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General Education

PF 321 - Learning Strategies (2 Credit Hours)

This course prepares students to be successful lifelong learners both academically and in their chosen careers. Franklin courses require a high level of self-directed learning and focus on the skills required in the workplace and the classroom that are easily transferable between the two environments. The course includes strategies for advancing communication skills, including the use of electronic tools to participate in virtual environments. The assignments and activities in the course are created to closely simulate teamwork found in the workplace.

COMM 150 - Interpersonal Communication (4 Credit Hours)

By using applied critical and creative thinking, students in this course will develop a set of communication skills that will enhance their personal and professional relationships and endeavors. This course will focus on skill development in key areas such as self, perception, listening, verbal messages, conversations, relationships, conflict management, persuasion, and presentation skills.

ESL 122 - Advanced College Writing (4 Credit Hours)

In this course, students acquire the writing competencies necessary for completing analytical and argumentative papers supported by secondary research. Students practice and apply the steps of the writing process through a series of cumulative assignments that require them to systematize and organize knowledge in ways that will help them in all of their courses. The course also emphasizes the elements of good writing style, appropriate grammar and mechanics, clarity of language, and logical and cohesive development. It culminates in submission of an extended, documented research paper.

Major Area

HCM 442 - Legal Aspects of Healthcare Management (4 Credit Hours)

Understanding cultural competency, ethics, policy, and law is necessary for healthcare professionals in a continuously evolving healthcare system. This course will provide students with practical knowledge and methods for applying ethical, legal, and cultural decision-making frameworks to mitigate risks. Topics will include regulatory compliance, patient consent, privacy and confidentiality, and cultural competence.

NURS 310 - Transition to Professional Nursing (4 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to facilitate transition into the study of professional nursing. The course introduces the scope and theoretical foundations of the nursing profession, with emphasis on the societal mandate for nursing, legal parameters of practice, critical thinking and communication.

NURS 325 - Health Assessment & Promotion (4 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to broaden and enhance the professional nurse's knowledge and skills in

health promotion and holistic assessment of individuals across the lifespan. Students will explore concepts of assessment and health promotion, disease, and injury prevention. Emphasis is placed on recognizing deviation from normal and assessing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, spiritual, environmental, genetic, and cultural dimensions while completing a comprehensive health assessment.

NURS 405 - Palliative and Hospice Nursing Across the Lifespan (2 Credit Hours)

This course will prepare professional nurses to provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients and their support system during end-of-life (EOL) care. Nurses will explore reflection as a strategy to maintain self-care in an effort to deliver effective communication and spiritual support to patients and family members. Evidence-based resources for professional and family caregivers will be reviewed as well as health policy regarding EOL care to move healthcare initiatives forward in the political arena. Students will create case studies using the concepts of social determinants of health, person-centered care, and ethics to demonstrate self-efficacy in EOL care throughout the patient's lifespan.

NURS 435 - Nurs Research & Evidence-Based Practice (4 Credit Hours)

This course provides an overview of the research process including methodology, design and interpretation of findings. Students will study basic statistics relevant to interpreting research findings. The emphasis in the course will be on the integration of current evidence, including nursing and health care research, to guide nursing practice and promote high quality and safe patient care outcomes.

NURS 448 - Community Health Nursing (4 Credit Hours)

The focus of this course is the professional nurse's role as a member of a healthcare team working towards the collaborative goal of health equity and improved health for ALL patients across the lifespan. Community and population health includes public health, acute care, ambulatory care and long-term care which can be delivered at local, regional, national and global levels. This course presents the health promotion theory and concepts of clinical judgment, communication, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), ethics and health policy. Students will complete indirect patient care hours using courseware simulation and an evidence-based project focused on health promotion and disease prevention. Direct patient care hours will be acquired by the students using face to face and/or telehealth/virtual simulation to provide safe, compassionate care to individuals or groups within their communities. Achieving equitable population health outcomes along with the identification of meaningful community-wide partnerships will allow nursing students to serve groups in a safe and effective manner.

NURS 458 - Leadership & Mgmt for Professional Nurse (4 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on the development of agile nursing leaders who are self-aware and able to adapt to ambiguity and change within the context of complex healthcare systems. Values such as integrity, altruism, compassion, humility, autonomy and social justice will be explored relative to a variety of leadership roles in nursing practice. Theories and principles of leadership and management

in healthcare environments that support the use of evidence-based and innovative solutions to address complex problems will be emphasized. Organizational mission, vision, and strategic planning, along with quality improvement, patient safety, and motivation and change theory as applied to healthcare systems across the continuum are explored. Effective communication with healthcare professionals, individuals, and groups to promote high quality and safe, compassionate patient care is reviewed and elaborated upon within the context of the nurse leader role. Direct patient care hours will be acquired through face to face or telehealth preceptorship with nurse leaders. Indirect patient care hours will be acquired through evidence-based course project.

NURS 485 - Nursing Informatics and Effective Communication Strategies (4 Credit Hours)

The focus of this course is preparing the professional nurse to assume a high-tech, compassionate caregiver role when using Informatics and healthcare technologies to improve the delivery of safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare services to a diverse client population. Effective communication strategies will be integrated into this course to promote ethical, compassionate care when using technology in decision-making, planning of individualized care and providing holistic services throughout the lifespan. Core concepts including clinical judgment, communication, compassionate care, diversity, equity and inclusion, ethics, evidence-based practice, health policy and social determinants of health will be interwoven throughout this course as applied to the global and future perspectives in health informatics for professional nurses.

NURS 497 - Nursing Capstone (4 Credit Hours)

This culminating course provides the opportunity for students to summarize how the competencies and sub-competencies from The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021) were met through direct and indirect patient care hours. Students will use self-reflection as a tool to review and expand upon concepts discussed throughout the RN-BSN program. Current nursing and healthcare evidence will be used to further develop capstone project which was initiated in evidence-based course. Capstone project will be shared as an innovative presentation with nursing colleagues, faculty and community members.

Mathematics

MATH 215 - Statistical Concepts (4 Credit Hours)

This course introduces the student to statistics with business applications. The course covers both descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics included are: measures of central tendency; measures of dispersion; graphical displays of data; linear regression; basic probability concepts; binomial and normal probability distributions; confidence intervals; and hypothesis testing. These topics will be covered using a basic knowledge of algebra and Microsoft Excel. Note, this course has proctored exam(s).

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