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3.00 Credits
Using a preceptor model, students complete a practicum utilizing varied rehabilitation settings.
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6.00 Credits
Using the Neuman Systems Model as the organizing framework, this course explores values, beliefs, standards and practices as they relate to health care in the community setting. Students utilize conceptual frameworks from nursing and related disciplines as a frame of reference in planning care in the community. Knowledge from the sciences, humanities, and the arts is integrated to stimulate insight, dialogue and discovery. The role of the nurse in advocating for a healthy environment and developing strategies to promote health and healing is developed. Prerequisites: NUS 301, NUS 302, NUS 304.
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3.00 Credits
Using a preceptor model, students complete individually arranged clinical practica in traditional and non-traditional community settings.
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6.00 Credits
Using the Neuman Systems Model as an organizing framework, this course focuses on the work of the public health nurse in the care of populations. Ethical, environmental, economic, legal, political, spiritual and sociocultural stressors affecting health care are targeted for inquiry and decision-making. Prerequisites: NUS 301, NUS 302, NUS 304.
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3.00 Credits
The clinical practicum provides students with a broad overview of public health nursing. Learning opportunities are in selected public health agencies, including the Town Boards of Health, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and free health clinics.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of nursing practice and education in the United States from the Civil War to the present. Set in the context of the times it focuses on the political, social and economic events which shaped nursing practice and education. Topics include Nightingale's influence, early hospital nursing schools, nursing experiences in the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the wars of the twentieth century; Red Cross nursing, segregation in American nursing; the Great Depression; the development of public health nursing, the impact of scientific medicine on nursing, nursing's struggle for professionalism, the development of managed care and the changing images of nursing. Students participate in original historical research. Prerequisite: NUS 301 or permission of instructor.
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6.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the Registered Nurse to school nursing as a specialty. This course includes a brief history of school nursing, the role of the school nurse, physical assessment and screening for health problems of the school age child and adolescent, professional standards of school nursing practice, Massachusetts laws, rules and regulations governing school nursing practice, emergency interventions, chronic disease management and mental health issues for the school age group. This course prepares Registered Nurses to take the Certification Examination of the National Association of School Nurses. Prerequisites: NUS 301, NUS 302, NUS 304.
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3.00 Credits
Using a preceptor model, students complete a clinical practicum in various school settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to broaden students' skills and open career possibilities as case managers. Course content includes the historical development of case management, state and federal policies that impact service delivery; the range of case management settings/interventions, ethics and principles that guide the provision of case management services and empowerment and social justice in case management.
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3.00 Credits
Our environment contains many environmental hazards. Some of these lead to disability, morbidity, and mortality. This seminar course is designed to raise awareness of environmental hazards as the basis for illness and to explore ways to mediate the effects of such hazards in the home, workplace and environment.
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