Undergraduate Nursing Core (NSG)

The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

Examines selected physiological and psychosocial factors that influence and characterize human growth and development throughout the life span. Includes lecture/discussion and class participation activities.

This course provides a foundation in elementary statistics essential to read, understand, and apply evidence-based health care literature. Concepts of measurement, measurement reliability, sampling methods, and common statistical analysis will be examined. An understanding of course concepts will be developed through an examination of selected evidence-based health care literature.

Prepares students to perform a health assessment on an adult and child. Emphasizes a systematic and comprehensive health assessment as a database for identifying nursing diagnoses. Highlights developmental aspects, sociocultural influences, health-illness perceptions, normal variations of health-status findings, and documentation throughout the course. Students become familiar with the use of assessment instruments through practice in a supervised on-campus laboratory. Must be taken in program sequence.

This course focuses on health promotion and disease prevention for individuals and families. Students will apply the nursing process to promote holistic health across the lifespan using evidence to critically examine and identify influences on health and well-being. Students will analyze national health indicators, situational and contextual issues that impact wellness and group functioning that serve as a basis for identifying the needs and disparities in health and wellness.

Focuses on family and group dynamics, and the application of the nursing process to promote holistic family health across the lifespan. Explores situational and contextual issues that impact family and group functioning. Discusses key issues related to crisis intervention with families and groups and the family's presence during critical experiences of health care. Identifies the imperative need for ongoing research on caring for families and groups by nurses. Must be taken in program sequence.

This foundational nursing course enables students to develop an understanding of the science of professional nursing using the Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice and Code of Ethics as a framework for the professional nursing role. Students are introduced to the role of the nurse in interprofessional collaborative practice that promotes wellness, manages illness and achieves quality and safety outcomes. Through the application and understanding of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and predictive management, students are prepared to become situational thinkers to provide evidence-based, culturally relevant, patient-centered care across the lifespan.

The practicum provides an opportunity to apply the science of nursing to the provision of holistic, culturally relevant, evidence-based, patient-centered care for patients, families, and populations across the lifespan. Students will apply the science of nursing, as they become situational thinkers and predictive managers of care.

This course builds upon communication literacy concepts through application of computer and information technology that impacts nursing practice. The use of information management systems is explored in relationship to interprofessional communication, management of data to inform knowledge, prevent and mitigate error, and support decision-making. Emphasis is placed on monitoring trends in practice and in outcomes of care. Students are introduced to research and evidence-based practice standards in information systems to improve cost-effectiveness, safety, and quality.

This course examines the cultural, political, economic, educational, environmental and health systems that impact healthcare in local, regional and global populations. Concepts of public health, epidemiology and community assessment will support a primary prevention and wellness focus. The value of relationships and collaborative practice for understanding and addressing community-identified needs, increasing inclusivity and diversity, and for strengthening community assets will be explored. Students will advocate for populations using health promotion, educational, and community empowerment strategies.

This course promotes wellness and a healthier lifestyle for individuals, families and populations, across the wellness-illness continuum. Selected concepts and exemplars provide a foundation for the development of conceptual thinking and skills to facilitate clinical reasoning. Through the application and understanding of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and predictive management, students will use situational thinking to provide evidence-based, culturally relevant, patient-centered collaborative care across the lifespan.

The practicum provides an opportunity to promote wellness and a healthier lifestyle for individuals, families and populations, across the wellness-illness continuum. Students will apply critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and predictive management; using situational thinking to provide evidence-based, culturally relevant, patient-centered collaborative care across the lifespan in clinical settings.

Foundations for evidence-based practice in nursing. Specific elements of evidence-based practice include formulating the clinical question, conducting a search strategy, critically appraising the evidence, and implementation of evidence in the clinical environment. Basic concepts of the research process will form the foundation for assessing the quality of evidence. Explores the relationship between evidence-based findings and nursing practice to achieve favorable and cost-containing client outcomes. Must be taken in program sequence. This course is equivalent to NBC 348.

This course will provide students an opportunity to integrate academic study with community engagement. Seminar participation and experiential learning will foster the development of cultural sensitivity, civic engagement, advocacy, collaborative practice, ethical decision making and social responsibility. Experiential learning can occur across populations and can include urban, rural, and global settings. The global health international experience will be processed through the UB Study Abroad and will incur and additional cost.

Elective open to non-nursing students. Focuses on current research on human sexual behavior, including physiological response during sexual activity, early development of sexual attitudes, varieties of sexual relationships, and social/moral issues related to sexual attitudes.

Explores the evolution, current status, characteristics, and future directions of professional nursing and analyses the foundations of modern nursing. Discusses relationships between historical events and evolving nursing science, theory, and practice. Information seeking methodologies are analyzed with emphasis placed on critical thinking as an approach to making professional decisions. Highlights concepts related to critical thinking, development and critique of persuasive arguments, current issues in nursing, and small group communication. Must be taken in program sequence.

Foundational nursing course; enables students to begin developing an understanding of the professional nursing role. Core nursing concepts, (caring, compassion, wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, therapeutic use of self) are integrated as the student learns about the complex nature of providing nursing care of individuals and their families. Must be taken in program sequence. NSG 373 must be taken concurrently.

This is a basic nursing therapeutics practicum course which provides laboratory, simulation and clinical practicum opportunities to provide holistic, patient centered care using the nursing process and evidenced based practice concepts. The students will begin to develop and acquire clinical reasoning skills as they learn to provide nursing care to assist individuals and families in achieving optimal health. Students begin to organize and manage nursing care to achieve safe and quality health outcomes.

Describes the characteristics of primary health care and its delivery. Examines the nurse's role in delivery of primary health/community-based services focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and management of episodic illness. Addresses health risks of age groups across the life span within the context of family, culture, and socioeconomic level. Healthy People Goals and other national initiatives provide direction for developing strategies. Must be taken in program sequence.

Introduces students to the health care environment emphasizing the interface between the health care delivery system and informatics. Explores various environments where people obtain health care, including clinics, hospitals, and community settings. Students become familiar with health care terminology, government health policies, and the influence of managed care organizations on the health care environment.

This course prepares undergraduate students to identify and address multiple ethical issues arising within professional practice and the dynamic health care delivery system. With the use of ethical theories and principles the student will apply ethical decision making models to address dilemmas within practice, health care systems, and global communities. This course is designed to provide strategies for promoting ethical practice and developing ethical leadership within the technological health care environment.

This course explores concepts of public health and principles of population health within the context of the interdisciplinary public health system domestically and globally. Core functions of public health, principles of epidemiology, and public health nursing interventions will be used to examine population health problems and concerns. The use of evidence-based interventions and theories of behavior change will be analyzed as strategies to improve cost, access, and quality of population health. Within the public health nurse¿s role, the use of risk communication, informatics, and social interventions to implement public health laws, policies to effect change in population health will be explored. Public health disaster preparedness and response to natural disasters and terrorist threats will be emphasized.

This course builds on the foundation of Wellness and Illness I, expanding student¿s abilities to promote wellness and a healthier lifestyle for individuals, families and populations, across the wellness-illness continuum. Selected concepts and exemplars provide for further development of conceptual thinking and skills to facilitate clinical reasoning. Through the application and understanding of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and predictive management, students will continue to broaden their situational thinking abilities to provide evidence-based, culturally relevant, patient-centered collaborative care across the lifespan.

This course builds on the foundation of Wellness and Illness I Practicum, providing an opportunity to promote wellness and a healthier lifestyle for individuals, families and populations, across the wellness-illness continuum in varying health care settings. Students will apply critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and predictive management; using situational thinking to provide evidence-based, culturally relevant, patient-centered collaborative care across the lifespan in professional practice.

This course examines concepts of quality health outcomes and safety within the context of professional nursing practice. Systems and processes are explored and analyzed to promote and sustain quality health outcomes, and safe, effective healthcare environments. Focus is placed on the role the professional nurse as leader in a collaborative practice in a patient- centered, evidence- based culture of safety.

This course examines the policy and politics involved in the access, cost and quality of healthcare. Students will address economic considerations faced by institutions and key stakeholders. The role of the nurse as a member of the interprofessional team, within the context of the complex healthcare environment, is explored.

This course builds on the foundation of Wellness and Illness I and II, preparing students to transition into professional practice as a member of the interprofessional team. Students will expand their abilities to recognize evolving situations for individuals, families and populations across the lifespan. Focus is placed on synthesizing and analyzing the meaning of assessment findings and relevant data, connecting this information to previous knowledge and experiences to prioritize care and promote quality and safe outcomes.

This course builds on the foundation of Wellness and Illness I and II Practicum, preparing students for the complexities of practice as they transition into professional practice as a member of the interprofessional team. Students will recognize evolving situations for individuals, families and populations across the lifespan. Students will synthesize and analyze assessment findings and relevant trending data, connecting this information to previous knowledge and experiences to prioritize care and promote quality and safe outcomes.

The purpose of this course is to prepare the baccalaureate nursing student for transition to professional nursing practice as a leader from the bedside to the boardroom. Emphasis is placed on guiding decisions and collaborative practice through the use of ethical decision-making. Students will be prepared to enter practice with the ability to identify, plan, and implement evidence-based strategies to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes across diverse populations.

This course explores the role of the professional nurse in care coordination to transform healthcare, initiating at the bedside and extending to transition in care. Relationships between health information technology; collaboration; care coordination; and evidence-based, patient-centered care are examined as central forces that impact health outcomes across populations and systems. Focus is placed on developing students¿ abilities to participate in care management of healthcare consumers in a variety of healthcare settings to maximize their independence and quality of life.

Clinical course that provides students opportunities to pursue, independently and in depth, a specific nursing area of particular interest. Expects ongoing student, faculty, and preceptor collaboration. Students participate in selecting the site for clinical experience. Must be taken in program sequence.

Covers goals of health maintenance and restoration for individuals with acute and chronic illness. Presents major physical and mental illnesses and disabilities across the life span through exemplar case studies that deal with nursing interventions related to functional health, homeostatic regulation, protection against harm, and psychological function. Also examines effective use of the health-care system. Must be taken in program sequence. NUR 470 L must be taken concurrently.

Examines nursing management skills and behaviors with applicability in a wide variety of client-care settings. Emphasizes organizational structure and behavior, applying information management and case-management techniques to the management of care for groups of clients, and applying principles of delegation, supervision, and personnel evaluation to management of care provided by others. Must be taken in program sequence.

Covers goals of health maintenance and restoration for individuals with acute and chronic illness. Presents major physical and mental illnesses and disabilities across the life span through exemplar case studies that deal with nursing interventions related to functional health, homeostatic regulation, protection against harm, and psychological function. Also examines effective use of the health-care system. Must be taken in program sequence. NUR 470 L must be taken concurrently.

Prepares the baccalaureate nursing student for transition to professional nursing practice as a leader/manager. Discusses organizational structures and processes of heath care organizations as context for professional nursing practice. Analyzes the collaborative roles of the nurse as leader and manager within the framework of legislative, economic, and regulated health care environments. Explores the legal and ethical parameters which influence the role of the nurse as leader/manager. A personal career plan is developed that incorporates strategies and processes for successful transition and practice.

Reviews knowledge and skills required to care for patients throughout their life spans who have complex, life-threatening health problems, including trauma, problems with oxygenation, disruptions of the nervous system, and disruption of the immune system. Emphasizes assessment skills and nursing interventions to restore physiological and psychological stability. Must be taken in program sequence.

Content derived from clinical situations encountered in NUR 478L Nursing Therapeutics in Complex Acute Care. Students share clinical reports and raise critical questions regarding practice issues and propose and evaluate responses. Issues focus on direct care, health-system concerns, and professional interactions at both the client and system levels. Must be taken in program sequence.

Reviews knowledge and skills required to care for patients throughout their life spans who have complex, life-threatening health problems, including trauma, problems with oxygenation, disruptions of the nervous system, and disruption of the immune system. Emphasizes assessment skills and nursing interventions to restore physiological and psychological stability. Must be taken in program sequence.

Outstanding undergraduate students can enrich their education and gain personal recognition through participation in a supervised teaching experience with a Nursing faculty member. In concert with the faculty member, student teachers will have an opportunity to develop their leadership, management, teaching, technology, and presentation skills in a course previously completed.

Accompanies a summer clinical experience in which students provide patient care at a health-care agency in the Buffalo area. Focus of discussions is on issues that arise out of patient care and the clinical setting such as communication, clinical skills, interactions with colleagues, and documentation of care that is provided. Must be taken in program sequence.

Students accepted into the School of Nursing Honors Research program must complete this course twice, during both semesters of the senior year. It will provide an opportunity for outstanding undergraduate nursing students to enrich their education and gain personal recognition through participation in the scholarly work of a research faculty member. In concert with a faculty member, the student will conduct a research project that culminates into a senior thesis of publication quality.

Supplements regular offerings of the department. Students must secure the instructor's permission before registering for an independent study.