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0.50 Credits
(0.5 Unit) (No prerequisite. Corequisite: Nursing Education 203. One and one-half laboratory hours weekly.) This course provides opportunities for registered nursing students who have completed the required first-year skills labs (Nursing Education 101 and 102) to have additional supervised practice performing clinical skills that are required for the profession of registered nursing. Students may enroll in Nursing Education 205 to review and practice skills during the third and fourth semesters of the registered nursing program. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Nursing Education 140. Corequisites: Nursing Education 210L and enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. Four lecture hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course presents nursing care for the childbearing family during the prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum, and neonatal periods. An emphasis is placed on the nurse's role in promotion of wellness and prevention of complications through health education. Students learn to recognize maternal and fetal high-risk conditions during pregnancy, birth, and after delivery that require collaborative care. Nursing management for childbearing women planning a pregnancy, including contraception and abortion, and some common women's health disorders are discussed. Included are concepts related to evidence-based practice, to effective management of resources, and to legal and ethical issues within reproductive health. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Corequisites: Nursing Education 102 and 210 or 203 and enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. Twelve laboratory hours weekly for eight weeks.) This is the clinical laboratory that accompanies the Childbearing Family course. Students apply nursing concepts to the care of the family during the prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum, neonatal, and women's health periods in hospital and community settings. Students further develop clinical reasoning and technical skills to promote maternal and newborn health and to recognize and prevent complications. Students collaborate with other professionals in health care management, client education, and resolution of legal and ethical issues in reproductive health. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Nursing Education 140. No corequisites. Four lecture hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course has two components: nursing in mental health, and nursing of the older adult. Nursing in mental health focuses on the application of the nursing process and principles of therapeutic communication to the care of pediatric and adult clients with selected mental disorders. Included are concepts of psychobiology, treatment modalities, collaborative care, and legal and ethical issues within mental health. Nursing of the older adult focuses on nursing interventions for health promotion, the management of common geriatric syndromes, and care of the older adult with multi-system problems. Included are the effects of a large aging population on health care; legal, ethical and public policy issues affecting care of older adults; and end-of-life care for clients across the lifespan and their families. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Nursing Education 140. Corequisites: Nursing Education 212 and 102 or 103. Twelve laboratory hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course is the clinical laboratory for Nursing Education 212. Students apply the nursing process to the care of pediatric and adult clients with selected mental disorders and to the care of older adults in acute and community settings. Students collaborate with other health care professionals in health care management, health education, and resolution of legal and ethical issues in mental and geriatric health. Students further develop therapeutic communication techniques and approaches for care of clients and families in crisis, individuals demonstrating challenging behaviors, and clients at end-of-life and their families. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Nursing Education 140. Corequisite: enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. Four lecture hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course builds on concepts presented in Nursing I and Nursing II. The course takes a holistic approach and emphasizes nursing management of clients across the lifespan with acute and chronic diseases involving the neurological, musculoskeletal, sensory and immunological systems. Approaches to nursing and medical management during each phase of the disease process, starting with the onset of symptoms and diagnosis, through acute hospitalization and into post hospitalization care are presented. The student learns to apply the nursing process to the care of clients who are experiencing chronic pain and grief and loss. Students collaborate with the multidisciplinary health care team in all aspects of care. Students compare and contrast the role of the nurse in hospital care, home health care, rehabilitative care, and long term care. (CSU)
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2.50 Credits
(2.5 Units) (No prerequisite. Corequisite: Nursing Education 214 and 102 or 203 and enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. Fifteen laboratory hours weekly for eight weeks.) This is the clinical laboratory that accompanies the Nursing III: Advanced Concepts in Mobility, Sensation, and Cognition course. Students apply nursing concepts to the care of the client and family who are experiencing acute or chronic neurological, orthopedic or immunological problems in the hospital, community and rehabilitative settings. Students further develop clinical reasoning and technical skills to promote health and to recognize and prevent complications. Students collaborate with other professionals in health care management, client education, and resolution of legal and ethical issues in medical surgical nursing. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (Prerequisites: Nursing Education 210, 212, or 214. Other Limitation on Enrollment: Enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. Four lecture hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course builds on nursing concepts presented in Nursing II and focuses on clients with complex alterations in physiological and psychological integrity and the resulting health consequences. The course presents advanced concepts related to the nursing management and collaborative care of clients across the lifespan with select critical and/or complex cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal problems. Critical care during select lifethreatening and emergency situations, including shock, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, are addressed. This course prepares students within complex client health situations to prioritize and organize care; identify emerging health patterns or complications that require prompt attention; and compare feasible options to resolve clinical problems. (CSU)
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2.50 Credits
(2.5 Units) (No prerequisite. Corequisite: Nursing Education 216; 203 for students enrolled in Nursing Education 216L during fall (third semester of program). Students enrolled in Nursing Education 216L during spring (fourth semester of program) will have completed Nursing Education 203. Fifteen laboratory hours weekly for eight weeks.) This course is the clinical laboratory that accompanies Nursing Education 216. Students apply the nursing process to the care of adult and pediatric clients with select critical and/or complex cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal problems. Students collaborate with other health care professionals in health care management, health education, and resolution of legal and ethical issues of clients across the lifespan. Students further develop skill in prioritizing and organizing care, identifying emerging health problems, and resolving clinical problems within complex client health situations. (CSU)
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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (Prerequisite: Nursing Education 138. Other Limitation on Enrollment: Enrollment in the Registered Nursing Program. One and one-half lecture hours weekly for twelve weeks.) The purpose of this course is to provide students with a sound understanding of the pharmacologic properties of drug classes, with special emphasis on the clinical application of drug therapy through the nursing process and clinical case studies. This course focuses on the mechanism of action, indications, dosage, and adverse effects of major drug classes and individual (prototype) drugs. A special emphasis is placed on the nursing responsibilities and the educational needs of persons receiving medication therapy. Classifications of medications covered include: analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs, anesthetics including drugs used in conscious sedation, sedatives, hypnotic drugs, anti-anxiety, antibiotics and miscellaneous drugs; antifungal and antiviral drugs, anti-asthmatic and glucocorticoid. Drugs affecting the gastrointestinal tract, insulin, oral hypoglycemic agents, and thyroid replacement. Vaccines, drugs affecting reproductive system, including female sex hormones and contraceptives. (CSU)
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