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0.50 Credits
(0.5 Unit) (No prerequisite. Corequisite: Nursing Education 140. Two laboratory hours weekly for twelve weeks.) This course provides opportunities for first-year registered nursing students (Level II) to learn and practice intermediate assessment and technical skills fundamental to professional nursing across the lifespan in the safety of a simulated clinical environment. Instruction includes presentation of evidence-based practice and scientific rationales for performance of technical skills, skill demonstrations, and the opportunity for guided/supervised student practice. In addition to the achievement of technical skill competency, emphasis is placed on integrating the use of the nursing process, communication and documentation skills, client care management skills, and critical thinking and problem solving skills through the use of clinical simulations and case scenarios. (CSU)
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0.50 Credits
(0.5 Unit) (No prerequisite. Corequisites: Nursing Education 101, 102, or 138. One and one-half laboratory hours weekly.) This course provides opportunities for registered nursing students concurrently enrolled in a nursing skills lab course (Nursing Education 101, 102 or 138) to have additional supervised practice performing clinical skills that are required for the profession of registered nursing. Students may enroll in Nursing Education 103 concurrent with other nursing skills labs during the fall and spring semesters of the first year of the nursing program. (CSU)
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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (Prerequisite: Admission to LVN to RN Transition. Seventeen and one-half lecture hours over three days.) This course is designed to assist the LVN students to adapt to change and transition as they pursue education to become a registered nurse. Discussion topics will include the role of the registered nurse, change theory, a critical thinking model, nursing care planning, leadership and legal responsibilities, and intravenous therapy management and medication administration. This course is designed to meet the National League of Nursing Accrediting Commission standards. (CSU)
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (Prerequisites: English 120; Biology 120, 224, 240; Chemistry 110; Nursing Education 90. Advisory: Computer Information Systems 101. Corequisite: Nursing Education 138. Four lecture hours weekly.) This is a foundation course for nursing practice. The course presents concepts related to clients within the context of their environments, including growth and development, culture, and health-illness, and to the health care delivery system and the political, economic, and social factors that affect it. The course introduces caring in nursing, critical thinking in applying the nursing process and managing client care, communication, client education, and legal and ethical practice. Students learn how to perform an age-specific health assessment and basic physical examination, to recognize alterations in these assessments, and to engage in therapeutic interventions that promote and maintain clients' health. Students learn fundamental nursing concepts related to care of immobilized clients, surgical clients, clients with alterations in skin/tissue integrity, and clients with sensory alterations. (CSU)
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2.50 Credits
(2.5 Units) (No prerequisites. Corequisite: Nursing Education 101 and Nursing Education 135. Seven and one-half laboratory hours weekly.) This course is the clinical laboratory for Nursing Education 135. Students learn to perform an age-specific health assessment and a basic physical examination, to recognize alterations in these assessments, and to engage in activities that promote and maintain clients' health. Students apply the nursing process to the care of the immobilized client, the surgical client, the client with an alteration in skin/tissue integrity, and the client with a sensory alteration. (CSU)
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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (Prerequisite: Math 101. Corequisite: Nursing Education 135. One lecture hour weekly.) This course focuses on the registered nurse's role in drug therapy. It introduces principles of pharmacology, explores legal, ethical, cultural, psychological and educational aspects of medication administration, and provides a framework based on the nursing process for the safe preparation and administration of medications to all age groups. The course focuses on principles for the safe preparation and administration of medications by the following routes: enteral (e.g., oral and via gastric tubes), topical (including skin and mucous membranes, e.g., eye, ear, buccal, sublingual, vaginal, rectal), inhalation, and parenteral (e.g., intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intra-venous). Drug dosage calculation is emphasized. (CSU)
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisites: Nursing Education 135 and 138. Six lecture hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course builds on nursing concepts presented in Nursing I and prepares students to apply the nursing process to pediatric and adult clients with non-critical/moderately complex medical- surgical conditions. The selected medical-surgical conditions involve alterations in fluid/electrolytes and acid/base balance, oxygenation, nutrition, elimination, and endocrine regulation. Included are concepts of pathophysiology, medical/surgical management, and collaborative care. There is an emphasis on the nurse's role in preventing health problems, reducing complications, and maintaining physiological and psychological integrity. (CSU)
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2.50 Credits
(2.5 Units) (No prerequisites. Corequisites: Nursing Education 102 and 140. Fifteen laboratory hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course is the clinical laboratory for Nursing Education 140. Students apply the nursing process to the care of pediatric and adult clients with non-critical/moderately complex medicalsurgical conditions, involving alterations in fluid/electrolytes and acid/base balance, oxygenation, nutrition, elimination and endocrine regulation. Students learn to conduct a comprehensive nursing assessment and to intervene to prevent health problems and reduce complications. Students learn to manage care for two moderately complex clients and to apply risk reduction strategies to protect the client and maintain legal and ethical nursing practice. (CSU)
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0.50 Credits
(0.5 Unit) (No prerequisite. Corequisites: Nursing Education 210, 212, 214, and 216. Other Limitation on Enrollment: Enrollment in College of Marin Registered Nursing Program. Two Laboratory hours weekly for twelve weeks.) This course provides opportunities for second-year registered nursing students (Level III) to engage in critical thinking and problem solving while learning and practicing advanced assessment and technical skills fundamental to professional nursing across the lifespan in the safety of a simulated clinical environment. Includes instruction to provide and reinforce theory and explain the context of the skill, skill demonstrations, and the opportunity for guided student practice. In addition to the achievement of technical skill competency, emphasis is placed on integrating the use of the nursing process, communication and documentation skills, client care management skills, and critical thinking and problem solving skills through the use of clinical simulations and case scenarios. (CSU)
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