Learning Outcomes: 1. Gather on the Madison campus early in the collaborative nursing program to encourage the development of learning communities that facilitate distance education and academic success.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Orientation to the technology and approaches used in distance education to increase students’ confidence as students in distance learning courses.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explore the issues and practice of professional nursing in multiple settings via narrative analyses of practice experiences.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Examine nursing education and issues specific to the return to school for registered nurses.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Discuss practice roles in nursing to provide opportunities to explore career paths and to evaluate ethics, quality, evidence and policy in nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use professional communication techniques and differentiate between the history-taking of patients based on cultural or developmental difference.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate an ability to use interviewing techniques and systematically take and record a health history.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Manipulate and use correctly certain instruments required in carrying out a physical examination.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Perform a physical examination and begin to differentiate between the wide range of normal and grossly abnormal findings through the physical examination.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Record the physical examination findings, including cognitive and emotional status.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Recognize normal variance in history and physical findings based on cultural or developmental differences.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of professional nursing practice, including participation on an interprofessional team.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Integrate nursing and interdisciplinary theories and philosophies into nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Examine the important influence of historical, cultural, political, and economic influences on nursing practice and healthcare.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply ethical reasoning and professional values in nursing practice and healthcare.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate critical thinking and professional communication skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the interaction of biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors in the management of chronic conditions.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize theories and concepts related to the management of chronic conditions to support self-management.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Integrate selected concepts of pathophysiology and pharmacology in the nursing management of chronic health problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Examine the impact of cultural, spiritual, ethical, healthcare policy, aging, and social concerns in the management of chronic conditions.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Understand the roles and functions of the nurse in the management of chronic conditions.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Demonstrate an understanding of resources and models of care to manage chronic health problems across the continuum of care.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Contrast the relationships between theory, research, and nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Differentiate selected quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Manipulate search terms to retrieve best evidence for practice in search engines.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Critique individual research studies considering research approaches and the rights of human subjects.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Discuss approaches for fostering adoption of an evidence-based practice change in a healthcare setting.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Design an evidence-based practice change.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the complex and dynamic economic, political, and social influences on health care organizations and professional nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine the interrelationships among organizational behavior, leadership and management strategies and processes, and professional nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze decision-making in relation to ethics, communication, delegation, leadership and followership, supervision and group process.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze leadership and management behaviors, evidence-based leadership, and management research to promote quality care and professional nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Delineate the role of the nurse in healthcare informatics
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe how the manage data, information, knowledge, and technology to enhance and measure clinical practice, education, administration, and research
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss health care informatics relationship to ethical, legal, political, social, cultural, economic, and management issues that impact the delivery of quality and cost-effective healthcare
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate mastery of select and current technology skills
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate health care forces, trends, and professional standards impacting health care informatics
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare the components of community health nursing, public health nursing, and community-based nursing, and compare how they are enacted in the community.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine community health issues and health systems/resources using state, national, and international health planning documents.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use epidemiological principles as a foundation for community health nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe community health nursing interventions used to assess, protect, and improve the health of individuals, families, populations, and communities.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Articulate the impact of social, cultural, political, and environmental determinants on individual and population health.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Apply principles of technology (i.e., telehealth) to the specialty of community health nursing.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate the impact of culture on health, illness, and wellness.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Analyze the health responses and patterns of the following cultural groups: African American, Latino/Hispanic, Asian/Hmong and American Indian.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Compare the similarities and differences of these four cultures as each view's health, illness, and wellness.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Examine the interrelationships among a pluralistic society, the culturally diverse groups with that society, and the health/illness status of the group members, with a specific focus on African Americans, Latino/Hispanics, Hmong/Asians and American Indians.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate current and future practice goals by developing and enacting specific learning objectives with a clinical preceptor.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply concepts learned in prior BSN-at-Home courses and relate them to professional nursing practice through reflective course assignments.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze scientific, theoretical, and experiential knowledge to guide professional nursing practice by providing professional nursing care or completing a project under the direction of a nurse preceptor in a hospital, outpatient, or community health care setting.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explore a current healthcare issue observed in the practicum setting.
Audience: Undergraduate