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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIO 102 (formerly 302) Offered: Typically every Fall Term This course focuses on the assessment of health and the promotion of wellness throughout the lifespan through the nursing process, and American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Caring is the paradigm for this course and expands the concepts of critical thinking, nursing, person, environment, and health. Students also will explore community health concepts with emphasis on the family, health promotion, and concepts of epidemiology. This course includes three hours of theory/classroom experience and three hours of clinical each week. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTES: Taken Fall Term of sophomore year. May be approved on a term-by-term basis to meet the Active Learning Experience. (Check the Schedule of Classes to see if this course is approved for the term in which the student plans to take the course). Course Fee: $417. 1 Course Credit
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 341 Offered: Typically every Spring Term This course continues the focus on the assessment of health and promotion of wellness throughout the lifespan through the nursing process, and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. The course provides the opportunity for students to apply carative factors as a foundation for nursing care of common healthcare concerns of children and adults. Caring is the paradigm for this course and expands the concepts of critical thinking, nursing, person, environment, and health. Integration of health assessment, pathophysiology, and pharmacology will be emphasized. This course includes four hours of theory/classroom experience each week and 84 hours of clinical experience per term. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTE: Taken Spring Term of sophomore year. Course Fee: $60. 1.5 Course Credits
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 342, BIO 222, and CFS 221 Offered: Typically every Fall Term This course is the first of a two-course sequence, which deepens the student's understanding of the nursing care of children and adults experiencing alterations in health. Caring is the paradigm for this course and expands concepts of critical thinking, nursing, person, environment, and health. Clinical experiences provide the student with the opportunities to care for clients in congruence with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. This course includes four hours of theory/classroom experience each week and 84 hours of clinical experience per term. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTES: Taken Fall Term of junior year. Noncredit for students who completed this course as NUR 346. Course Fee: $60. 1.5 Course Credits
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NUR 342; BIO 207 (or concurrent enrollment); BIO 222 (formerly 322); CFS 221; CHM 113; and PSY 100 Offered: Typically every Fall Term The focus of this course is on nursing care of children and adults with psychiatric/mental-health needs. Caring is the paradigm for this course and expands the concepts of critical thinking, nursing, person, environment, and health. Clinical experiences provide the student with opportunities to care for clients in congruence with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. This course includes two hours of theory/classroom experience each week and 84 hours of clinical experience per term. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTES: Taken Fall Term of junior year. Noncredit for students who completed this course as NUR 344. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 342, CFS 221, BIO 222 (formerly 322), CHM 113, and PSY 100 Offered: Typically every Spring Term The focus of this course is the role of research in nursing practice. Students will explore sources of knowledge appropriate to the discipline of nursing. Students will focus on the use of research-based knowledge from nursing and the sciences as the basis for practice, as described in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. The evolution of knowledge and research practices in nursing will be examined. Critical appraisal and use of nursing research studies will be a major emphasis of the course. A group presentation of a research critique, which focuses on the usefulness of the study to the discipline, is a major requirement of the course. Two hours in class each week. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTE: Taken Spring Term of junior year. Noncredit for students who completed this course as NUR 345. 1/2 Course Credit
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NUR 350 Offered: Typically every Spring Term This course is the second of a two-course sequence that focuses on the care of children and adults experiencing alterations in health. Caring is the paradigm for this course and expands concepts of critical thinking, nursing, person, environment, and health. Clinical experiences provide the student with the opportunities to care for clients/families in congruence with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN's) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Five hours of class each week and 120 hours of clinical per term. Appropriate standardized exam(s) may be required. NOTE: Taken Spring Term of junior year. NOTE: Noncredit for students who completed this course as NUR 347. Course Fee: $60. 2 Course Credits
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CHM 113 Offered: Typically every Spring Term The focus of this course is the role of pharmacology in nursing practice. The emphasis is on the general principles of drug action that form the basis for understanding the actionsof specific drugs. Upon completion of the course, students will demonstrate a basic understanding of pharmacology and be able to apply the knowledge of pharmacologic basics to nursing practice. Four hours in class per week. NOTE: Taken Spring Term of the junior year. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Offered: Typically alternate Fall Terms (next offered Fall 2010) This course is designed as a comprehensive study of the health and safety needs of young children (birth through age 8) and the use of multiple assessments of children's development. Content will include prenatal and postpartum care; immunizations; chronic and acute health-care needs; safety issues and good health practices; legal and ethical considerations; evaluation of assessment instruments; and assessment report composition. Students also will become competent in the use of multiple assessments--such as observations, checklists, interviews, anecdotal records, play-based assessments, and norm-and-criterion-referenced tools as prescribed by state and national organizations and learned societies--and will be prepared to make professional decisions regarding screening, assessment, initial program planning, program modification, and program evaluation for young children. Emphasis will be placed on the culturally sensitive collaboration between the student and the families as part of a multi-disciplinary team. 20 field hours. Course Fee: $15. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore or junior standing for 390; senior standing for 490 Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course initiated, directed, and organized by the student. All such courses are to be supported by a faculty sponsor, second reader, academic adviser, Department Chairperson, and possibly others. Course proposals must meet the approval of the Coordinator of Advising. Courses with Active Learning Experience (ALE) credit use the "A" designation; courses without ALE credit use the "B" designation. 1 Course Credit
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