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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: BSC 2085C. This course will introduce the student to nursing as a profession and to the nursing program and expectations of the student nurse. The focus will be an introduction to nursing skills and the legal, ethical, and professional requirements of the student nurse.
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing; Corequisite: NUR 1141C. Nursing I introduces the student to the nursing process, the assessment of basic needs, and the unmet needs that occur in response to imbalances in homeostasis affecting the biological systems and human dimensions. Students learn basic interventions and interpersonal skills to assist patients in meeting these needs and to help them achieve optimal health. Beginning concepts of the functional and professional role of the nurse are presented. The clinical focus is on mastering fundamental skills necessary for the care of the adult patient with an emphasis on the elderly, and the development of the nurse-patient relationship.
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10.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing; Corequisite: NUR 1140C, HUM 2020, and DEP 2004 if not previously completed. This course introduces the experienced health care worker to the functional and professional roles of the Registered Nurse, nursing process, assessment of basic needs, and the unmet needs that occur in response to imbalances in homeostasis affecting the biological systems and human dimensions. The clinical focus is development of the nurse-patient relationship and on mastering skills necessary for the care of adult clients in the acute care setting with simple medical/surgical problems.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Math higher than MAT 1033, BSC 2085C and BSC 2086C. This course is for students in the Bridge Option. Pharmacology focuses on the nursing process and the role of the nurse as provider of care in the administration of pharmacologic agents that are used to restore, promote, and maintain homeostasis. Content includes pharmacokinetics, actions, uses, dosage calculation, and side and toxic effects of prototype drugs in the major drug classifications.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MAC 1105 or higher Prerequisite: Admission to Generic Nursing Program; Corequisite: NUR 1023C. Pharmacology I focuses on the nursing process and the role of the nurse as provider of care in the administration of pharmacologic agents that are used to restore, promote, and maintain homeostasis. Content includes drug dosage calculation, and pharmacokinetics, actions, uses, and side effects and toxic effects of prototype drugs in selected drug classifications.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 1141C; Corequisite: NUR 1243C Pharmacology II is a continuation of NUR 1141C and focuses on the nursing process and the role of the nurse as provider of care in the administration of pharmacologic agents that are used to restore, promote, and maintain homeostasis. Content includes pharmacokinetics, actions, uses, side effects and toxic effects of prototype drugs in selected drug classifications.
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 1524C; Corequisite: NUR 1142 Nursing III focuses on common pathophysiology that affects an individual's homeostasis and results in unmet biological needs. Students learn more complex interventions to assist patients to promote, maintain, or restore homeostasis. The professional roles of the nurse as provider of care and beginning manager of care are also emphasized. The clinical focus is on using increasingly complex skills and interventions within these roles to assist the adult patient in regaining optimal health.
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10.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 1051C, NUR 1140C, DEP 2004; Corequisite: Any approved humanities if not previously completed. This course focuses on the professional roles of the nurse as provider of care and manager of care within the context of specialized environments of obstetrical nursing, pediatric nursing, and mental health nursing. Students learn family centered nursing interventions to assist women and children to maintain or achieve optimal health. The professional roles of the nurse as provider of care and manager of care are emphasized within the context of family centered care. The clinical focus is using the concepts and skills necessary to assist these patients and families who are undergoing changes in homeostasis. In the mental health setting the clinical focus is on using therapeutic communication skills and the therapeutic use of self in the nurse-patient relationship in the psychiatric-mental health areas
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NUR 1023C or NUR 1141C Nursing II focuses on imbalances in an individual's homeostasis that affect the biological and human dimensions resulting in unmet needs in the area of psychological security. Students learn interventions to assist patients in regaining optimal biological, psychological, and social health relating to problems of adjustment and deviant patterns of behavior with an emphasis on the adolescent and young adult. The clinical focus is on using therapeutic communication skills and therapeutic use of self in the nurse-patient relationship.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission from the Director of Nursing Nursing Topics teaches techniques for calculating safe medication doses for oral and parenteral medications. Example calculations are presented for each objective. This course is designed for review or remediation in drug dosage calculations.
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