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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course to concepts and issues in nursing research and informatics. Nursing informatics is explored as data, information, and knowledge building for nursing research. The emphasis of this course is based on the research process, research designs, reading and critiquing research, and research utilization.
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on the family as a unit of care. In addition, students will conceptualize family, the life span spectrum of its members, and culture and their relationships in practice. Included will be the relationship of aging in family and culture, problem-based cases, interdisciplinary care, and end of life issues. Also included will be the ethical issues of death and dying, violence, abuse, family dynamics and legal decision making for family members. One credit of clinical (32 hours) will include assignments and projects specifically designed to assess the family relationships, family health and issues in the home applying the nursing process as the basis of intervention.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide RN students an opportunity to explore their own learning needs and to apply concepts related to professional nursing in the analysis of the care of clients with varying diseases. The student, using a problem-based learning format, will use diagnostic reasoning to identify physiological, psychological, behavioral, ethical/legal and population problems as they relate to each case. Critical thinking will be the basis for diagnostic reasoning. The student will explore the ethical issues of decision making, confidentiality, privacy, patients' rights, truth telling and professional responsibility. The course will run eight days in a PBL format.
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3.00 Credits
There are two purposes for this course: to guide the students in the conceptualization of organization, management, leadership and change as they relate to health care systems/settings, particularly at the unit level, and to sharpen the student's analytical and managerial skills. The emphasis is on the growth of the professional role. The outcome of this course will be a student prepared in the leadership and managerial skills requisite for a baccalaureate level nurse in the clinical setting. The course will include the critical examination into management and leadership roles, collaboration, impact of culture on institutional structure, development of teams and interdisciplinary approaches to care, budgeting and finance, role development, change process, and development of a professional philosophy, in addition to the ethical issues in management. The major project of the course is a paper on the resolution of a significant problem in the workplace using leadership and management principles.
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3.00 Credits
Public health science covers community assessment and epidemiology. Two credits are broadcast via satellite and one credit requires independent assignments in fieldwork, primarily attending to community assessment and teaching small groups. Prerequisites: admission to the College of Nursing, Pathophysiology I and II, NURS 404, 414, NLN mobility II examinations, current nursing license, immunization and CPR record. (Main campus course)
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6.00 Credits
Public Health Nursing covers groups at risk and case management. Only one credit is taught via ITV, the other four credits are in clinical experiences established, where possible, in health departments and agencies in the vicinity of the student's home. Prerequisites: NURS 443 and all prerequisites of Nurs 443. (Main campus course)
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5.00 Credits
This course is not taught on television. It is a capstone course for the program. All students from around the state meet in Albuquerque for a six-hour conference the first day of the course. During that time the professor will guide the students through the development of a major project to be developed, planned, and implemented in the student's work place. The purpose of the course is to integrate the content of all previous nursing courses in assessing, planning, and problem solving unresolved issues in the student's work place. Students will return to their communities and proceed with their projects, keeping in touch with the faculty via conference calls, FAX, and mail. At the end of approximately 11 weeks students will return to Albuquerque for another full day conference to present their projects to the entire class. Prerequisites: this course should be the last course taken in the degree offering. (Main campus course)
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on classical and contemporary theories of organizational behavior in the health care setting. It has two purposes: to introduce the student to various concepts of organization, management, leadership, and change as they relate to health care systems and settings; and, to sharpen the student's skills. No prerequisites. (Main campus course)
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3.00 Credits
Nutritive needs of normal individuals of all age groups; relation of nutrition to health. (Main campus course.) Fall, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Physiological, biomechanical, and psychological variables which affect human performance in exercise and sport skills.
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