The purpose of this course is to examine the role of research in professional nursing. The value of research based knowledge as a means to promote safe, culturally sensitive, quality, patient centered care, and the use of the research process as a means to evaluate quality of care and the role of evidence-based practice in the development of nursing intervention strategies will also be examined

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to professional nursing and the role of the professional nurse in customizing the promotion and maintenance of health to individuals through culturally sensitive competent patient centered care. Course content includes advocacy, safety, the multidisciplinary team, the nature and history of professionalism and processes underlying professional nursing, basic concepts of health and illness and legal issues in nursing practice, and nursing theory and its implication for patient care.

This course is designed to enhance the working RN’s knowledge and skills with applying evidence based practice for health promotion across the lifespan with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. This course will emphasize the daily as a client, cultural diversity, teaching principles across the lifespan. Health promotion education will use evidence based research and will also focus on communication, community resources and screening in a clinical setting.

The purpose of this course is to focus on the role of the professional nurse as a leader and manager in the collaborative design and delivery of customized, culturally sensitive, safe, competent, patient-centered nursing care including the role of advocate in conjunction with the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Traditional management theories and practices are examined utilizing a strong emphasis on the development of transformational leadership, including the organization, planning, staffing, directing and controlling of various resources in today’s diverse health care systems. Students are provided the opportunity to partner with leaders and managers in the clinical practicum setting to explore and influence health care delivery system issues that affect quality of care.

The purpose of this course is to focus on the role of nursing in establishing partnership with communities with emphasis on customizing therapeutic care in order to protect, promote, and restore optimal community health. The student is given the opportunity in the Community Health setting to deliver quality community health care across all levels of prevention and to explore the planning and implementation of customized community health programs. Utilizing a leader/manager role as a partner in community health, the student will be provided the opportunity to collaborate with various agencies/institutions and health care delivery systems.

This course emphasizes the skills essential to the assessment parameter of the nursing process. The purpose of this course is to broaden the nurse’s knowledge base, increase their assessment skills, and facilitate their ability to apply these skills in a clinical setting. The knowledge from this course is immediately applicable to everyday patient care. Another focal point of the course is the evaluation and utilization of research and additional sources of information necessary to address patient needs and provide quality care.

The purpose of this course is to integrate the community service component into the lives of Schreiner University Online RN-BSN students via a Capstone Project. Students will identify a site and a learning need in the community of their choice. The student will develop and implement a community service project to meet the chosen learning need. Students will be required to identify community based nursing care needs integral to the provision of safe, competent, caring, culturally sensitive, and patient centered nursing care, in addition to the role of the community advocate.

This course covers basic concepts related to the abnormal function and change in various organ systems in the face of disease. Effects of disease and other pathological agents are of primary concern, rather than the biology of the agents themselves. We will study the fundamental changes in body physiology due to disease. Considerations are given to selected pathological alterations and their effects on physiological and psychological functions. Emphasis is put on selected illnesses most often encountered by health professionals with emphasis placed on disease processes, manifestations, and treatment. Focus is on presentation of selected pathophysiology and subsequent symptomatology in diverse clients across the lifespan. Common diseases and disorders are covered, and emphasis is given to cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal and reproductive systems.

This course examines the history of healthcare informatics, cur-rent issues, basic informatics concepts and health information management systems. The use of technology to help make decisions and to improve the health status of the individual, family, and community will be emphasized. Students will apply informatics concepts to a current clinical practice setting suggesting methods to use technology to improve patient safety and work effectiveness. The student will also learn to identify, gather, pro-cess, and manage information/data.

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the basic principles involved with the legislative process and an examination of how nurses can use political advocacy strategies to influence health care policies. Focus is on applying interpersonal, communication, leadership, and advocacy skills to support the application of social justice principles in health care delivery practices to diverse populations and promote the nursing profession.

This course explores global issues affecting personal, community, and international health and development using approaches from health promotion, population health, and primary health care to help frame analyses. Nursing students will learn about the basic perspectives on health policy issues in various geographical regions and the effects of significant world events. Global Health Nursing demonstrates how the nurse creates an environment of inclusion and demonstrates evidence-based, quality nursing care in complex situations as well as across health care systems and diverse settings.

This course must be approved by the Director of Nursing.

To be accepted as credit in the nursing program, national nursing certifications must be approved by the Director of Nursing.