Nursing and Health Courses for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
BNURS 350 Critical Thinking in Nursing (4)
Focuses on types of thinking and writing germane to learning and practice in nursing, including self assessment, understanding and producing written communications, abstract thinking, group dialogue, evaluating points of view, problem solving, clinical decision making. Provides opportunity for application in discipline-related issues and frameworks for critical analysis.
BNURS 403 Evidence Based Practice and Nursing Inquiry (5)
Develops beginning competence in accessing and evaluating scientific knowledge as a base for promoting evidence based practice in nursing care. Examines components of the process of nursing inquiry as a tool to advance nursing knowledge and a tool to promote evidence based practice. (Prerequisites: Statistics must be completed or taken concurrently with BNURS 403.)
BNURS 407 Cultural and Social Issues in Health Care (5)
Analyzes the impact of cultural, social and global factors on the health of diverse populations. Examines how discrimination, oppression, and privilege relate to health, illness, and healing. Applies self-awareness, knowledge, and skills in planning for and providing non-discriminatory and culturally competent health care.
BNURS 409 Partnerships in Community Health (5)
Examine theories, concepts, and practices related to community health care, health promotion, disease prevention, public health, and social justice. Explore socio-cultural, epidemiological, economic, and political issues influencing local, national, and global health and health care delivery.
BNURS 410 Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice (5)
Introduction to the major ethical theories and principles through the use of models for the analysis of representative cases and exploration of comparative health care systems. Analyzes the recurring ethical problems, such as withholding and withdrawing life support, promoting client autonomy, and interprofessional conflicts.
BNURS 430 Relational Leadership in Nursing (5)
Introduces knowledge and practices that support the implementation of relational leadership in health care contexts. Content emphasizes strategies that: 1) enhance personal vision and voice; 2) create commitment; 3) include diverse perspectives; 4) solve problems; 5) resolve conflicts; and 6) accomplish goals.
BNURS 495 Senior Portfolio (1)
Student collaborate with faculty mentor to create a portfolio demonstrating the progress made toward individual and program goals. When completed, portfolio will contain examples of papers, evaluations from faculty and self, and a reflective summary on the learning that occurred. (Required for all graduating seniors, to be taken during final quarter of Nursing Program.)
BNURS 497 Selected Topics in Nursing (1-12)
Course outlines will be developed by the faculty offering the topic. This course is designed to provide undergraduate students of the Nursing Program an opportunity to investigate a selected topic in nursing and health care, which may be timely and not covered in the current curriculum. Course content will be developed by the faculty offering the topic. Number of credits will be determined based on the nature of the topic and course assignments, as well as program and student needs.
BNURS 498 Special Project (1-12)
Further development, critical examination, and synthesis of nursing care in a specialized setting. Increasing depth of clinical practice, including care to groups and communities as clients, applying leadership skills, assessing problems affecting quality health care delivery, and applying research findings.
BNURS 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5)
This course is designed to provide an undergraduate student of the Nursing Program an opportunity to investigate a selected problem and to do an analysis and interpretation of the findings resulting from the investigation under supervision of a faculty member. The credit distribution is determined by the student and faculty member and is dependent upon the number of quarters used to complete the project.
BNURS 501 (3) Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing
Explores the multiple philosophical and theoretical perspectives that guide nursing practice. Analyzes historical and emerging theories of nursing in relationship to a variety of practice settings and health care concerns. Students will learn the philosophical and theoretical basis for professional nursing practice at an advanced level. Students will explore personal and professional values/philosophies that guide practice and how these values/philosophies fit with established and emerging theory in Nursing. (Autumn)
BNURS 503 (1-6, variable) Advanced Fieldwork
Advanced Fieldwork offers an opportunity to apply concepts examined throughout the program in the real-world context of communities, health care systems, staff development, or educational settings. The focus is on preparing students for advanced nursing roles in communities, population-based care, management in health care systems, or education. (Autumn, Winter and Spring)
BNURS 504 (3) Disparity and Social Justice in Health Care
Analyzes how social, cultural, economic and political factors relate to the nature, distribution, and meaning of health and illness. Critically examines the concepts of oppression, privilege, and social justice as they relate to health disparities, discrimination in the health care interaction, and inequities in the health care labor force. (Winter)
BNURS 507 (2) Advanced Nursing Roles
Examines the wide variety of roles available to the graduate-level nurse, including various roles in clinical practice and education. (Winter)
BNURS 508 (3) Ethics, Aesthetics
Examines, critiques, and applies theories, models, and methods associated with the fields of ethics and aesthetics in advanced nursing roles. Examine, critique, and apply theories, models, and methods associated with the identification and analysis of populations at risk of compromised health. Health needs and risks of selected populations in the community will be analyzed using theoretical and analytical perspectives. (Autumn)
BNURS 520 (3) Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice I
Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice I is a 3-credit introductory course for advanced nursing students. The overall goal of the course is to increase advanced nurses' abilities to analyze problems and to make decisions based on application of research concepts and methods in a variety of settings. Toward this goal, the course will incorporate lectures, assigned readings, reviews of the literature, group discussions, and individual presentations. BNURS 520 is concerned with analysis of the research process as it applies to nursing, including identification of researchable problems, use of the literature, re-conceptualizing theory from related fields, development of conceptual frameworks, and selection of appropriate methods for investigating clinical problems. (Winter)
BNURS 521 (3) Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice II
Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice II (BNURS 521) is the second of a two-quarter sequence of studying research methods. This course and its prerequisite (BNURS 520) describe research methodology as it is used in developing plans for implementing a research project with relevance to nursing science and practice. These courses provide the foundation for critically evaluating nursing and other research for application in clinical practice. By the end of this two-quarter sequence, every student will have produced a sound research proposal. Prerequisite: BNURS 520 (Spring)
BNURS 525 (3) Leadership in Advanced Nursing
Focus on leadership development in advanced nursing roles in health care delivery, research, and education. Emphasizes the application of critical thinking, systems theory, leadership and change theory with a goal to improve the design and operation of health care and related systems. (Autumn)
BNURS 526 (3) Program Planning & Evaluation
Focus is on analysis of management strategies for attaining effective and efficient organizational structures and processes within health care systems. Analyzes selected theories and methods of program planning and program evaluation in the design, organization, and development of health services for defined populations in the community. Reviews selected theoretical and research models for their use in the conceptualization and development of health programs and services for defined populations. (Spring)
BNURS 598 (1-6, variable) Scholarly Project
BNURS 520 and 521 must be completed before BNURS 598 activities are begun.
Fulfills the requirements of the non-thesis option for Masters Students in nursing. Projects involve scholarly inquiry with in-depth focused analysis, culminating in a written product/report for dissemination. The Scholarly Project serves as the Capstone of the MN program. Additional elective courses for the scholarly project may be incorporated into the Scholarly Project Plan with committee approval. A limited number of such pre-approved elective credits may satisfy up to 3 credits of B NURS 598 and 2 credits of B NURS 503. (Autumn, Winter and Spring)
BNURS 600 (1-5, max. 15) Independent Graduate Project/Research
Provides graduate nursing students an opportunity to investigate and report on selected nursing problems under the supervision of a graduate faculty member. Credit/no credit only. BNURS 600 Form.
BHLTH Courses
BHLTH special topics courses are open to UW Bothell students from all majors. A student may repeat BHLTH courses having the same course number, as long as the actual topics are different.
BHLTH 397 Current Health Topics (3-5)
Survey of current issues in human health with analysis of selected topics. The personal, social, political and economic aspects of health are explored through professional health writing and interdisciplinary literature.
BHLTH 445 Health in a Developing Nation (5)
Provides an overview of the health and health care challenges in a developing and low-income country. Socio-cultural, environmental, economic, political and ecological factors ttat influence health, illness, disability and death as well as responses to health issues both within and outside the health sector are addressed.
BHLTH 451 Family Caregiving Across the Life Span (5)
Focuses on family caregiving across the lifespan. Examines issues, problems and challenges family caregivers face while taking on this role across communities and illnesses. Supports health and social service providers in defining their roles within the context of family caregiving.
BHLTH 455 Women, Culture, and Healing (5)
Interdisciplinary course explores the inter-connectedness of identity, culture, healing. Address how women make meaning in their lives; how they are both shaped by and influence history, culture and the world. Integrates humanities, social and health sciences to study cultural influences on women's health and healing.
BHLTH 462 Global/Local Health Inequalities & Interventions (5)
This interdisciplinary course examines the conditions (political, economic, cultural, historical) that create and sustain disparities in health globally and locally. Students will critically examine health issues form multiple perspectives, exploring theories and movements of people creating social justice in health within frameworks that are both globally and locally situated.
BHLTH 465 Adolescent Health (5)
Explores growth and development, challenges of adolescence, and how society, through its communities, health agencies, schools and media, identifies and responds to adolescent health care needs. Uses literature and media produced for adolescents and professionals, reflective writing and interviews to examine issues related to promoting adolescent health.
BHLTH 497 Special Topics in Health (3-5)
Guided survey and discussion of current literature in health related to personal, social, economic and political topics. Lecture and seminar with analysis and discussion of selected topics and readings. May have field component.