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3.00 Credits
This course builds on math and science knowledge to provide an understanding of drug dosage calculations and classifications of pharmacological agents. The nutritional needs of individuals and their impact on the health of an individual are included along with the interactions of medications and nutrients that can have a beneficial or hazardous effect on the health of an individual. Current information about the effect of over-the-counter medications, vitamins, herbal medications, and supplements will be addressed. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture per week.
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6.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to concepts and principles for the practice of baccalaureate degree nursing. The application of critical thinking, the nursing process, and communication skills for the purpose of health promotion and restoration are emphasized. Psychomotor skills are introduced and practiced in a campus lab setting, and then with clients in the health care setting. The ability to integrate caring behaviors in the performance of nursing care is an important part of providing basic nursing care in a safe and effective manner. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and nine hours laboratory per week.
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2.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to provide nurses with the skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice in a dramatically changing health care system. Students study the conceptual foundations of professional nursing, including analysis of the historical contributions of nursing to health care, the art and science of caring practices, nursing theories, and legal and ethical implications of practice. Processes that guide nursing practice such as effective communication, group change, the use of technology and informatics, health care economics, and cultural and spiritual dimensions of nursing are explored. Current trends in nursing care including violence, the nurse’s role in genetic counseling, the nursing shortage, continuing professional development and future visions for nursing are discussed. Lecture/Lab Hours: Two hours per week.
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5.00 Credits
This course focuses on application of mental health nursing concepts, therapeutic interactions, and mental health assessment and management of care. Emphasis is on therapeutic communication, judgment, and the use of the nursing process in the care of patients experiencing biopsychosocial stressors in acute care and in selected community settings. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week.
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7.00 Credits
This course builds on the knowledge obtained in the math, sciences, and humanities as well as the basic principles of nursing obtained in previous nursing courses. It includes knowledge of specific health diagnoses, pharmacology, diagnostic tests, health assessment, interventions, and methods of managing the care of adult and gerontological adults and their families. This course focuses on chronic health care needs including care of clients with acute exacerbations of these illnesses. Lecture/Lab Hours: Four hours lecture and nine hours laboratory per week.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the application of maternal-child and women’s health concepts and management of care. Emphasis is on teaching/learning, judgment, and the use of the nursing process in antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and women’s health care. Selected issues related to genetics, reproduction, and women’s health issues are included. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on health history and physical examination skills, as well as health promotion, restoration, and maintenance activities related to caring for the adult client. Emphasis is on the cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills necessary to perform a complete head-to-toe physical examination. It also includes clinical variations, developmental tasks, and health promotion, restoration, and maintenance activities related to the infant, child, and older adult, as well as significant cultural variations. Application of clinical assessment and clinical judgment is assessed in the laboratory setting. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to research principles and methods involved in planning, designing, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating research. Emphasis is placed on those areas of research designs and outcomes that will enable students to evaluate research and recommend changes to nursing practice. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the foundations for effective healthcare teaching. Theories and concepts of learning, cognition, instruction, and evaluation are presented. Students will learn basic instructional design that will guide the development of teaching programs for patients and peers. Students will discuss teaching and learning styles that will facilitate precepting of novice nurses and students. Methods of enhancing caring practices through educator-to-student, nurse-to-client, and nurse-to-nurse relationships will be emphasized. Students will examine the role of nurse as educator; characteristics of learners; the ethical, legal, and economic foundations for the educational process; the impact of race, gender, and economic status of learning; learning needs of special populations and techniques and strategies for teaching and learning. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to gerontological nursing. It offers a foundation in the physiology, psychology, and sociology of aging. Health promotion, restoration, maintenance behaviors, and activities specific to the unique and complex needs of older adults are emphasized. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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