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  • NURS 0126: Concepts of Mental Health/Illness

    4.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    4 hours credit This course provides the student with the opportunity to care for clients from childhood to late adulthood with acute or chronic mental illness. Client needs specific to psychosocial integrity and adaptation are investigated. Emphasis is placed upon promoting the client's ability to adapt or problem solve situations related to illness or stressful events. The principles of therapeutic communication are discussed and practiced with a variety of clients. Therapeutic communication, nursing process, and critical thinking are documented in the process recording and care plans. Teaching plans specific to medications and nutrition provide the opportunity to integrate teaching/learning concepts. Caring, cultural awareness, and therapeutic communication are integrated into both didactic content and clinical experience. Documentation of these concepts is demonstrated in the clinical area and weekly required paperwork. Prerequisites: Completion of NURS0122 and NURS0123 (or equivalent) with a "C" or better.
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  • NURS 0127: Concepts for LPN Articulation

    2.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    2 hours credit The course content expands on the concepts necessary to provide a safe, effective care environment for adult and/or neonatal clients whose psychosocial and physiologic integrity are compromised. The course content will explore care that supports homeostatic regulation for clients with electrolyte and acid-base imbalances, respiratory, and tissue perfusion concerns in a culturally diverse population. Content will examine nursing care for women whose adaptive reserve and defenses are compromised by problems occurring during the maternity cycle or related to altered reproductive system function. Maternal/fetal and neonatal assessment are included. Didactic experiences will integrate relevant concepts of critical thinking in the nursing process, caring, communication, cultural awareness, documentation, self-care, and teaching/ learning. Prerequisites: Completion of NURS0125. May be taken concurrently with NURS0126 and NURS0212.
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  • NURS 0135: Pathophysiology for Nurses

    3.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    3 hours credit Through this course, the student is introduced to basic concepts of nursing pathophysiology. The mechanisms of disease, alterations in body structure and function with resulting clinical manifestations will be presented. These concepts provide a basis for discussion of implications for nursing care. Prerequisites: Anatomy and Physiology or concurrent enrollment.
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  • NURS 0144: MICT/RRT to RN Concepts of Care

    4.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    4 hours credit The course content expands on the concepts necessary to provide a safe caring environment for adult clients in whom psychosocial and physiologic integrity is compromised. The course content will explore care that supports homeostatic regulation for clients with endocrine, oncological, metabolic, surgical care needs and tissue perfusion concerns in a culturally diverse population. Course experiences will incorporate the nursing process and critical thinking while caring for patients in diverse settings. Communication and documentation skills will be applied to the multi-disciplinary health care team. Didactic and clinical experiences will integrate teaching and learning activities that enhance self-care, health promotion and maintenance. Prerequisites: Successful completion of NURS0145 and NURS0147.
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  • NURS 0145: MICT/RRT to RN Transition Concepts

    2.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    2 hours credit The bridge course provides content that orients the student to the conceptual framework, philosophy and expectations of the Kansas City Kansas Community College Nursing Program. The student is expected to come with basic concepts of therapeutic communication and patient care process. The relationship of this knowledge to the total curriculum is explored. An emphasis is placed on the use of critical thinking in the nursing process to develop care plans. Other topics include patient safety, health promotion, and nursing hospital documentation. The legal and ethical ramifications affecting the role transition to RN are explored. Prerequisites: Anatomy, Psychology, Human/Child Development, Physiology and Lab, Chemistry and Lab, Microbiology, and Intermediate Algebra or consent of instructor.
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  • NURS 0147: Concepts for MICT/RRT Articulation

    2.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    2 hours credit The course provides content that transitions the MICT/RRT to the clinical role of nursing. The content includes pharmacokinetics, drugs dosage calculation and medication administration in the hospital. Assessment and treatment of pain, including cultural differences, is also presented. Care of the patient with fluid imbalances, nutritional needs and musculoskeletal problems are explored. Nursing responsibilities for lab and diagnostic tests are applied to patient care. Prerequisites: Anatomy, Psychology, Human/Child Development, Physiology and lab, Chemistry and lab, Microbiology, Intermediate Algebra (or consent of instructor). 214
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  • NURS 0190: Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    3 hours credit The student is introduced to the basic concepts of mental healthpsychiatric nursing. Psychiatric terminology is presented. Cultural, ethical, and legal aspects of mental illness are discussed. The course content is organized to provide basics in order to prepare the student for NURS-0191, Mental Health/ Psychiatric Nursing. Learning experiences are designed to provide the student with the opportunity to study and become familiar with important vocabulary and basic concepts utilized in mental health/psychiatric nursing.
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  • NURS 0193: Health Assessment for Nurses

    2.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    2 hours credit This course is a requirement to be taken prior to or concurrent with first level nursing courses. The course will allow the student to enhance their physical assessment skills in providing care for clients of all ages and cultures. The basic techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation will be used to assess each body system. The student will also gain experience in history taking and documentation while developing a caring attitude. Prerequisites: Physiology required
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  • NURS 0210: Women and Neonates

    4.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    4 hours credit Emphasis is placed on health promotion and maintenance during the neonatal and women's reproductive life stages of growth and development. The course content expands concepts necessary to provide a safe, effective care environment promoting psychosocial coping, adaptation and physiological integrity for women, neonates, and their significant others, in diverse settings. Didactic content and clinical experience will integrate relevant concepts of critical thinking in nursing process, caring, communication, cultural awareness, documentation, self care, and teaching/learning. Prerequisite: Completion of NURS-0122, NURS-0123, NURS-0124, and NURS-0126 (or equivalent) with a grade of "C" or better.
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  • NURS 0212: Children and Families

    4.00 Credits
    Kansas City Kansas Community College

    4 hours credit In this course, the student's clinical competency and critical thinking skills increase in order to provide a safe-effective care environment for pediatric clients and their families in whom psychosocial and physiological integrity is compromised. The course content will be applied to increase proficiency in the use of the nursing process while working with hospitalized children who are experiencing disorders of the respiratory, hematological, immune, neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems. Documentation and communication skills will be refined while caring for culturally diverse infants, children, adolescents, and families. Clinical emphasis is placed on professional accountability, including working with multidisciplinary teams, and examining ethical and legal issues. Children's developmental and health promotion needs will be analyzed in diverse settings to determine teaching and servicelearning activities which will enhance the child's and family'sself-care ability. Prerequisites: Completion of NURS-0122, NURS-0123, NURS-0124, and NURS-0126 (or equivalent) with a grade of "C" or better.
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