Nursing, Undergraduate

Department Chair: Julie Strelow

Faculty: Ann Backes, Jodi Berndt, Carie Braun, Vicky Grove, Georgia Hogenson, Carrie Hoover, Julie Keller Dornbusch, Nicole Lang, Rachelle Larsen, Mary Larson, Nichole Laudenbach, Derek Moore, Holly Palka, Mary Pesch, Jennifer Peterson, Julie Strelow, and Mary Zelenak

The department of nursing offers a four-year program which leads to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing. The program is accredited by:

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
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and approved by the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

The comprehensive nursing curriculum is based on the AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Nursing Education and prepares the nurse generalist to practice safely and effectively in all health care environments. The curriculum has a strong emphasis on leadership, diversity, evidence-based practice, and the provision of quality and safe nursing care. As an academic major in a practice discipline, nursing students have opportunities to apply principles and concepts from the liberal arts and nursing science to the provision of nursing care for individuals across the lifespan, families and communities.

CSB and SJU offers a range of learning environments suited to development of the professional nurse including classroom, simulation laboratory, and clinical experiences. Nursing faculty have high expectations for student professional behavior and continuously strive to develop challenging learning experiences.

Graduates are eligible to take the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Students who have been convicted of a felony or gross misdemeanor may be ineligible for licensure by the Board of Nursing and should seek clarification of their status prior to applying to the major.

Students must meet the technical standards for safe nursing practice. For representative examples of the technical standards, see the nursing department webpage.

Students in the nursing major may be eligible for membership in the Sigma Kappa Phi Chapter, an international honor society of nursing. Student membership in the Kappa Phi chapter is based on superior academic achievement. An active student nursing club encourages student involvement in professional and social activities.

Assessment

Continuous improvement of student learning requires conscientious and consistent, student and faculty participation in assessment and evaluation activities. Nursing majors’ academic achievement will be assessed using nationally standardized and classroom-based exams, scoring rubrics and performance demonstrations. Some, but not all, assessment activities are also included as part of course grades. Individual data will be given directly to the student; students should seek consultation from their instructor and/or advisor if they have concerns about individual performance. Only group data will be used for department reports.

NRSG 201 Clinical Nursing I: Implementing Primary Prevention (5 Credits)

This course is an application of evidence-based primary prevention strategies to promote safe and effective wellness outcomes for individuals and groups. Students encounter practice with holistic assessments and technical skills relevant to primary prevention using the ANA Standards of Practice framework. This course includes primary prevention clinical experiences across the lifespan.

Prerequisites: NRSG 220 or NRSG 220A or NRSG 220B or NRSG 220C

NRSG 220 Topics in Conversations & Culture (2 Credits)

The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive view of various cultures including social, political, and historical factors that have shaped it and continue to affect it. Cultures may include Hmong, Somali and Hispanic. Acceptance to the nursing major required.

Prerequisites: None

Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Nursing.

Equivalent courses: NRSG 220A, NRSG 220B, NRSG 220C

NRSG 220A Conversations in Culture: The Hmong Migration (2 Credits)

The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive view of the Hmong culture including social, political, and historical factors that have shaped it and continue to affect it. Students will understand that the Hmong culture is neither static nor monolithic, but rather shaped by gender, class, personal experience, migration patterns, and other factors. An exploration of the Hmong migration patterns will allow students to examine culture change as the Hmong people live and interact in refugee camps, and in the United States and other regions. Students will also be asked to explore their own cultural identity through self-awareness and assessment and articulate how their cultural identity shapes their interactions with those from another culture. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major.

Prerequisites: None

Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Nursing.

Equivalent courses: NRSG 220, NRSG 220B, NRSG 220C

NRSG 220B Conversations in Culture: The Somali Migration (2 Credits)

Through an in-depth exploration of the Somali culture, and through exploration of the nursing profession and culturally competent care students will demonstrate an understanding of how constructions of race, gender, and ethnicity shape cultural rules and biases and how these constructions vary across time, cultures, and societies. In addition, students will critically analyze the ways in which these forms of identity raise questions of justice in regard to access and participation in communal life. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major.

Prerequisites: None

Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Nursing.

Equivalent courses: NRSG 220, NRSG 220A, NRSG 220C

NRSG 220C Conversations in Culture: The Hispanic Migration (2 Credits)

The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive view of the Hispanic culture including social, political, and historical factors that have shaped it and continue to affect it. Students will understand that the Hispanic culture is neither static nor monolithic, but rather shaped by gender, class, personal experience, migration patterns, and other factors. An exploration of the Hispanic migration patterns will allow students to examine culture change as the Hispanic people live and interact in refugee camps, and in the United States and other regions. Students will also be asked to explore their own cultural identity through self-awareness and assessment and articulate how their cultural identity shapes their interactions with those from another culture. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing major.

Prerequisites: None

Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Nursing.

Equivalent courses: NRSG 220, NRSG 220A, NRSG 220B

NRSG 256 Introduction to Professional Nursing Practice and Leadership (2 Credits)

This course is an introduction to foundational and transformational leadership concepts of nursing focused on primary prevention to promote quality and safe nursing care and function effectively in interprofessional partnerships. Students are introduced to the values, standards, and code of ethics for nurses through a framework of health and wellness, motivating behavior change, and individual and community-based health education strategies. Selected leadership concepts, research and evidence-based practice, systems-based practice, health literacy, and information technologies are included. The development and beginning application of these concepts will occur in Clinical Nursing I. Prerequisites: Acceptance to NRSG major

Prerequisites: NRSG 220 or NRSG 220A or NRSG 220B or NRSG 220C

Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Nursing.

NRSG 271 Individual Learning Project (1-4 Credits)

Supervised reading or research at the lower-division level. Permission of department chair required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.

Prerequisites: None

Restrictions: Students with a class of First Year may not enroll.

NRSG 301 Clinical Nursing II: Implementing Secondary Prevention (8 Credits)

In the context of secondary prevention across the lifespan, this course provides the application of quality and safe, culturally relevant patient centered nursing care in acute care environments. The emphasis of this course will be on the utilization of clinical reasoning models, inter/intra disciplinary collaboration, and crisis communication. This course will provide clinical experiences for application of concepts taught in all concurrent and previous courses.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites NRSG 201 and NRSG 256

NRSG 302 Clinical Nursing III: Implementing Tertiary Prevention (8 Credits)

In the context of tertiary prevention across the lifespan, the emphasis of this course will be on the application of quality and safe, culturally relevant family-centered nursing care through the utilization of family assessment and transitional and end of-life care models in chronic physical and mental illness situations. This course will provide clinical experiences for application of concepts taught in all concurrent and previous courses.

Prerequisites: NRSG 301 and NRSG 314

NRSG 303 Clinical Nursing IV: Community/Population Capstone (8 Credits)

In the context of integrating levels of prevention across the lifespan, individuals, families and populations to affect change in the community. This course will provide clinical experiences for application of concepts taught in all concurrent and previous courses.

Prerequisites: NRSG 220B, 302, 315, 344, and 374 as well as Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE), and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI).

Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

NRSG 303C Immersion - Belize (0 Credits)

Prerequisites: None