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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NRS 100. Corequisites: VRNS 150, 151L, 152, 154, and 155. This course introduces the fundamentals of nutrition to the nursing student by discussing the relationship of food and health and the body's utilization of the six essential nutrients. Content also includes the five basic food groups, the food guide pyramid, and how to define and achieve a well-balanced diet. This course establishes the foundation needed for further study of nutrition in NRS 163. 18 lecture hours.
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1.50 Credits
Prerequisite: NRS 100. Corequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 155. Vocational nursing students will explore the basic facts of human anatomy and the principles of physiology with selected clinical examples. 27 lecture hours.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NRS 100. Corequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154. This course introduces basic concepts of psychology while helping students relate them to their patient and themselves. It includes information about personality development, wellness, and personal care, assertiveness, job-related communication, cultural and spiritual differences, employability skills, the role of the LVN, general legal aspects and nursing ethics. 18 lecture hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 161L, 162, 163, 164, and 165. This course presents the theory and principles of nursing care for clients with illness and/or injury of the musculosketal, integumentary, and gastrointestinal systems. The course presents the principles and skills needed to perform a beginning level assessment of clients with alterations of these systems, within the scope of practice of the LVN. The course presents the application of the nursing process to the planning and care of these clients. 54 lecture hours over the span of 8 weeks.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 160, 162, 163, 164, and 165. Clinical application of theoretical concepts of nursing care for clients with illness and/or injury of the musculoskeletal, integumentary, and gastrointestinal systems. Offered for Pass/No Pass grading Only. 162 lab hours over the span of 8 weeks.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 160, 161L, 163, 164, and 165. Fundamental principles of drug action, the application of specific drugs in the treatment of disease, and the appropriate nursing actions to maximize the desired outcome of therapy. 18 lecture hours.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 160, 161L, 162, 164, 165. This course presents nutritional needs across the lifespan, including the nutritional needs of healthy adults and the needs of people with certain illnesses, as well as nutritional needs related to pregnancy and lactation. Content includes nutritional assessment and planning and the use of therapeutic diets in the treatment of certain illnesses. This course builds on the fundamentals of nutrition presented in VNRS 153. 18 lecture hours.
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1.50 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 160, 161L, 162, 163, 165. Vocational nursing students will explore the basic facts of human anatomy and the principals of physiology with selected clinical examples. 27 lecture hours.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 150, 151L, 152, 153, 154, 155. Corequisites: VNRS 160, 161L, 162, 163, 164. Nursing assessment and promotion of health of the adult through death. Theoretical principles of growth and development. 18 lecture hours.
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7.00 Credits
Prerequisites: VNRS 160, 161L, 162, 163, 164. Corequisites: VNRS 171L. Provides advanced nursing students the theory needed to perform skills and procedures for the adult in VNRS 171L. By consistently emphasizing the nursing process and rationale, the approach to each body system includes basic assessment or data collection, planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation. Basic nursing skills are reinforced while advance skills include those related to the following body systems: cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, genitourinary, endocrine and special senses. 126 lecture hours.
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