Nursing Courses
NSG 101 Introduction to Professional Nursing Concepts (5 cr)
This course includes an introduction to the foundation of nursing practice. Broad course content includes the history of nursing, the health care delivery system, cultural considerations, caring and clinical judgment, verbal/non-verbal communication, physical assessment, the nursing process, nursing diagnosis, the nurse-patient relationship, overview of growth and development, health perception, health promotion, health maintenance, introduction to nutrition, body systems, managing bowel and bladder elimination, self care, mobility, supporting respiratory functions, managing sleep and rest, managing pain, managing stress and anxiety, coping and managing functional limitations. Clinical sites will include community clinics, rural hospitals, long-term care centers and senior centers.
NSG 102: Professional Nursing Skills I (1 cr)
This course introduces clinical skills as a foundation of nursing practice. The course focuses on concepts and clinical skills basic to the practice of nursing across the lifespan. Students are introduced to the holistic care of clients, beginning clinical decision-making and foundational therapeutic nursing interventions. Nursing process, documentation, therapeutic communication skills, aseptic technique and medication administration are included as well as other fundamental nursing skills. Caring, critical thinking, communication, evidence-based practice and professionalism will be stressed throughout the course.
NSG 131 Nursing Health Promotion Across the Life Span (5 cr)
This course provides a foundation for health promotion. The focus is wellness. Broad course content includes definition of health, objectives for promotion and prevention, emerging populations and health, health promotion and the individual across the life span, health promotion and the family, health promotion and the community, interventions for health promotion, global health promotion in the 21st century, nutritional status across the life span, elimination patterns, health lifestyle, activity/exercise pattern, sleep-rest pattern, cognitive-perceptual pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern, sexuality-reproductive pattern, coping-stress tolerance pattern and value-brief pattern. Clinical sites will include community clinics, rural hospitals, long-term care centers, senior centers, day care centers, schools, OB clinics and acute care including ante-partum labor/delivery sites, post-partum sites and newborn nursery sites.
NSG 132 Professional Nursing Skills II (1 cr)
The course builds upon concepts and clinical skills related to the practice of nursing across the life span introduced in Nursing Skills I. Advanced medication administration, blood administration, tracheostomy care, enteral feeding and care of central vascular access devices are included as well as special skills necessary for care of children and the child-bearing family. Caring, holistic care, critical thinking, communication, evidence-based practice and professionalism will be stressed throughout the course.
NSG 160 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span I (6 cr)
The course utilizes a functional health pattern framework for nursing care across the life span including medical-surgical and mental health content. Broad topics will include health perception-health management pattern, nutritional-metabolic pattern, sleep-rest pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern and sexuality-reproductive pattern. Clinical sites will include acute care adult, pediatrics, mental health, and community sites.
NSG 200 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span II (6 cr)
This course is a continuation of NSG 160 and utilizes a functional health pattern framework for nursing care across the life span. Focus is medical-surgical and mental health content. Broad topics include activity-exercise pattern, cognitive-perceptual pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern, role-relationship pattern, coping-stress tolerance pattern and value-belief pattern. Clinical sites will include acute care adult, pediatrics, mental health and community sites.
NSG 230 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span III (6 cr)
Role of the nurse as a leader and manager, managing patient care across the life span, end of life care, overview of care of critically ill patients with complex problems, nursing skills for managing critical ill patients with complex problems, nursing management of patients with multiple organ dysfunction, nursing management of acute cardiac conditions, nursing management of trauma patients, nursing management of patients with acute obstetrical conditions.
NSG 231 Role Transition to Professional Practice (6 cr)
This 7-week rotation is a clinical preceptorship in medical-surgical, adult, child, and neonatal critical care units. It includes course content of socialization into the RN role, transition to entry-level practice, self care, burnout, moral, ethical and legal issues in nursing practice, Nurse Practice Act, ANA code of ethics, impaired nurse, death and grief, conflict resolution, planned change, collective bargaining, staffing, retention/recruitment, resume writing, mentoring and coaching.
NSG 280 Caring in a Diverse Health Care Environment (3 cr)
This course facilitates an integration of personal and professional values that form the foundation for a philosophy of care giving and prepares students for the realities and challenges of care giving in their health care profession. The course examines dimensions of self-care to enhance preparation for a career in a health care profession. It explores the holistic care of others including vulnerable and culturally diverse patients, with a focus on suffering, faith, hope, healing and death and dying. Applications for culturally sensitive care-giving for diverse patients include an examination of religious beliefs and cultural health traditions and the impact of diversity in the health care workplace.
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NSG 324 Information Resources in Health Organizations (3 cr)
This course explores the opportunities and challenges inherent in the use of health care management information systems in clinical and non-clinical applications. Subsystems include pathology, nursing, clinical laboratory, radiology, physiology, clinics, education and financial management.
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NSG 402 Community Health Nursing (4 cr)
This course examines the historic, contemporary and futuristic perspectives of the development of community health nursing as well as its principles and theories. Clinical practice will occur in a variety of community and multidisciplinary settings.
NSG 403 Issues and Trends in Nursing (3 cr)
This course offers an opportunity to investigate a variety of current issues and trends affecting health care, its delivery system and the profession of nursing. Students will choose three one-credit seminars during the semester.
NSG 403-01 Pain/Palliative Care/End of Life Care (1 cr)
Students will explore best practices in pain management and apply principles of pain management across the lifespan in case study discussion. An overview of palliative care and end-of-life concepts and programs will be emphasized including acute, community, and hospice care settings.
NSG 403-02 Social Injustice/Global Health (1 cr)
This course includes social injustice issues related to health care around the world. Discussion will be related to health care access, poverty related to health care, and human rights. Social injustice increases the prevalence of risk factors, which leads to health inequities. The course will look at promoting access to justice, especially for the most vulnerable individuals and groups in society.
NSG 403-03 Gerontology (1 cr)
This course includes content specific to the dynamics of aging, theories of aging and nursing interventions for health promotion and improvement of quality of life for older adults. Social, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of aging will be explored.
NSG 403-04 Genomics (1 cr)
Genomics is an emerging field that assesses the impact of genes and their interaction with behavior, diet and the environment on population health. This course will review the basics of genetics, including the importance of family history, ethical concerns, the nurse’s role and the impact on future nursing practice.
NSG 403-05 Political Activism (1 cr)
This course is designed to raise students’ awareness and involvement in legislative issues and trends affecting health care, its delivery system and the profession of nursing. The role of the professional nurse in political advocacy for clients and vulnerable population groups across the lifespan, as well as the individual nurse’ s participation in professional organizations will be explored.
NSG 403-06 Spirituality (1 cr)
The course will include an overview of spiritual assessment and direct spiritual care for patients across the lifespan including spiritual development and distress. Students will explore their own issues in spirituality and faith through a spiritual retreat. Students will analyze the relationship between suffering, hope, and faith and the impact of spiritual care interventions to promote healing for patients. Nursing caregivers will explore the sacred dimensions of their caregiving and will discuss methods to support a healing culture for patients and caregivers in clinical work settings.
NSG 403-07 Health Literacy (1 cr)
The course will explore the prevalence of health care and functional literacy and its impact on patients’ compliance with healthcare education and plan of care. Students will analyze the best practices and strategies to assist patients with understanding of healthcare information. An in-depth critique of written and internet health care educational resources will be completed.
NSG 405 Health Assessment in Nursing (4 cr)
This course presents a systematic, holistic approach to in-depth health history taking and physical examination of clients of all ages. Laboratory sessions provide an opportunity to practice assessment skills.
NSG 408 Introduction to Research (3 cr)
This course introduces the basics of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research, and provides a conceptual basis to interpret and evaluate research. The student will identify the application of research to nursing knowledge and practice. Examples of research will be critiqued.
NSG 411 BSN Professional Role I (3 cr)
This course presents the history and roles and theories of professional nursing. The core values of Mercy are introduced, and students reflect on how these values impact their own practice through development of a professional philosophy. The course reviews the history of nursing and includes an analysis of its current impact on society. It presents nursing theories as the base for professional nursing practice. The course also provides an overview of the roles of the BSN nurse. Students will explore role socialization issues in structured and other settings within nursing practice. Introductory demonstration of computer technology is integrated for use in projects throughout the program. (Must be taken first semester of BSN curriculum.)
NSG 413 Theories of Leadership and Management in Nursing (4 cr)
This course presents theories of leadership management and change processes, with applications made in the classroom and clinical settings. Skills necessary to facilitate group dynamics and personnel management are addressed, and a variety of quality control models are examined. The clinical component encourages students to practice leadership/management skills while interacting with individuals and groups.
NSG 415 Health Care Financial Management (3 cr)
This course explores the organizational and operational aspects of fiscal analysis and internal control of health care organization costs. Topics will include planning, budgeting, and cost-finding including preparation and analysis of operating budget-trending, modeling, revenue, expenses, variance analysis and margins. Organizational and divisional performance will be measured against internal and external benchmarking tools, assessing capital equipment needs, building a capital budget and bids.
NSG 417 Principles of Teaching/Learning (3 cr)
This course explores selected theories of teaching and learning and examines how they relate to patient education. A comprehensive teaching project will be designed.
NSG 420 BSN Professional Role II (4 cr)
This course provides an opportunity for students collaborating with preceptors to design an independent study experience in a practice area of their choice. The experience will explore a clinical specialty or nursing role. Emphasis is placed on the student’s demonstration of accountability, judgment, clinical competence, caring behaviors, and effective interrelationships in a variety of nursing roles. Legal and ethical aspects of professional nursing are also components of this course. It is to be taken as the final capstone course in the curriculum.
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- PREREQUISITES are courses that must be taken prior to the indicated course.
- COREQUISITES are courses that are taken at the same time as the indicated course according to the curriculum plan.
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