This course will focus on fundamental & advanced interpretation of12-lead ECG's and complex rhythm interpretation, with correlation to physical assessment of the patient and pathophysiology of disease states and the assessment & management by the APRN.
This course provides a framework for socialization into the professional nursing role and internalization of nursing values. Focus is on the health care delivery system, health care team members, and current trends in healthcare and nursing.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
This course focuses on human development from conception to death with an emphasis on the lifespan perspective. Cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral, sociocultural and ecological systems theories are explored as well as the impact of genetic and environmental factors.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
This course is an introduction to the structure and function of the human body. Topics covered include cell structure, function and biochemistry; characteristics of tissues; control systems and homeostasis; and skeletal, muscle, and nervous system function.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
NRSG 201 Human Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab
The course examines structures and functions associated with specific organ systems, and functional integration of these systems in homeostatic regulation of the body. Focus is on the endocrine, cardiovascular, urogenital, respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. Laboratory experiences.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
This course introduces students to core principles and concepts of microbiology. Topic areas include microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses), microbial taxonomy, technology used to study microorganisms, microbial life cycle/metabolism and host-microbe interaction. Laboratory experiences.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
This course introduces nutrition science knowledge that emphasizes 1) basic biochemical functions and interactions of macronutrients/ micronutrients and affect on human physiology, and 2) how nutrition research is used to develop dietary recommendations for individuals and specific populations.
This class is open to enrolled Emory College students only. You must email nrsgpermissioninquiries@emory.edu for registration approval and support.
NRSG 201 Human Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab
This course is for students interested in translating their basic science knowledge of anatomy and physiology into clinical practice. History and physical examination practice will integrate knowledge and develop the psychomotor skills necessary for assessing the health status of clients.
PRE-REQUISITES: Successful completion (with a grade of C or better) of NRSG201, Human Anatomy and Physiology I or BIOL121_OX, Human Anatomy and Physiology I
The course introduces a social responsibility framework as a model of professional nursing practice. Students will develop essential skills to provide compassionate, patient-centered nursing care and interpersonal skills to establish effective professional relationships. Experiential learning component.
Students are required to complete 25 hours of service learning during the semester, to be scheduled by student and service learning instructor. Times will be based on availability of activities at the service learning sites and may include weekend and evening options.
This course focuses on concepts of pathophysiology, how disrupting normal structures and functions of the human body leads to disease processes. Students will translate their understanding of pathophysiology to clinical decision making for health promotion, risk reduction and disease management.
This course provides students with fundamental principles of nursing practice. Students are presented with an introduction to critical thinking, bioethics, nursing process, evidence-based practice, communication, health promotion/disease prevention, informatics and patient- and family centered care.
NRSG 312 Foundations of Nursing Practice
The clinical component focuses on planning and implementing care for adults/older adult with alterations in health. Sessions focus on developing competency in basic nursing skills and related documentation. Emphasis is on evidenced based practice, quality and safety and cultural awareness.
The course prepares students to provide clinical prevention and population-based health care across the lifespan. Emphasis is on population-focused health promotion, disease and injury prevention care, and social determinants of health to improve the nation's health.
NRSG 310 Pathophysiology for Nurses
This course emphasizes pharmacotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of illness and the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of wellness in individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics for selected illnesses.
Students are introduced to concepts for achieving/maintaining quality of life and wellbeing at the individual/family/group/community/population level across the lifespan. Emphasis is on health promotion and disease/injury prevention, flourishing, healthy lifestyles, and health education and literacy.
Students will use critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to integrate and synthesize content related to planning and providing comprehensive nursing care. This course is designed to provide additional content review for success in transitioning to professional nursing practice.
NRSG 310 Pathophysiology for Nurses
Students will apply prior knowledge and use critical thinking skills to compare similarities and differences between commonly occurring illnesses that manifest as acute, life threatening conditions, or over time transition into chronic, debilitating or life-limiting illnesses.
NRSG 310 Pathophysiology for Nurses
Using a family centered approach; students address the unique responses of children and their families to acute and chronic illness. Emphasis is on health teaching, promotion, restoration and maintenance needs of children and their families.
NRSG 320 Pharmacology for Nurses
The course focuses on integration and synthesis of content from nursing, science, and humanities classes, with application to planning and providing comprehensive patient care. Emphasis on situational learning through structured opportunities allows students to develop and hone clinical judgment.
Honors Seminar is the first of four required courses focused on topics relevant to the development and completion of the honors thesis. Students will identify an area of interest and faculty mentor, and design their project purpose and develop a plan and timeline for completion.
NRSG 331 Honors Seminar
This is the second of four Honors Program courses designed to introduce topics relevant to the development and completion of an honors thesis. Emphasis is on developing skills in scholarship, critical thinking, divergent modes of inquiry, communication and ethical approaches to investigation.
Prerequisite 331: Honors Seminar or Instructor Approval.
This course emphasizes the development of professional roles of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse incorporating knowledge of professional identity, professional and personal management, and the health care system/practice environment.
DABSN Program Only
This course provides students with fundamental principles of nursing practice. Students are presented with an introduction to critical thinking, bioethics, nursing process, evidence-based practice, communication, health promotion/disease prevention, informatics and patient- and family centered care.
DABSN Program Only
This course emphasizes the role of research in nursing and healthcare. Students are introduced to a variety of methods of inquiry and participate in learning activities to develop skills necessary to understand and apply research findings to clinical nursing practice.
DABSN Program Only
This course covers pathophysiology and therapeutics associated with multiple disease conditions. Students will translate their understanding of pathophysiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to clinical decision making for health promotion, risk reduction and disease management.
DABSN Program Only
This course provides beginning level knowledge and psychomotor skills necessary for assessing client�s health status. Students will use the nursing process framework to elicit health histories and perform physical examinations in a systematic manner.
DABSN Program Only
This course covers pathophysiology and therapeutics associated with multiple disease conditions. Students will translate their understanding of pathophysiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to clinical decision making for health promotion, risk reduction and disease management.
DABSN Program Only
Students will apply prior knowledge and use critical thinking skills to compare similarities and differences between commonly occurring illnesses that manifest as acute, life threatening conditions, or over time transition into chronic, debilitating or life-limiting illnesses.
DABSN Program Only
The clinical component focuses on planning and implementing care for adults/older adult with alterations in health. Focus is on developing competency in basic nursing skills and related documentation. Evidenced based practice, quality and safety, and cultural awareness are emphasized.
DABSN Program Only
This simulated laboratory component focuses on competency in basic nursing skills, history and physical assessment, and related documentation. Emphasis is on quality and safety.
DABSN Program Only
The course introduces a social responsibility framework as a model of professional nursing practice. Students will develop essential skills to provide compassionate, patient-centered nursing care and interpersonal skills to establish effective professional relationships.
DABSN Program Only
This course emphasizes the role of research in nursing and healthcare. Students are introduced to a variety of methods of inquiry and participate in learning activities to develop skills necessary to understand and apply research findings to clinical nursing practice.
This course emphasizes the development of professional the baccalaureate nurse incorporating knowledge of professional identity, professional/personal management, the health care system/practice environment, effective teamwork/collaboration, patient- and family-centered care, and quality improvement.
NRSG 315 Population Health: Community and Public Health Nursing
This course provides beginning level knowledge and psychomotor skills necessary for assessing client's health status. Students will use the nursing process framework to elicit health histories and perform physical examinations in a systematic manner.
Students explore a variety of disciplinary perspectives related to incarceration and address the societal, cultural and health issues incarcerated women encounter. Students will reflect on their own values and perceptions of incarceration.
An introduction to the physiology, psychology, and culture of sleep with attention to how all three are factors in therapeutic interventions in sleep disorders.
NRSG 314 Clinical Practicum I
NRSG 326 Acute and Chronic Care
This course provides clinical experience with adults who have acute health problems and chronic condition exacerbations. Students provide patient and family centered care with emphasis on evidence-based intervention implementation, outcome documentation, collaboration, and communication.
NRSG 312 Foundations of Nursing Practice
NRSG 314 Clinical Practicum I
NRSG 408 Maternity and Reproductive Health Nursing
This course provides clinical practicum for the theory courses: Maternity & Reproductive Health. Students will extend critical thinking and clinical judgment to meet the physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs of clients and families in the clinical areas.
NRSG 314 Clinical Practicum I
NRSG 411 Mental Health Nursing
This course provides clinical practicum for the theory courses: Mental Health Nursing. Students will extend critical thinking and clinical judgment to meet the physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs of clients and families in the clinical areas.
NRSG 312 Foundations of Nursing Practice
NRSG 314 Clinical Practicum I
NRSG 328 Pediatric Nursing
This course provides clinical experience with children who have acute health problems and chronic condition exacerbations. Students provide patient and family centered care with emphasis on evidence-based intervention implementation, outcome documentation, collaboration, and communication.
NRSG 326 Acute and Chronic Care
This course begins with the principles of electricity of the heart and progresses to normal and abnormal ECG rhythm interpretation. Students learn to interpret 12-lead ECG's and complex rhythms in relation to changes in physical assessment findings, pathophysiology of disease, and management.
This course provides an overview of forensic nursing and the clinical application of forensic science. Focus is on the interface of healthcare and legal issues, e.g., murder, abuse, forensic evaluation, evidence collection/preservation, multidisciplinary teamwork, ethical/legal responsibilities, and prevention/intervention strategies.
NRSG 326 Acute and Chronic Care
This course focuses on care for clients experiencing complex and critical situation. The pathophysiologic basis of hemodynamic and cardiopulmonary instability, respiratory failure, and shock states will be explored.
NRSG 328 Pediatric Nursing
This elective course provides opportunities for students to enhance their understanding of the multiple specialty roles of pediatric nursing in the acute and ambulatory settings. Quality and safety, patient- and family-centered care and evidence based practice are emphasized.
Undergraduate nursing students gain practical skills in nursing research through structured research experiences. Working with a research mentor, students develop objectives. A course for students considering graduate study.
NRSG 315 Population Health: Community and Public Health Nursing
The goal of the course is to prepare undergraduate nursing students to provide population based health care to underserved rural populations. Students will then deliver evidence based healthcare services to an underserved rural population.
NRSG 326 Acute and Chronic Care
This course provides an overview of emergency nursing. Emphasis will be placed on nurse roles and responsibilities, patient- and family centered care biopsychosocial needs, triage, focused assessments and evaluation of care interventions, and legal/ethical factors influencing care.
Students will examine the science of gerontological nursing, current issues facing older adults, and the socioeconomic impact for this population. Approaches to common problems in older adults as well as myths and misconceptions about aging will be discussed.
This course examines the reproductive health and maternal nursing care of women across the continuum of preconception, antepartum, intra-partum, and postpartum care. A global perspective frames health promotion and disease prevention with emphasis on maternal-newborn dyads and their families.
This theory course focuses on diverse concepts and principles synthesized from the sciences and humanities to the professional practice of psychiatric mental health nursing. This course examines knowledge and skill acquisition to care for the mental health of patients across the continuum of care.
This course prepares nursing students to care for the person with cancer and their families. Focus is on the most common cancers in adults and addresses prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, symptom management, QOL issues, and health disparities on oncology outcomes.
NRSG 309 Social Responsibility and Bioethics in Nursing
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
This first course in the Leadership Scholars Program (LSP) will assess and leverage previous life/ work experiences. Students will experience team development, refine existing leadership strengths and styles, and establish a mentee relationship with a Nursing Leader for their leadership project.
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
This course focuses on the role of the generalist nurse in clinical research. Building on evidence based practice, students will critically evaluate research and explore the role of the nurse in clinical research. Ethical conduct of research will be emphasized.
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
This course focuses on principles underlying the teaching of adult learners in clinical settings with culturally diverse populations. Students will apply educational and psychological learning theories and pedagogies to health education using a variety of innovative teaching strategies.
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
This course emphasizes leadership theories, organizational structures, and management skills such as communication, teamwork, collaboration, conflict resolution, delegation, and supervision that contribute to cultures of quality and safety, workforce motivation and self-care of the nurse.
NRSG 309 Social Responsibility and Bioethics in Nursing
This course provides an introduction to the health care system, orienting the student to its overall structure, functions, and processes. It provides a social, political, and economic context for understanding contemporary health care systems and the organization and financing of health care.
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
Frameworks for nursing practice will be evaluated using Emory Health Care System (EHC) as an exemplar. Nursing and leadership theories, professional governance structures, patient safety, quality improvement, informatics, patient centered care, and care transformation models will be analyzed.
NRSG 371 Evidence Based Nursing Practice
This course focuses on the professional nursing role and concepts forming the basis of professional nursing practice in a global setting. Students will examine ethical and resource issues and the impact of culture and collective action for the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. and other countries.
NRSG 372 Professional Nursing: Concepts, Issues and Trends
The course focuses on health care systems, leadership, and advocacy. Themes include the legal, political, ethical and cultural influences on the health care system/delivery; health policy and advocacy including an emphasis on underserved populations; and global health and workforce issues.
NRSG 415 Honors Leadership for Accelerated BSN Students
NRSG 416 Perspectives in Professional Nursing - Management, Administration and Leadership
NRSG 425 Becoming a Professional Nurse
This is the third of three required courses focused on the development and completion of the leadership scholar project (LSP). Students will work with their assigned Nursing Leadership Mentor to garner experience in leadership situations, complete their project, and disseminate results.
Pre-Requisites: NRSG 415 Honors Leadership for ABSN Students and NRSG 416 Perspectives in Professional Nursing (Policy & Advocacy or Leadership, Administration and Management)
This course incorporates philosophy, principles and palliative care models in the setting of serious illness and death. Within the framework of patient and family centered care, the role of the nurse in facilitating coping, symptom management, and maximizing quality of life is explored.
This course fosters critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills in nursing practice by building on nursing science and related basic science knowledge. Using cases/scenarios, students will integrate and synthesize content previous learned for patient- and family-centered care.
NRSG 431 Clinical Practicum IV
This course prepares the student for transition to independent practice as a professional nurse. Course objectives will assist the student in understanding requirements for licensure, scope of practice, leadership/management roles, information technology, professional organizations, and advocacy.
This course prepares the novice healthcare provider with the knowledge and basic skills to assess and provide care for people with acute and/or chronic wounds. Simulation provides an opportunity to practice assessment and examine the roles of the interprofessional wound care team.
NRSG 330 Clinical Integration
NRSG 431 Clinical Practicum IV
This course is designed to integrate the clinical nursing, pathophysiology, and pharmacology content from all previous classes addressing situations involving multi-system and complex health challenges. The focus of this course is on the nursing management of acutely ill and injured client.
NRSG 430 Nursing in Complex Care Situations
Students will synthesize, expand and refine nursing concepts and clinical reasoning from all previous courses. Through an intensive clinical experience students will provide increasingly complex patient and family centered-care within a collaborative team model.
NRSG 314 Clinical Practicum I
Students will synthesize, expand and refine clinical reasoning to provide transitional, procedural care, and case management in the ambulatory setting. Students will analyze and interpret complex information with culturally diverse patients and families using available technology and informatics.
NRSG 328 Pediatric Nursing
In the classroom and simulated clinical environment, students will apply principles of nursing care to the critically ill or injured child and family. Interprofessional team experiences will provide opportunities for students to advocate for patients and families from diverse backgrounds.
Students will examine the science of gerontological nursing, current issues facing older adults, common acute and chronic health issues in older adults, and the socioeconomic impact of aging. Concepts of palliative care and emotional health related to transitions and losses will be explored.
DABSN Program Only
Supports Acute and Chronic II.
DABSN Program Only
This course examines the reproductive health and maternal nursing care of women across the continuum of preconception, antepartum, intra-partum, and postpartum care. A global perspective frames health promotion and disease prevention with emphasis on maternal-newborn dyads and their families.
DABSN Program Only
This theory course focuses on diverse concepts and principles synthesized from the sciences and humanities to the professional practice of psychiatric mental health nursing. This course examines knowledge and skill acquisition to care for the mental health of patients across the continuum of care.
DABSN Program Only
This course provides clinical practicum for the theory course of either: Mental Health or Childbearing Families. Students will extend critical thinking and clinical judgment to meet the physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs of clients and families in the clinical area.
DABSN Program Only
Using a family-centered approach, students address the unique responses of children and their families to acute and chronic illness. Emphasis is on health teaching, promotion, restoration and maintenance needs of children and their families.
DABSN Program Only
This course is designed to integrate the clinical nursing, pathophysiology, and pharmacology content from previous classes addressing situations involving multi-system and complex health challenges. The focus of this course is on the nursing management of acutely ill and injured client.
DABSN Program Only
This course provides clinical experience with adults or children who have acute health problems and chronic condition exacerbations. Students provide patient and family centered care through evidence-based interventions, outcome documentation, collaboration and communication.
DABSN Program Only
This course supports immersive clinical experiences with vulnerable populations in various global, regional, or local locations. Students will explore health challenges within the social, cultural, political, and economic factors that influence health outcomes.
BUNDLES scholars in partnership with Public Health Nurse (PHN) mentors will analyze social determinants of health, health disparities and other structural and social forces that impair health and impede health care. Students will reflect on these social determinants of health in their personal lives.
This course provides an understanding of clinical genetic practice (screening, assessment, treatment, counseling and bioethics). The course will review the physical and chemical basis of heredity and patterns of inheritance, and mechanisms producing adult onset and pediatric genetic conditions.
Focused on the unique health and care delivery needs of veterans and their families, students will learn best practices to address physiological and psychological conditions. Interprofessional care models within the Veteran Health Care System for improved health care outcomes and QOL are emphasized.
NRSG 331 Honors Seminar
NRSG 332 Scholarly Inquiry
Students will continue to work with their project mentor/course faculty to develop implementation skills for a thesis plan. By semester end, they will complete the methods and analysis portions of their projects. They will explore opportunities to establish a plan to disseminate their work.
NRSG 331 Honors Seminar
NRSG 332 Scholarly Inquiry
This course is designed to introduce topics relevant to the development and completion of the honors thesis. Under the advisement of the project mentor, students will complete the written thesis. The quality of work will be determined at a defense of the thesis before a certifying committee.
The course prepares students to provide clinical prevention and population-based health care across the lifespan. Emphasis is on population-focused health promotion, disease and injury prevention care, and social determinants of health to improve the nation�s health.
DABSN Program Only
Students will synthesize, expand and refine clinical reasoning to provide transitional, procedural care, and case management in the ambulatory setting. Students will analyze and interpret complex information with culturally diverse patients and families using available technology and informatics.
DABSN Program Only
This course prepares the student for transition to independent practice as a professional nurse. Course objectives will assist the student in understanding requirements for licensure, scope of practice, leadership/management roles, information technology, professional organizations, and advocacy.
DABSN Program Only
The final clinical course, students will synthesize, expand and refine their application of nursing concepts and clinical reasoning competencies through an intensive clinical experience with increasingly complex patient- and family-centered care within a collaborative teamwork model.
DABSN Program Only
This final course in the program of study supports synthesis of nursing knowledge, clinical practice, and professional behavior. Students will demonstrate professional communication, participate in clinical simulations, and prepare for NCLEX.
DABSN Program Only
NRSG 326 Acute and Chronic Care
This course explores the realm of holistic health, emphasizing the integration of body, mind, and spirit to support healing and transformation of self and others. Specific techniques and therapies associated with complementary and integrative health are introduced.
This course provides an immersive experience with vulnerable populations in various locations globally. Students will explore health challenges confronting a specific population, focusing on the nurse's role. Social, cultural, political, and economic factors that influence health will be examined.
Formerly called: Health Care Systems Immersion.
This interdisciplinary course examines birth in the context of global health. Themes of joy, fear, pain in childbirth, and meanings of pregnancy will be explored. Urgent issues in global reproductive health will be discussed, e.g., reproductive rights, equity, access, and quality of health care.
This course provides students with basic concepts of perioperative nursing. Emphasis is on multidisciplinary team collaboration for optimal outcomes for the operative patient. Clinical observation, discussion, and assignments provide the basis for synthesis of the perioperative experience.
Students will identify a focused area of study and work with faculty to define deliverables.
Focus is on the medical-legal examination of persons experiencing violence including care of victims and perpetrators, psychosocial and physical needs, ethics, sexual assault, elder abuse, child maltreatment, IPV, analysis of wounds/patterns of injury, evidence collection, preservation, and analysis.
Students will discuss primary care nursing competencies and integration of primary care delivery within the US healthcare system. Describing the scope of practice of the primary care RN role, students will integrate interprofessional collaboration principles and the impact on patient outcomes.
Normal physiology and disordered physiologic processes that lead to disease or injury for selected health problems will be discussed. Students will translate their knowledge of pathophysiology to the clinical setting, making decisions for health promotion, risk reduction and disease management.
This inter-professional elective is an introduction to core concepts in Global Health for clinical care delivery in resource-limited settings. Students will develop competencies across the domains of global health through formal didactic lectures and skills workshops.
