Basic principles of pharmacology with a focus on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and related therapeutic implications for major drug categories. May be taken by pre-nursing or non-nursing students. Lecture two hours.

Prerequisite: Entry level physiology course, such as BIO 25 or BIO 26

Provides a conceptual base for the practice of professional nursing. The changing and expanding roles of the professional nurse in the health care delivery system are explored, with an emphasis on professional behavior, ethics, evidence-based practice and informatics. Lecture three hours.

Note: may be repeated for credit

Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing program or instructor permission

Introduction and application of nursing concepts in meeting health needs of adults. Emphasis is placed on health promotion and disease management across the adult life span. Lecture three hours; laboratory six-eight hours.

Note: This course require safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing Program

Corequisite: NURS 111, NURS 113

Apply nursing practice concepts in assessment, skills, and professional communication in the context of laboratory scenarios and field experiences across the lifespan. Laboratory twelve hours.

Prerequisite: Admission to nursing program

Corequisite: NURS 111 and NURS 112

Evaluation and application of research to nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on application of evidence to improve quality and safety in healthcare and advance nursing practice. Develop an understanding of the humanities and diverse cultures through the lens of nursing practice. Application of a critical framework of sociocultural, historical, and economic perspectives to analyze scholarly inquiry of health and healthcare.

Prerequisite: NURS 111, NURS 112, NURS 113 or instructor permission. GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70 or 71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.

Provides students with the opportunity to learn and apply nursing concepts through the care of individuals and families experiencing complex illness across the adult lifespan. The focus is on skill development and the synthesis of data from multiple sources to formulate nursing interventions. Lecture three hours; laboratory six-eight hours.

Note: This course require safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Prerequisite: NURS 111, NURS 112 and NURS 113; or instructor permission.

Provides an overview of multidimensional factors, perspectives, and approaches associated with mental health across the lifespan. Mental health concepts and interventions are applied across multiple settings. Lecture three hours; laboratory six-eight hours.

Note: This course require safety training.

Prerequisite: NURS 111, NURS 112 and NURS 113; or instructor permission

Application of skills and assessment in the care of the childbearing family and women experiencing reproductive health changes across the lifespan.

Prerequisite: NURS 120, NURS 123 and NURS 129, or instructor permission

Corequisite: NURS 137

Application of nursing concepts in the care of the childbearing family and women experiencing reproductive health changes across the lifespan. Lecture three hours; laboratory six-eight hours.

Note: This course require safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Prerequisite: NURS 120, NURS 123 and NURS 129 or instructor permission.

Corequisite: NURS 136.

Introduction and application of nursing concepts in meeting health needs of the child from birth through adolescence. Emphasis is placed on health promotion and disease management within the context of the family and applied across multiple settings. Lecture three hours; laboratory six-eight hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 120, NURS 123, NURS 129, or instructor permission

Corequisite: NURS 139

Acquisition of knowledge and practice using tools and techniques for assessing the child and the family in a variety of settings. Laboratory three hours.

Note: May be repeated for credit

Prerequisite: NURS 120, NURS 123, NURS 129, or instructor permission

Corequisite: NURS 138

Integration of leadership and management principles to promote health across the lifespan and care settings. Application of leadership and management principles in the examination of organizational structures, processes, and approaches to quality and safety concepts in health care systems and practice environments. Emphasis will be placed on career development and transition to professional practice.

Note: May be repeated for credit. Lecture three hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 136, NURS 137, NURS 138, and NURS 139, or instructor permission.

Contemporary role of the community health nurse is presented within a public health framework, emphasizing the concept of community as client. Presents nursing interventions related to groups and aggregates identified as high risk for the development of health problems. Clinical experience is provided across community settings. Lecture and clinical hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 136, NURS 137, NURS 138, and NURS 139, or instructor permission.

The purpose of this culminating senior practicum is to facilitate the transition of the nursing student into the role of a professional BSN graduate nurse. The course will integrate the theoretical and clinical nursing concepts acquired throughout the curriculum into a precepted senior practicum. Students will apply principles of clinical nursing, nursing management and nursing leadership in a selected clinical setting.

Prerequisite: NURS 136, NURS 137, NURS 138, NURS 139 or instructor permission.

Corequisite: NURS 144.

Designed to explore the physiological, sociological, and psychological components of human sexuality in a sufficiently detailed manner to dispel the myths and confusion enveloping this sensitive subject. Students will be able to integrate these components in a meaningful pattern into their own lives, be better able to understand and accept their own sexual needs and behavior, and be more accepting and understanding of persons whose sexual attitudes and behavior might from their own.

Evaluation of the role of the nurse in providing family-centered care throughout the death and dying process within a historical and cultural context. Exploration of differences in organizational models to end-of-life care, including hospice and palliative care. Integration of nursing care into unique cultural values and beliefs. Examination of significant aspects of cultural and social differences in death and dying.

Gender-related differences which are mediated by the brain are examined from the theoretical framework of evolution. The place of molecular genetics, hormone physiology, neural function, biomedical research, human development, personality theory and research, and crosscultural research are studied in an attempt to understand the processes that affect sex differences. Gender-related differences in normal and abnormal behavior resulting from chronic and acute disease, and pathological states, will be introduced. The student should acquire the fundamentals of a scientific understanding of gender-related differences between humans, and an appreciation of the unique role the brain plays in the mediation of these differences.

This course provides an overview of nursing research and application to practice. Students will identify components of evidence-based practice and develop skills in critiquing research and in professional writing.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the RN to BSN Program or instructor permission.

This course expands students' knowledge of theories, concepts, and social issues which have implications for nursing practice. Assignments and experiences are designed to transition the RN to the baccalaureate level of proficiency.

Prerequisite: NURS 170, may be taken concurrently.

This course provides the theoretical foundations for leadership and management across multiple settings. Theories related to the principles and processes of leadership and management will be applied to select practice experiences.

Prerequisite: NURS 170, may be taken concurrently.

This course presents the role of the community health nurse within a public health framework and examines public health systems, policies, and socioecological factors that shape the health of individuals, groups, and communities. Students will be introduced to principles of population health, epidemiology, disease prevention, and health promotion, to plan community health nursing interventions.

Prerequisite: NURS 170, may be taken concurrently.

In this course students will integrate and apply knowledge of population-based nursing and evaluate the role of the community health nurse in various systems. Students will provide care to individuals, families, or communities within a public health framework. This course meets the California BRN clinical requirements for the Public Health Nurse Certificate.

Prerequisite: NURS 170, NURS 174, both may be taken concurrently.

Note: NURS 174C is an elective course that is only required for students wishing to apply for the California Board of Registered Nursing Public Health Nurse Certificate; students not planning to apply for a Public Health Nurse Certificate must petition for an exemption from this clinical course; students who are granted exemption for NURS 174C will only complete 44 units.

Students will apply leadership and management principles within a community to determine a defined need or issue, identify goals to meet or solve the issue, and complete the culminating project based on previous course work.

Prerequisite: Completion of 19 units in the program or instructor permission.

This hybrid course is designed to expand communication and leadership skills among RN to BSN students in their professional practice. Students will develop an understanding of the humanities and diverse cultures through the lens of nursing practice. Specifically, students will reflect on how culture and experience determines the human condition which is reflected in their animating ideas and values towards health and healthcare.

Prerequisite: NURS 170, may be taken concurrently; and either department permission or GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70 or 71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.

This course provides students with a clear understanding of the interrelationship between research, theory, and evidence-based nursing practice. Interpretation of quantitative and qualitative research findings to determine statistical and clinical significance. Application of research and epidemiological concepts to improve patient and population health outcomes.

Nursing students participate in clinical nursing experiences that reflect the realities of the healthcare enviroment and have oppurtunity to master learned skills.

Note: May be repeated for credit

Prerequisite: NURS 120, NURS 123 and NURS129; School of Nursing faculty recommendation; Instructor permission; Minimum 2.5 GPA

Corequisite: Enrollment in undergraduate nursing program

Guided study and experience in a specified nursing area.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Students will explore emerging issues in healthcare and consider how these issues shape their practice. Through examination of current issues and challenges confronting the nursing profession, analysis of the literature, examination of personal values, rights, and obligations, and the application of ethical decision-making processes, students' ability to engage in ethical discussions will be enhanced, as will their ability to provide professional leadership.

Note: Satisfies the GWAR requirement.

Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Program.

Participants will explore nursing research as the foundation for clinical and organizational decision making. Content will include understanding key elements of evidence-based practice, developing skills to access data bases in nursing and healthcare, evaluation of evidence in nursing including published nursing research, problem identification within the practice setting, and incorporation of evidence in initiating change and improving clinical practice.

Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program for nursing

This course requires that students operationalize knowledge, skills, and dispositions acquired in previous courses. Students will identify contemporary healthcare issues and apply graduate core competencies to guide nursing praxis in the planning, implementation and evaluation of quality healthcare for individuals, families, groups and communities.

Prerequisite: NURS 209 and NURS 210, and 21 units of graduate coursework.

Examines issues of health policy, financing, and the organization and delivery of health services at the local, national, and global levels. Health promotion will be defined and the influence of community on the individual, group, and family's health will be explored. Epidemiological data bases will be identified. These data bases will be critiqued and used to develop a health promotion program.

Prerequisite: NURS 209 and NURS 210, or instructor's permission

Advanced concepts and skills in health and physical assessment are essential to the clinical decision making and caring process for the nurse in advanced practice and leadership roles. The emphasis is on eliciting an accurate and thorough history considering the client's multiple dimensions, development of advanced physical examination skills and the development of documentation skills to provide a database for continuous improvement of nursing practice.

Note: Availability of a stethoscope is required. Individual practice outside of class is required.

Prerequisite: NURS 209 and NURS 210.

This course provides supervised field experience to provide the student with an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts from NURS 213 in a clinical practice setting focusing on the care of adult clients. The emphasis of this experience will be to application of graduate core competencies to guide leadership in nursing praxis in the planning, implementation and evaluation of quality healthcare for individuals, families, and groups.

Prerequisite: NURS 209, NURS 210, NURS 214, NURS 230, NURS 231, NURS 232, and instructor permission.

Corequisite: NURS 213.