Schedule of Classes for Partnership Students
Digital Nursing textbooks are accessed through RedShelf, an electronic text platform. RedShelf is integrated within each course via the Blackboard learning management system.
For General Education courses, please contact your course instructor for the required textbook information. There is an option for textbooks to be shipped. Please work with Textbook Services to facilitate obtaining your course text(s).
Nursing Courses: Offered each 8-week session*
NURS 240R-Pathophysiology
This course will provide an in-depth look at pathophysiologic conditions in the adult. The course is set up using interactive online modules, course readings, and other activities developed for the adult learner.
- Elsevier Publishing #9780323639088 Huether & McCance Understanding Pathophysiology- With Access, 2019, 7th ed.
NURS 335R-Health Assessment Strategies to Promote Wellness
In this course the student learns to apply health assessment data to plan health literate and culturally appropriate strategies for health education and promotion.
- Aviva Publishing #978-1-63618-176-9 Osborne, H. Health Literacy from A-Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, 2022, 3rd ed.
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Elsevier Publishing #9780323846295 Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 2022, 10th ed. (e-book) *This textbook can be rented through a link within the Blackboard course shell for approximately $45.*
NURS 475R-Care of Populations
This course involves the management of the populations’ response to actual and potential health problems. Topics include planning and priority setting in the community, epidemiology, vulnerable populations, health and health care disparities, and global health issues.
- Elsevier Publishing #978032358224-7 Stanehope, M. & Lancaster, J., Public Health Nursing : Pop Centered Health Care in the Community, 2020, 10th ed.
NURS 472R-Scholarly Inquiry: Connecting Research to Practice
The focus of this course is for students to learn how to utilize the principles of nursing research to integrate all levels of evidence and to develop projects to improve patient and/or system outcomes. Within this course, the first capstone is completed.
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Jones & Bartlett Publishing #9781284122909 Schmidt & Brown Evidence-based Practice for Nurses, 2019, 4th ed.
NURS 484R-Quality, Safety and the Professional Nurse
This course focuses on knowledge, skills, and attitudes required in analyzing, developing, and implementing safe patient care practices. Students will learn about IOM, dimensions of quality/core competencies, FOCUS-PDSA, quality improvement tools, use of decision support systems, and other topics. Capstone II is included in this course.
- Jones & Bartlett Publishing #99781284206531 Finkelman, A. Quality Improvement: A Guide for Integration in Nursing, 2022, 2nd ed.
NURS 480R-Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Systems
This course explores the role of the nurse as a leader and manager of nursing resources with topics related to professional development. Capstone III is included in this course.
- Elsevier Publishing #978032344193-7 Yoder-Wise, P. Leading and Managing in Nursing, 2019, 7thed.
NURS 350R-Movies and Mental Illness
- Hogrefe #9780889374614 Wedding, D., & Niemiec, R.M., Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2014, 4th ed.
Required for all courses:
- APA #9781433832154 American Psychological Assoc., Publication Manual of the APA, 2020, 7th Ed.
