The course emphasizes the usage and recognition of the legal implications of technology in healthcare. Students will explore communication software, databases, and applications utilized in healthcare and education.

This course explores how history and modern economic forces have shaped current professional practice, the development of Nurse Practice Acts and how states use these Acts to manage professional licensure and practice, and the roles and settings In which professional nurses are employed.

This course examines the legal, ethical, and policy-making traditions that frame the health care industry. This course will emphasize the integration of personal values, institutional cultures, law, and-ethical decision-making in professional practice.

This course introduces concepts relevant to the promotion, support, and restoration of health with emphasis on communities and populations. Students conduct a community assessment which involves the collection and analysis of community data.

This practicum course will enable the RN-BSN student to recognize the principles and concepts of change theory and leadership/management strategies in professional practice. The student will examine how current leadership and management strategies are implemented within the health care settings and how effective and efficient these strategies are to health care delivery and consumer health. Management and leadership issues significant to nurse managers will be examined and discussed and applied during clinical practicum.

In this course, students utilize concepts from RN to BSN curriculum to produce a population-based education project and develop a professional portfolio.

This introductory research course focuses on the validity and applicability of research findings for the improvement of nursing practice. Emphasis is on scientific inquiry and the role of the nurse as an intelligent consumer of research.