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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on nursing care of older adults living in a long-term care setting.Normal physiological changes of aging and related assessment skills are incorporated and evaluated.Management of common geriatric care problems is emphasized.Instruction in Medicare/Medicaid, insurance reimbursement systems, political focus of older adult care, the minimum data set framework, and policies and procedures as they relate to long term care are offered.(Prerequisites: BI 107, CH 84 or CH 11, NS 110; pre- or co-requisites: BI 108, BI 151, NS 270) Three credits (28 theory hours, 42 clinical hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course explores factors that influence the degree of health and wellness experienced by individuals across the life span.Epidemiology provides a framework for the assessment of risk and the managementof common health problems.Students have opportunities to promote wellness through clinical experiences with healthy children and adults.The course examines how people make health-related decisions, what risks threaten their health, and reasons they give for adopting parti-cular lifestyles, and addresses spirituality and culture, with particular attention devoted to assessment techniques and intervention strategies.Students learn traditional and (alternative) complementary therapeutic techniques to enhance health.(Prerequisites: NS 270, NS 272, BI 108, BI 151) Four credits (42 theory, 42 clinical hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the study of physiological and biological life processes with an emphasis on deviations from normal and a particular emphasis on exemplar cases.The course discusses manifestations of disease and alterations in all body systems including pharmacological kinetics and dynamics as therapeutic strategies for treating alterations in normal life processes.(Prerequisites: NS 270, NS 272, BI 108, BI 151) Three credits (42 theory hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing care of individuals with psychiatric disorders.The course uses theories of human behavior and personality as well as biophysical and holistic models as foundations to plan and implement care in a variety of traditional and non-traditional treatment settings.It discusses factors that may contribute to an individual developing a psychiatric disorder and considers ethical, legal, and cultural issues.The course emphasizes development of a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship and use of communication techniques to assist patients toward mental health.(Prerequisites: NS 270, NS 272, BI 108, BI 151, PY 163) Four credits (42 theory, 42 clinical hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the provision of safe and effective care for the basic needs of clients of all ages using common nursing technical skills and considering cultural and ethnic variations.The course introduces psychomotor skills and various nursing interventions that help clients maintain physical well-being including wound care; administration of oral, parenteral, and intravenous medications; glucose monitoring; nasogastric and respiratory care; and measures to assist with urinary and bowel elimination.The School of Nursing Learning Resource Center provides opportunities to use critical thinking in skill practice, interactive learning, supervised return demonstration, and hypothetical clinical situations.(Prerequisites: NS 270, NS 272, BI 108, BI 151, MA 19 or higher) Three credits (14 theory, 56 lab hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the research process and its application to scholarship in clinical practice.Students learn to be consumers of research through a review of the literature, critique of research, and identification of methods appropriate to study specific practice-related problems.The course emphasizes critical thinking and writing skills and considers ethical, economic, technological, and statistical dimensions.The course applies concepts to clinical research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement.(Prerequisites: NS 110 or NS 250, and, MA 17 or MA 217) Three credits (42 theory hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to illnesses that are most frequently occurring in the adult population.Discussion of these illnesses includes application of the components of the nursing process: assessment, diagnoses, interventions, and evaluation of expected outcomes.The course discusses specific independent and collaborative therapeutic interventions including indications for their use and evaluation of effectiveness.Extensive use of case examples enhances learning.Students achieve competence in the performance of selected skills during this course, which includes a clinical practicum with an acutely ill adult population.(Prerequisites: NS 301, NS 303, NS 305, NS 307) Five credits (42 theory, 84 clinical hours).
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to master the knowledge and skills necessary to help families cope with changes in their reproductive needs, reproductive health issues, and gynecological challenges.Reproductive needs include the childbearing cycle: pregnancy; childbirth; postpartum care; care of the healthy newborn; and prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal complications.Reproductive health issues include: infertility, family planning, menarche, and menopause.Gynecological challenges include breast and reproductive tract surgery.The course integrates ethical and legal aspects of reproductive issues throughout and discusses nursing theories and research findings generally related to reproductive health.(Pre- or co-requisites: NS 301, NS 303, NS 305, NS 307) Four credits (42 theory, 42 clinical hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course immerses students in issues and concepts central to professional nursing.It examines political, social, and legal systems that affect the image of nursing and influence its role definition.Students consider organizational dynamics and theories of leadership and management, with case studies and concurrent clinical practica providing the foundation for theory integration.Experiential projects that involve acute care and community-based practice settings facilitate critical reflection and creative planning.(Pre-or co-requisites: NS 310, NS 312, NS 314, NS 323, NS 325; prerequisites for RNs: NS 250, NS, 252, NS 310) Three credits (28 theory, 42 clinical hours).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing care of children, adolescents, and families dealing with health and developmental challenges of childhood and explores health promotion needs of childrearing families.Clinical resources reflect the trend toward community-based care, with student experiences in community agencies as well as in acute-care settings.The course employs a developmental perspective through which major causes of morbidity and mortality are examined.Case studies serve as vehicles for the integration of multicultural and multidisciplinary perspectives that introduce health problems.The course challenges students to develop critical and creative reasoning skills in working through the cases, guiding them in the use of developmentally and empathically appropriate communication strategies.(Prerequisites: NS 310, NS 312) Four credits (42 theory, 42 clinical hours).
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