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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course focuses on family-centered maternity care and women’s health. The emphasis of the course is on the role of the nurse as provider, manager and coordinator of care of women, infants and families during the childbearing cycle. In the clinical component, the use of critical thinking skills is applied during the prenatal, labor, delivery and postpartum periods. The student learns about nursing role development as a collaborative interdisciplinary team member. Fee. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, NSG 2041, PSY 2400.
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5.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course focuses on family-centered child health care. The social, physical, psychological, developmental, and spiritual responses of children and their families to illness and disease are emphasized, as well as health promotion and illness prevention at each developmental stage. The role of the nurse as advocate, educator, and as an accountable provider of care is discussed. The clinical component of this course focuses on providing family-centered nursing care to children in acute and community settings. Clinical experiences offer students the opportunity to engage children and families in a variety of settings, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in these settings, and develop communication, clinical judgment and decision-making skills that will assist them to focus on the varied aspects of the professional nurse role. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, NSG 2041, PSY 2400.
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2.00 Credits
Spring Semester This course focuses on family-centered child health care. The social, physical, psychological, developmental, and spiritual responses of children and their families to illness and disease are emphasized, as well as health promotion and disease prevention at each developmental stage. The role of the nurse as advocate, teacher, and as an accountable provider of care is discussed. Students begin to develop in the role of a collaborative interdisciplinary team member. The clinical component is NSG 2054 AC.
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1.50 Credits
Summer Semester This clinical course focuses on providing family-centered nursing care to children in acute care settings. Clinical experiences offer students the opportunity to engage children and families and interact with interdisciplinary teams in providing care. Students focus on the role of the professional nurse as clinician, advocate, and educator. Students will continue to develop their communication, clinical judgment and decision making skills while assessing, planning, and intervening to assist children and families with illness and disease management.
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3.50 Credits
Summer Semester This course focuses on family-centered maternity care and women’s health. The emphasis of the course is on the role of the nurse as provider, manager and coordinator of care of women, infants, and families during the childbearing cycle. In the clinical component, the use of critical thinking skills is applied during the prenatal, labor, delivery and postpartum periods. Student learn about nursing role development as a collaborative interdisciplinary team member.
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3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters This course focuses on guiding registered nurse students to explore their professional goals and opportunities. Through readings, discussions, writing activities and oral presentations, professional academic skills and growth are enhanced. Nursing practice, history, communication, decision making, nursing and allied theories, teaching-learning, and professional accountability are examined. The nursing roles of provider and manager of care, educator and advocate are scrutinized. By enhancing nursing knowledge and critical thinking strategies, registered nurse students are prepared to meet the academic rigors of the RN-BS program. Prerequisites: Graduation from Associate Degree or Diploma Nursing program. Current Massachusetts RN license.
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3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters This course examines selected pathophysiological concepts within a nursing framework. The course incorporates biopsycho- social aspects of disease. Concepts include mechanisms of disease causation, genetics, immune processes, cellular growth/proliferation, circulation, oxygenation, and alterations in neurological and endocrine function. The effects of various environmental conditions, risk factors for illness and physiological compensatory changes are examined. Adaptative responses across the life span are addressed for each system. Prerequisites: NSG 2001.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Spring Semesters Alternating with SOC 2650 Women are the majority of caregivers and patients in the current health care system. This course discusses the various forces – historical, political, sociological, economic, biological, and psychological – that create and maintain women’s utilization of, andservice to, the American health care system. Among the topics to be investigated are sexism in health care, health and safety for women in the workplace, socialization of females as patients and health care workers, nurses’ efforts to gain autonomy, and some women’s health issues. (Same course as SOC 2230, WS 2230). This course meets the wellness requirement. Prerequisite: SOC 1000 or 1600 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters This course focuses on the basic principles of drug metabolism, the mechanisms of drug actions, and their application to clinical practice. Major drug classifications will be used as a format to gain understanding of drug effects, side effects, and related nursing care. The nurse’s role as educator and a member of the interdisciplinary health team is explored. Evidence based knowledge forms a foundation for therapeutic pharmacologic interventions. Prerequisite: NSG 2001.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester This course focuses on a variety of current nursing issues and topics with emphasis on the role of the nurse as advocate. Historical, social, economic, educational, ethical, and political implications of these topics will be discussed and critiqued. Due to the dynamic nature of the current health care environment, the topics will be chosen to reflect current and ongoing nursing and health care challenges. Using analysis and critical thinking, the real and potential impact of the topic on nursing, nurses, individuals, families and communities will be explored. Integrity, human dignity, and nursing excellence will provide the foundation for this course. Prerequisite: Completion of all 2000-level Nursing courses.
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