2023 - 2024 Catalog
Course Descriptions for NURS
Course Number: NURS 3301 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course focuses on the registered nurse’s synthesis of nursing knowledge and skills to perform a comprehensive health assessment of individuals across the lifespan. (2 Lec., 3 Lab.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Health Assessment for the RN
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course focuses on the registered nurse’s synthesis of nursing knowledge and skills to perform a comprehensive health assessment of individuals across the lifespan. (2 Lec., 3 Lab.)
Course Number: NURS 3315 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course assists the associate degree registered nurse's transition into the role of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse by broadening their existing knowledge with emphasis on: leadership, professionalism, patient advocacy, interdisciplinary healthcare, clinical reasoning and judgment, holistic and coordinated patient-centered care. This course integrates technology, nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice as a foundation of patient-centered care. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Transition to BSN
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course assists the associate degree registered nurse's transition into the role of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse by broadening their existing knowledge with emphasis on: leadership, professionalism, patient advocacy, interdisciplinary healthcare, clinical reasoning and judgment, holistic and coordinated patient-centered care. This course integrates technology, nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice as a foundation of patient-centered care. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 3324 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course introduces the basic concepts, processes, and applications of nursing research with a focus on the research role of the nurse in the delivery of quality patient care. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Nursing Research
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course introduces the basic concepts, processes, and applications of nursing research with a focus on the research role of the nurse in the delivery of quality patient care. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 3340 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: Introduces the concept of the community of persons/patients, families, and populations as the adult and geriatric patient in the healthcare system and the roles of the nurse in community services. Nurse roles include public policy, provision of primary care, prevention of disease or health risk, education and health promotion, and restoration. (2 Lec., 4 Lab.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Population-Focused Community Health I/Clinical
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: Introduces the concept of the community of persons/patients, families, and populations as the adult and geriatric patient in the healthcare system and the roles of the nurse in community services. Nurse roles include public policy, provision of primary care, prevention of disease or health risk, education and health promotion, and restoration. (2 Lec., 4 Lab.)
Course Number: NURS 3354 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course discusses the application of law and ethical principles related to the practice of nursing in differing areas of practice. Focus will be on the ethical/ legal issues professional nurses play as citizens, members of a profession, providers of care, and managers of care. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course discusses the application of law and ethical principles related to the practice of nursing in differing areas of practice. Focus will be on the ethical/ legal issues professional nurses play as citizens, members of a profession, providers of care, and managers of care. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 4235 (2 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course provides a multidisciplinary background in the science of healthcare quality management. Students will learn to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans, using a quality indicator assessment program, as the framework to develop a paper that identifies quality indicators, their measurements and nursing interventions to improve the quality measurement. Valued-based purchasing will be defined and interventions to assure quality and cost containment will be discussed. (2 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Health Care Quality
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course provides a multidisciplinary background in the science of healthcare quality management. Students will learn to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans, using a quality indicator assessment program, as the framework to develop a paper that identifies quality indicators, their measurements and nursing interventions to improve the quality measurement. Valued-based purchasing will be defined and interventions to assure quality and cost containment will be discussed. (2 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 4314 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course examines the theoretical and conceptual bases of nursing to encourage the student to critique, evaluate, and utilize appropriate nursing theory within their own practice. Focus will be on a variety of theories from nursing. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Theoretical Principles of Nursing
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course examines the theoretical and conceptual bases of nursing to encourage the student to critique, evaluate, and utilize appropriate nursing theory within their own practice. Focus will be on a variety of theories from nursing. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 4323 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course explores U.S. health care delivery organizations and payment systems. Perspectives of providers, institutions, insurers, and health care workers are described. The role of information in the continuity of care among institutions and inter-disciplinary care teams is articulated. The electronic information infrastructure is examined with implications for nursing practice. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Healthcare Organization and Informatics
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course explores U.S. health care delivery organizations and payment systems. Perspectives of providers, institutions, insurers, and health care workers are described. The role of information in the continuity of care among institutions and inter-disciplinary care teams is articulated. The electronic information infrastructure is examined with implications for nursing practice. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 4358 (3 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course explores the policies that influence healthcare in the U.S. and global healthcare delivery systems. Topics include healthcare policy development, quality assurance and quality improvement, legislative advocacy, disaster preparedness, bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, environmental health, levels of prevention, and the national health initiatives. (3 Lec.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Public and Global Health Policy
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course explores the policies that influence healthcare in the U.S. and global healthcare delivery systems. Topics include healthcare policy development, quality assurance and quality improvement, legislative advocacy, disaster preparedness, bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, environmental health, levels of prevention, and the national health initiatives. (3 Lec.)
Course Number: NURS 4465 (4 Credit Hours) New course added January 23, 2024
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Description: This course emphasizes leadership and management theories in communication and conflict resolution, budgeting, human resource management, quality and safety, risk management, change, delegation, decision making, and current issues and trends. Clinical experiences focus on management of issues and interactive observation of leaders and managers in a variety of settings. (7 Ext.)
Listed by Campus(es): BHC, ECC, MVC, NLC
Course Title: Leadership and Management/Clinical
This is an Upper-Division Course Number.Course Description: This course emphasizes leadership and management theories in communication and conflict resolution, budgeting, human resource management, quality and safety, risk management, change, delegation, decision making, and current issues and trends. Clinical experiences focus on management of issues and interactive observation of leaders and managers in a variety of settings. (7 Ext.)
ACGM (Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual) Courses
WECM (Workforce Education Course Manual) Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for general academic transfer among community, state, and technical colleges in Texas; and state public four-year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.
WECM (Workforce Education Course Manual) Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as workforce education (technical) courses offered for credit and CEUs (Continuing Education Units). While these courses are designed to transfer among state community colleges, they are not designed to automatically transfer to public four-year colleges and universities.