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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is individually designed under the direction of faculty to allow students opportunities to explore a specific area of interest. This course may be repeated.
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5.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the nurse in providing health care to clients in a variety of culturally diverse communities. Students will learn methods for assessing community health needs, techniques used to restore and maintain the health care of diverse populations, and strategies for promoting wellness. Cultural and ethnic factors impacting health care beliefs and practices will be explored. Students will be challenged to use introspection and conscious examination of their own belief and value systems to increase their sensitivity, respect, and caring for others. Clinical experiences will expose students to a variety of community health environments providing opportunities to practice health promotion behaviors in the delivery of health care to diverse populations. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the study of the symbiotic roles of leadership and management for the professional nurse in various healthcare settings, including examination of related theories. It will include exploration of major management functions, as well as essential components of leadership, with an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, in the currently challenging and changing healthcare environment. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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6.00 Credits
This course builds on the knowledge obtained in previous nursing courses. It focuses on responses to complex, multi-system health care needs and includes knowledge of specific health diagnoses, pharmacology, diagnostic tests, health assessment, interventions, and methods of managing the acute and rehabilitation needs of adult and gerontological clients and families. Lecture/Lab Hours: Four hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the application of child health concepts in acute care and selected community sites and management of care. Emphasis is on teaching/learning, communication, judgment, and the use of the nursing process when caring for children, adolescents, and families. Selected issues related to genetics, growth and development, and health assessment of children and adolescents are included. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and thee hours laboratory per week.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the synthesis of knowledge from past and current learning experiences and promotes professional practice emphasizing principles of life-long learning and caring practices. It also focuses on communication and clinical application of the principles of the roles of professional practice including educator, consumer of research, leader/ manager, and provider of care within the community. Collaboration with other health care providers to improve evidence-based outcomes of individuals, families, and communities in a diverse society is emphasized. Lecture/Lab Hours: One hour lecture and nine hours laboratory per week.
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8.00 Credits
This course synthesizes knowledge from the arts and sciences as well as from previous nursing courses. It facilitates transition into the nurse generalist role by providing opportunities for students to apply more in-depth knowledge of nursing practice and leadership/management skills. Use of caring behaviors for the application of critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and safe nursing care practice for individuals, families, and communities is implemented by students in secondary settings with one-on-one preceptorship by a clinical nurse and supervised by a full-time nursing faculty member. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture and fifteen hours laboratory per week.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Courses are designed to focus on topics that are not otherwise offered, but there is a current need. Groups of students will explore a specific area of interest under the direction of a faculty member. Examples: Holistic Health Care, Health Care Ethics, Genetics, Critical Health Care and Chronic Health Care. This course may be repeated.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices, and trends current in the helping professions. This will be accomplished through an examination of the specific tasks and purposes evinced by selected social agencies. Each agency’s unique function and philosophy will be examined, along with how it fits into the public service network. The course will include some combination of classroom lectures, discussions, field visits, presentations by representatives from the helping professions, and/or other appropriate instructional techniques. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of the basic principles of public administration, both in government and in the private, non-profit sector. It includes an examination of ethics in public service. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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