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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses and MTH 113. Encourages a spirit of inquiry and critical thinking. Aims to produce an intelligent consumer of nursing research. By focusing on the research process, the course enables the student to critique and use nursing research.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits R.N. requirement. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses. Focuses on assessment of individual and family health status throughout the life cycle. Health promotion and maintenance are stressed. Concepts related to family therapy, consumerism, and advocacy are addressed. Students learn such strategies for improving client health as risk assessment, stress management, nutritional counseling, and health teaching. Includes a clinical practicum. *Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits R.N. requirement. This course is designed to educate nurses in the principles and practice of teaching clients, families, groups, and ancillary personnel. Theories of learning and teaching are presented. Students apply these concepts to the clinical setting in which the student functions. The focus is on activities and strategies that promote learning and effect behavioral change. Students prepare and present a teaching plan for a designated population, and design and implement an individual client/family teaching project in a healthcare or community agency.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits R.N. requirement. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses. Analyzes the social, political, and economic contexts of nursing. The course enables the student to evaluate trends and issues in nursing and nursing education, and their implications for the profession and society.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Nursing Requirement. This course is the introductory course in the undergraduate nursing program, providing a foundation of information and tools to assist the advanced practice nurse in the successful completion of their program and provide them with a solid base to work from when entering the workforce in their new role. Overview and introduction to word processing, spreadsheets, and database and presentation software are presented using examples from the healthcare field. The integration of these tools in a presentation will be emphasized. The student is introduced to the tools in the library and electronic media, databases, reference lists, and Internet sites necessary for program and project completion. APA style is introduced and reviewed as the required writing and presentation style for the School. Principles of healthcare financing are incorporated to develop an understanding and familiarity with the process. The course concludes with an overview of project management principles, practice, and software to assist in completing projects, organized, on time and on budget.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits R.N. requirement. Prerequisites: NUR 314. This course focuses on assessment and evaluation of individuals and families in the restorative and rehabilitative phases of illness, disability, and chronic illnesses. Principles of family theory, health teaching, and research are used by the student, as are strategies of planned change, advocacy, collaboration, and referral. Knowledge of cultural patterns are integrated into understanding the coping and change processes. This course includes a clinical practicum.
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6.00 Credits
6 credits Generic requirement. Prerequisites: All required sciences, all 200-level nursing courses, NUR 300, 375. This required professional course for baccalaureate nursing students is the second part of an extensive study of holistic nursing care for clients with alterations in physiological integrity. Alterations in Physiological Integrity I: A Holistic Approach is a prerequisite. Students will learn and apply bio-psycho-social-spiritual and cultural theoretical concepts and principles, using the nursing process, in order to care for adult clients experiencing selected alterations in physiological integrity. Emphasis is on nursing care designed to prevent complications and to promote optimal well-being in the client and family. Relevant research is incorporated and the legal and ethical components of client care are considered.
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6.00 Credits
6 credits Generic requirement. Prerequisites: All required science courses, all 300-level nursing courses, NUR 365, NUR 375, and NUR 385. Pre/Corequisites: NUR 455 and NUR 485. Using a holistic approach, this course focuses on the study of community-based nursing care of individuals, families, aggregates, and people in community settings as part of the world confronted by common health problems. Epidemiology, in relationship to community and world settings and as a research instrument useful to all health workers, is a significant part of this course. Relationships of individuals in families and groups and as part of local and world communities are stressed. Emphasis will be placed on the client at home within the context of the family and the community. Within a holistic framework, students will acquire a greater understanding of the dynamics operating in families, groups and communities; students will also develop skills in the assessment and diagnosis of client health. Nursing care will include cultural, spiritual, psychosocial, economic, and biological aspects related to the client, whether they are families, groups, or communities.
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6.00 Credits
6 credits Generic requirement. Prerequisites: All required science courses and 200-level nursing courses. Pre/Corequisite: NUR 375. This course takes a holistic approach to alterations in mental health across the life span. Students will learn and apply bio-psycho-social-spiritual theoretical concepts and principles, using the nursing process, to the care of clients experiencing mental illness. Themes of mental health-mental illness as they affect individuals, groups, and communities will be explored. Nursing practice will involve multicultural client populations in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and/or other community agencies. Students will examine the perceptions and meanings clients ascribe to their illness experience within their cultural context. Relevant research, as well as legal and ethical components of client care, will be incorporated.
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6.00 Credits
6 credits Generic requirement. Prerequisites: All required science and nursing courses. Corequisite: NUR 400. This 6-credit course has 3 credits of classroom theory, and a 3-credit clinical component. The 3-credit analyzes the social, economic, and political context in which professional nurses provide holistic care. The course draws on the historical development and patterns of nursing education and practice to examine current professional developments in nursing and to provide a bridge to the future. Discussion focuses on trends and issues, as well as on research and concepts of effective leadership and management that impact on the provision of holistic care. Students are assisted in integrating beliefs, ideas, and attitudes into a personal philosophy of professional nursing. The 3-credit clinical component is a concentrated culminating practicum that involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating holistic nursing care for individuals, families, and groups in selected healthcare agencies. Students, in collaboration with their academic advisers, meet to determine the clinical focus in placement for this internship. A diversity of clinical settings are utilized in a variety of geographic locations. The practicum also includes experience in leadership/case management as a member of an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Weekly group discussions related to student clinical experience are an essential element of this course is assisting students in their transition from student to graduate nurse.
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