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3.00 Credits
3 class hours 3 Credits Prerequisite: None An introduction to the appreciation of music which relates the development of music to general history and cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present and develops students' ability to listen perceptively. Extensive critical listening to representative works forms a major portion of the course content.
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8.00 Credits
This course introduces students to knowledge and skills This course introduces students to knowledge and skills basic to beginning nursing practice. Based on the program philosophy and organizing framework, students begin to provide care to clients using a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach. Students begin the socialization process into the nursing profession by practicing inter- personal skills with faculty, clients, colleagues and health-care providers. Students will begin to apply critical thinking, ethical, legal, teaching/learning, and pharmacological concepts. These concepts are integrated into classroom and clinical learning activities. The student is introduced to the basic human needs of clients, throughout the life span, with special emphasis on the geriatric client. The students learns to include developmental factors inhealth assessment and health promotion. The students learns to dientify age-related stressors which impact alterations inhealth. The student learns essential assessment, communication and technical skills in order to provide care to clients with commonly occurring alterations in biopsychosocial health care needs. The student begins basic practice in the role of provider in acutecare and community-based settings. This is an eight-credit hour course, placed in the first semester of the first year of the nursing sequence Students will have five hours of class and an average of nine hours of laboratory or clinical experiences each week. 5 class, 9 lab, 8 credits
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8.00 Credits
This course is designed to focus on the biopsychosocial needs of the child and adult client. Utilizing a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach, students will provice care for adults and children experiencing physical or mental problems which interfere with the individual's ability to meet human needs. Emphais is placed on health promotion and care of clients with commonly occurring physical or mental problems in acute care and community-based settings. Students will practice the nursing roles of teacher, advocate, and team members. The role of provider is emphasized in prevention of illness and maintenance or restoration of physical and mental health. Classroom, clinical, and laboratory activities sensitize students to personal reactions, myths, and social stigma related to physical and mental health issues. Students practice critical thinking skills in these settings and practice therapeutic comm- unication with clients and professional communications with faculty, colleagues, and health-care providers. This is an eight credit hour course in the second semester of the first year of the nursing sequence. Students will have four hours of class and an average of 12 hours of laboratory or clinical experiences per week. 4 class, 12 lab, 8 credits
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9.00 Credits
This course integrates concepts from the child-bearing family and adult and child health. Content will focus on the biopsychosocial needs of clients throughout the left span. Utilizing a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach, students will provid care for the healthy and at-risk adult, child, and child-bearing woman experiencing physical problems which interfere with the individual's ability to meet human needs. Building on previous concepts, students will learn to care for multiple clients with complex health problems in acute care and community based settings. Students will assess physical, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the family while fostering family unity. Students will plan and implement care for clients with needs related to family planning, parenting, and congenital alterations in the newborn. The roles of provider, teacher, manager, and advocate are emphasized as well as the essential competencies identified in the program philosophy. Students will utilize critical thinking skills in classroom learning activities, laboratory and in acute and community based clinical settings. This is a nine credit course in the first semester of the second year of the nursing program. Students will have four hours of class and an average of 15 hours of laboratory or clinical experiences per week.
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12.00 Credits
This course emphasizes provision of care for adults and children who are unable to meet human needs secondary to multi-system health problems. Utilizing a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach, students will provide nursing care to clients experiencing physiological crisis. Clinical and college lab activities focus on development and practice of critical care nursing skills within a variet of settings. Students will practice the nursing roles of provider, advocate, teacher, and team member. The role of manager is emphasized. The clinical preceptorship supports transition into professional practice. Students will utilize critical thinking when analyzing data, evaluating outcomes, solving problems, and making decisions in classroom and clinical settings. This is an 11 credit hour course in the second semester of the second year of the nursing program. Students will have five hours of class and an average of 18 hours of laboratory or clinical experiences per week.
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9.00 Credits
This course emphasizes care of adult and pediatric clients with alterations in gastrointestinal, endocrine, musculoskeletal, hematological and visual functions. Students provide care utilizing a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach. Focus is placed on adaptation to hospitalization, human needs, grwoth and development. The nursing roles of advocate, teacher, team member and manager are recognized throughout the course. The role of provider is emphasized. This is a nine credit hour course in the first semester of the second year of the nursing program. The student will have four hours of class and an average of ten hours of laboratory or clinical each week. Pre- and/or co-requisites: NURS 104, 107, 108 and all of their pre- and/or co-requisites. (This course will only be taught during the 1998-99 academic year.) 4-10-9.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 2900 The Role of the Nurse in the Health Care System 3 class hours The course is deigned to introduce the pre-nursing major to the role of the nurse. Test-taking skills, critical thinking, medical terminology and health care observational experiences will be provided to familiarize students with the nurse's role in the health care system. These teaching strategies are focused on preparation of the student for entry into the nursing program. This course does not count as part of the pre-licensure BSN curriculum.
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11.00 Credits
This course emphasizes care of adult and pediatric clients with alterations in integumentary function related to burns, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and neurological functions. Students will utilize a safe, systematic, caring and holistic approach in acute care and community settings. Emphasis is placed on human needs, growth and development. The nursing roles of provider, advocate, team member and manager are recognized throughout the course. The roles of teacher and manager are emphasized. This is an eleven hour course in the second semester of the second year of the nursing program. The student will have five hours of class and an average of twelve hours laboratory or clinical each week. Prerequisites: NURS 104, 107, 108, 2808 and all of their pre- and/or co-requisites. (This course will only be taught during the 1998-99 academic year.) 5-12-11.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 3100 Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing 3 class hours, 3 credits Pre-Requisites: Core Courses - Acceptance into Nursing Co-Requisites: NURS 3102, NURS 3103, BIOL 3410 This course provides the foundation for the theory and practice of professional nursing. Professional standards, the code of ethics and legal issues are discussed as it relates to the nurse's role in the healthcare setting. An emphasis is placed on the ability of the nurse to think critically and examine issues in nursing. The role of the nurse in the health care systems is discussed with an emphasis on role socialization and implementation of nursing practice.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 3101 Theoretical Perspectives in Nursing Transition Course 3 credit hours The purpose of the Theoretical Perspectives transitions course is to create an environment in which the practicing RN is able to examine the structures of nursing practice already in use. The course will review nursing theorists with a focus on application of theory to case studies from the nursing students live experience. The student will begin to explore the role of nurse as scholar/hea;er and begin a paradigmatic shift that is both academic as well as personal/professional. In this process, the student will review nursing research and multidisciplinary research as the basis for developing interventions which are evidence based. In this context, the course will provide an atmosphere of self-exploration and self-discovery as the student nurse evaluates beliefs, values, problem-solving and communications skills. The contents of this course parrallels, supports and reinforces the transition into the role of a more advanced application of the nursing process. To that end, a portion of the didatic process will involve studying holistic nursing, mind/body concepts and a variety of Eastern and complimentary techniques.
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