Electives by Application Only
Faculty will begin recruiting for these programs during 2nd semester and applications will be made available. Contact your program director for more information.
SON Honors Program (by application only)
- NUR 450 Honors Seminar I: Introduction to Nursing Research
- NUR 451 Honors Seminar II: Exploring Nursing Research
- NUR 452 Honors Seminar III: Research Immersion
This is a fun, interactive course that allows you to work at your own pace, explore women's health issues and look at how women's health has changed over the past decades. If you are passionate about women's health and learning more about important women's health issues to use in your future nursing career, then plan to enroll in NUR 335. You will love this course!
Spend your elective learning to communicate effectively with your Spanish-speaking patients. This is an on-campus course that meets two evenings per week and is taught within the College of Arts and Sciences.
More than one third of Americans have low health literacy, which leads to higher health care costs and poorer health outcomes. The Health Literacy course develops skills needed assess a person’s health literacy, plan effective health teaching and create readable and actionable health education materials.
This course is designed to increase the student’s understanding of long term and high acuity issues impacting the health of the unique population of adult patients, veterans, within the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA). Knowledge gained in this elective course can be applied to the care of VHA patients in this and subsequent didactic and practicum nursing courses. This course has an available honors section.
The transplant nursing elective offers students an introduction to the specialized field of organ donation and solid organ transplant. The course is distance accessible but does include a field experience within the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute. Topics covered include the transplant process, specific care among organ groups and professional considerations for nurses in this rapidly changing field.
Students taking the Perioperative Nursing elective have an opportunity to learn skills necessary for nursing in the operating room. Students will complete a clinical field experience in perioperative nursing within the UAB Health System.
This course equips students to care for patients involved with legal systems, working as part of an interprofessional forensic healthcare team. Building on core nursing, health, forensic and legal science concepts, students will explore an integrated model of forensic nursing care. Key topics include wound evaluation and treatment, investigative processes and distinguishing between intentional and unintentional injuries in medical forensic settings.
This course prepares students to explore an advanced model of forensic nursing care. The focus is on using public health science, historical research and evidencebased practices to develop policies, allocate resources and shape the future of forensic nursing. This course emphasizes promoting safety and health on a broader, systemic level, ideal for students aiming to impact policy and leadership in forensic healthcare.
This course explores the unique challenges in caring for children with complex medical conditions. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the pathophysiology, assessment and management of pediatric patients with chronic, multi-system, or severe acute illnesses.
This course is available as an elective for undergraduate or graduate level nursing students. The purpose of this course is to provide an expansion of knowledge of health-related issues for the pre-adolescent, adolescent, adult and aging male population. Students will explore common complications and disease processes specific to the male population while applying knowledge through engaging assignments.
This course explores the concept of substance use, misuse and addiction across the lifespan from a nursing perspective. Student will gain an in-depth understanding of the pathophysiological effects of substance use, misuse, addiction and overdose, pertinent legislation and the impact of substance use, misuse and addiction on the professional registered nurse.
Principles of Developmental Care of the Newborn is taught by Taryn Temples, who is specialty certified as a neonatal intensive care nurse. If you are interested in working with infant or children in an ICU setting, this class is for you! Learn how a baby’s brain develops and how the hospital ICU environment can impact that long-term development. Discover interventions to help support a child’s neurobehavioral development including light and sound modification, feeding, bathing, positioning, & sleep practices, pain management, kangaroo care, family centered care and early intervention.
Students with a background in Spanish language courses are eligible to take the Advanced Spanish for Health Professions class for elective credit through the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.
This course offers an insightful overview of rehabilitation nursing, focusing on the care of patients with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and stroke. Students will gain valuable knowledge through interactive lessons and one day field experience at the Spain Rehabilitation Center.
As nurses, we frequently encounter loss in all its variations regardless of our field of expertise. Living with Loss is expected to broaden one’s comprehension of the breadth of loss and how it impacts our patients, those who care about and for them, as well as ourselves. This distance accessible elective will explore the concepts of loss, grief, bereavement and self-care through scholarly literature, the arts and social media.