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3.00 Credits
For students who wish to take private lessons for credit. Required: forty-five-minute lesson weekly and recital performance. Applied Music (Private Lessons) Non-credit private voice and instrumental lessons are available each semester. Registration is held in the Music wing of the Fine Arts Center as posted. Instructors: Piano: Wanda Paik Voice: Staff Other instruments arranged with Music Department Chair.
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3.00 Credits
For students who wish to take private lessons for credit. Required: forty-five-minute lesson weekly and recital performance. Applied Music (Private Lessons) Non-credit private voice and instrumental lessons are available each semester. Registration is held in the Music wing of the Fine Arts Center as posted. Instructors: Piano: Wanda Paik Voice: Staff Other instruments arranged with Music Department Chair.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the major categories of client needs: promotion of wellness/health promotion and maintenance; physiological integrity; safe, effective care environment; and psychosocial integrity. The major concepts include adaptation, nursing process, communication, critical thinking, therapeutic nursing interventions and both the student and professional roles in nursing practice. A central core of concepts regarding nursing, person, health and the environment is key in providing a base for learning and developing a philosophy of caring within the ethicallegal standards of practice. Basic research skills are introduced along with an evidence-based, culturally competent approach to nursing practice. The concurrent clinical component of this first nursing course provides the student the opportunity to develop skills and competencies while assisting in the provision of care for the adult patient in structured medical-surgical settings. Each of these elements complete the structural design of learning for the beginning nursing student and are further developed and applied in each of the subsequent nursing courses.*
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the knowledge, skills and competencies essential for the management of adult individuals and their families experiencing alterations that require medical and surgical intervention in their adaptation to changes in health status. The focus is on health promotion and restoration related to conditions requiring surgical intervention; alterations in mobility, cell function, oxygenation, endocrine function; neurological, immune, gastrointestinal and sensory dysfunction; acid-base balance and sexuality. Communication, professional role, ethical-legal issues, and critical thinking abilities are further developed along with a more personalized philosophy of caring. These are actualized through the nursing process, concept mapping and the application of culturally competent, therapeutic nursing interventions. Concurrent clinical experiences in care management for selected adult individuals are provided to allow the student to correlate theory to the evidencebased practice of nursing. The research process is used as a vehicle to enable the student to suggest change to improve the quality of care. The interrelatedness of the health team is considered through application of beginning leadership and management principles.*
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between good health and nutrition. It examines the process of digestion, absorption, and metabolism and discusses the classes of nutrients, their functions, food sources, recommended daily allowances, and deficiency diseases. U.S. Dietary Guidelines are studied with applications made in meal planning for nutritional benefit with specific populations. Nutritional assessment, principles of therapeutic nutrition, and nutrition teaching are examined as they relate to the professional nursing role.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing the professional role of the nurse in providing care to women, children, and their families. Culturally competent, therapeutic nursing interventions are developed and utilized to assist the childbearing and childrearing families. A philosophy of caring is emphasized to support families adapting to changes in structure, function, and/or the effects of illness. Research concepts, historical and current perspectives are addressed and strategies within the health/illness spectrum are discussed related highrisk pregnancy, high-risk parenting and common health problems of women and children. Analysis of ethical-legal concerns and the exploration of cultural influences on client needs augment theory concepts and promote critical thinking. Concurrent acute care and community clinical experiences introduce the student to diverse professional nursing roles and the modeling of an evidence-based approach to nursing practice. These clinical experiences afford the student the opportunity to learn specialized skills and competencies along with numerous possibilities for providing teaching/learning sessions for families. Communication and critical thinking abilities are utilized in the application of the nursing process and the student has the opportunity to further utilize leadership and management principles assuming more responsibility as a health care team member and leader.*
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3.00 Credits
This course reinforces the knowledge, skills, competencies, and values of the preceding nursing courses in the curriculum and adds an additional dimension of assisting individuals and families to adapt to complex physiological and psychological stressors. Specific concepts presented focus on complex alterations in tissue perfusion, oxygenation, and cardiac output; critically altered fluid balance; altered renal function; multiple organ dysfunction/ shock, and nursing management in emergency situations. Concepts related to specific, representative alterations in mental health are threaded throughout this course. Concurrent clinical experiences are provided primarily in both medical-surgical and in psychiatric settings. A one- or two-day community experience is provided in a VNA or similar structured setting. Students generate culturally-competent therapeutic nursing interventions to promote adaptation of clients and families. Emphasis is placed on an evidencebased approach to nursing care. The planning, delivery, and management of comprehensive, individualized, quality care is based on utilization of research findings and is guided by ethical, legal, and professional standards of nursing practice. Professional role is further developed in order to initiate change and foster a safe, effective care environment. Leadership and management skills within the interdisciplinary health care team are practiced as students assume responsibility for their own learning and for the care provided to clients.* * For a more detailed description including prerequisites, see the Lawrence Memorial/Regis College Nursing Program catalog or visit www.lmregis.org.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory seminar for the student to discuss the discipline of nursing from its historical roots through current status and future trends. It introduces the novice to the philosophy and concepts of baccalaureate education in nursing. The relationship between nursing and non-nursing courses is considered in the development of the professional nurse. Roles of the professional nurse are examined with regard to theory, research, and practice, as well as professional, social, legal, and political issues. (Formerly, NU 201.)
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches the student to assess the health status of clients of any age in any setting. Students incorporate knowledge attained in the prerequisite courses, Introductory and Developmental Psychology, Sociology, Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, and Microbiology. The student learns verbal and non-verbal communication techniques used in obtaining a health history and the written communication techniques used in documenting the health assessment. Students acquire the basic psychomotor skills of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation necessary when performing a physical examination. The effects of age, gender, culture, religion, socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and adaptation are identified.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the basic concepts of pharmacology essential for basic nursing practice including those biological factors affecting the action of drugs, dose-response relationships, drug-drug interactions, and adverse effects. Topics include the clinical application of drug therapy for the treatment of hypertension, coronary artery disease, peptic ulcer disease and related disorders, diabetes, common respiratory diseases, infections, and selected central nervous system disorders. The student will also be introduced to the process of selecting appropriate therapeutic regimens and establishing monitoring parameters with an emphasis on application to nursing practice.
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