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NUR Nursing Courses at Global Campus

Nursing classes at the University of Arizona Global Campus offer an in-depth look and structured curriculum dedicated to preparing you, as a licensed registered nurse, for opportunities within the nursing field. Courses cover topics ranging from Health Informatics and Assessment to Nursing Law and Management. Learn more about the nursing program at the University of Arizona Global Campus with the RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing. View all nursing courses and descriptions below.


NUR Nursing Class Descriptions and Credit Information

NUR 300 Professional Role Development & Practice in Nursing

3 Credits

This course creates a foundation for the registered nurse transitioning to baccalaureate nursing practice. Course content includes baccalaureate nursing core competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, the theoretical basis of practice, ethical and legal components of practice, interprofessional communication and collaboration, accountability, autonomy, and decision making in the delivery of safe, effective, and quality driven nursing practice to improve patient health outcomes. Prerequisites: ENG 328.

NUR 302 Transcultural Nursing Care

3 Credits

This course focuses on the differences and similarities among cultures with respect to human care, health, and illness and how these considerations apply to real-world nursing practices. Students enrolled in the course develop their scientific and humanistic knowledge by integrating their own history, life experiences, beliefs, and values and by assessing how these factors have the potential to impact the ways in which they provide culturally competent care. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students. Prerequisite: NUR 300.

NUR 304 Health Assessment

3 Credits

This course prepares RN to BSN students to synthesize the comprehensive health assessment. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of data collected from clients of all ages. A physical, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual approach, which is supported by evidence-based practices is used to assess the client and to incorporate consideration of the client's needs, state of wellness, developmental level, and response to life experiences. Students also evaluate current health policy and technology to support health assessment to improve community health. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students. Prerequisite: NUR 302.

NUR 306 Nursing Research

3 Credits

This course provides the scientific foundation for professional practice. It introduces the student to the basic research methodologies and statistical concepts, and qualitative, quantitative, and epidemiologic research designs. Research methods and findings are appraised and applied within the framework of evidence based professional practice. Research proposal development as a foundation for nursing inquiry is emphasized. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students. Prerequisite: NUR 300.

NUR 400 Family Health Nursing

3 Credits

The course provides a holistic approach to the study of family nursing theories and frameworks in assessing and planning care for vulnerable client populations across the lifespan. Health promotion strategies, evidence-based research and legal/ethical principles will be applied in developing culturally specific interventions within diverse family structures across the family life cycle. Contemporary health issues impacting families across the health-illness continuum across a variety of health care settings will be explored. Prerequisites: NUR 304, NUR 306 and GRO 325. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students.

NUR 402 Community Health Nursing

3 Credits

This course introduces concepts of community health nursing. Emphasis is on strategies of health promotion and epidemiology concepts when nursing with individuals, families, groups, and communities. Professional, legal/ethical, economic, cultural, and environmental issues as they apply to community health nursing are examined. The practice experience in this course includes a community health project aimed at improving health for a vulnerable population. This course includes 20 hours of practice experience activities. Prerequisites: NUR 304 and NUR 306. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students.

NUR 404 Nursing Care & Management of Chronic Illness & Disability

3 Credits

This course emphasizes human responses to chronic illness and disability while exploring factors that have an impact on biopsychosocial adaptation. This course provides the RN-BSN learner an opportunity to explore chronic illness through the lifespan by studying the impact of chronic illness on families and health care professionals. Prerequisites: NUR 400 and NUR 402.
 

NUR 406 Leading and Managing in Nursing

3 Credits

To effectively transition from a clinical nursing role to leadership, nursing professionals must possess business savvy and specialty skills that allow them to meet the demands an evolving and changing industry while maintaining the caring competencies of the nursing profession. This course introduces and reinforces group-promoting teamwork, leadership, delegation, supervision, healthcare ethical decision-making processes, strategic planning, and business negotiation. This course includes 20 hours of practice experience activities. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students. Prerequisites: NUR 304 and NUR 306.

NUR 492 Capstone I: Nursing Practice Improvement Inquiry

3 Credits

This course and its companion, NUR 494, represent the culmination of learning in the nursing program, and provide students an opportunity to synthesize and demonstrate knowledge acquired in the RN to BSN program into nursing practice. Students demonstrate the achievement of program outcomes through both online and practice experiences culminating in the development of a quality improvement project proposal. Prerequisites: NUR 404, NUR 406 and permission of the program chair.

NUR 494 Capstone II: Nursing Practice Improvement and Evaluation

3 Credits

This course and its companion, NUR492, represent the culmination of learning in the nursing program, and provide students an opportunity to synthesize and demonstrate knowledge acquired in the RN to BSN program into nursing practice. Students develop a comprehensive plan to implement, evaluate and disseminate the quality improvement project proposal developed in NUR492. In addition, students create a professional portfolio to provide evidence of completion of program learning outcomes. Prerequisites: NUR 492 and permission of the program chair.
 

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