BSN 400 – Issues and Trends in Nursing

Students are introduced to their new position as scholar-practitioners of nursing. They look at how the American healthcare delivery system has changed, how critical information technology is, and what steps might be taken to improve patient care regarding quality, safety, and health outcomes. Students consider essential concerns and developments in modern nursing and healthcare practice, as well as the role of economic, ethical, legal, and political factors and their effects on professional ideals. Through weekly conversations and assignments, students examine and share their experiences in the context of current nursing concerns, such as the nurse shortage, workforce difficulties, healthcare financing, professional organizations, and diversity. In addition to the problems at work, they are required to investigate and suggest solutions for these nursing-related problems. The RN/BSN program’s first nursing course teaches students how to use William University’s resources to improve their writing abilities. Additionally, the tools necessary for success at WU are introduced to the students.

BSN 405 – Health Assessment

This course provides students with the chance to acquire the information and skills necessary to gather data for assessing the health condition of individuals. They are taught the physical examination skills of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, which are used to evaluate central bodily systems throughout the lifespan. They receive hands-on experience with interviewing strategies and communication skills for obtaining patient histories and discuss clinical assessment’s psychological, social, and cultural components. In addition, students study the incorporation of data to drive nursing practice and ethical standards. Utilizing interactive simulations, students apply knowledge and demonstrate comprehension of health assessment procedures.

BSN 410 – Nursing Leadership

This course examines the professional nurse’s coordination role within health care delivery using a systems perspective and critical thinking techniques. The course examines contemporary management, leadership, and change theories and relates them to nursing practice. Focuses on synthesizing this knowledge to produce novel and creative nursing practice approaches. The course applies theoretical and empirical leadership concepts through supervised experiences gathered in local healthcare organizations.

BSN 415 – Healthcare Information Technology for Nurses

Nursing informatics supports nursing practice in education, administration, research, patient safety, quality outcomes, core standards, and outcomes responsive to nurses. This course focuses on the meaningful use of information technology in the delivery of nursing services, including the collection, storage, retrieval, and communication of data; information system safeguards; ethical and legal issues; and information management to promote patient safety and care quality.

BSN 420 – Evidence Based Decision-Making for Nurses

This course introduces evidence-based decision-making to provide the highest quality treatment to healthcare customers. The EBP Process is explained with a focus on critically evaluating selected research designs and methods to acquire the information and skills necessary to build best nursing practices. The course integrates ethical issues for the implementation of evidence into practice, including the treatment of human subjects in the conduct of research.

BSN 425 – Healthcare Advocacy & Promotion

The advancement of health in the United States depends on the lobbying efforts of nurses. In this course, students study the influence of advocacy in politics, legislation, and professional organizations. Students learn how contemporary concerns, processes, policies, and environments influence advocacy.They analyze access, fairness, affordability, and social justice issues in healthcare policy. Students study healthcare policy by utilizing research in addition to legislative, regulatory, and financial processes to improve the quality and safety of nursing practice within the healthcare system. This course equips students with the information and skills necessary to advocate for vulnerable groups, advance social justice, and effect good social change.

BSN 430 – Healthcare Policy and Issues

This course examines the healthcare policymaking process, the impact of healthcare policy on healthcare and broader social policy, the impact of political and economic forces on healthcare policy, and the need for health services organizations to engage in strategic government relations to influence policy. The course examines the historical evolution of U.S. healthcare policies, contemporary U.S. policy concerns and difficulties, the function of government relations within the health services organization, and how healthcare organizations deal with these governmental associations.

BSN 435 – Public Health Nursing

This course introduces registered nurses to community health principles using a population-focused nursing methodology. Topics include preventive disease levels, epidemiological concepts, community assessment, environmental health, disaster preparedness, professional nursing responsibilities, and interprofessional collaboration in various community contexts. In particular community settings, the focus is on health promotion, risk reduction, and illness management across the lifetime.

BSN 440 – Influencing Quality in Nursing

The standard for nurses is evidence-based practice. This course teaches students, as scholar-practitioners, how to use evidence in clinical decision-making to maintain a safe healthcare environment. Students apply course ideas by identifying a contemporary problem in nursing practice, synthesizing, and evaluating literature, and identifying practice adjustments. Students consider clinical guidelines and nurse-sensitive indicators in designing quality and safety initiatives. Students use quality improvement models to promote practice changes.

BSN 499 – Capstone for BSN Students

This practicum course will expand on the concepts and information acquired in previous nursing courses, allowing students to apply theories and concepts related to nursing leadership, nursing research, and care administration. A clinical internship will improve these abilities. Students will either develop or propose a quality improvement initiative for their workplace.