Explores the relationships between social, political and economic systems, and the health care and delivery systems currently operational in the U.S. today. Provides a format to debate current biomedical issues and explores crosscultural health practices. Lecture three hours.

Provides a conceptual base for the practice of professional nursing as taught in the Sacramento State Division of Nursing curriculum. The changing and expanding roles of the professional nurse in the health care delivery system are explored, as are a variety of theories and related concepts which have application to nursing practice. Lecture three hours.

Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Nursing program.

Introduction, application of the nursing process in meeting health needs of adults experiencing acute and/or chronic health problems. Specific emphasis is placed on care of geriatric patient, complexity of chronic disease management, pharmacology, and end of life care. The role of nurse in assessment, planning outcome, implementing, evaluating is applied in clinical setting. Lecture three hours; laboratory six hours

Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Nursing program

Corequisite: NURS 15, NURS 16.

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: BIO 131, or equivalent.

Intensive on-campus nursing skills laboratory. Laboratory six hours.

Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Nursing program.

Corequisite: NURS 12, NURS 16.

On-campus laboratory in which students acquire skills in physical assessment of the adult. Laboratory three hours.

Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Nursing program or instructor permission.

Corequisite: NURS 12, NURS 15.

Intensive on-campus learning laboratory designed to develop professional, team, and interpersonal therapeutic communication skills promoting quality of care and patient safety. Designed to utilize information from prerequisite and concurrent nursing courses to prepare students to use communication skills while functioning in individual nurse-client relationships with patients, families, communities, and in leadership roles in inter- and intra- professional group settings. Includes a supervised practicum, experiences in Nursing Simulation Learning Center, and incorporates verbal, written, and electronic forms of communication.

Corequisite: NURS 11, NURS 12, NURS 15, and NURS 16 .

Application of the concept of adaptation to individuals and families experiencing complex illness. Stress theory and the nursing process are used in formulating nursing actions to facilitate adaptation to physiologic and psychologic alteration. Includes a supervised practicum in rapid care settings. Lecture three hours; laboratory nine hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 11, NURS 12, NURS 15, NURS 16, NURS 117; 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 hours.

Note: May be repeated for credit

Prerequisite: NURS 11, NURS 12, NURS 13, NURS 16, NURS 117; or instructor permission

Development of unique physical assessment and psychomotor skills used in the nursing care of infants and obstetric clients in a community-based setting or on-campus laboratory. Three hours weekly.

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

Corequisite: NURS 137.

Application of theories from the physical, behavioral and social sciences to the family during the reproductive years and to gynecological conditions. Focuses on the family's potential to adapt to the normal outcomes of pregnancy, its predictable health alterations and specific gynecological disorders. Supervised practicum in acute care, ambulatory care and community settings. Lecture three hours; laboratory six hours.

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

Corequisite: NURS 136.

Study of the child from birth through adolescence and the family in the community and acute care settings. Adaptations of the family and appropriate nursing interventions are studied within the context of the well, acutely ill, and chronically ill child. Includes supervised practice in acute care, ambulatory care and community pediatric settings. Lecture three hours; laboratory six hours.

Prerequisite: 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 community-based setting or on-campus laboratory. Three hours weekly.

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

Corequisite: NURS 138.

Designed to enhance leadership skills by using the management process in the management of multiple patients. Facilitates the transition of the student to the role of a professional graduate nurse. The theories of leadership, organization and change as they relate to the principles and processes of administration, management and supervision will also be applied in a senior practicum (NURS 156).

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

Corequisite: NURS 144.

Contemporary role of the community health nurse is presented within a public health framework, emphasizing the concept of community as client. Didactic content and nursing interventions are related to groups and aggregates who are identified as being at high risk for the development of health problems, as well as assessment of and interventions with communities at risk. Clinical experience is provided within an official local governmental agency illustrative of the public health system. Lecture three hours; laboratory six hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 136, NURS 137, NURS 138, 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.

Provides a basic introduction to nursing research. Emphasis is placed on critiquing research and applying research findings to nursing practice. Research critiques and a practice-based research assignment are completed. Seminar two hours or online.

Prerequisite: NURS 12.

Corequisite: NURS 123 and NURS 129 or instructor permission.

Designed to explore the physiological, sociological, and psychological components of human sexuality in a sufficiently detailed manner so that the myth and confusion enveloping this needlessly hypersensitive subject can be dispelled. Hopefully, students will be able to integrate these components in a meaningful pattern into their own lives and will be not only better able to understand and accept their own sexual needs and behavior but also, at the same time, will be more accepting and understanding of persons whose sexual attitudes and behavior might differ from their own. Lecture three hours.

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.

Seminar or Web-based discussions designed to assist students in developing reasoning skills involved in making clinical judgments. Students will develop understanding of themselves as beginning professionals while analyzing their own reasoning processes as well as processes used by experts in actual clinical situations. Students will document their reasoning skill development throughout the course in log reflections and written scenario assignments.

Note: Three hours per week.

Prerequisite: All prerequisites for NURS 143, NURS 144 or instructor permission, and GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.

Corequisite: NURS 143, NURS 144.

Provides an introduction to research, including both quantitative and qualitative methods, that assumes no previous course content. Topics include simple research design, critique, ethics, and judicious utilization of results. Evidence-based practice, outcomes research, and review of existent literature are also focused upon, as are writing a basic research proposal and generating sample documents for institutional review board approval.

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

Corequisite: NURS 171 and NURS 173.

Provides the returning registered nurse with the knowledge of theories, concepts, and social issues which have application to the practice setting. The holistic approach to the needs of the health care consumer and their families' focuses on interactions within community systems as they relate to leadership and management, medical, surgical, mental health, pediatrics, and obstetrical nursing practice. Lecture/Online: six hours.

Prerequisite: RN licensure, admission to the RN to BSN program.

Designed to enhance leadership skills. Provides the theoretical framework for management in multiple settings. Facilitates the transition of the registered nurse for role obtainment in leadership and management. Theories of leadership, organization and change as they relate to the principles and processes of administration, management, and supervision will be applied in an organizational setting. Principles of leadership will be applied to select clinical situations and students will assess an issue within a community setting or organization. Clinical three hours; lecture three hours.

Corequisite: NURS 171.

Role of the community health nurse is presented within a public health framework, emphasizing the concept of community as client. Epidemiological principles are utilized to plan for community level nursing interventions. Social determinants of health, including race and ethnicity, will be analyzed to explain how these factors shape health status of individuals and groups. Principles of community health promotion will be applied; Lecture four hours, clinical six hours.

Prerequisite: NURS 171, NURS 173.

Students will apply leadership and management principles within a community setting or organization to mutually determine a defined need or issue, identify goals to meet or solve the issue, and complete the culminating project based on course work completed in NURS 174 and NURS 173; Laboratory three hours, Clinical/Practicum three hours

This course is a web-enhanced seminar designed to assist RN to BSN students in increasing reasoning, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills involved in making clinical and professional judgments. Students will document their skill development throughout the course via formal and informal written assignments and web-based assignments.

Prerequisite: At least a C grade in , NURS 171, instructor permission, and GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.

Employment experience in local health care setting in which students will be supervised by a preceptor in the setting, and a faculty member. Students will perform only those clinical skills in which previous training and competency has been demonstrated. Experiences will be arranged though the Cooperative Education Program office and the Division of Nursing. Requirements include: preparation of an application packet, attendance at mentoring workshops, completion of a written report, completion of work assignment (hours to be arranged), participation in scheduled clinical conferences and maintenance of a clinical log.

Prerequisite: Completion of lower division course work and completion or concurrent enrollment in the second semester of the nursing major courses, a GPA of 2.5 or above, health clearance, current CPR certification, malpractice insurance, and instructor permission. Course may be repeated up to three times for credit.

Guided study and experience in a specified nursing area.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Individual projects and directed reading for students who are competent to assume independent work. Admission to this course requires approval of faculty member under whom the independent work is to be conducted.

Introduction to curriculum development and instructional design concepts in preparation for the role of educator in an educational institution or health care setting. Emphasis will be on instructional design, instructional strategies, and measurement of learner outcomes. The first course in a two course sequence. Lecture three hours.

Note: FOCUS alternates between K-12 and higher education.

Prerequisite: NURS 210, NURS 212.

Seminar designed to promote the understanding and application of fundamental disease processes and physiological principles in cross-clinical settings for the purpose of improving nursing assessments and patient care management. Lecture three hours.

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.

Experiences in an off-campus facility are provided for the continued development of clinical or functional role skills. Each student spends 45 hours per unit. Field study is not designed to be used in lieu of regularly scheduled practicums. Enrollment in NURS 295 requires permission of a faculty member who will serve as sponsor and coordinator of the experience.

Individual research, study, and directed reading in an area not directly covered in the Division's core courses, role preparations or electives. Students pursue a particular course of study on a one-to-one basis with a faculty member. Educational objectives must be specified in advance.

The Culminating Experience is in the form of a comprehensive examination. The comprehensive examination is an original scholarly paper that reflects an in-depth problem-solving proposal or a business proposal. Students that wish to do a thesis or project as the culminating experience must petition the Division of Nursing Graduate Committee and will be approved on an individual basis.

Prerequisite: Advanced to candidacy for the Master's degree and must be in the final semester of the program.