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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to provide the undergraduate nursing student with a working knowledge of how the concepts of caring, culture and spirituality influence health status and health related behaviors. The focus of the course is to explore these concepts, their meanings and implications, and to utilize the concepts when providing or planning holistic nursing care for diverse clients, families, groups, and communities. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This nursing elective allows the student to utilize current nursing literature and research to explore complex clinical care situations relating to adult health. Development of case studies based upon chart review and literature review will be used to allow students to further develop critical thinking skills and clinical judgment in regards to a variety of health topics selected by students for further knowledge development. Integrated into case studies will be concepts of ethical decision-making, legal aspects, patient advocacy, patient teaching, family theory, advanced practice concepts, and multidisciplinary care, in addition to concepts from pharmacology, pathophysiology, and other foundational courses. The role of the professional nurse with advanced clinical expertise, as evidenced by certification in specialty areas will be explored. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course builds upon students' knowledge from undergraduate pharmacology courses in addition to anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, and the nursing process. It is designed to allow the RN or senior nursing student the opportunity to study topics in pharmacology that the student identifies as being of interest or importance to his/her practice. Students will utilize a variety of teaching methods to share with classmates information and application of content they have researched. A variety of learning techniques will be explored in professional and patient education relating to pharmacology. Prerequisites: NU214 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This senior nursing elective affords the learner an opportunity to apply theory in the care of clients primarily in rural health care delivery systems. Learners become more responsive to the health care needs of rural Maine's diverse cultural populations. Through an increased opportunity to apply theory to practice, learners are assisted in their transition to the role of professional nurse. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This nursing elective offers the student an opportunity to explore health issues that are unique to women or affect women differently than men. Sociocultural, political, economic, environmental and personal factors that affect those issues will be integrated into class discussion. Topics will include health maintenance strategies, AIDS/STDs, Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), reproductive choice, violence against women and other current issues. This course is offered to any student who is interested in increasing his/her understanding of these women's health issues. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Nutritional health of children and adolescents is multifaceted and influenced by genetics, intrauterine and extrauterine environment, growth, and development. This course will analyze the components that impact on nutritional health, review nutritional requirements for children and adolescents, and explore nutritional health issues specific to children and adolescents. Nursing management, including orchestrating multidisciplinary care, for a specific nutritional health issues will be discussed. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The improvement of psychosocial care of patients with terminal illness has been a major advance in modern health care. This course examines the concepts of hospice and palliative care. Historical and current traditions of society will be examined with an evaluation of public policy issues. The framework is the continuum of care with special emphasis on holistic care of the client. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course builds upon the student's previous education and practice as a Registered Nurse. It focuses on health promotion and disease prevention strategies for individuals across the lifespan, families, groups and communities. Selection and application of selected theories and models, including the Roy Systems Model, Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models and Helvie's Community Assessment model are discussed. Principles from epidemiology, crisis intervention, and teaching/learning theories are introduced and integrated into application of the nursing process. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 5 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This clinically-focused course provides opportunities for the evaluation and achievement of competencies, knowledge and role-development inherent in the role of the baccalaureate-prepared professional nurse, as presented in the AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education (1998). Registered Nurse students will assess their personal level of achievement and will develop, under faculty guidance, an individualized plan for a preceptored clinical experience designed to increase competency, knowledge and role-development. Prerequisites: NU480 Credit Hours: 4 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The role of the Baccalaureate-prepared professional nurse is examined in detail during this capstone course. Concepts and theories related to role, change, communication, leadership and management are explored and discussed. Students examine the role of nursing leaders and managers within the context of culture, change, decision-making power, politics and economics within a seminar format. Prerequisites: NU480 Credit Hours: 5 CR.HR.
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