This course supports students in analyzing and applying transition-to-practice competencies essential for the shift from graduate nurse to professional registered nurse following NCLEX completion. Students will explore strategies for career development, lifelong learning, and resilience-building while reflecting on their evolving professional identity. Emphasis is placed on integrating clinical judgment, ethical practice, and systems thinking to navigate complex healthcare environments. Prerequisite: 326, 328, 336, 337, 360, 463. Register in final semester of program.

Traditional and non-traditional partnerships are explored with a commitment to provide compassionate, respectful, dignified and evidence-based care to serve underrepresented and diverse populations. Attention will be placed on promoting community engagement and population-focused health education to improve equitable population health outcomes and to provide safe, quality, and evidence-informed care across the lifespan. Engagement in direct and indirect experiences will include wellness and disease prevention, chronic disease management, regenerative or restorative care, and palliative or hospice care. Prerequisite: 340, 450.

The interrelationship among public health theory, health promotion, disease and injury prevention, and evidence-based practices are studies and applied to public health nursing practice for individuals, families, communities, and populations across the life span. Environmental health, epidemiology, health care systems, and regulations, policy development, economics, and emergency preparedness are examined. Grounded in social justice, students will explore the role of advocacy with a commitment to health and safety of vulnerable populations locally, nationally, and worldwide. Public health concepts will be applied in a variety of clinical settings to introduce the student to public health nursing practice. Opportunities for experiences in inter-a and intraprofessional communication and collaboration, population-focused assessment and interventions, health promotion and clinical prevention, care delivery, and health teaching are offered. Prerequisites: 323, 324, 365, 372, 382.

This didactic course prepares students to care for culturally diverse adults with complex, high acuity needs. It emphasizes clinical judgment, evidence based practice, safety, quality, communication, and ethical decision making. Students build theoretical understanding to support person centered care, interprofessional collaboration, and health equity in acute care settings. Prerequisites: 326, 328, 336, 337, 360.

This didactic course prepares students to care for culturally diverse adults with complex, high acuity needs. It emphasizes clinical judgment, evidence based practice, safety, quality, communication, and ethical decision making. Students build theoretical understanding to support person centered care, interprofessional collaboration, and health equity in acture care settings. Prerequisites: 326, 328, 336, 337, 360. Must be taken concurrent with 417.

This clinical course further advances students competencies to care for culturally diverse adults with complex, high-acuity medical-surgical conditions. Students will apply clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and interprofessional collaboration to deliver safe, person-centered care while demonstrating leadership, communication, and ethical decision-making. Through immersive clinical experiences, students will synthesize prior knowledge and engage in quality improvement, uphold professional standards, and advocate for health equity in acute care and high-acuity settings. Prerequisites: 314, 326, 328, 336, 337, 360. Must be taken concurrent with 416.

This course continues adult health nursing theory and clinical applications in a variety of higher acuity inpatient settings. Students learn to apply theory to the care of adults needing complex restorative and maintenance health interventions. Clinical decision making in critical scenarios is strengthened through weekly simulation sessions. Prerequisites: 323, 324, 365, 372, 382.

This course focuses on a broad-based understanding and clinical application of mental health concepts and behavioral aberrations that occur in mental illness. Students analyze the nursing process as it relates to the impact mental health and mental illness have on individuals, families, communities, and the health care system. Prerequisites: 323, 324, 365, 372, 382.

This clinical course provides students with a culminating experience that integrates prior theoretical and clinical knowledge to support their transition to professional nursing practice. Students will apply clinical judgment, engage in interprofessional communication, and make evidence-informed decisions to promote quality health outcomes. Emphasizing person-centered care, students will adapt their practice to diverse populations while considering social determinants of health, equity, and ethical responsibilities. Prerequisites: 326, 328, 336, 337, 360, 463. Register in final semester of program.

Person-centered and holistic care for individuals, families, groups, and communities across the healthcare delivery continuum from prevention to disease management is studied for ways to collaborate and provide the highest quality care which is grounded in social justice, recognizing oppression, prejudice, and discrimination, with a commitment to serving and advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion. In addition, considering the social determinants of health such as personal, social, economic, and environmental factors to advocate for healthy environments that impact our world. Prerequisites: 340; Corequisite: 451.