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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the challenges of nurses to provide culturally competent care to members of a multicultural society. Students will examine the effects of cultural beliefs and practices that influence both family health care practices as well as health care delivery. A variety of theoretical models of cultural competency and cultural assessment tools are examined as well as selected complimentary and alternative healing methods. Selected cultural practices will be examined with more depth in student-facilitated seminars. The course will have an on-line component in which students will investigate specified topics and participate in discussion groups.
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3.00 Credits
Complementary therapies are those modalities that are used adjunctively with biomedicine to augment healing, facilitate comfort and promote health. This course is designed for students in the helping professions as an overview of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Course content includes trends in CAM use; theoretical foundations for practice; historical, cultural and religious contexts of healing; legal and ethical issues; and scientific research on selected methods. Students will specifically learn therapeutic touch (TT), an energy based CAM, as developed by Dr. Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz. Students will examine the implications for the use of self as a healing instrument and explore dimensions of the healing relationship. Each class will include lecture, discussion, meditation and TT practice components. Elective open to non-nursing majors.
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4.00 Credits
Students expand their knowledge and skills in health assessment, synthesize health assessment data in planning and providing care, and explore variations in health among clients of different age groups and cultures. Prerequisite: none.
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3.00 Credits
This course involves the study of the historical development and current status of research in nursing. The course will include an in-depth examination of the research process, particularly as it relates to nursing. Students will critique published research and implement nursing research utilization strategies. Prerequisite: NURS 315.
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses on synthesizing nursing knowledge and public health principles as they relate to families, aggregates and communities. Within a framework of epidemiology, principles of health promotion and primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are emphasized. Clinical learning will include community experiences in homes and a variety of community settings. Placement: Taken during final three terms in the program. Prerequisites: NURS 315, 316, 402, 409 and current RN licensure.
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6.00 Credits
This practice-based course for RN students is designed: (a) to provide the principles of leadership, (b) to increase knowledge about management, (c) to apply and integrate previous learning, (d) to have enriching precepted experiences in a selected area of professional nursing practice, and (e) to demonstrate self-direction by developing and fulfilling a learning contract that reflects individual learning needs in the practice setting. Key concepts include self-directed learning, leadership and management skills, stress reduction, time management, the image of professional nursing, dealing with diversity in the workplace. A project that requires scholarly inquiry is required. Prerequisites: NURS 315, 316, 402, 409 and current RN licensure.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Individual Study
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental principles of chemistry: stoichiometry, atomic structure, chemical energetics, chemical bonding, states of matter and solutions. Required lab includes topics listed above. No prerequisite. Offered fall and summer.
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4.00 Credits
A further study of principles: introductory physical chemistry including chemical kinetics, equilibrium, the second law of thermodynamics, electrochemistry and nuclear chemistry. Required lab includes inorganic qualitative Analysis and topics listed above. Prerequisites: CHEM 101, CHEM 132 or a proficiency exam. Offered spring and summer.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Discovery-based laboratory course emphasizing relevant problems and modern chemical methods. Topics include chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, equilibrium, electrochemistry and inorganic qualitative analysis. Intended for majors in the Chemistry Department and other advanced students. Fulfills CHEM 102 laboratory requirement. Prerequisites: CHEM 101, CHEM 132 or a proficiency exam. Offered in the spring.
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