the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR450B. Credit: 2 semester hours.

NUR 450BP: Nursing Care of Older Adults. This course is a study of the unique health care needs of older adults. Content includes the developmental, physiological, and psychosocial changes of the older adult in regard to health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. The course will emphasize the application of knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a legal/ethical framework. Credit: 2 semester hours.

NUR451B Professional Role 3: Nursing Research. Emphasis on the research process and how as consumers of nursing research baccalaureate nurses apply the research process to practice. Prerequisites: Admission to the major. Requires concurrent registration in NUR 440B, NUR440BP, NUR450B, and NUR450BP. If the student drops or withdraws from NUR 440B, NUR440BP, NUR450B, or NUR450BP, the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR451B. Credit: 2 semester hours.

NUR 460B: Community and Public Health Nursing. Role of nursing in the relationship between community conditions and public health; emphasis on principles of public health combined with nursing knowledge and skills to address health needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations. Prerequisite: NUR 440B, NUR 440BP, NUR 450B, NUR 450BP, NUR 451B. Requires concurrent registration in NUR 465BP, NUR 461B, NUR 462B. If the student drops or withdraws from NUR 465BP, NUR 461B or NUR 462B, the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR 460B.

NUR461B Professional Role 4: Leadership & Professional Engagement. Presents theoretical principles of nursing leadership and management in diverse settings to promote quality patient outcomes. Prerequisites: Admission to the major. Requires concurrent registration in NUR 460B, NUR465BP, and NUR462B. If the student drops or withdraws from NUR 460B, NUR465BP, or NUR462B, the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR461B. Credit: 2 semester hours.

NUR462B: Intensive Review & Assessment. Provides a comprehensive and integrated review of the BSN curriculum with a broad range of assessment tools to evaluate student knowledge and skills as a final preparation before writing the NCLECX-RN©. Credit: 2 semester hours

NUR 465 BP: Professional Nursing Internship. Immersion capstone experience to engage in practice under direct supervision of a professional registered nurse mentor. Prerequisite: NUR 440B, NUR 440BP, NUR 450B, NUR 450BP, NUR 451B. Requires concurrent registration in NUR 460B, NUR 461B, NUR 462B. If the student drops or withdraws from NUR 460B, NUR 461B, or NUR 462B the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR 465BP.

460B, NUR 461B, or NUR 462B the student must also drop or withdraw from NUR 465BP.

NUR 699 Advanced Statistics in Nursing. The purpose of this course is to review basic concepts of statistics and review use of statistics in nursing research. The course contains an overview of evidence based on practice and analysis of advanced research concepts in nursing. Primary focus on research in nursing practice. Graduate Nursing Elective. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 700 Advanced Pathophysiology. The purpose of this course is to provide the advanced practice nurse with knowledge of normal physiology and alterations in physiology in individuals across the life span. The focus is theory and research applicable to organ systems and cellular events. Emphasis is on regulatory and compensatory functions in health and in pathophysiological conditions. This course serves as a transition from the advanced practice nurse with the basic medical sciences to clinical medicine. The goal is to establish a knowledge base for various clinical problems encountered in internal medicine and will review the fundamental concepts of pathophysiology in the clinical setting. Prerequisite: Admission to BSN-DNP program. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 701 Analysis of Advanced Nursing Practice. This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to explore contemporary issues in health care delivery that affect the process and/or outcomes of relevant to patient populations. Specific focus will be on: (1) health disparities, (2) barriers to care, (3) cultural competency and sensitivity, (4) cultural/SES influences on health and care delivery, (5) public health and health promotion models, (6) emerging infectious disease, (7) advances in healthcare, (8) environmental/occupational health concepts, and (9) the impact of global health on individuals/communities. Prerequisite: Admission to BSN-DNP program. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 702 Epidemiology in Health Care. Epidemiology focuses on the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations. This graduate-level course utilizes epidemiology as a method for examining problems of health and disease in the community. This application of epidemiologic methods to evaluate the distribution and determination of disease and other health problems will be a major focus of this course. Basic principles and methods of epidemiology are presented together with many of the applications of epidemiology to public health and the role it plays in the development and evaluation of public policy. Prerequisite: Admission to BSNDNP program. Credit: 3 semester hours.

NUR 703 Advanced Pharmacology. The purpose of this course is to expand the pharmacological knowledge of the advance practice nurse. Principles

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