Schedule of Classes for Partnership Students
Digital textbooks may be purchased from the SIUE Bookstore and accessed through RedShelf, an electronic text platform. RedShelf is integrated within each course via the Blackboard learning management system.
Nursing Courses: Offered each 8-week session*
NURS 240R-Pathophysiology
This course will provide an in-depth look at pathophysiologic conditions in the adult. The course is set up using interactive online modules, course readings, and other activities developed for the adult learner.
- Elsevier Publishing #9780323431255 Huether & McCance Understanding Pathophysiology (Access Code and Textbook Package) 2017 6th ed.
NOTE: This is a purchase book with ACCESS CODE; it is recommended that you purchase as a bundle from the SIUE Bookstore or the publisher
NURS 335R-Health Assessment Strategies to Promote Wellness
In this course the student learns to apply health assessment data to plan health literate and culturally appropriate strategies for health education and promotion.
- Aviva Publishing #9781947937130 Osborne, H. Health Literacy from A-Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Mesage, 2018, 2nd ed.
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Elsevier Publishing #9780323416740 Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandel Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 2017, 9th ed. (e-book) *This textbook can be rented through a link within the Blackboard course shell for approximately $45.*
NURS 472R-Scholarly Inquiry: Connecting Research to Practice
The focus of this course is for students to learn how to utilize the principles of nursing research to integrate all levels of evidence and to develop projects to improve patient and/or system outcomes. Within this course, the first capstone is completed.
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Jones & Bartlett Publishing #9781284053302 Schmidt & Brown Evidence-based Practice for Nurses, 2014, 3rd ed.
NURS 475R-Care of Populations
This course involves the management of the populations’ response to actual and potential health problems. Topics include planning and priority setting in the community, epidemiology, vulnerable populations, health and health care disparities, and global health issues.
- Jones & Bartlett #9781449691493 Lundy, K. & Janes, S. Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public's Health, 2016, 3rd ed.
NURS 480R-Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Systems
This course explores the role of the nurse as a leader and manager of nursing resources with topics related to professional development. Capstone III is included in this course.
- Mosby Publishing #9780323185776 Yoder-Wise, P. Leading and Managing in Nursing, 2014, 6thed.
NURS 484R-Quality, Safety and the Professional Nurse
This course focuses on knowledge, skills, and attitudes required in analyzing, developing, and implementing safe patient care practices. Students will learn about IOM, dimensions of quality/core competences, FOCUS-PDSA, quality improvement tools, use of decision support systems, and other topics. Capstone II is included in this course.
- Jones & Bartlett Publishing #9781284105544 Finkelman, A. Quality Improvement: A Guide for Integration in Nursing, 2018, 1st ed.
General Education Courses: Offered each 8-week session*
Fall 2019-Term 1: All Term 1 courses start on August 19th, 2019
IS 336-Global Problems and Human Survival
Threats to human survival from war, over-population, pollution, resource depletion, under-development, misuse of the oceans, and new technologies plus how to deal with these threats. Chad Huddleston-chhuddl@siue.edu, Amy Hubert- ahubert@siue.edu
- No Materials Required
PHIL 321-Ethics in the Medical Community
This is an introductory course in bioethics which will cover several issues at the intersection of ethics and medicine. Since ethics can be roughly defined as the study of how we, as moral agents, ought to act, “bioethics” is the study of how we should act in medical matters. Topics covered include medical futility, patient competency, informed consent, patient confidentiality, multiculturalism within the medical setting, euthanasia, abortion, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Erik Krag-ekrag@siue.edu
- Bioethics, Vaughn, 4th edition, ISBN# 9780190903268
QR 101-Quantitative Reasoning
Focuses on mathematical reasoning and real-life problems. Including: management science, coding, social choice and decision making, size and shape, and modeling.
- Course materials are purchased within Blackboard and automatically downloaded. Approximate cost is $96.
Fall 2019-Term 2: All Term 2 courses start on October 14th, 2019
IS 336-Global Problems and Human Survival
Threats to human survival from war, over-population, pollution, resource depletion, under-development, misuse of the oceans, and new technologies plus how to deal with these threats. Chad Huddleston-chhuddl@siue.edu, Stacey Brown Amilian- stabrow@siue.edu
- No Materials Required
MUS 111-Introduction to Music History & Literature
Elements of music. Important composers, periods, styles and forms of music.
Joel Knapp- jknapp@siue.edu
- No Materials Required
PHIL 321-Ethics in the Medical Community
This is an introductory course in bioethics which will cover several issues at the intersection of ethics and medicine. Since ethics can be roughly defined as the study of how we, as moral agents, ought to act, “bioethics” is the study of how we should act in medical matters. Topics covered include medical futility, patient competency, informed consent, patient confidentiality, multiculturalism within the medical setting, euthanasia, abortion, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Erik Krag-ekrag@siue.edu
- Bioethics, Vaughn, 4th edition, ISBN# 9780190903268
QR 101-Quantitative Reasoning
Focuses on mathematical reasoning and real-life problems. Including: management science, coding, social choice and decision making, size and shape, and modeling.
- Course materials are purchased within Blackboard and automatically downloaded. Approximate cost is $96.
STAT 107 - Concepts of Statistics
Basic concepts of descriptive statistics; probability distribution and inferential statistics (estimating parameters and testing hypotheses); sampling, experimental design, correlation and regression, consumer price index.
- Elementary Statistics: Looking at the Big Picture by N. Pfenning, ISBN# 9780495016526
*Subject to change depending on student demand*
