This course focuses on a broad-based understanding and clinical application of mental health concepts and behavioral aberrations that occur in mental illness. Students analyze the nursing process as it relates to the impact mental health and mental illness have on individuals, families, communities, and the health care system. Prerequisites: 323, 324, 365, 372, 382.

This clinical course provides students with the opportunity to integrate clinical judgement and theoretical learning from previous nursing courses into clinical decision-making that facilitates interprofessional communication in the pursuit of quality health outcomes. Students incorporate the professional nursing role into their holistic nursing practice and adapt their care according to person-centered goals, evidence-based practice, diverse life experiences, while maintaining an awareness of social determinants of health.

Person-centered and holistic care for individuals, families, groups, and communities across the healthcare delivery continuum from prevention to disease management is studied for ways to collaborate and provide the highest quality care which is grounded in social justice, recognizing oppression, prejudice, and discrimination, with a commitment to serving and advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion. In addition, considering the social determinants of health such as personal, social, economic, and environmental factors to advocate for healthy environments that impact our world.

Traditional and non-traditional partnerships are explored with a commitment to provide compassionate, respectful, dignified and evidence-based care to serve underrepresented and diverse populations. Attention will be placed on promoting community engagement and population-focused health education to improve equitable population health outcomes and to provide safe, quality, and evidence-informed care across the lifespan.

The interrelationship among public health theory, health promotion, disease and injury prevention, and evidence-based practices are studies and applied to public health nursing practice for individuals, families, communities, and populations across the life span. Environmental health, epidemiology, health care systems, and regulations, policy development, economics, and emergency preparedness are examined. Grounded in social justice, students will explore the role of advocacy with a commitment to health and safety of vulnerable populations locally, nationally, and worldwide.

Explore nursing topics and the synthesis of scientific knowledge through the critical appraisal of research studies. Examine nurses' role to support bioethical research principles to advocate and support participants. And, analyze the nurses' role in contributing to improving health and transforming health care using evidence-based practice, which is foundational for nurses as a problem-solving approach to the deliver the best healthcare outcomes.

Nursing leadership and management competencies and their relationship with high-quality clinical outcomes are explored. Leadership roles and responsibilities are analyzed for diverse patient populations within systems and across settings of care. Prerequisites: 326, 328, 336, 337, 360.

Current scientific research in the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)and the implications of this research in maintaining health and preventing illness are presented. Demonstration and supervised practice of a variety of mind-body therapies provide opportunities for hands-on experience. The third credit is earned through independent study and practice of one of the therapies presented during the course.

This course will introduce students to public health nursing, the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences. The interrelationship among public health theory, health policy, levels of prevention and evidence-based practices are applied to public health nursing practice. Grounded in social justice, students will analyze the social determinants of health and their impact on the health of populations.

This course focuses on a broad-based understanding and clinical application of mental health concepts. Students will explore the concepts of compassionate, holistic care that affect the person with altered mental health in structured and non-structured settings. Students analyze the nursing process as it relates to the impact mental health and mental illness has on individuals, families, communities, and the health care system.