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Nursing Required Courses
NUR 342 - Dimensions of Professional Practice
Examines the role of the professional nurse and the evolution of nursing as a profession. Focuses on nursing theory and process and issues related to current professional nursing practice. Course assignments provide experienced nurses an opportunity to strengthen critical thinking skills and develop a philosophy of professional nursing.
3 Credits
NUR 343 - Nursing Assessment for the Experienced Nurse
Concepts related to assessment of individual clients are presented. Emphasis is placed on review of body systems, physical examination techniques and communication skills necessary to perform a nursing assessment of clients across the life span. Level of functioning and health risk data are analyzed and interpreted. Opportunities are provided for practicing healthcare providers to apply skills presented in class.
3 Credits
NUR 332 - Nursing Research for the Experienced Nurse
Prerequisite: Statistics. Provides the experienced nurse with the opportunity to examine the role of the nurse in the generation and utilization of research. Explores research as it relates to healthcare and clinical nursing practice. The basic research process is used to critique current research and develop a research-focused integrated literature review.
3 Credits
NUR 350 - Health Promotion & Rehabilitation Nursing Theory
Theories and concepts related to health promotion and rehabilitation nursing are presented and discussed within the framework of the nursing process. Provides experienced nurses the opportunity to enhance critical thinking and communication skills in examining issues related to wellness, health promotion and adaptation of clients with altered functional ability and lifestyle.
3 Credits
NUR 412 - Physiological Adaptation to Illness
Theories and concepts related to pathophysiological responses and adaptation of the body to an insult are presented. Analysis of pathological alterations in health at the cellular and systems level and implications for nursing are emphasized. Student assignments focus on multi-system interaction of the body to an illness or injury and multidisciplinary therapeutic modalities that enhance healing. Presentations are used to demonstrate critical thinking and communication skills.
3 Credits
NUR 440 - Critical Care Nursing Theory for the Experienced Nurse
Theories and concepts related to acute, complex physiological health alterations are presented within the framework of the nursing process. Effective decision-making and communication are emphasized in the adaptation of clients to life-threatening and acute health alterations within a rapidly changing healthcare environment. Legal and ethical dilemmas are examined as experienced nurses explore the professional nursing role in critical care.
3 Credits
NUR 450 - Community Health Nursing Theory for the Experienced Nurse
Theories and concepts from nursing, liberal arts and sciences, and public health are presented within the framework of the nursing process. Focuses on the professional nursing role in health promotion and disease prevention for select populations. Explores the influence of culture on healthcare practices. Provides the experienced nurse the opportunity to demonstrate critical thinking and collaborative communication through community assessment.
3 Credits
NUR 451 - Community Health Nursing Practice for the Experienced Nurse
Provides opportunities for experienced nurses to apply concepts presented in NUR 450. The nursing process is used to provide care for individuals, families and groups across the life span in home and community settings. Focuses on primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention. Emphasis is on judicious decision-making and collaboration in the diverse role of the community healthcare nurse.
3 Credits
NUR 462 - Leadership & Management in Professional Practice
Theories and concepts related to leadership and management skills are applied to the role of the professional nurse in a continuously changing healthcare environment. Focuses on contemporary professional and societal issues that influence nursing practice in a changing healthcare environment. Analyzes techniques of problem solving, conflict resolution and delegation, as related to clinical practice. Nursing care delivery systems are explored.
3 Credits
NUR 461 - Professional Nursing Synthesis for the Experienced Nurse
Provides the opportunity for experienced nurses to demonstrate fulfillment of program outcomes. Emphasis is placed on self-directed learning and evaluation in selected clinical areas under the supervision of nursing faculty and clinical nurse preceptors.
4 Credits
Choose One Elective
NUR 424 - Special Topics: Integrating Complementary/Alternative Approaches into Nursing
This course provides an introduction to evidence-based complementary and alternative approaches. The goal is to provide the student with knowledge and experience of mind/body self-healing skills, multi-ethnic alternative medicine theories, practice environments and interventions that can be integrated into nursing and/or the nurse’s personal lifestyle. The philosophical assumptions of complementary and alternative approaches will be examined through the application of critical thinking. Students will become familiar with current evidence-based peer-reviewed literature. Controversial modalities will be critically examined to understand how these modalities improve health and well-being.
3 Credits
NUR 424B - Music in Nursing
This nursing elective course introduces the theory and practice of music as a nursing intervention. Emphasis is placed on the concept of energy and its influence on the autonomic nervous system continuum as it relates to learning, health and human growth. The course includes exploration of theory and experiential learning opportunities.
3 Credits
NUR 428 - Omega Strategies
Theories and strategies related to concepts of care at the end of life. The emphasis is on the nurse as a member of an interdisciplinary team and the need for attention to the cultural factors influencing care at the end of life. There is currently a wide gap between the reality of end-of-life care and the kind of care each of us would seek. This course is a guide to prepare nurses to be competent and compassionate professionals who can lead a transformation in care at the end of life.
2 Credits
Nursing Prerequisites
BLY 215 - Human Anatomy & Physiology I (with lab)
This course, a study of the morphology and physiology of the human, includes sections concerned with the basic chemistry of protoplasm and chemical reactions and the structure and function of cells, including mitosis, the study of histology, with a concentration on organs and organ systems - including integumentary, musculoskeletal, circulatory, lymphatic and digestive systems.
4 Credits
BLY 216 - Human Anatomy & Physiology II (with lab)
This course covers the nervous system and special senses; the endocrine system; the reproductive system; the urinary system, including fluid and electrolyte balance; and the respiratory system.
4 Credits
CY 101 - Chemistry (with lab)
This course cannot be used as a prerequisite for any other chemistry class. An introduction to chemical principles, including atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, stoichiometry, phases of matter, kinetics and equilibria with emphasis on the application of chemistry to everyday life.
4 Credits
ENGL 103 - Introductory Writing
This course focuses on the development of skills necessary for writing across disciplines: reading analytically and writing clear, accurate and coherent expository prose. It also introduces students to basic research skills, library resources and documentation systems.
3 Credits
Non-Nursing Required Courses
BLY 221 - Nutrition
Introduction to human nutrition. Emphasis on nutritive processes, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
3 Credits
BLY 222 - Microbiology (with lab)
An introduction to microorganisms and their relationship to human health and disease. Course topics include structure, function and growth of bacteria, viruses and fungi, control of microorganisms, immunity and pathogenesis.
4 Credits
PSYC 210 - Human Growth & Development
A course designed to acquaint the student with the developmental processes behind intellectual and personality growth from infancy to adulthood.
3 Credits
CS 150 - Personal Productivity Using Technology
Students will learn to enhance their personal productivity and problem solving skills using end-user tools, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and Internet tools.
3 Credits
PSYC 201 - Introductory Psychology
An introduction to various topics in psychology, including such areas as learning, personality, social psychology, physiological psychology, abnormal psychology and psychological testing.
3 Credits
Or
SOC 203 - Introductory Sociology
Develops a student’s sociological imagination to explore the complexity and diversity of social relations and explains how people shape one another. Critically applies theories, methods and concepts of social science to understand the personal and impersonal aspects of interactions in various groups, organizations and institutions in this society and others; cultural and historical variations in age, gender, class and race relations; and the living laboratory of everyday life.
3 Credits
ECON 201 - Principles of Macroeconomics
This course provides students with an understanding of key macroeconomic issues facing our world and the policy prescriptions needed to address these issues. Students gain an understanding of basic economic concepts of resource allocation, supply and demand, national income, consumption, unemployment, inflation, government spending and taxation. A firm foundation in essential economic theory and tools needed to understand these issues is established. Additionally, students are introduced to the broader functional areas of business as they relate to the overall understanding of daily economic activity.
3 Credits
ENGL 203 - World Literature
A survey of select masterpieces, translated into English, which have influenced the evolution of various world cultures over several centuries. Forms studied might include the epic, the lyric poem, the short story, the essay, and the novel, and might include such works as Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, The Ramayana, The Koran, Japanese Noh drama, and African literatures. Course may also include a formal research paper, utilizing skills developed in EH 103.
3 Credits
HIST 150 – Modern World History
A Core Curriculum history course that surveys world history beginning in the 18th century, with special attention to the West as the emerging center of global political power and cultural influence.
3 Credits
PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
This course will cover a representative selection of texts and problems in the history of philosophy. The course will address the nature of philosophical inquiry and the methods it employs. Topics to be discussed include the foundations of ethics, the sources and limits of knowledge, and historical approaches to metaphysical speculation.
3 Credits
MATH 205 - Elementary Statistics
Organizing data, averages and variations, concepts of probability, hypothesis testing, estimation, correlation and regression.
3 Credits
Any Fine Arts Course
Any Humanities Course
Any International Studies Course
The current Jacksonville University Academic Catalog is your official guide to all programs. Non-nursing courses are offered by other universities that work with University Alliance. The applicable school’s catalog would then apply.
