Michelle Pinto

A course to prepare first-year nursing students for the demands of higher education and foster the development of a professional nursing identity. The course promotes academic success and social development by fostering personal and academic goal setting, evaluating personal learning styles, and developing successful study strategies. Students will gain or improve study techniques and strategies, research literacy, time management skills, organizational skills, speaking and writing skills, personal development, interpersonal skills, career goals, appreciation for cultural diversity, and orientation to university resources and services.

A course to prepare first-year nursing students for the demands of higher education and foster the development of a professional nursing identity. The course promotes academic success and social development by fostering personal and academic goal setting, evaluating personal learning styles, and developing successful study strategies. Students will gain or improve study techniques and strategies, research literacy, time management skills, organizational skills, speaking and writing skills, personal development, interpersonal skills, career goals, appreciation for cultural diversity, and orientation to university resources and services.

Introduction to the discipline of professional nursing. Learners will examine individual values and beliefs in relation to foundational concepts, including the nursing process, and behaviors that define the discipline. The purpose of course is to build a foundation of self as nurse. The emphasis is placed on socializing the learner as an active, developing professional within the legal and ethical context and dimensions of the discipline. Learners will explore the relationship to self, individuals, families and communities utilizing the art of nursing presence and therapeutic communication. The AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice were used to build this course.

Provides an introduction to the discipline of professional nursing. Learners examine their values and beliefs in relation to the basic concepts and behaviors that define the discipline. Promoting health, guiding persons through the health care experience and shaping the health care environment are presented as key processes to maximize health for individuals, families, groups and communities. Emphasis is placed on socializing the learner as an active, developing professional within the context and dimensions of the discipline. Learners will explore their relationship to self, individuals, families and communities as well as to the profession of nursing.

Prepares nursing students to promote health and provide care for individuals, families, groups, and populations in the community with a special emphasis upon vulnerable populations. Strategies designed to promote the health of populations, guide populations to reduce identified health risks, and to shape health policy will be explored. The health promotion and disease prevention focus will be guided by Healthy People 2020 objectives. Principles of epidemiology, demography, environmental sciences, community organization, and health care political, economic, and legal influences are integrated with nursing concepts and principles to provide the basis for community nursing practice. Community and aggregate strengths and risks are identified through community health nursing process.

This course prepares nursing students to promote health and provide care for clients across the lifespan, across local, national, and global settings and at all levels of the health care delivery continuum, with an emphasis on population health.

This course prepares nursing students to promote health and well-being and prevent disease for clients across the lifespan, across local, national, and global settings and at all levels of the health care delivery continuum, with an emphasis on emerging and current issues with diverse client populations.

This course prepares nursing students to promote health and well-being and prevent disease for clients across the lifespan, across local, national, and global settings and at all levels of the health care delivery continuum, with an emphasis on emerging and current issues with diverse client populations.

This course prepares nursing students to promote health and well-being and prevent disease for clients across the lifespan, across local, national, and global settings and at all levels of the health care delivery continuum, with an emphasis on emerging and current issues with diverse client populations.

This course prepares nursing students to promote health and well-being and prevent disease for clients across the lifespan, across local, national, and global settings and at all levels of the health care delivery continuum, with an emphasis on emerging and current issues with diverse client populations.