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  • 1.00 Credits

    1 hour per week. This is a one-semester class instruction in voice designed to help non-music and music students develop fundamental vocal and musicianship skills. Open to all students. Note: Applied music courses have prefix letters and numbers assigned by subject area. They all carry the -p designation. To determine the correct course number, refer to the table below each of the following course descriptions:
  • 7.00 Credits

    5 hours of class per week (6.7 hours Summer C) and 6 hours of clinical lab per week (8 hours Summer C). Prerequisites: Admission to the LPN to ADN Bridge program, BSC 2086C, MCB 2010C, PSY 2012, ENC 1101, MAC 1105 or STA 2023, HUN 1201 (3 credits), DEP 2004, all with a minimum grade of "C." Bridge Nursing is designed to facilitate the transition of the Licensed Practical Nurse to the role of the Associate Degree Nurse and to build on the PN curriculum. Nursing III and IV build on and expand from this course. In this course, students gain beginning knowledge about Associate Degree Nursing, the Neuman Systems Model, needs as adapted from Maslow and the nursing process. Students learn the components of the role of the nurse, wholistic health care across the life span, and application of the nursing process. Students identify stressors and commonly occurring responses to stress that affect clients' abilities to meet needs for oxygen, perception/mobility, physiological and psychological safety, self-esteem, and/or love and belonging. Students expand learning about pharmacology, pathophysiology, communication and teaching, assessment, and intervention skills with emphasis on primary prevention for the well child and secondary prevention for the adult client. Students provide care in ambulatory pediatric, community, psychiatric, and acute care facilities.
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours of class, 12 hours of clinical lab per week. Eight week mini-mester. Prerequisites: To be completed prior to beginning Introduction to Nursing: Advisement/Orientation (if new student to CFCC); Human Anatomy and Physiology I (BSC 2085C) 4 credit hours; College Algebra (MAC 1105) 3 credit hours or Elementary Statistics (STA 2023); Freshman Composition I (ENC 1101) 3 credit hours; General Psychology (PSY 2012) 3 credit hours; and Human Nutrition (HUN 1201) 3 credit hours; with a minimum grade of "C."Corequisite or prerequisite: BSC 2086C. Corequisite: NUR 1820 with a minimum grade of "C." Prior to entry to the ADN program, students have completed all general education prerequisite courses described in the ADN Information Sessions. All of the nursing courses build on and expand from Introduction to Nursing. In this course, students gain beginning knowledge about nursing and the Neuman Systems Model. The model includes client and environmental systems affected by the five variables: physiological, psychological, developmental, sociocultural and spiritual. It addresses health as a continuum. The faculty designed the nursing curriculum with the Neuman Systems Model as the conceptual basis. The other major concepts are needs as adapted from Maslow and the nursing process. Students are introduced to the nurse's role through the core components and competencies of assessment, clinical decision-making, communication, caring interventions, and teaching and learning. Students learn basic nursing skills in the simulation laboratory setting.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 hours of class and 12 hours of clinical lab per week. Eight week mini-mester. Prerequisite: NUR 1022C. Corequisites: NUR 1820 and NUR 1142. In this course, students begin to apply knowledge about nursing and the Neuman Systems Model. Students continue learning related to needs as adapted from Maslow, including basic human needs, psychological needs, self-esteem needs, developmental needs and spiritual needs. Students apply the nursing process in community, extended and acute care facilities. Students care for diverse clients across the life span with emphasis on the geriatric client. Clinical application of learning accomplished in Socialization into Nursing I will be evaluated as part of the clinical component of Nursing I.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: MAC 1105 or STA 2023. Corequisite: NUR 1024 or permission of instructor. This course introduces pharmacology concepts that are used in the care of clients of all ages. Within a nursing process framework, students will learn dosage calculation, as well as factors that affect the absorption, excretion, distribution, and metabolism of drugs, and drug actions, adverse effects and interactions. Students will study broad groups of drugs affecting all body systems and learn nursing considerations for specific groups of drugs.
  • 5.00 Credits

    Average of 11 class and clinical hours per week, but hours per week will vary. Prerequisites: NUR 1024C, NUR 1820, NUR 1142. Nursing IIA builds on the knowledge and skill acquired in Nursing I. In this course students learn about wholistic health care across the life span, and application of the nursing process to diverse clients needing primary prevention and those whose normal lines of defense have been invaded to the extent secondary and tertiary preventions are necessary. Faculty designs learning experiences to assist students in identifying stressors and commonly occurring responses to stressors affecting clients' abilities to meet needs for pain management, cellular function, healing after surgery, oxygen, perception and mobility, and physiological safety. Through laboratory and clinical experiences, students continue to develop assessment and intervention skills with emphasis on beginning secondary prevention for the adult client. Students learn additional nursing skills and provide care in community and acute care facilities.
  • 9.00 Credits

    4 hours of class and 15 hours of clinical lab per week. Prerequisite: NUR 1024C and MCB 2010C with a minimum grade of "C."Corequisite: DEP 2004. Concurrent: NUR 1823. Nursing II builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in Nursing I. In this course, the student learns about wholistic health care across the life span and application of the nursing process to diverse clients needing primary prevention and those whose normal lines of defense have been invaded to the extent secondary and tertiary preventions are necessary. Faculty designs learning experiences to assist students to identify stressors and commonly occurring responses to stressors affecting clients' abilities to meet needs for pain management, cellular function, healing after surgery, oxygen, perception/mobility, physiological and psychological safety, self-esteem, and/or love and belonging. Through laboratory and clinical experiences students continue to develop assessment and intervention skills with emphasis on primary prevention for the well child and secondary prevention for the adult client. Students learn additional nursing skills and provide care in ambulatory pediatric, community, psychiatric, and acute care facilities.
  • 5.00 Credits

    Average of 11 class and clinical hours per week, but hours per week will vary. Prerequisite: NUR 1210C. Corequisite: NUR 1823. Nursing IIB builds on the knowledge and skill acquired in Nursing I and IIA. In this course the student learns about wholistic health care across the life span and application of the nursing process to diverse clients needing primary prevention and those whose normal lines of defense have been invaded to the extent secondary and tertiary preventions are necessary. Faculty designs learning experiences to assist students in identifying stressors and commonly occurring responses to stressors affecting clients' abilities to meet needs for psychological safety, self-esteem, and/or love and belonging, sexuality, oxygen, and elimination. Through laboratory and clinical experiences, students continue to develop assessment and intervention skills with emphasis on primary prevention for the well child and secondary prevention for the adult client. Students learn additional nursing skills and provide care in ambulatory pediatric, community, psychiatric, and acute care facilities.
  • 2.00 Credits

    4 hours per week for eight weeks. Corequisite: NUR 1004C. This course introduces students to the core components and competencies of the associate's degree (A.D.) nurse. It is the first of two courses for Bridge Nursing students in which specific components are explored and expanded as the students' experience in nursing grows. Students will investigate the scope of practice of the A.D. nurse and will begin the process of socialization into this new nursing practice. In this course, students are introduced to collaboration, career management, professional behavior, communication in management, changes in health care, standards of nursing practice, legal and ethical aspects, and the five aspects of management. Application of the role components addressed in this course will be evaluated during Bridge Nursing clinical experiences.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Corequisite: NUR 1024C. This course introduces students to the core components and competencies of the associate's degree (A.D.) nurse. It is the first of three courses in which specific components are explored and expanded as the students' nursing experience grows. In this course, students are introduced to collaboration and career management and will concentrate on the components of managing care; professional behavior, including ethical and legal aspects; scope of practice; and role of the A.D. nurse. This course introduces health care delivery systems, managed care and the five aspects of management in nursing. Applications of the content discussed in this course will be evaluated in the clinical component of Nursing I.
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