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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the professional community/public health nurse's role in exploring alterations in functional health patterns of individuals, families, aggregates, communities, and populations, including alterations in self-perception, self-concept, sexuality-reproductive health, coping-stress tolerance, health perception-health management, value-belief and role relationship, and cognitive-perceptual concerns. Selected nursing theories, the nursing process, and principles of leadership and management are applied to models for health planning and population-focused practice. Basic concepts of epidemiology are presented and applied to community health problems and national initiatives, including disaster-preparedness, culturally-competent care, and the legal and ethical issues influencing the planning and delivery of care to individuals, families, aggregates, communities, and populations.
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the clinical application of community-oriented/public health nursing concepts. Students, under the supervision of a designated preceptor in a community/public health practice setting, will apply theoretical, scientific, and humanistic principles as they work with aggregates in the community to implement interventions aimed at achieving positive health outcomes. Nursing care delivery systems in the community that promote health and prevent illness in population groups will be explored. The role of the professional nurse as community leader is emphasized.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue the investigation of selected topics. Topics may vary from semester to semester and will be announced with preregistration information.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the foundations, models and procedures of curriculum design in nursing. Curriculum theories and practice are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course places emphasis on teaching and learning theories. Students are exposed to a variety of modalities utilized in teaching both theory and clinical courses. Test construction and clinical evaluation methods are included.
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3.00 Credits
Concepts of physiology and pathophysiology, essential to the diagnosis and management of health problems of individuals and families across the lifespan, are the focus of this course.
Emphasis is placed on genetic, cellular and biochemical pathophysiology. A body systems approach is used to explore the etiology, pathophysiology, prevalence, and clinical manifestations of commonly occurring disease states managed by clinicians in the primary care setting.
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4.00 Credits
(3 credits of didactic, 1 credit laboratory) This course focuses on comprehensive physical examination of individuals across the lifespan. The process of diagnostic reasoning, hypothesis formulation and differential diagnosis of disorders commonly seen in the primary care setting is stressed. Students learn to interpret diagnostic and laboratory findings and use effective communication skills to develop clinical hypotheses.
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1.00 Credits
This course facilitates the transition to the advanced practice clinician role in primary conceptualizations, role development, and the core competencies of advanced practice nursing are examined within the context of the provision of integrated primary care services for families and communities.
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2.00 Credits
The course utilizes the critical reasoning process to examine the elements of nursing as a discipline and as a science. Emphasis is placed on the structure of nursing knowledge and the use of theory as a framework for advanced nursing practice in the primary care setting.
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2.00 Credits
The course addresses the integration and synthesis of concepts associated with health promotion and disease prevention for families across the lifespan. Family theory and family assessment are introduced as a framework for primary care. Concepts of epidemiology, population focused care, and the accessibility of preventative services for culturally diverse and vulnerable populations in primary care are emphasized. Current research in health promotion is used as the basis for identifying appropriate screening recommendations and interventions used by clinicians in the primary care setting.
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