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 is a crosslisted section of MIC 301 Fundamentals of Microbiology for nursing majors only.

Introduces principles of microbiology for students of biomedical sciences, biotechnology, medical technology, environmental engineering, and nursing degree programs. Examines the structure and biological functions of microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. Emphasizes the mechanisms by which microorganisms cause diseases in humans. Also includes an immunology unit that introduces the principles and uses of immunology in infectious disease diagnosis and treatment. The laboratory provides hands-on experience in techniques involved in isolation and characterization of microorganisms. Involves three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory weekly. Requires laboratory.

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.

Introduces students to scientific inquiry in nursing using a formal research approach. Discusses specific elements of the research process including problem identification, literature review, variables, research design, sampling concepts, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. Includes the processes of research dissemination, critique and application. Must be taken in program sequence.

Focuses on nursing as a profession, including its history, current stage of development, and future goals. Emphasizes attributes of the professional nurse and processes essential for competent professional practice, including critical thinking, information-seeking strategies, legal/ethical decision making, and communication skills. Must be taken in program sequence.

Introduces the concepts of health promotion as a framework for nursing practice, including health, motivation, therapeutic relationships, populations at risk, and stress management. Provides an opportunity to develop and implement a health-promotion program. Must be taken in program sequence.

Must be taken in program sequence

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. NUR 374 L must be taken concurrently.

Examines the characteristics and delivery of primary care/community-based health care. Identifies health risks of age groups across the life span within the context of family, culture and socioeconomic level. Addresses nursing roles focusing on risk assessment, health promotion, disease prevention, and evidenced-based interventions. Must be taken in program sequence.

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.

Studies clinical situations encountered in NUR 470L Nursing Therapeutics in Health Maintenance and Restoration. 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.

Focuses on leadership skills and behaviors that nurses apply in a wide range of clinical, managerial, and professional situations. Emphasizes career management, population health/wellness/prevention management, strategic planning, fiscal management, bioinformatics, risk management, and legal, ethical, and malpractice issues. Discusses professional advancement, job satisfaction, and burnout prevention. Also examines organizational frameworks to enhance empowerment in the work environment, cultural competency and diversity in the workplace, genetics and genomics, unions, labor laws, accreditation agencies, and professional influence. 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. NUR 470 L must be taken concurrently.

Examines the provision of community-based care in the current managed care environment. Explores concepts of health promotion, health restoration, case management, and rehabilitation in caring for individuals, families, or groups/populations in an assigned community setting.

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.

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