Explores nursing as a personal career choice. An overview of practice areas, essential functions, basic ethical and legal responsibilities and professional behaviors expected of registered nurses and nursing students. Topics include history of nursing practice, the art and science of nursing, legal and ethics, professional behaviors, and basic medical terminology. This is a fully online course.
1 Credit Hour
Introduces program and foundational nursing concepts and nursing process. Utilizes knowledge from general education courses to assist students to plan and implement nursing care of individuals across the lifespan. Develops communication, assessment and basic psychomotor skills. Total clock hours for theory: 37.5; Total planned clinical hours: 56.25; total planned lab hours: 93.75; Clinical and lab hours combined: 150 hours.
7 Credit Hours
Introduces the scope and practice of the nursing profession. Examines the role of the nurse in the health care team including communication and collaboration. Applies basic legal, ethical, and safety principles to the practice of nursing. A minimum of 25 class hours. This is a blended course containing both face-to-face and online elements.
2 Credit Hours
Applies nursing concepts and utilizes the nursing process in health promotion and nursing care of individuals and families experiencing prevalent health issues across the lifespan, including introduction to care of the child-bearing family. Total clock hours for theory: 37.5; Total planned clinical hours: 112.5; Total planned lab hours: 37.5; Clinical and lab hours combined: 150 hours.
7 Credit Hours
Explores current federal and state laws, practice standards and organizational regulations that impact healthcare delivery and nursing practice. Identifies the importance of economic resources, ethical principles, and evidence-based practice in improving quality and safety to achieve optimal patient outcomes in a variety of healthcare settings. A minimum of 25 class hours. This is a blended course containing both face-to-face and online elements.
2 Credit Hours
Advanced placement for RN pathway containing the first year nursing concepts and exemplars of health and illness across the lifespan. Uses knowledge from preceeding nursing education, or military equivalent training, and general education courses to care for individuals, families and populations experiencing heath issues across the lifespan. Focuses on RN scope of practice, clinical judgement, and refinement of psychomotor skills. Total clock hours for theory: 37.5; Total planned clinical hours: 112.5; Total planned lab hours: 37.5; Clinical and lab hours combined: 150.
7 Credit Hours
Using LPN or military equivalent experience as a base, students learn about the scope and practice of the registered nursing profession. Examines the role of the nurse in the health care team including communication and collaboration. Applies legal, ethical, and safety principles to the practice of nursing. Explores current federal and state laws, practice standards and organizational regulations that impact healthcare delivery and nursing practice. Identifies the importance of economic resources, ethical principles, and evidence-based practice in improving quality and safety to achieve optimal patient outcomes in a variety of healthcare settings. Ohio LPN license or military training transcripts, or military rank equivalency required. A minimum of 25 class hours. This is a blended course containing both face-to-face and online elements.
2 Credit Hours
Varied content offering of special interest to the discipline but not covered within existing courses; may be scheduled in a classroom/seminar setting or in nontraditional format.
0.5 - 9 Credit Hours
Integrates nursing concepts and utilizes the nursing process to plan and provide nursing care to individuals and families experiencing complex physiologic and psychosocial health issues across the lifespan. Develops care competencies to enhance patient outcomes in a variety of settings. Total clock hours for theory: 37.5; Total planned clinical hours: 112.5; total planned lab hours: 37.5; Clinical and lab hours combined: 150 hours.
7 Credit Hours
Facilitates development of leadership and management skills, with an emphasis on prioritization, delegation, supervision, and collaboration with the health care team. A minimum of 25 class hours. This is a blended course containing both face-to-face and online elements.
2 Credit Hours
Synthesizes professional nursing and health and illness concepts to manage and plan collaborative care for individuals and families in a variety of settings. Facilitates the transition from student to beginning associate degree nurse, managing the care of a group of patients with the healthcare team. Total clock hours for theory: 37.5; Total planned clinical hours: 150; Total planned lab hours: 37.5; Clinical and lab hours combined: 187.5.
8 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the transition from technical to professional nursing through the theoretical basis of nursing applied to the scope and standards of professional nursing practice. This is an online course with minimum class time 25 clock hours.
2 Credit Hours
This course examines how evidence provided through the literature and research is applied by professional nurses to improve patient outcomes. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This course examines community-based and population-focused public health. Influences of culture, environment, and governmental policy are discussed. The use of theory, research, and epidemiology are applied as foundations for the community as a client. This is a blended course with minimum class time 25 hours and minimum 45 hours of clinical/practicum.
3 Credit Hours
Explores cultural effect on health and illness. Analyzes the attitudes, knowledge, and values of diverse populations. Emphasis is on heightened cultural awareness for professional nurses providing care in a diverse environment. Identifies best practice guidelines for culturally responsive care, to transform knowledge to identify at-risk cultural groups and influence health promotion and disparity reduction within these groups. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This is an elective course addressing the nurse's role and professional responsibility in utilizing health information systems (HIS). The course addresses the use of HIS and technology to support patient care and to enhance safe, effective, and quality patient outcomes. Ethical. legal, cultural, and financial issues surrounding information systems are also explored. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This elective course focuses on the theory and practice of health assessment and health promotion across the life span. Assessment of all aspects of the patient's health status for purposes of health promotion, health protection, and disease prevention is explored. Incorporates concepts, theories, and research on human development and genetics, prevention of disease, early detection of risk factors and anticipatory guidance. This is a blended course with minimum class time 25 hours and minimum 45 hours of clinical/practicum.
3 Credit Hours
This elective course evaluates patterns of health in a human population for analysis and correlation to contributing factors of poor health patterns, including access to healthcare, health disparity, genetics, lifestyle, and habitat. Students are asked to identify and evaluate regional health promotion programs and develop a health plan and outcome for a select population. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This elective course emphasizes care of women during the reproductive years through menopause. Explores issues of infertility, preconception counseling, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, aging reproductive health, and breast health. Students will identify disparities in women's health, and opportunities to promote the health of women during reproductive years through menopause. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This elective course addresses the responsibilities of the academic nurse educator in a pre-licensure nursing program. Compares and contrasts learning theories pertinent to nursing education. Discusses aspects of curriculum development, evaluation, and quality improvement. Identifies educational practice changes driven by evidence-based findings in the academic setting. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on leadership and management roles of professional nurses. Emphasis is placed on concepts of leadership as they relate to the ethical decision-making process in implementing high quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the oversight and accountability processes in diverse multicultural healthcare settings. This is an online course with minimum class time 37.5 hours.
3 Credit Hours
The capstone course promotes the application of knowledge acquired in the RN to BSN program with previous knowledge and clinical experiences to identify and implement a scholarly nursing project. The project must address the analysis of, and strategies to address, improvements in clinical or organizational practices. This is a blended course with minimum class time 25 hours and minimum 45 hours of clinical/practicum.
3 Credit Hours