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This course explores the interaction of dynamic physiological disease processes with special emphasis on nursing application and implications for nursing practice. Knowledge from the life sciences is blended with the medical and nursing management to create an understanding of the physiologic response of patients across the lifespan while under the care of nurses. Special focus is placed on the nursing process for the management of disease and the rationale for nursing interventions within the framework of nursing practice.
This course introduces the concepts of person-centered care as delivered through a relationship-based model of professional nursing practice. The concepts and skills associated with communication, safety, quality improvement, nursing informatics, and leadership are addressed at the beginner level.
This course applies core concepts of health assessment to adults with special emphasis on the geriatric client.
This course introduces fundamental, holistic, person centered clinical concepts and skills with emphasis on care of geriatric clients.Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in laboratory and various clinical settings. Evidence-based practice is used as a foundation for clinical and professional nursing practice.
This course explores nursing care of adults and older adults experiencing common health alterations. Emphasis is placed on relationship-based, person-centered care holistic, evidence-based care preparing students for practice in diverse care environments.
This course challenges students to explore the value of nursing research for evidencebased practice and its contribution to quality patient outcomes. Students will learn basic principles of research and how ethical guidelines help to protect participants in scholarly activities. Using the seven steps of the evidence-based practice process, students will learn how to construct a clinical question, use academic databases to find evidence, analyze research studies for quality, strength, and applicability to practice, and provide suggestions for the use of evidence in professional nursing practice.
This course challenges students to explore the value of nursing research for evidence-based practice and its contribution to quality patient outcomes; students have opportunities for utilizing research as evidence to make clinical decisions affecting patient outcomes.
This course analyzes nursing care of adults dealing with acute and chronic illnesses in intermediate-level healthcare environments. Students will examine commonly occurring health alterations, applying evidence-based practices to enhance clinical judgment and nursing skills. The focus is on delivering relationship-based, quality care that is both safe and professional, with particular emphasis on managing patients in clinical settings through effective judgment, skill development, and a patient-centered approach to care.
This course focuses on the application of concepts of nursing care delivery across the lifespan of adults and families with acute and chronic illness in intermediate level health care settings. Commonly occurring health alterations are examined and integrated in the clinical setting with an emphasis on management of patients using skills and clinical judgment capabilities to provide relationship-based, quality-focused professional nursing care.
This course focuses on family- centered care from preconception through birth and late adolescence. Special emphasis is place on family and developmental theories; promotion and maintenance of physical and emotional health and wellbeing; and deviations from optimal health.
This course presents an overview of the role of the nurse in a community setting with emphasis on healthcare policy, social justice, health literacy, health promotion, and epidemiologic methods. Health disparities and inequities at both the local and global levels are threaded throughout the course. Special emphasis is placed on clinical experiences in settings where the student can examine and apply these concepts.
This course is an intensive integrated clinical experience emphasizing the transition from the role of the student to the role of the professional nurse. It provides in-depth experience and an opportunity for the application of knowledge and skills in the care of patients in selected practice settings. This course represents the culmination of the nursing program of studies.
This course focuses on the care of persons with acute psychiatric issues and/or diagnoses throughout the life span. Theory is applied to clinical practice in the acute psychiatric setting
This course focuses on the theory and application of complex nursing practice concepts in the care of the acutely ill adult. Theory is applied to practice in critical care settings.
This course expands upon professional behaviors the nurse uses to meet the primary responsibility of person-center relationship-based nursing practice. The concepts of leadership/management, accountability, communication, collaboration, legal and ethical practice, healthcare systems, quality improvement, safety, and nursing informatics are addressed at an advanced level.
An introduction to ethics and an inquiry into the major ethical problems regarding issues of life and death. Fulfills Ursuline Core Curriculum Western Culture (WE). *DC
This common course of the Ursuline Core is a writing intensive, interdisciplinary course with a focus on Values and Social Responsibility. Seminars will take various approaches to these themes depending on the topic and content developed by course instructors. The course challenges students to take a four-part approach to Values (analysis, consciousness, critique and application) as a way to identify and manage change and to explore potential responses
The accelerated nursing program curriculum integrates communication, problem-solving, and values-based decision making, including cutting-edge education in healthcare economics and leadership practice. Our student have a reputation for being the best-trained nurses thanks to a constant feedback loop between nursing leaders and our academic leaders.
Here are the prerequisites that must be completed prior to beginning your 15-month or 24-month accelerated BSN cohort, and can be transferred to Ursuline from other institutions:
The Accelerated BSN Program (ABSN) in Nursing at Ursuline College is comprised of well-rounded curriculum, including foundational nursing, natural science, and physical and mental health courses, as well as clinical field experience. For more information about program expectations, please visit the ABSN nursing program page.
