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3.00 Credits
Coleman. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, 106. The escalating incidence and prevalence of aggression in the health care setting requires that providers acquire a new set of pragmatic competencies for managing its complex sequelae. This course presents theoretical frameworks for understanding, predicting, preventing and responding to aggressive behaviors across the life span. Historical, bio-behavioral, social, and cultural explanations for aggression will be synthesized and analyzed within the context of multiple points of entry into the health care system across clinical settings. Personal self-awareness, debriefing, and stress management techniques exemplify techniques to prevent untoward consequences in providers. This course also uses exemplars and a range of experiential learning strategies, including skill development, situation analysis, concept mapping, unfolding case studies and cooperative learning, to examine the assessment, prevention, treatment, and response to aggressive behavior in patients and management of its consequences in self and others.
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3.00 Credits
Hollis. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, 106. This elective case study offers students the opportunity to learn about the etiology, diagnosis, and management of cancer across the lifespan. Building on existing clinical knowledge and skills, students will explore cancer care from the perspectives of prevention, early detection, treatment, survivorship, and death. Observational clinical experiences and selected case studies will enhance students' understanding of patients' and families' cancer experience.
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3.00 Credits
Williams, J. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, 106. This course is designed for present and future nurse professionals who wish to increase their knowledge of nutrition and expertise and application of knowledge to achieve optimal health of clients and themselves. Principles of medical nutrition therapy in health care delivery are emphasized in periods of physiologic stress and metabolic alterations. Individual nutrient requirements are considered from pathophysiologic and iatrogenic influences on nutritional status. Nutritional considerations for disease states will be explored through epidemiological, prevalence, incidence, treatment and research data. Understanding application of medical nutrition therapy are included through case analysis and field experiences
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3.00 Credits
Strumpf; Kagan; Cotter. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, 106 or Permission from Instructor. Living with Dementia provides a two fold experience: guided observation of an individual with dementia and a seminar series on dementia - neuropathology, assessment, care and treatment. Students will interact with a person with AD and his/her caregiver. The goal is to understand the demented individual's functional abilities and impact of environment on performance and behavior. A further goal is to develop an appreciation of the primary caregiver's role and the strengths and limitations of community support systems. Each team of two to three will be assigned a family unit for study. In so far as possible, teams will be interdisciplinary.
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3.00 Credits
Strumpf; Reifsnyder; Vito. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, NURS 106. for Graduate Students and Junior and Senior Undergraduate Nursing Students (with Course Faculty Permission). The overarching framework for the study of psychosocial and spiritual concerns in this course is respect for and understanding of the patient's and family's unique beliefs, values, preferences, and choices. The course will examine patient and family perspectives as well as health care system variables and societal issues that affect the organization and delivery of care during advanced illness and at the end of life. Students will engage in critical analysis of the evidence base concerning psychosocial and spiritual concerns and barriers to and opportunities for improving end of life care across the diverse settings in which health care is delivered. The historical, social, cultural, policy, economic, legal and ethical trends will be explored. Students will critique and propose innovative approaches to affecting sustainable organizational improvements in palliative and end of life care.
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3.00 Credits
Doyle. Prerequisite(s): NURS 104, NURS 106. This course examines the major aspects of home-based care across patients' life spans from acute to long term care. New trends, advances, and issues in home management of complex conditions, innovative delivery systems and legal, ethical and policy consideration will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Clarke; Sochalski. Prerequisite(s): NURS 321, 322, 340, 341. Corequisite(s): NURS 371. This final clinical nursing course focuses on the integration and synthesis of scientific knowledge with clinical nursing practice and the development of the professional nursing role. Building on content from prior courses, students will develop an understanding of management of patient care from the perspective of the individual client and family to groups of clients and eventually to management of health care systems. Principles of leadership, accountability and change will be integrated throughout. The process of transition from the student role to that of the professional nurse will be facilitated through discussion of organizational systems, professional issues, mechanisms for evaluation of care and the role of the nurse as patient advocate and change agent. Students will select from several practice options for the clinical content of the course. Clinical seminar content will build on core content and will provide an exposure to advanced nursing concepts within the area of specialty practice. Application of conceptual models to clinical practice will be discussed and nursing research will be integrated throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
Clarke; Sochalski; Rogers; Staff. Prerequisite(s): NURS 321, 322, 340, 341. Corequisite(s): NURS 370. This final clinical nursing course focuses on the integration and synthesis of scientific knowledge with clinical nursing practice and the development of the professional nursing role. Students select from a variety of options a primary, secondary or tertiary care setting in which to practice. Students will examine nursing care planning and delivery from the standpoint of at least one conceptual model. They will increase their skills in patient assessment, planning, and providing the full range of direct and indirect nursing care and evaluating the outcome of care. To the extent that it is possible within the clinical agency, they will provide care in more than one patient care delivery setting, to identify how nursing care requirements changes as the acuity or the site of care delivery changes. Principles of leadership, accountability and change will be applied to clinical practice as the student begins to operationalize the professional nursing role. Emphasis will be placed on the nurse as a knowledgeable provider of health care who is both a change agent and client advocate.
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3.00 Credits
Berman-Levine. Prerequisite(s): NURS 54, or NURS 112, comparable nutrition course, or approved introductory course. Understanding and meeting nutritional needs from conception through adulthood will be addressed. Nutrition-related concerns at each stage of the lifecycle, including impact of lifestyle, education, economics and food behavior will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Volpe. Prerequisite(s): NURS 54 or NURS 112. An examination of the scientific basis for the relationship between nutrition, exercise and fitness. The principles of exercise science and their interaction with nutrition are explored in depth. The physiological and biochemical effects of training are examined in relation to sports performance and prevention of the chronic diseases prevalent in developed countries.
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