Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

This course builds on acquired health assessment skills and introduces psychosocial research and theory needed to provide holistic care to clients across the lifespan. The course will explore mental health disorders and addictions experienced globally, evaluate research evidence to determine optimal interventions, master mental health nursing competencies, and learn resiliency principles needed to provide compassionate care for self and others.

Using case studies and/or simulation activities, students synthesize knowledge and problem-solving strategies from all previous course work to cultivate critical and reflective thinking, clinical reasoning, decision-making, and a greater understanding of health promotion, specific disease-based processes and/or population health challenges. Students interact with experts as they complete each problem-based team learning activity.

Patient Family Centered Care courses prepare students to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care for the specified population. Students engage individuals, families, and communities as partners in health, integrating pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical reasoning, and communication to support holistic wellness, safe quality care, health equity, and advocacy across care settings.

This course emphasizes the application of public health and population health theories. Students are introduced to a range of public health nursing roles and are able to integrate knowledge from previous clinical courses into this course. Students apply new skills and knowledge in a variety of community based and public health settings.

Synthesis Practicum provides students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired from all previous courses. Students work directly with clinical preceptors in an intensive 168-hour clinical, refining their skills and exploring the professional nurse's role. They assume leadership roles and begin to transition to independent professional practice.

Students delve into health policy, examining its effects on access, equity, quality, safety, and social justice. They analyze social, ethical, economic, and political factors impacting health and nursing services. The role of registered nurses in advocating and driving change in healthcare policies is also explored, focusing on improvements for patients, the nursing profession, and healthcare systems.

Using a common chronic disease, this seminar connects the patient to critical elements in the BSN Essentials and IOM Competencies. Real life, interactive opportunities connect the values and core professional concepts to patient experiences across the continuum of health care delivery. Students learn how care of the patient raises questions across multiple domains, such as basic science, culture & society, public policy, and healthcare costs.

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in undergraduate nursing.