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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
PNUR 1223 Nutrition in Health and Illness: This course includes the principles of good nutrition for all age groups, the four basic food groups, the importance of good nutrition, and modification of these principles for therapeutic purposes.
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3.00 Credits
This course continues to cover the anatomy and physiology of the human body systems-a foundation for understanding the principles of maintaining positive health, as well as understanding the deviations from the normal. Prerequisite: Body Structure and Function I.
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10.00 Credits
This nursing process continues to prepare the student in the nursing care of the adult patient throughout their lifespan, incorporating all phases of the nursing process to insure personal responsibility for the maintenance of one's health management. This nursing process will also include an introduction to the foundations of pharmacology, principles of medication action and interaction, use of the nursing process, and routes of administering medications. The student will learn the skills needed to administer medications through the various routes. This course also utilizes the nursing process and body systems approach to guide the students in learning medication actions, dosages, expected reactions, side effects, contraindications and points of observation following the administration of medications. A clinical section will give the student an opportunity to continue the application of nursing skills to the patients in hospitals. Experience with geriatric, and medical/surgical patients will be provided in a long-term care facility, acute care facility or ambulatory care facility; facilities as assigned by the department. At the end of this course, the student will have met all Arkansas State Board of Nursing requirements for class and clinical experience for nursing process III. Prerequisite: All first semester courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the development of skills in converting measurements between household-apothecary-metric systems; calculating dosages of drugs; intravenous infusion rates and a basic review of math. Formulas for calculations of dosages for infants and children are included. Prerequisite: All first semester courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course continues to prepare the student in the nursing care of the adult patient, incorporating all phases of the nursing process to insure personal responsibility for the maintenance of one's health management. Prerequisite: All first semester courses.
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7.00 Credits
This nursing process includes the principles and practices of nursing care during prenatal, labor, and delivery, post-partum and neonatal periods. This nursing process will include the principles of growth and development, nursing the infant through adolescence, and the behavior of well and sick children. Observation and experience may be found in the nursery, physician's offices, well-child conference, and other agencies. A clinical section will give the student an opportunity to continue the application of nursing skills to the patients in hospitals. Clinical experiences with pediatric and obstetric patients will be provided in a facility setting assigned by the department. At the end of this course, the student will have met all Arkansas State Board of Nursing requirements for class and clinical experience for nursing process IV. Prerequisite: All first semester courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course includes an introduction to the foundations of pharmacology, principles of drug action and interaction, use of the nursing process, and routes of administering medications. The student will learn the skills needed to administer medications through the various routes. This course also utilizes the nursing process and body systems approach to guide the students in learning drug actions, dosages, expected reactions, side effects, contraindications and points of observation following the administration of drugs. Co-requisites: All second semester courses. Prerequisites: All first semester courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare the practical nursing student to administer IV therapy. Legal implications o IV therapy, IV equipment devices used in administering IV solutions and drugs, anatomy and physiology as applied to IV therapy, IV therapy methods and techniques, infection control in IV therapy, complications of IV infusions, rational of fluid and electrolyte therapy, IV drug therapy, blood transfusions, chemotherapy, total parenteral nutrition, and supervised laboratory and clinical performance will be covered in the course.
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3.00 Credits
This lab course will give the student an opportunity to continue the application of nursing skills to the patients in hospitals, doctors' offices, and other community health facilities. Experiences with pediatric, obstetric, and medical/surgical patients will be provided in a facility setting assigned by the department. At the end of the course, the student will have met all Arkansas State Board of Nursing requirements for clinical experience. Prerequisite: All 1100 level PNUR courses.
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8.00 Credits
PNUR 1308 Clinical II: This lab course will give the student an opportunity to continue the application of nursing skills to the patients in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and other community health facilities. Experiences with pediatric, obstetric, and medical/surgical patients will be provided in a facility setting assigned by the department. At the end of the course, the student will have met all Arkansas State Board of Nursing requirements for clinical experience. Prerequisite: All 1100 and 1200 level PNUR courses.
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