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3.00 Credits
"(Prerequisite: NURS B202 or NURS B301) This course introduces nursing informatics and patient care technologies utilized in healthcare settings. Students explore informatics and technology from identification, retrieval, processing, evaluation, and management of healthcare technology and information systems intended to improve patient outcomes and reduce risk of harm. Legal and ethical considerations related to these technologies are examined. Emphasis is placed on selected technologies and evaluating how they impact nursing practice and influence quality and safety across the continuum of care. Basic computer literacy is a pre-requisite to support success.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: NURS B202, B202C, B310 and B312) Nursing management of adult and older adult patients with acute and chronic conditions is introduced. Students will synthesize previous courses to link nursing concepts, physical examination and pharmacology as part of the care management plan. As disease processes by body system are examined in greater depth, students will study disease staging, complex therapeutics and technology usage, and anticipatory complications. Stigma, ethics, and discharge from one setting to another across the care continuum are presented as advanced challenges to intervention and outcome management.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: NURS B202, B202C, B312. Corequisite: NURS B320 & B326) Students will be exposed to adults and older adults with acute and chronic conditions. Clinical experiences will focus on the application of knowledge and skills related to the care of an adult patient. Emphasis will be placed on applying the nursing process to manage care, setting clinical priorities and using technology to anticipate patient needs as a member of interprofessional teams.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: PSYC B101 or SOCY B101 or consent of instructor) This course focuses on the health practices of individual, family and communities with varied cultural, socioeconomic, and global backgrounds. Cultural variables such as age, gender, ethnicity, family structure, spiritual practice and religion, sexual expression, economics, and common health practices are examined to sensitize providers to person-centered care. Cultural practices in birth, health, pain management, natural healing practices, illness and death are explained and reinforced.
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3.00 Credits
{THEA B341} (Prerequisite: SOCY B101 or PSYC B101) The class aims to train students to act as Simulated Participants (SP) in the Nursing Simulation lab as patients and supporting roles (such as patient family members) in dynamic, realistic simulated healthcare experiences. These experiences help train future nurses in a lifelike way.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: STAT B201 and NURS B202 or RN Licensure or consent of Instructor) The science of nursing is presented exploring how research builds the nursing profession. The research process, from question to study design and analysis, and onto field-based implementation is contrasted. Students are exposed to multiple studies sufficient to inform evidence-based practice and discern good from bad science. Discussion of institutional databases available to inform quality improvement and organizational policy is explained. Ethical concerns and the mitigation of research risks are considered.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: NURS B320 and NURS B326; Corequisite: NURS B358) This course addresses the primary and preventive care provided to childbearing families. The needs of reproducing families to ensure safe pre-, intra-, and postnatal outcomes are addressed to ensure growth and functioning in the family unit. Male reproductive and female gynecological norms and abnormalities, along with complications of pregnancy, are contrasted. Psychosocial adaptations and special needs of the family unit are studied to manage grief and loss, palliative care and women's and men's reproductive health challenges.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: Junior Standing) This class will help bridge an identified learning gap between NURS B326 and NURS B425. The class will reinforce knowledge and application in Adult Health Nursing using a concept-based approach. The content will focus on critical thinking and clinical judgement utilizing the nursing process.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: NURS B320 and NURS B326; Corequisite: NURS B356) The developmental, physiologic, cognitive, and health needs of children are presented. Children with acute and chronic health conditions, genetic abnormalities, and infectious diseases are studied with attention to how children respond to and adapt to disease and how disease prevention is addressed. Special attention is given to rapid and accurate assessment, availability of specialized health providers and equipment, and rapid transfer of pediatric patients during life-threatening emergencies.
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3.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: RN licensure, or NURS B312 and NURS B326, or permission of the instructor) Care and special needs of the older adult in various care settings. Gerontological nursing, presentation of disease, rehabilitation, health promotion, reimbursement and a comprehensive nursing gerontological assessment are covered. (Lecture 3 hours).
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