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3.00 Credits
Fairman. For Benjamin Franklin Scholars & Nursing Honors Students. This multidisciplinary course surveys the history of American health care through the multiple perspectives of race, gender, and class, and grounds the discussions in contemporary health issues. It emphasizes the links between the past and present, using not only primary documents but materials from disciplines such as literature, art, sociology, and feminist studies that relate both closely and tangentially to the health professions and health care issues. Discussions will surround gender, class-based, ethnic, and racial ideas about the construction of disease, health and illness; the development of health care institutions; the interplay between religion and science; the experiences of patients and providers; and the response to disasters and epidemics. Skills for document analysis and critique are built into the course as is the contextual foundation for understanding the history of health care. This course satisfies both the Society & Social Structures and the Histories & Traditions sectors for the Nursing Class of 2012 and beyond.
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Wall; D'Antonio. Prerequisite(s): NURS 210, 220, 240, 270. Corequisite(s): NURS 322. Also Offered in Summer I. This course examines limitations in psychosocial functioning of individuals and families that are due to psychiatric disorders. Content focuses on the biobehavioral basis of psychiatric disorders, as well as the psychosocial, developmental, and physiological needs of individuals and their families. Care of individuals having acute episodes and chronic problems are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Kurlowicz; Evans; Wall; D'Antonio; Philmon. Prerequisite(s): NURS 210, 220, 240, 270. Corequisite(s): NURS 321. 0.5 c.u. Also offered in Summer I. Clinical experience provides opportunities for application of theories and principles to persons with psychiatric disorders and their families. Student clinical experiences occur primarily in acute care settings with optional experiences in a variety of primary care, acute, and long-term care settings.
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Tkacs. Prerequisite(s): NURS 131, 132. This course uses group discussion of case studies to review common pathophysiological processes involving the major organ systems. Students are encouraged to draw on their knowledge of biochemistry ad metabolism, nutrition, anatomy, physiology, and microbiology as this knowledge is applied to complex disease processes. This integrated approach to understanding disease mechanisms will increase the student's ability to critically evaluate cases encountered in clinical course work and plan appropriate responses to improve outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
Connolly. For Benjamin Franklin Scholars & Nursing Honors Students. This course explores the impact of historical ideas, events, and actors pertaining to the history of children's health care in the United States. Emphasis is placed on tracing the origins and evolution of issues that have salience for twenty-first century children's health care policy and the delivery of care. This course satisfies the History & Traditions Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Perlman; Ulrich. The theoretical foundations of health care ethics including definitions of ethics, history of bioethics and nursing ethics, and the influence of religion, psychology of moral development and philosophy in the development of ethical theory. Nursing code of ethics, changing ideas in ethics, and discussion of the developing profession of nursing are included. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Brown, K.; Burgess; Akiyama. Forensic mental health is the interface between the law and mental health. This course examines the components of human behavior that bring people into a judicial setting. Content will cover: criminal personalities, forensic interview, and the role of forensic psychiatry. Domestic violence offenders, sex offenders, stalkers, gang members, and offenders who commit homicide will be discussed. Definitions and dynamics of criminal motherhood and the psychodynamics of violent juvenile offenders will be presented. Use of the internet by offenders will also be discussed. This course also offers a field experience in which student's interview incarcerated individuals.
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3.00 Credits
Brown, K.; Burgess; Akiyama. This course discusses the interface of law and science. Forensic science is the application of scientific principles in the legal arena. This course examines the contribution of forensic science to criminal and civil investigation. Crime scene analysis is accomplished via disciplines within forensic science. The role of medical examiner, the structure and function of crime laboratories, death investigation and the role of health care personnel in forensic cases is discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Brown, K.; Burgess; Akiyama. Summer Session I. This course examines the wide range of victimization experiences from the perspective of the victim, their families and society. Crimes to be studied include workplace violence, corporate crime, robbery, burglary, assault, rape, stalking, domestic violence, homicide, suicide, elderly abuse and child sexual abuse and exploitation. The role of the medical examiner, health care providers and the FBI as they relate to victims of crime will be discussed. Emphasis will be given to exploring the elements of each crime and response patterns to victimizations. Services available to victims of crime will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Polomano. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status in the nursing curriculum or by permission of the instructor. This course focuses on biopsychosocial aspects of the pain experience and interpatient differences and how these form the basis for understanding pain perception, physiological and behavioral reactions and response to pain interventions. Content includes an integrated overview of the neurobiology of pain, measurement pain, pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches for acute and chronic pain syndromes, health policy and care delivery models for improving pain assessment and management. Peripheral processing, neuroanatomical pathways and central integrating mechanisms involved in nociception and pain are examined. The roles of individual biochemical mediators, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators are examined and linked to the effectiveness of pharmacological and alternative methods for pain control. The challenges of pain assessment and pain management in special clinical populations are considered. Relevant topics of special interest to course participants will be introduced for class discussion in the form of student presentations.
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