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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course gives the nursing student a thorough and practical understanding of pharmacology. Emphasis is placed on therapeutic actions, posology, drug interactions, and drug nomenclature. Prerequisite: Nursing 1107, PN's/RN's, or instructor permission.
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1.00 Credits
This course is for students in a continuing in the Certified Nursing Assistant Program. Emphasis is placed upon the development and fundamental nurse assistant skills, techniques, and knowledge. The program serves as a starting point for a variety of health careers. Clinical experience in health care facilities provides the student an opportunity an area to develop nursing skills by giving direct patient care. Prerequisite: NURS 1003.
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5.00 Credits
After successful completion of the Spring Semester, each student is awarded 10 hours credit for his/her Practical Nursing Education.
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0.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Nursing introduces basic concepts and principles of nursing care. Emphasis is placed upon the development of fundamental nursing skills, techniques, and knowledge that provide a foundation upon which to build future nursing courses. The philosophy and conceptual framework of Northark's Nursing Department is introduced and explained. Concepts of professional ethics, the nursing process, mental health concepts, communication techniques, principles of nutrition, pharmacology, and medicalsurgical asepsis are introduced. Clinical experience is in the Northark nursing laboratory and in health agencies, providing the student an opportunity to develop nursing skills by giving direct patient care. Prerequisites: ALDH 1042 or 1043 and MAT 1133 or higher. Open only to accepted nursing students.
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1.00 Credits
Medical-Surgical Nursing I provides for the study of patients with well-defined medicalsurgical problems. The nursing process is used to focus on needs of patients responding to stress and illness. Major concepts and theories of selected medical-surgical disorders include interruption in tissue integrity, pain, mechanisms of shock, derangement of body fluids, and altered ventilatory function. To facilitate transfer of these concepts to clinical performance, nursing care of patients adapting to the stress related to surgical intervention, cancer, burns, and dermatological disorders will be provided in general hospital medical-surgical units. Orientation to the operating and recovery rooms will also be provided. Prerequisites: NURS 1107 and BIOL 2214.
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2.00 Credits
Maternal Neonatal Nursing focuses on nursing care of the childbearing family. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse in promoting adaptation of the client and family during the antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal, and neonatal periods. Normal physiologic and psychosocial changes and needs as well as possible complications during the childbearing cycle and neonatal period are studied. Students utilize the nursing process in the application of principles, concepts, and nursing skills learned in this course and prerequisite courses in caring for clients and families. Clinical experiences include observations and care of clients in prenatal, labor/delivery, postpartum, and neonatal settings. Prerequisites: NURS 1114, BIOL 2214
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3.00 Credits
Psychiatric Nursing studies man's adaptive and maladaptive responses to stress throughout the life cycle. The principal focus of the course is on the utilization of the nursing process with patients in mental health settings which provide secondary care. Particular emphasis is given to the use of techniques of communication which are appropriate for one-to-one psychotherapeutic nurse-patient relationships. The concepts of basic human needs and developmental processes are interwoven in the structure of the course, and an eclectic view of other relevant contemporary theories is presented, Guided clinical laboratory experiences are provided. Prerequisite: NURS 1114 and 1124; PSYC 2003.
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2.00 Credits
This is a continuation of NURS 1011.
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3.00 Credits
This is a continuation of NURS 2021.
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4.00 Credits
This health assessment course teaches registered nurses or professional nurse students the techniques of basic physical assessment, history taking and recording. Prerequisite: Nursing students, PN's or RN 's, or permission of instructor.
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