Undergraduate (2091) Graduate (2091)
Fall Term Undergraduate Electives (2091)
You can register for these courses without being enrolled in a program. Registration deadline to avoid a penalty fee is Wednesday, July 9, 2008.
- For more information please call:
- 412-624-9670 or
- 1-888-747-0794
Independent Study (NUR 1061)
An independent study is a student-initiated experience planned to permit students to pursue an area of interest in nursing with guidance of a faculty preceptor.
- When: By Appointment
- Where: By Appointment
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 1 - 3 cr.
Courses
- 24600 – John O’Donnell
- 25212 – Kimberly Brooks
- 25214 – Bettina Dixon
- 25216 – Paula Sherwood
- 25218 – Leslie Hoffman
- 25220 – Michael Beach
- 25222 – Eileen Chasens
- 25224 – Lisa Bernardo
- 25226 – Janet Stewart
- 25228 – Yvette Conley
- 25230 – Rosemary Hoffmann
- 25232 – Joanne Malenock
- 25234 – Annette Dabbs
- 25236 – Ann Mitchell
- 25238 – Richard Henker
- 25240 – Donna Abriola
- 25242 – Sandra Engberg
- 25244 – Alice Blazeck
- 25246 – Rachel Libman
- 25248 – Julius Kitutu
- 25250 – Denise Charron-Prochownik
- 25252 – Mary Happ
- 25254 – Margaret Rosenzweig
- 25256 – Sheila Alexander
- 25258 – Thomas Miller
- 25260 – Jason Dechant
- 25262 – Dorothy Hawthorne - Burdine
- 25376 – Donna Caruthers
- 30330 – Helen Burns
- 30331 – Betty Braxter
- 30332 - Staff
Leadership in Professional Nursing Practice (NUR 1130) 24752
Course is designed to provide knowledge and skills needed for implementation of leadership and management roles within professional nursing practice. Units of content focus on change in the healthcare delivery system, leadership and management theories, effective interpersonal skills for leadership, organizational theories, emerging models of care delivery, planned change, information management, financial management, and performance evaluation. Students critically analyze influences on leadership within healthcare today and plan for active participation in the process of transformational leadership.
- Prerequisite: NUR 1070 or Program in Nursing
- When: Wednesdays, 9 a.m. – 1:55 p.m.
- Where: 117 Victoria Building
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 3 cr.
- Instructor: Rose Constantino
Leadership in Military Nursing (NUR 1640) 24622
This elective course is designed to enhance nurse cadets' leadership ability and technical competence. This course has two components: leadership training and precepted clinical experience.
- When: TBA
- Where: TBA
- Who: School of Nursing ROTC Students Only
- Credits: 3 cr.
- Instructor: Michael Beach
Applied Adult CP Critical Care (NUR 1710) 24766
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply concepts related to the cardiopulmonary assessment and multidisciplinary management of critically ill adults. Through the use of presentations and laboratory sessions, the student will explore the pathophysiologic basis of critical cardiopulmonary instability, physical and technologic assessment parameters, and treatment modalities commonly utilized in the care of these patients in the intensive care unit. Interactive laboratory demonstration of vasoactive drugs, arterial, central venous and pulmonary artery monitoring, artificial airways, mechanical ventilation and rhythm strip interpretation will be provided. Critical clinical decision making and nursing responsibilities specific to dysrhythmia interpretation are addressed, including institution of appropriate immediate nursing intervention, pharmacological, and electrical therapeutic interventions based on advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) algorithms. Further, students will have the opportunity to synthesize and apply this information within patient care scenarios of respiratory and cardiac instability.
- When: Mondays, 8 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
- Where: 122 Victoria Building
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 3 cr.
- Instructor: Alice Blazeck
Introduction to Legal Nursing Consulting/Forensic (NUR 1820) 24664
Provides introductory information in areas of law, process of a lawsuit, and ethical/legal/social issues re: Nurse Consulting and Forensic Nursing. Designed to provide overview of how nursing knowledge/skills can be transferred into legal nurse consulting and forensic nursing examination. Approaches and methods are discussed including screening cases, analyzing health professional malpractice cases, hospital/medical records review, quality assurance and risk management and preparing effective reports/abstracts. Activities in the development of investigative techniques in forensic nursing included.
- Prerequisite: NUR 0082
- When: Tuesday, 5 p.m. – 7:55 p.m.
- Where: 129 Victoria Building
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 3 cr.
- Instructor: Rose Constantino
Advanced Practice in Forensic Nursing (NUR 1821) 24778
Course is designed to provide an opportunity to combine nursing knowledge with forensic science in scientific investigation, evidence collection/preservation, analysis, and leg al documentation. Techniques of forensic assessment and physical examination, evidence collection, chain of custody, forensic documentation that withstands courtroom scrutiny, and challenges of the role will be discussed. Participation in case analyses including ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) allow for critique and development of skills relevant to various roles in forensic nursing practice.
- Prerequisite: NUR 1820
- When: Tuesdays, 5 p.m. – 7:50 p.m.
- Where: 129 Victoria Building
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 3 cr.
- Instructor: Staff
Fundamentals Distr/Mass Casulty Care (NUR 1865) 24804
This course is designed to build on the base of medical surgical nursing and to provide the student with an under standing of the causes, prevention, and mitigation of disasters and insight into the disaster management system nationally and locally. The course will include content relevant to all disciplines in the disaster care continuum and then focus on Nursing’s role in these systems.
- Prerequisite: NUR 0082
- When: Tuesdays, 4 p.m. – 5:55 p.m.
- Where: 117 Victoria Building
- Who: School of Nursing Students Only
- Credits: 2 cr.
- Instructor: Michael Beach
Fall Term Graduate Electives: 2091 (08/25/2008 - 12/13/2008)
Graduate Level Courses that Can be Taken Without being Enrolled in a Program or Electives for Current Students
Deadline August 25, 2008- For more information please call:
- 412-624-9670 or
- 1-888-747-0794
Children w/Disabilities: Clin 1 (NUR 2079)
- When: Wednesday, 12 p.m.— 2-55 p.m.
- Where: 5073 Forbes Tower
- Credits: 2 cr.
Intro to Genetics and Molecular Therapeutics (NUR 2680)
- When: Tuesday, 1 p.m.— 3:50 p.m.
- Where: 123 Victoria Building
- Credits: 3 cr.
Intro Legal Nurse Consulting/Forensics (NUR 2820)
- When: Wednesday, 5 p.m.— 7:50 p.m.
- Where: 129 Victoria Building
- Credits: 3 cr.
Advanced Practice in Forensic Nursing
(NUR 2821)
- When: Tuesday, 5 p.m.— 7:50 p.m.
- Where: 129 Victoria Building
- Credits: 3 cr.