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2.00 Credits
2 hours (elective) Prerequisite: Associate Degree or Diploma in nursing. This is a didactic course which prepares the undergraduate nursing student to begin practicing in the critical care environment. This type of nursing requires sophisticated, intensive, and humanistic care. This course blends theoretical concepts with pathophysiology, internal and external environmental interactions within the framework of the nursing process. The content includes the major organ systems including the nervous, endocrine, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, immune, and hematologic systems. The focus of this nursing elective is the clinician role of the professional nurse in secondary or tertiary care settings.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours (3 hours of class per week) Prerequisite: Admission to the BSN Program. A survey course designed to increase the RN student's awareness and understanding of the changes occurring in professional nursing practice and concepts that influence delivery of nursing care. The philosophy and conceptual framework of the Nursing Curriculum at North Georgia College & State University, which is based on Benner, provide the structure for the course content. Course content focuses on socialization into the five roles of the professional nurse, written and oral communication and problem solving, decision-making, ethics, and the concept of caring. Critical thinking is used to examine nursing theorists/theories and health care delivery systems. Ethical decision making is used within the five professional roles to plan care for individuals, families, groups, and communities. 335
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2.00 Credits
2 hours (elective) Prerequisite: NURS 1100. A course designed to examine several theories of adult learning and recommended methods of facilitating adult learning. Theorists include Brookfield, Cross, Friere, Knowles, and Mezirow. Application of a theory of adult learning in a patient education and/or staff development setting will be explored.
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6.00 Credits
6 hours (4 hours of class, 4 hours of lab per week) Prerequisite: NURS 1110 or RN Licensure. The course prepares the A.S.N./B.S.N. student to conduct culturally sensitive comprehensive health assessments of diverse populations. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of data collected from clients of diverse ages and cultures. Diagnostic reasoning skills are developed with consideration of client's cultural/ethnic background. The impact of health beliefs, values, heredity, and environmental factors on the acceptability of health care practices is analyzed. Laboratory experiences will focus on the physical examination of selected clients.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours (3 hours of class per week) Prerequisites: NURS 3110, NURS 3330; Math 2400 is strongly recommended as a pre-requisite. This course is designed to provide a foundation for the significance of analysis and reasoning in nursing, and their applicability to nursing practice and health care delivery. Students will be prepared to become knowledgeable nursing research consumers and to understand, evaluate, and apply the research process.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours (Elective) Prerequisite: Completion of the first-year ASN program. This course is designed to explore health care in the Navajo Nation. Nursing students will have the unique opportunity to observe how modern and traditional medicine work together to benefit the client in a variety of clinical settings. Students will also have the privilege of meeting many health care providers and Navajo people as well as explore Arizona's desert and mountain regions.
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6.00 Credits
6 hours 1st BSN Clinical Course (4 hours class; 6 hours of clinical per week) Prerequisite or Corequisite: NURS 3110 & 3330; RN licensure. Healthy aging introduces the RN student to factors that influence the healthy aging process. The holistic approach to health care guides the content and clinical experiences. Caring is addressed as it applies to elderly individuals, families, and communities. Students integrate a variety of strategies to understand prevention as intervention, and provide health promotion and prevention strategies for the elderly client and family. Students enact the BSN roles of leader, clinician, researcher, educator, and professional in community-based settings. The clinical experiences provide an opportunity to identify health requirements in the older adult population. Students will participate in the coordination / provision of care to meet identified needs and maximize client growth, development, and adaptation within the aging process.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours (elective) Prerequisite: None. A course designed to help the student acquire the communication skills necessary to provide quality care in today's multicultural health care system. Classroom activities will focus on improving the student's ability to recognize and overcome cultural biases, learning about different styles of communication, and developing transcultural communication skills.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 hours (elective) Prerequisite: RN Licensure / Approval of BSN Coordinator and BSN Faculty. A course designed to enable nurses to pursue more detailed study of the content of another course or to analyze a topic not currently covered in the nursing curriculum. The focus of the independent study must be approved by the supervising faculty member.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours (elective) Prerequisite: NURS 3410. This course offers the student an opportunity for active participation in a nursing research project with the approval of the supervising faculty member(s). This course allows students to apply their beginning research skills to selected areas of focus.
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