Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing

• Professional Dynamics
  
  This course is a bridge course for the RN returning to formal education for the baccalaureate degree in nursing. The course focuses on differentiated nursing practice competencies, nursing conceptual models, professional accountability, integrating spirituality into practice, group dynamics, and critical thinking. Emphasis is placed as well on writing and oral presentation skills.
  
  
• Family Centered Health Promotion
  
  Family Centered Health Promotion focuses on family theories, health promotion models, cultural diversity, and teaching learning principles. The course emphasizes the family as the client, family FHP health assessments, screenings across the life span, communication, community resources, and family education.
  
  
• Introduction to Nursing Research
  
  This course promotes the use of research findings as a basis for improving clinical practice.
  
  
• Health Assessment
  
  Health Assessment focuses on methods of health history taking, physical examination skills, documentation, and health screening.
  
  
• Community Health Systems and Concepts I & II
  
  Community Health Concepts I focuses on the community as a large system of people, cultures, geography, economics, spiritual values, and legal-political influences that impact the health of the community.
  
  Community Health Nursing II focuses on nursing care of populations and communities, especially health promotion and communication.
  
  
• Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare
  
  The course provides students, both as consumers and providers, an opportunity to study ethical decision making, healthcare situations with implications for ethical decision making, and analysis of ethical behavior of individuals involved in healthcare.
  
  
• Spirituality in Healthcare
  
  This course explores the relationship between healthcare professionals and those they serve. Topics include performing spiritual assessment, identifying those experiencing spiritual well-being as well as those experiencing a threat to spiritual well-being, and planning and evaluating care related to spiritual wellness.
  
  
• Nursing Management Concepts
  
  Nursing Management Concepts and Professional Communication focuses on developing the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both written and oral formats as tools to provide professional nursing management in a variety of settings.
  
  
• Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare
  
  This course emphasizes further development of the professional nurse role. Critical management and leadership values, styles, and skills are a major focus.
  
  
• Trends and Issues in Health Care
  
  Trends and Issues explores the impact of numerous professional and societal forces on health care policy and practice. Content includes an analysis of current studies; nursing care policy and position statements; political, environmental, and cultural issues; and changing nursing roles.
  
  
• Professional Capstone Project
  
  This course requires students to implement theories and concepts in individual projects related to health care issues.