalhealthcare team across different settings and across the continuum ofcare are highlighted. There is an emphasis on critical thinking,therapeutic communication and interpersonal skills as they relate tomental health nursing. Legal issues, patient education, pharmacologyand population health principles are integrated in the context of mental health through the course.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 241(LS) Acute Care Psychiatric Nursing (2 Credits)
Typically offered Spring and Summer
22.5 hours lecture plus clinical. 3 credits. This course focuses on bio-psychosocial models as a perspective for viewing health promotion of persons and groups experiencing vulnerabilities and alterations in mental health across the life span. The nursing process is applied to individuals and groups in acute care mental health settings.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1000 Independent Study: (1-4 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
Independent Study
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes
NURSE-UN 1003 Comp Health Systems (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
45 hours: 3 credits. The course examines the delivery of health services in the United States drawing on social, historical, behavioral, and health sciences to examine the antecedents of health care in the U.S.? Aspects of the U.S. system in comparison to systems in other Western and non-Western countries are evaluated.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1200 Independent Study (0 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
Independent Study
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes
NURSE-UN 1241 Adult & Elder Nursing II (6 Credits)
Typically offered Spring and Summer
45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. The focus of this course is on professional nursing care for individuals and their significant others experiencing acute and/or chronic illness. The nursing process is applied in caring for adults and their significant others across health care settings such as the hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1241(C) Adult & Elder Nursing II (2 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. The focus of this course is on professional nursing care for individuals and their significant others experiencing acute and/or chronic illness. The nursing process is applied in caring for adults and their significant others across health care settings such as the hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1241(LS) Adult & Elder Nursing II (4 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical and lab. 6 credits. The focus of this course is on professional nursing care for individuals and their significant others experiencing acute and/or chronic illness. The nursing process is applied in caring for adults and their significant others across health care settings such as the hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1242 Maternity Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Summer terms
22.5 hours lecture plus clinical and Recitation. 3 credits. This course focuses on providing a nursing process framework for examining families in the childbearing years. Individual, societal, cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating to childbearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care to pregnant, laboring, and postpartum mothers and their newborns is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health potential of young families.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes
NURSE-UN 1242(C) Maternity Nursing (1 Credit)
22.5 hours lecture plus clinical and Recitation. 3 credits. This course focuses on providing a nursing process framework for examining families in the childbearing years. Individual, societal, cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating to childbearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care to pregnant, laboring, and postpartum mothers and their newborns is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health potential of young families.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1242(LS) Maternity Nursing (2 Credits)
22.5 hours lecture plus clinical and Recitation. 3 credits. This course focuses on providing a nursing process framework for examining families in the childbearing years. Individual, societal, cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating to childbearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care to pregnant, laboring, and postpartum mothers and their newborns is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health potential of young families.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1243 Adult & Elder Nursing III (6 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Summer terms
45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the interactions among aging, disease, functional ability, the environment, and health disparities of adults and elders. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process to health promotion/maintenance and disease management relating to orthopedics, neurology, cognition and decision making, genitourinary, rehabilitation, immune dysfunction, and elimination in the adult and older adult populations.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1243(C) Adult & Elder Nursing III (2 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the interactions among aging, disease, functional ability, the environment, and health disparities of adults and elders. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process to health promotion/maintenance and disease management relating to orthopedics, neurology, cognition and decision making, genitourinary, rehabilitation, immune dysfunction, and elimination in the adult and older adult populations.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1243(LS) Adult & Elder Nursing III (4 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab. 6 credits. This course focuses on the interactions among aging, disease, functional ability, the environment, and health disparities of adults and elders. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process to health promotion/maintenance and disease management relating to orthopedics, neurology, cognition and decision making, genitourinary, rehabilitation, immune dysfunction, and elimination in the adult and older adult populations.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1244 Community Health Nursing (6 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
45 hours lecture plus clinical. 6 credits. This course focuses on
understanding and applying the theoretical principles of and evidence base
for public health nursing to culturally competent, community health nursing
practice and professional role development. The focus of community health
nursing practice is on protecting and enhancing the health of communities
and humanly diverse populations, including those at risk and those
challenged by health disparities, developmental needs, and mental health
concerns and for clients living with poverty. Emphasis is placed on health
promotion, health care policy, and ethics.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1244(C) Community Health Nursing (2 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical. 6 credits. This course focuses on
understanding and applying the theoretical principles of and evidence base
for public health nursing to culturally competent, community health nursing
practice and professional role development. The focus of community health
nursing practice is on protecting and enhancing the health of communities
and humanly diverse populations, including those at risk and those
challenged by health disparities, developmental needs, and mental health
concerns and for clients living with poverty. Emphasis is placed on health
promotion, health care policy, and ethics.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1244(LS) Community Health Nursing (4 Credits)
45 hours lecture plus clinical. 6 credits. This course focuses on
understanding and applying the theoretical principles of and evidence base
for public health nursing to culturally competent, community health nursing
practice and professional role development. The focus of community health
nursing practice is on protecting and enhancing the health of communities
and humanly diverse populations, including those at risk and those
challenged by health disparities, developmental needs, and mental health
concerns and for clients living with poverty. Emphasis is placed on health
promotion, health care policy, and ethics.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1245 Leadership & Management in Nursing (6 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
45 hours lecture plus clinical and Lab: 6 credits. The goal of this course
is to facilitate the paradigm shift from student to professional nurse. The
focus is on the understanding, synthesis, and application of the evidence-
base for using leadership and management principles in prioritizing and
delivering nursing care to groups of patients as a team member within the
health care organization. The course prepares the student nurse for entry
into professional nursing practice after graduation. It addresses health
policy, economic issues, and the integration of ethical and legal aspects
of care.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1246 Critical Care Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
This course builds upon previous knowledge and skills to address selected
complex health care issues nurses encounter when caring for critically ill and
high acuity medical-surgical patients with complex health care needs. Students
will integrate their knowledge of complex pathophysiologic concepts with the
best available evidence in the assessment, management, and evaluation of
outcomes for patients and their families. Students will utilize current research,
policy issues, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies
in their clinical decision-making.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1248 Contemporary Issues in Health Care (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Summer terms
45 hours: 3 credits. This course will explore current issues in the
evolution of patient care in contemporary health care systems. Embedded in
the human experience of illness and health are rich sub-concepts with ethical
and moral implications such as comfort and suffering, genetics/genomics,
bioethics, addiction, culture and healthcare disparities, LGBT healthcare
needs, interprofessional collaboration, global health issues, and policy.
Ethics is an essential component of nursing practice and is inextricably
linked to quality care. Students will be challenged to think critically and
ethically about what society considers fair and just care as they explore
factors that influence the wellness-illness continuum of human experiences.
Discussions will focus on a variety of sources and formats to include: case
studies, selected evidence-based articles, care protocols, contemporary
editorials, film and student opinions. Students will use evidence-based
sources, to discuss scientific and technological advances that are creating
unprecedented opportunities, choices, and consequences that are inevitable
when illness and health care intersect.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1249 LEAD Honors Capstone I (1 Credit)
This course provides opportunities for continued exploration of LEAD Honors Program pillars
tenets: researchable clinical problems; innovative practice for holistic client needs and
accompanying nursing roles; innovative educational programming; and, innovative service for
nursing professionals or client populations. Students identify research questions, clinical problems,
educational needs, and service activities to address the particular pillar for their capstone project.
They develop an implementation plan for their capstone project and complete reflective practice
exercises.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1250 LEAD Honors Capstone II (2 Credits)
This course provides opportunities for continued exploration of LEAD Honors Program pillars
tenets: researchable clinical problems; innovative practice for holistic client needs and
accompanying nursing roles; innovative educational programming; and, innovative service for
nursing professionals or client populations. Students implement projects that address the
research questions, clinical problems, educational needs, and service activities previously
identified for their capstone project. They prepare scholarly presentations of their findings
from the implementation of their capstone project, completing reflective practice exercises
and peer review activities to advance their professional development.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1255 Pediatric Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Summer terms
45 hours Lecture Plus Clinical and Lab: 3 credits. This course provides a
family theory and nursing process framework for examining families in the
child-rearing years from infancy through adolescence. Individual, societal,
cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating
to child-rearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care
adapted to the unique health and developmental needs of children and their
families is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health
potential of young families. There is a strong health promotion, risk
reduction, and disease prevention component.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1255(C) Pediatric Nursing (1 Credit)
45 hours Lecture Plus Clinical and Lab: 3 credits. This course provides a
family theory and nursing process framework for examining families in the
child-rearing years from infancy through adolescence. Individual, societal,
cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating
to child-rearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care
adapted to the unique health and developmental needs of children and their
families is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health
potential of young families. There is a strong health promotion, risk
reduction, and disease prevention component.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1255(LS) Pediatric Nursing (2 Credits)
45 hours Lecture Plus Clinical and Lab: 3 credits. This course provides a
family theory and nursing process framework for examining families in the
child-rearing years from infancy through adolescence. Individual, societal,
cultural, and environmental variables and health care disparities relating
to child-rearing and parenting are identified. Delivery of nursing care
adapted to the unique health and developmental needs of children and their
families is the clinical focus, with a goal of maximizing the health
potential of young families. There is a strong health promotion, risk
reduction, and disease prevention component.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1261 Professional Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
45 hours: 3 credits. This course explores historical assumptions about nursing as a basis for understanding professional roles and the image of nursing in today?s society. Nursing is identified as a learned, valued profession; emphasis is on the influence of history in its evolution. Contemporary nursing workforce, educational trends, and practice issues are explored as primary factors in professional status. Ethical and legal aspects of nursing practice are discussed. Political and economic factors shaping nursing practice in the health care delivery system are defined, evaluated, and compared to other health systems.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1262 LEAD Honors Integrative Seminar (0 Credits)
This seminar is designed to provide LEAD Honors
students with a setting to integrate nursing knowledge, skills, and
theories being learned in the first sequence coursework of the
undergraduate nursing program. Building on previous LEAD Honors Program
coursework, this course will also lead to the development of the Scholar’s
Capstone Project topic within a corresponding LEAD Honors Program pillar
(Practice, Education, Research, or Service).
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Pass/Fail
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1301 Global Perspt Child Hlth (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
45 hours: 3 credits. This course explores the bio-psychosocial, environmental, political and economic forces that influence the health of children in developed and developing countries. Health disparities and access to care will be assessed and analyzed as factors in promoting optimal health for all children world wide. The importance of national and inter-national health organizations to promote global childhood health will be explored along with the role of nurses and other health care professionals.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1302 Oncology Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
45 hours: 3 credits. This course focuses on the application of concepts and skills that professional nurses need to provide care for adult patients with cancer and to improve patient outcomes. Theories and research will be analyzed in the context of evidence-based practice in terms of best practices related to assessing, developing nursing diagnosis and treatment plans for managing symptoms associated with cancer and treatment.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1305 Global Perspectives on Women's Health (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
This course examines the major social, cultural,
economic, political and environmental forces affecting the health,
well-being and human rights of women around the world. Major health risks
and problems as well as health disparities and access to care will be
explored. National, international, global and philanthropic organizations
and their impact on the women’s issues will be examined.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1307 Perioperative Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
The course explores the role of the professional nurse in various
perioperative patient care settings, including preoperative,
intraoperative, and postoperative environments. Emphasis is on improving
patient outcomes through the use of the best available evidence to provide
quality, safe, patient-centered care across the lifespan in diverse
populations acting as a member of the interprofessional team. Students
learn strategies for effective therapeutic communication, patient
education, and interprofessional collaboration to promote quality and
safety. Principles of personal and workplace safety are discussed.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1308 Complex Care of the Older Adult I (1 Credit)
This course covers specific topics in complex care of the
older adult. It is the first of a two semester sequence of the Hartford
Institute Geriatric Undergraduate Scholars (HIGUS) Program. This course
seeks to guide students in: comparing models of care that promote safe,
quality physical and mental health care for older adults; recognizing the
complex interaction of acute and chronic co-morbid physical and mental
conditions and associated treatments common to older adults; promoting
functional, physical, and mental wellness in older adults; the skills
necessary to develop a geriatric PICOT Question.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1309 Complex Care of the Older Adult II (2 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
This course covers specific topics in complex care of the
older adult. It is the second of a two semester sequence of the Hartford
Institute Geriatric Undergraduate Scholars (HIGUS) Program. This course
seeks to guide students in: integrating leadership and communication
techniques that foster discussion and reflection on the extent to which
diversity has the potential to impact the care of older adults; recognizing
and respecting the variations of care, the increased complexity, and the
increased use of healthcare resources inherent in caring for older adults;
successful completion of a PICOT paper and presentation in a selected topic
of care of the older adult.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1310 Ambulatory Care Nursing (3 Credits)
The course explores the role of the professional nurse in the highly
specialized ambulatory care setting. Emphasis will be placed on safety and
quality through care coordination, transitional care management,
individualizing and evaluating care for patients, families, and populations
in diverse outpatient settings. Students will learn a variety of delivery
care models with a focus on prevention, health promotion, and maintenance,
and follow up. Evidence-based and multidisciplinary practices for the care
of patients in ambulatory care settings will be explored to improve patient
outcomes throughout the lifespan.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1311 Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness (3 Credits)
This course explores the emergency response and
management in different disasters, including environmental, mass casualty,
public health emergencies, terrorism, and bioterrorism with emphasis on the
interdisciplinary role of nursing. The discussion on disaster planning and
management will be organized around the four phases of disaster, (1)
mitigation, (2) preparedness, (3) response, and (4) recovery. The course
will also address leadership, management and policy issues in disaster
nursing to deepen understanding of the importance of protecting all aspects
of health throughout the disaster life cycle. Students will also discuss
the historical perspective of disaster management and learn to prepare for
future disasters, their risks and impact on the communities with particular
emphasis on the organization, management and mobilization of resources. The
student will discuss the humanitarian aspects of emergencies and disasters,
in particular, the preparedness response and recovery to lessen the
socio-economic, psychological and health impact. The role of information
technology as well as legal, ethical, and psychosocial implications of
disasters and emergencies will be addressed. Partnering with local
officials, a case study scenario of a disaster management in the community
will be used to teach the care of the vulnerable populations for safe
evacuation and mitigation of harm.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1312 Palliative Care Nursing (3 Credits)
This course explores the role of the professional nurse in providing evidence-based palliative
care to a culturally diverse population in palliative care settings. The focus will be on the care
of the patient with serious, life-limiting illness emphasizing respect for patients’ and families’
beliefs, values, and choices. The psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of palliative care will be
examined. Students will learn strategies for effective therapeutic communication, symptom
management, patient education, and professional self-care. Emphasis will be placed on
interprofessional collaboration among members of the hospice or palliative care team to
promote safe, high quality care for patients dealing with serious, life-limiting illness.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1313 Lifestyle Approaches and Well-Being in Nursing (3 Credits)
This course explores evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine as it relates to healthpromotion and well-being for holistic person-centered care. Students will learnabout lifestyle medicine and apply this to their nursing practice. The nursingstudent will serve as a role model and educational resource for individuals withthe desire to achieve optimal health by focusing on six lifestyle behaviors:nutrition, physical activity, sleep, avoidance of risky substances, stressmanagement, and forming positive social connections. Emphasis will beplaced on establishing self-care practices the nurse can utilize themselves andthen teach patients, families, and populations. There will be a focus on the role
of the nurse as a health coach empowering and advocating for individuals toparticipate in healthy behavior change
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1314 LGBTQ+ Health (3 Credits)
This course delves into the role of the registered professional nurse as a leader in the interprofessional team in providing culturally congruent care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning) and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) patients, families, and populations. The student will learn the history of LGBTQ+ health issues, information about who LGBTQ+ populations are, and what health disparities LGBTQ+ populations face. The course will highlight measures that empower the registered professional nurse to recognize and mitigate the negative impact of bias and discrimination. The course will provide in-depth analysis
of laws and policies governing LGBTQ+ care. The course will explore evidence-based and interprofessional practices for the care of LGBTQ+ patients across care settings to promote health, well-being, and improve patient outcomes.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1315 Emergency Nursing (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
The course explores the role of the professional nurse in the delivery of
emergency nursing care. Emphasis will be placed on safety and quality, focusing
on patient triage, assessment, diagnostics, and treatments for selected clinical
emergencies. The course will review common emergency conditions for patients
across the continuum of age, from newborn to geriatrics. Students will explore
the role of the emergency nurse within communities and in the management of
mass casualty incidents. The use of evidence-based and interprofessional
practices to promote the best patient outcomes in emergency settings will also
be explored.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1316 Global Health and Nursing Practice (3 Credits)
This elective course is designed to provide students with an introduction to global nursing practice in the context of global health and global health competencies. While immersed within a host country, students will examine the major causes of morbidity and mortality and their variations among high-, middle-, and low-income communities, and the impact of public health efforts to achieve health equity. The effects of globalization on health, health systems, and the delivery of healthcare across the spheres of care for the country will be discussed with an emphasis on social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. The topics of social
justice, sociocultural and political contexts of the host country will also be explored.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1435 Pathophysiology (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall and Spring
45 hours: 3 credits. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of usual health patterns of major body systems to changes that occur during the illness experience. Major pathophysiologic concepts are explored using a body systems approach. Theories relating etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations are used to study common disease processes. Concepts from anatomy, physiology, and chemistry courses provide the foundation for exploring human dysfunction. Concepts learned in this course are basic to nursing practice.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1436 Nrsg Pharmacotherapeutic (3 Credits)
Typically offered Fall, Spring, and Summer terms
45 hours: 3 credits. This course provides students with the knowledge of pharmacologic preparations used in the maintenance of health and prevention of illness. The content focuses on the drug actions, therapeutic response, patient-teaching responsibilities, and nursing implications in identifying areas of side effects, adverse effects, drug interactions, and safe administration of medications for patients of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. Evidence-based research and legal/ethical issues are also addressed in the context of the nurse?s role in pharmacotherapy.
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No
NURSE-UN 1500 Special Topics (1-3 Credits)
Typically offered occasionally
Special Topics
Grading: Ugrd Rory Meyers Graded
Repeatable for additional credit: No