NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

419 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS core values as they relate to individual ethics and values. Students will investigate power, accountability, conflict management and team-building within an interprofessional team. Legal, ethical, and political issues that impact quality and safety in the delivery of compassionate and competent patient care will be analyzed. Co-requisite/s: NUR 4110, NUR 3192. Prerequisite/s: NUR 3180 and NUR 3191. NUR 4021 Transformational Nursing Leadership (3 credits) This course focuses on evidence-based leadership and management skills and competencies needed by professional nurses to be full partners and work productively in interprofessional teams to facilitate the transformation of complex healthcare systems. Students will analyze current best practices related to leadership roles, organizational communications, team dynamics in learning organizations, quality improvement, safe patient-centered care, and the role nursing leadership related to information systems. The course will assist the students to differentiate the concepts of contemporary trends in leadership, management theories, development of self, and communication skills necessary to influence behaviors. Emphasis will be placed on organizational systems structure and culture, change management, human resource management, and performance improvement in care delivery systems. Legal and ethical issues related to leadership and management will be analyzed. NUR 4030 The Business of Health Care (3 credits) This course focuses on the financial environments of healthcare systems and how they relate to today’s professional nursing roles in leadership, management, and patient-centered care, incorporating the values of stewardship, integrity and competence. Students will analyze the principles of financial management, healthcare reimbursement, regulatory processes, healthcare policy, and healthcare reform related to current nursing practice. This course will assist the student to differentiate the concepts of cost and revenue, accounting vocabulary, budgeting, human resource management, and financial processes, functions, and reports commonly utilized in healthcare systems. Emphasis will be placed on the political and economic forces that influence the development of health policy and professional nursing practice. Students will assess how financial management integrates with safety, information technology, patient- centered care, interprofessional teams, quality, and evidence-based practice. NUR 4031 The Business of Healthcare in Complex Systems (3 credits) This course focuses on the financial environments of healthcare systems and how they relate to today’s professional nursing roles in leadership, management, and patient-centered care. Students will analyze the principles be introduced as a basis for providing safe, quality, and effective nursing care. Students will apply dimensional analysis to calculate safe medication dosages. Students will begin to develop clinical/critical reasoning as related to the nurse’s role in pharmacotherapy. Topics covered include medications used in the treatment of gastrointestinal, endocrine, immune, oncological disorders and in the treatment of pain, anxiety and depression. Co-requisite: NUR 3180. Prerequisite/s: NUR 3130, NUR 3029, NUR 3032, and NUR 3131. NUR 3192 Pharmacological Basis for Nursing Interventions II (2 credits) This course provides opportunities for the entry level student to integrate pharmacologic concepts in order to provide safe and effective care for patients who have specific disorders. Students will apply dimensional analysis to calculate safe medication dosages. The concepts of drug efficacy, pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, and medication interactions will be examined as a basis for safe, quality, and effective nursing care. Students will continue to improve clinical/critical reasoning as related to the nurse’s role in pharmacotherapy. Topics covered include medications used in the treatment of cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal and sensory disorders. Co-requisite/s: NUR 4110, NUR 4020. Prerequisite/s: NUR 3180, NUR 3191. NUR 3200 Statistical Applications in Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice (3 credits) This course introduces biostatistical methodology and applications that can be used to draw practical conclusions regarding empirical data pertaining to nursing and patient care. Concepts, techniques and methods used in the description and analysis of data and statistical inference are presented. Statistical topics studied include frequency distributions, measures of central tendency (descriptive statistics), statistical graphs and charts, binomial and normal distributions, probability, confidence intervals, ANOVA, hypothesis testing and correlation. NUR 4010 Contemporary Nursing Trends (1 credits) This course explores a variety of nursing opportunities in the twenty-first century. Students will investigate the expanding scope of nursing and opportunities available to them upon completion of the BSN degree. NUR 4020 The Nurse as a Leader and Manager (3 credits) This course is designed to assist the baccalaureate nursing student apply leadership and management theories, concepts, and skills. Principles of stewardship, prioritization, delegation, quality improvement, patient safety, and evidence-based practice will be discussed. Students will examine the basic concepts of an organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy, and