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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Meets Arizona State Board of Nursing requirements for preparing a Licensed Practical Nurse to initiate, maintain, and discontinue intravenous therapy and administer selected medications by the IV route within the scope of LPN practice in Arizona. Includes legal aspects, complications of IV therapy, age-specific modifications, and nursing implications for administration of selected IV fluids and medications Prerequisite: NSG 132, Active license as Licensed Practical Nurse or Registered Nurse. Three lecture.
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1.00 Credits
NSG 130. Basic Nutrition for Nurses (1). Introduction to the basic concepts of nutrition. Includes a healthy balanced diet, factors that influence nutrition, and diet therapy for certain disease states. One lecture.
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8.00 Credits
NSG 131. Foundations in Nursing I (8). Introduction to concepts of nursing roles, holistic approach to care, critical thinking and nursing process, pharmacology, nursing skill development, effective communication techniques, learning/teaching and legal, ethical, spiritual, and diversity/culture concepts. Physiological and psychological needs in health and illness including loss, grief and dying, and peri-operative care. Clinical experiences focus on holistic assessment and other selected skills in well defined practice settings. Prerequisite: Admission to nursing program. . Five lecture. Nine lab.
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9.00 Credits
NSG 132. Concepts in Nursing II (9). Introduction to commonly occurring health care concerns. Includes oncology overview, alterations in oxygenation and perfusion, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and gastrointestinal functions, and an introduction to management concepts. Prerequisite: NSG 131 and BIO 202 and NSG 130 or NTR 135. Five lecture. Twelve lab.
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2.00 Credits
NSG 133. Practical Nurse Completion Course (2). Scope of practice issues for the Practical Nurse, including care of individuals and families experiencing selected psychosocial adaptation and acute health-illness problems. Includes some Practical Nurse level concepts of management and supervision. Prerequisite: NSG 231 and NSG 233. Two lecture.
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3.00 Credits
NSG 210. Pharmacology and Nursing Practice (3). Overview of pharmacological concepts and their relationship to nursing practice. Survey of selected drug classifications including drug actions, effects in maintaining or restoring homeostasis, side effects, adverse reactions, and application of critical thinking, including the nursing process, in the administration of medication and client teaching. Basic knowledge of chemistry, physiology and nursing recommended. Prerequisite: NSG 131. Three lecture.
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7.00 Credits
NSG 231. Concepts in Nursing III (7). Concepts of nursing care for clients with commonly occurring health care concerns with an emphasis on the developmental periods of infancy through adolescence. Advanced intravenous therapy. Uses nursing process format and integrates learning/teaching, psychosocial, diversity/cultural, spiritual, nutritional, pharmacological, legal, and ethical aspects. Clinical practicum includes management experience in well defined practice settings. Prerequisite: ENG 102 and NSG 132 and PSY 245. Corequisite: NSG 233. Three lecture. Twelve lab.
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5.00 Credits
NSG 232. Concepts in Nursing IV (5). Concepts of nursing care for clients with commonly occurring health care concerns: Alterations in genito-urinary and neurological functioning, organ transplantation, and multisystem problems including shock and burns. Includes concepts of critical care and emergency/disaster nursing. Uses nursing process format and integrates learning/teaching, psychosocial, diversity/cultural, spiritual, nutritional, pharmacological, management, legal, and ethical aspects. Clinical practicum includes preceptorship experience in well defined practice settings. Use of Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI) Exit Exam as a progression benchmark and remediation guide. Prerequisite: BIO 205 and NSG 231 and NSG 233. Corequisite: NSG 234 and NSG 235. Two lecture. Nine lab.
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2.00 Credits
NSG 233. Perinatal and Women's Health Nursing (2). Concepts of nursing care for the preconception, perinatal and postpartum family and neonate. Includes sexually transmitted diseases, men's reproductive and women's health issues. Prerequisite: NSG 132. Corequisite: NSG 231. Two lecture.
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3.00 Credits
NSG 234. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing (3). Concepts of nursing care for clients throughout the life span with maladaptive psychosocial and physiological responses related to mental disorders. Uses nursing process format and integrates complex communication techniques, learning/teaching, psychosocial, diversity/cultural, spiritual, nutritional, pharmacological, legal and ethical aspects. Clinical practicum occurs in well-defined settings. Prerequisite: NSG 132. Two lecture. Three lab.
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