Nursing Courses (NSG)
ASN Program
NSG 1130 - Basic Nursing Concepts (2)
Introduces the nursing process and the concept of evidence-based practice as a basis for making clinical nursing judgments. Incorporates theoretical knowledge from nursing, scientific, environmental and humanistic disciplines. Introduces the concepts of client needs, safety, communication, teaching/learning, critical thinking, ethical-legal, cultural diversity, nursing history, and the program's philosophy of nursing. Requires basic understanding of medical terminology. Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in providing care to diverse patient populations. Prerequisites: Admission to the ASN Program, ENG 1101, MTH 1112 or MTH 1110, PSY 2200. Prerequisites or Co-requisites: BIO 3347/ L347.
NSG 1131 - Basic Nursing Concepts Practicum (2-4)
Introduces psychomotor nursing skills needed to assist individuals in meeting basic human needs. Skills necessary for maintaining microbial, physical, and psychological safety are introduced along with skills needed in therapeutic interventions. Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in applying basic nursing skills to diverse patient populations with common health alterations. Prerequisites: admission to the ASN Program, ENG 1101, MTH 1112 or MTH 1110, PSY 2200, BIO 3347/L347. Prerequisites or Co-requisites: NSG 1130, NSG 1135.
NSG 1135 - Health Assessment Practicum (1-2)
Focuses on applying knowledge and skills required to perform health assessments on diverse patient populations. Utilizes an evidence-based systemic approach to collect data in the assessment phase of the nursing process. Prerequisites: Admission to the ASN Program, ENG 1101, BIO 3347/L347, PSY 2200, MTH 1112 or MTH 1110.
NSG 1140 - Foundations of Adult Health Nursing (3)
Builds upon knowledge from previous nursing courses and other scientific disciplines to explore patient-centered care for adults with actual or potential health deviations. Focuses upon an evidence-based approach to the nursing process within a culture of quality and safety. Emphasizes the role of the professional nurse as educator, collaborator and change agent within the interprofessional health team. Prerequisites: NSG 1130, 1131, 1135, 1151, KHP 2211 OR NSG 2213, BIO 3348/L348, PSY 2210, and TROY 1101.
NSG 1141 - Foundations of Adult Health Nursing Practicum (3-6)
Utilizes an evidence-based approach in the application of the nursing process, emphasizing clinical decisions that are safe, ethical, patient-centered and collaborative, to assist a diverse population of adults with common health alterations. Co-or Prerequisite: NSG 1140. Prerequisites: NSG 1130, 1131, 1135, 1151, KHP 2211or NSG 2213, BIO 3348/L348, PSY 2210, TROY 1101.
NSG 1151 - Hospital Measurements (1)
An introduction to using mathematical computations in health-related situations. Focuses on mathematics computations as applied in selected healthcare settings. Different systems of measurement will be a priority. Includes an exam on computation of dosages and solutions, requiring completion with 90% accuracy. Prerequisites: admission to the ASN Program, ENG 1101, MTH 1112 or MTH 1110, PSY 2200, BIO 3347/L347.
NSG 2202 - Pharmacology (2)
Focuses on specific classification of drugs, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical usage, methods of administration, dosages, side effects, contraindications, reactions, and related nursing implications. Prerequisites: NSG 1130, NSG 1131, NSG 1135, NSG 1151.
NSG 2213 - Nutrition (2)
An evidence-based study of macro and micronutrients as they impact health promotion and disease prevention of diverse individuals across the lifespan. Focus is placed on basic nutrition concepts as they relate to body systems, medical nutrition therapies, drug interactions, food safety, and nutrition assessment.
NSG 2255 - Maternal-Infant Nursing (2)
Focuses on the nursing process and evidence-based practice as a basis for in in assisting the family during childbearing experiences. Applies theoretical knowledge from nursing, scientific, environmental and humanistic disciplines. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272. BIO 3372/L372.
NSG 2256 - Maternal-Infant Nursing Practicum (2-4)
Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in providing high quality nursing care to childbearing individuals and families. Utilizes antepartal,intrapartal, postpartal, and neonatal experiences. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 2255. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272, BIO 3372/L372.
NSG 2265 - Nursing of Children (2)
Focuses on the use of the nursing process and evidence-based practice as a basis for assisting the family during childrearing experiences. Applies theoretical knowledge from nursing, scientific, environmental and humanistic disciplines. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272. BIO 3372/L372.
NSG 2266 - Nursing of Children Practicum (2-4)
Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in providing high quality nursing care to children and their families. Concepts of growth and development are applied in the care of children with altered health states including multiple disabilities. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 2265. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272, BIO 3372/L372.
NSG 2271 - Psychosocial Nursing Concepts (2)
Focuses on the role of the professional nurse utilizing evidence-based practice to promote the adaptation of diverse individuals and families experiencing bio-psychosocial stressors. Prerequisites: NSG 1130, 1131, 1135, 1151, BIO 3348/L348, PSY 2210, TROY 1101, KHP 2211 or NSG 2213.
NSG 2272 - Psychosocial Nursing Practicum (2-4)
Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in the application of evidence-based nursing process in the care of diverse individuals and families experiencing bio-psychosocial stressors. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 2271. Prerequisites: NSG 1130, NSG 1131, 1135, 1151, 2204, 2213, BIO 3348/L348, PSY 2210, TROY 1101, KHP 2211.
NSG 2280 - Advanced Nursing Concepts (4)
Provides advanced knowledge for care of individuals and families in complex or life threatening situations. Focuses on the leadership role of the professional nurse using evidence-based practice while providing safe, high-quality, holistic, patient-centered care for diverse patient populations in complex or life-threatening situations. Prerequisites: NSG 2202, 2255, 2256, 2265, 2266, 2282, 2283.
NSG 2281 - Advanced Nursing Practicum (6-12)
Provides opportunity to demonstrate the role of professional nursing using judgment in practice, substantiated by evidence to assess and provide high quality care for individuals and families with complex multi-system stressors. Emphasizes health promotion, prevention, education and evidenced-based intervention in complex and life-threatening situations. Facilitates transition into the professional nursing role by examining legal, ethical, political, economic, and socio-cultural issues in nursing. Provides opportunity to apply leadership knowledge, refine nursing skills and develop greater understanding in a selected clinical area under the guidance of an approved professional nurse. Pre or Co requisite: NSG 2280. Prerequisites: NSG 2202, 2255, 2256, 2265, 2266, 2282, 2283.
NSG 2282 - Adult Health Nursing II (2)
Continues to explore patient-centered care for adults with acute health alterations. Focuses on an evidence-based approach to the nursing process within a culture of quality and safety. Emphasizes the role of the professional nurse for adults in acute and long-term settings. Applies theoretical knowledge from nursing, scientific, environmental and humanistic disciplines. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272, BIO 3372/L372.
NSG 2283 - Adult Health Nursing II Practicum (2-4)
Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in providing high quality nursing care to adults. Utilizes an evidence-based approach in the continued application of the nursing process, emphasizing clinical decisions that are safe, ethical, patient-centered and collaborative to assist a diverse population of adults with acute health alterations. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 2282. Prerequisites: NSG 1140, 1141, 2202, 2271, 2272, BIO 3372/L372.
BSN Program
[Course credit hours/contact hours (if different) per week are noted in parentheses]
NSG 1101 - Health Concepts (1)
Provides opportunity for exploration of individual health values, beliefs, and behaviors. Examines impact of exercise, nutrition, and stress on health. Explores beliefs of time management, relaxation, and play in promoting and maintaining health. Open to all majors.
NSG 1105 - Medical Terminology (1)
Develops the use of Latin and Greek prefixes, root words, and suffixes to understand medical terminology. Open to all majors.
NSG 1150 - First Responder (1-2)
Provides the learner with cognitive and psychomotor skills to act in emergency situations. Topics include CPR, patient head-to-toe evaluation, bleeding and shock, internal and external body injuries, splinting, poisons, bites, burns, and drownings. May audit for recertification. Open to all majors.
NSG 1160 - Introduction to Technology in Nursing Education (1)
Provides a foundation for using computer technology in nursing education. Addresses digital communication, resources, and research used in learning. Includes communication through electronic mail and course discussion using the World Wide Web as an information tool, online scholarly research, and digital presentations. Open to all majors.
NSG 1170 - The Art of Caring and Nursing Practice (3)
Introduces students to the art of nursing and the holistic care of individuals and populations in a globally diverse society. Open to all majors.
NSG 2204 - Nutrition (2)
A study of macro and micronutrients, their metabolism in the body, and their influence on health states of individuals from diverse cultural, ethnic and religious groups of all ages. Examines nutritional research and health policy. Compares nutritional adequacy to evidence-based national standards. Open to all majors.
NSG 2205 - Human Growth and Development (3)
Examines developmental theories and internal and external dimensions of growth and development. Emphasizes tasks, stressors, common health alterations, and anticipatory guidance specific to developmental stages throughout the life span. Open to all majors.
NSG 2211 - Human Nutrition (3)
Explores the relationship between nutrition and health. Emphasizes the roles of nutrients, their utilization in the human system and their contributions to the health of individuals of all ages. Includes dietary patterns of various cultural, ethnic and religious groups, nutritional assessments, and food safety. Open to all majors.
NSG 2220 - Health Science Informatics (3)
Provides a foundation for the study of information and its utilization through computer technology; encompasses access, dissemination, and management of health science information and Internet communication. General topics include communication through electronic mail, using the World Wide Web as an information tool, online scholarly research, and digital presentations and publishing. Course focus is the application of technology skills in health science fields. Open to all majors. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
NSG 2230 - Advanced Medical Terminology (3)
Focuses on health and disease medical terms and building of knowledge of medical vocabulary with an emphasis on prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining vowels. Anatomical, physiological, and pathological terminology are covered. Includes terminology related to the body systems. Open to all majors.
NSG 2240 - Spanish for Healthcare Providers (2)
Elementary-level instruction in Spanish language and culture, all oriented to the practice of medicine with Spanish-speaking patients. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required. Students develop basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to successfully perform linguistic tasks allowing them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g. greeting, narrating present and past events, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting). Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
NSG 2285 - Perspectives of Aging (3)
Presents interrelationships among physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual components related to the older adult. Identifies senescence and alterations associated with the aging process in response to internal and external environmental dimensions. Open to all majors.
NSG 2290 - Nursing in the Global Community (1)
Explores issues, philosophies and cultural differences in nursing in the global community. Compares nursing and healthcare in the United States to that of other nations. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
NSG 2291 -Nursing Study Abroad (1-3)
Provides the opportunity for students to experience nursing in the global community through a cultural immersion in a study abroad program. Focuses on the comparison of nursing in the United States to nursing in the international community.
NSG 3300 - Dosage Calculations (2)
Uses mathematical principles, symbols, conversions and computations for accurate calculation of dosages for safe and effective medication administration for patients of all ages. Explores current evidence and health care policy related to safe and effective medication administration. Prerequisite: admission to BSN program.
NSG 3301 - Pharmacology (3)
Focuses on key pharmacological principles and the role of the nurse in management of drug therapy, including appropriate evidence-based patient teaching, counseling, and safety and quality controls. Presents drug classifications and related nursing implications for individuals of all ages. Prerequisite: NSG 3300, NSG 3306, NSG 3309/3310, NSG 3313/3314, NSG 3315
NSG 3306 - Perspectives of Professional Nursing (1)
Explores the roles of the baccalaureate degree nurse. Presents the principles, standards, and values implicit in the profession of nursing. Introduces the theories used in the definition of concepts of humanity, environment, health, and nursing. Introduces the development of key elements used in professional nursing practice: caring, evidence-based clinical decisions, communication, collaboration, cultural humility, ethical competence, research, and information technology. Explores the influence of internal and external dimensions on professional nursing practice. Prerequisite: admission to the BSN Program.
NSG 3309 - Health Assessment (2)
Focuses on the assessment phase of the nursing process as a means of collecting data for use in making clinical decisions for the promotion of safe, quality care. Emphasizes acquisition of