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  • NUR 322: Holistic Health Assessment for Registered Nurses

    4.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: Nursing Students Only Builds upon RN knowledge and skill to conduct a holistic health assessment of persons that respects developmental differences across the life span. Emphasis is on health and development of persons. Assessment, consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, is foundational to the nurses’s goal of maximizing health. Students will engage in caring behaviors and critical thiking when conducting a holistic assessment.
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  • NUR 326: Care of Adults Experiencing Chronic Illness

    4.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: NUR 250, 251 Corequisites: NUR 327 An examination of nursing interventions in promoting health and guiding the health care experience for the adult, and shaping a therapeutic environment along the course of common chronic illnesses. Chronic illness is viewed as a significant biographical element that offers both challenges and opportunities to maximize health. Knowledge pertinent to chronic illness is synthesized from many disciplinary frameworks guided by the nursing perspective and core nursing values. The effect of cultural issues, socio-economic issues, and health policy on chronic illness will also be discussed.
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  • NUR 327: Experiential Learning: Nursing Care for Adults Experiencing Illness

    5.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    (15 practice hrs./week) Corequisites: NUR 326 Experiential learning component addressing the nursing needs of adults experiencing acute and/or chronic illness in a hospitalsetting. Learners will apply theoretical knowledge related to illness and its manifestations. Emphasis is placed on developing professional nursing knowledge and skill that promotes the return to health, that guides the adult through the illness experience and that structures environments to support these processes.
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  • NUR 330: Community Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327 Corequisites: NUR 331 Prepares the nursing student to promote health and provide care for the community and aggregate, with a special emphasis upon vulnerable populations as the focus of service. The student should gains the ability to identify strategies to promote health of families, groups, and populations in the community. The course uses Healthy People 2010 objectives and leading health indicators that reflect the major national health concerns. Principles of epidemiology, demography, environmental sciences, community organization, and health care political, economic, and legal influences are integrated with nursing concepts and principles to provide the basis for community nursing practice. Community and aggregate strengths and risks are identified. Special emphasis will be placed upon implementation strategies designed to promote the health of populations, guide populations to reduce identified health risks and to shape health policy.
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  • NUR 331: Experiential Learning: Community Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    (9 hrs practice/wk) Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327; Junior Nursing Standing Corequisites: NUR 330 Prepares the learner to promote health and provide care for the community and aggregate, with a special emphasis upon vulnerable populations as the focus of service. Aspects studied in NUR 330 are integrated with nursing concepts and principles to provide the basis for community nursing practice. Community and aggregate strengths and risks are identified through community health nursing process. Special emphasis will be placed upon implementation strategies designed to promote the health of populations, guide populations to reduce identified health risks and to shape health policy.
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  • NUR 332: Concepts of Family Care

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327 Corequisites: NUR 331 This course introduces the student to application of nursing process to the family. Students will draw from a variety of theories and conceptual frameworks to guide the gathering and interpretation of assessment data. Emphasis is placed on assessment and nursing interventions to support or strengthen optimal level of functioning (OLF) for families across the life cycle.
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  • NUR 334: Maternity and Women's Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327; Nursing Majors only Corequisites: NUR 335 Integration of women-centered theory and practice concepts that focus on the nurse’s role in promoting health for women and beginning families. Variables that place women, the developing child, and the family at risk or that could render a population vulnerable are identified and appropriate therapeutic interventions explored. Common health problems that women experience across the reproductive years are also explored. Learners are introduced to the role of the nurse in women’s health that promotes health, shapes supportive environments, and provides anticipatory guidance. Global issues affecting the health of women and their families will be explored. Within the context of professional values and accountability, ethical and legal issues impacting maternity and women’s health are presented.
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  • NUR 335: Experiential Learning: Maternity and Women's Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    (9 hrs practice/wk) Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327; Nursing majors only Corequisites: NUR 334 Application of evidence-based nursing interventions aimed at promoting, guiding, and shaping the health care environment for women, mothers, infants and families builds on previously learned foundational nursing concepts and skills as well as concepts from the social and biological sciences. Within an ethical and legal framework, nursing interventions are designed to reflect professional values, accountability and advocacy. Clinical experiences in both acute care and community settings will offer the learner opportunities to care for women within a family context across the lifespan. Standards of care published by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) serve as the guide for practice.
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  • NUR 336: Child and Family Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327; Nursing Majors Only Corequisites: NUR 337 Focuses on integrating prior knowledge, using scholarly inquiry, and designing therapeutic nursing interventions to promote health and manage illness in children from infancy through adolescence in partnership with their families. Emphasis is placed on applying knowledge of growth and development and health issues of children to plan and evaluate family centered nursing care that maximizes the health of children in a caring environment. Ethical, legal, cultural and advocacy concepts are explored. The ANA Standards of Care for the Pediatric Nurse (1996) and ANA Maternal Child Health Standards and the objectives of Healthy People 2010 that pertain to children and families provide the framework for constructing evidenced- based contemporary nursing care for children and families.
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  • NUR 337: Experiential Learning: Child and Family Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

    (9 hrs practice/wk) Prerequisites: NUR 326, 327 Corequisites: NUR 336 Provides an opportunity for experiential learning designed to develop nursing skills unique to the care of children and families from an individual, family and aggregate perspective. The learner promotes healthy growth and development in children, shapes safe, supportive environments, provides anticipatory guidance to families, uses appropriate community resources, and provides evidenced-based, clinically competent therapeutic interventions for children who are healthy or experiencing an illness. The experiences in this course also foster professional development of accountability and responsibility for learning, identifying ethical and legal dimensions of practice, and integrating nursing care with that of other health care providers.
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