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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Intermittently) Prerequisites: NURS 101 or CNA license. The course will focus on upgrading skills to care for operative, medical, orthopedic and neurological patients. It is designed to use their CNA knowledge and skills as a foundation.
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7.00 Credits
7 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: BIOL 261NL, BIOL 262NL, CHEM 101NL, ENGL 111W, HLTH 221N, MATH 111M, NURS 100, and PSY 110A. Introduces learners to the clinical skills essential for the nursing role. Also includes complex concepts and behaviors of nursing roles within the context of the nursing process, holistic care and health care. Emphasizes the theoretical practical concepts of nursing skills required to meet the needs of clients in a variety of settings.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: BIOL 261NL, BIOL 262NL, CHEM 101NL, ENGL 111W, HLTH 221N, MATH 111M, NURS 100 and PSY 110A. Through caring, communication, professionalism, critical thinking, and clinical judgment, students learn a structured systematic approach to the study of drug therapy. Medica-tions are studied according to drug classes and therapeutic families. Students will learn to apply the nursing process to drug therapy with an emphasis on accessing relevant information to ensure client safety.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: BIOL 261NL, BIOL 262NL, CHEM 101NL, ENGL 111W, HLTH 221N, MATH 111M, PSY 110A. Corequisites: NURS 210 and NURS 220. This course introduces the student to the skills and knowl-edge needed to provide nursing care to aging clients. Topics explored include current trends (including legal and ethical issues) in gerontological nursing, developmental stages and transitions associated with aging, expected age related physiological changes and assessment findings, recognition and management of acute and chronic illnesses that com-monly occur in the older adult population, promotion of health for the older adult client, end-of-life issues and care.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: NURS 210, NURS 220, NURS 230. Corequisites: NURS 250, NURS 260, NURS 270. This course explores physiological, psychological, sociocultur-al, spiritual and environmental factors associated with mental health/illness affecting individuals and families throughout the life span. Focus is placed on basic concepts of psychiatric nursing, therapeutic modalities, as well as psychiatric disor-ders including psychotherapeutic drug management.
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7.00 Credits
7 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: NURS 210, NURS 220, NURS 230. Corequisites: NURS 240, NURS 260, NURS 270. This course prepares the student to care for clients experi-encing common, well-defined health alterations in settings where stable clients are anticipated. Students are intro-duced to standardized nursing procedures and customary nursing and collaborative therapeutic modalities. The fol-lowing body systems are addressed: neurological, cardiac, respiratory, renal/urological, gastrointestinal, musculoskel-etal, endocrine, reproductive, integumentary, sensory, and homological. The topics of perioperative care, pain, infec-tion/immunity and cancer are addressed. Additionally, recognition and emergent treatment of rapidly changing conditions are introduced.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: NURS 210, NURS 220, NURS 230. Corequisites: NURS 240, NURS 250, NURS 270. Emphasizing caring, communication, professionalism, and critical thinking, the course provides information about fetal development and prenatal and postnatal care of the mother and newborn. Role of the nurse in meeting the needs of the family is emphasized. Clinical application of caring for the mother and newborn allows the student to demonstrate acquired knowledge. The course also includes growth and development patterns as well as care of the well and sick child.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: NURS 210, NURS 220, NURS 230. Corequisites: NURS 240, NURS 250, NURS 260. This capstone course provides the practical nursing stu-dent information regarding the current status of vocational nursing. This course assists the nursing student to bridge the role between student and employee. Leadership/man-agement skills, healthcare delivery systems continuing educational needs, licensure requirements, legal issues and standards of practice are investigated. Personal and profes-sional identity and entry into the job market are explored. There is a 45 hour clinical/precepted component to provide the student opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in the long-term care setting.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit (All Semesters) This course is designed to develop touch keyboarding skills for alphabetic and some punctuation keys on a standard keyboard. Keyboarding by touch at a rate of 25 words a minute for two minutes with no more than five errors. This course is self-paced.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit (All Semesters) A course for those with no previous keyboarding experience. It is in a regular classroom setting and designed to develop touch keyboarding skills for the alphabetic, numeric and punctuation keys on a standard keyboard. The student should achieve keyboarding by touch at a rate of 25 words a minute with no more than 5 errors.
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