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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. N 360 and N 365 completed or concurrent - Through in-depth study of a selected culture, the student gains experience in assessing cultural health-care practices, shared belief systems, and norms. She experiences the relationship between culture and health and begins to expand her cultural competence abilities to enhance her practice of professional nursing. The course concludes with an immersion experience (approximately 10-14 days), during which she observes health-care delivery systems operating in acute, clinic, and community care sites. She participates in care and determines the impact of the host culture's health-care delivery system in meeting people's needs within the cachement/service area.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. N 360 and N 365 completed or concurrent - This course is designed as a "topics" course to allow the explorationof a variety of topics related to the current practice of professional nursing. The course content complements essential concepts included in the nursing curriculum, and may include such topics as aging, genetics, and corrections nursing.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. N 370; N 375; concurrent with N 455 or within one semester of completion - The focus of this course is on developing the student's abilities to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities to improve the health of vulnerable populations through health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention activities. Using multiple theories and advancing self-assessment skills, the student refines her abilities in designing, managing, and coordinating care for vulnerable populations through diverse class activities and the design and implementation of a health promotion program or a health fair for a selected community.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. N 370; N 375; concurrent with N 450 or within one semester of completion - In this course, the student applies various theories and frameworks in multiple clinical environments to improve the quality of life and reduce health disparities for individuals, groups, communities, and systems.With faculty guidance and using nursing research findings, she explores community partnerships to establish health promotion goals and to design and implement programs for communities, groups, and systems. Environments for clinical practice may include home-care agencies, homeless shelters, hospitals, church parishes, centers for domestic violence, or insurance/case management settings.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. N 370; N 375 - The student consolidates her leadership and management abilities to support her professional role in society in this course. She applies frameworks, concepts, and models of leadership, management, change theory, health policy making, and budgeting to organize and direct client populations and health-care providers. She consciously uses advanced selfassessment processes to develop an effective leadership style and to facilitate achievement of organizational and career goals.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. BSC 257; N 370; N 375 - The student builds upon her prior knowledge of the scientific method, explores qualitative and quantitative nurs- ing research methods, completes a rigorous research critique, assesses the reliability and validity of health-related publications and Internet resources, explores in depth a clinical nursing research question of her own choosing, and examines the ethics of research activities, especially in relation to established evidence-based practice guidelines. Course activities conclude with a research day symposium in which students conduct a formal research poster presentation.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prereq. N 450; N 455; N 460; N 465; concurrent with INTERN 383 - In this final integrating course, the student participates in internships with a preceptor that may be in the same or in different settings. During the internship, she pursues knowledge and experience in an area of interest by immersing herself in the role of the professional nurse under the supervision of an agency registered nurse preceptor, based on the preceptor's work schedule. She takes on the role of the professional nurse to the degree that facility policy allows, and observes and evaluates organizational culture and nursing care.
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1.00 Credits
Prereq. N 470 completed or concurrent - This capstone course, which occurs in the student's final semester, provides the student with an opportunity to explore her personal development of excellence and power in her nursing practice. Using principles of self-assessment, she analytically reviews her prior classroom and clinical work in order to compile a professional portfolio within the Diagnostic Digital Portfolio (DDP).
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3.00 Credits
- In this introduction to the major, the student explores and examines a broad range of communication theories and practices. She looks at areas of communication such as intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, mass media, and intercultural. She also considers theories of relationship development, conflict, and persuasion. This course provides an overview of the domains of communications and serves as the reference point for subsequent coursework in the discipline.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. CM 110 - This course introduces the student to various writing frameworks as she explores and develops her own writing process. Special emphasis is placed on editing her own work. The focus of the course is learning to use communication frameworks in order to write clearly in a variety of professional contexts. This provides a solid foundation for advanced writing.
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