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9.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURS 228 and NURS 230 This course is the last in a sequence of five nursing courses that will enable students to care for patients experiencing complex multi-system health alterations across the health care continuum. Students will use a critical thinking approach to apply concepts of management to a group of patients in a health care setting. This course integrates knowledge and skills acquired in the previous four courses and facilitates student transition to professional nursing practice. In the clinical component, students will apply theoretical content and therapeutic nursing interventions to a group of patients/families with complex, acute and chronic health alterations. Course instruction will occur in the classroom, online, in the health resource center and health care agencies. 4 hrs. lecture, 1 hr. lab, 15 hrs. clinical/wk. Associated Costs: In addition to the course tuition, fees, and textbooks, this course has additional expense considerations that are estimated to be $450 to $550.
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Previously licensed as a registered nurse. Corequisite: Current CPR certification for health care providers, professional liability insurance, current immunizations, health and dental records up-to-date The course will prepare the Registered Nurse (RN) to reenter the acute health care setting for employment after an absence from the patient care arena. The course has a general med-surg focus, and will review adult anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, lab values and key issues related to patient care. The course includes classroom, lab, simulation, clinical and preceptorship experiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse and current CPR certification for health care providers Corequisite: Could possibly complete CPR while taking this course This course will prepare the novice perioperative registered nurse (RN) or the RN desiring to enhance employment opportunities in the perioperative setting with basic didactic perioperative content. The course will provide the rationale and theory needed to provide safe patient care in the perioperative setting as an operating room nurse. The course is designed to supplement clinical practice. 2 hrs lecture 1 hr. lab/wk.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse and current CPR certification for health care providers Corequisite: NURS 236 This course will prepare the novice registered nurse (RN) desiring to enhance employment opportunities in the perioperative setting with basic perioperative skill competencies. The clinical practice will be in the perioperative setting to provide a realistic experience for the student. 192 clinical hours
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3.00 Credits
Students will examine the basic questions of philosophical inquiry, such as the nature of being, and the ways humans acquire knowledge and moral, social, religious and political values. Emphasis is on the application of the study of traditional problems of philosophy to the study of contemporary society. 3 hrs./wk.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an inquiry into techniques of persuasion and the standards for interpretation and assessment that are the basis for critical thinking. Argumentative and non-argumentative forms of persuasion are examined, including propaganda, exaggeration, stereotyping, slanted news and common fallacies. In addition, the course offers standards for evidential warrants based on samples, probabilities and causal claims. Relations between categorical propositions and Venn diagrams are examined and, finally, the course suggests strategies for fresh attacks on conceptual problems. 3 hrs./wk.
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1.00 Credits
This course applies classical and contemporary theories of morality to problems, questions and dilemmas arising in business. Using the major concepts and principles of deontological, consequentialist and perfectionist theories, it examines and analyzes cases involving such areas as employer/employee relations, corporate responsibility, truth telling in business and workplace diversity. Emphasis is on the development of moral reasoning skills that allow for meaningful analysis and evaluation of moral situations. 1 hr./wk.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a systematic and critical study of values related to human conduct. It focuses on both traditional standards of ethical conduct and qualities of personal character. What we hold to be right or wrong, the basis for believing so, and what we consider to be virtues or vices are examined with an eye to understanding our current ethical situation. 3 hrs./wk.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a thorough exploration of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical thought from the original efforts of the Pre-Socratics to understand the fundamental operations of the natural world to concerns about the way a person might live successfully in nature and society. Also explored are the notable Athenians of the classical period, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the later schools of thought such as cynicism, skepticism, hedonism and stoicism. In the process, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical foundations of the Western world view. 3 hrs./wk.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a beginning course in symbolic logic and should be of particular benefit to those students who will pursue more advanced studies in linguistics, philosophy of language, mathematics or computer science. Students will be introduced to modern analytical techniques of formal deductive logic. Students should gain the ability to use a formal language to translate English language arguments and the ability to demonstrate the validity or invalidity of symbolic arguments using the techniques of truth-table analysis and formal proof. Some attention will also be given to the historical development of symbolic logic. 3 hrs./wk.
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