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  • NURS 550: Home Health Care Concepts:Mgmt.& Delivery of Community-Based Care

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Buhler-Wilkerson. 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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  • NURS 551: Applied Health Informatics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Bowles. Prerequisite(s): Experience in using the Internet to retrieve information. Basic knowledge of Microsof Access is expected. Catalogue Description: This course is designed to address issues related to the impact of information technology on health care practitioners and consumers of all ages. Students will learn about and gain experience with practical applications of information technology (Access, handheld devices, telehealth, Internet resources) that improve the quality of health care communication and delivery and facilitate health care research. Class projects include working with clinical databases and evidence based information sources.
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  • NURS 555: Women and Incarceration

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Brown, K.; Guidera; Durain. Registration By Permission Only. This elective course will afford students the opportunity to participate in service learning and health education in the Philadelphia prison system, in particular to incarcerated women. Students will explore the social and historical framework and trends in the incarceration of women and the health status of incarcerated women. During seminar discussions with experts in the criminal justice system and with staff and inmates at Riverside, the Philadelphia women's jail, students will explore the health, health care and health care needs of incarcerated women and identify specific areas in need of attention, especially with regard to health education. In collaboration with Philadelphia jail staff and female inmates, students will design and implement a health education project.
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  • NURS 557: Advanced Illness,Dying and Death:Psychosocial and Policy Perspectives

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Reifsnyder; Strumpf; Vito. Prerequisite(s): Undergrad Students: NURS 104, 106 Graduate Students: None. 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. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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  • NURS 559: Quality Care Challenges in an Evolving Health Care Market

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lang. Quality care is an issue for consumers, providers, purchasers, and policy makers. This case study examines the multiple challenges that surround the quality of health care in the evolving United States health care marketplace. Through classroom discussion and special project experience, the student will become familiar with the concept of health care quality and approaches to the measurement and management of quality. Using Donabedian's construct of structure, process and outcomes, strategies to improve quality while containing or reducing costs are reviewed, including the contributions of clinical practice guidelines. The evolving dominant structures for providing health care services, managed care and integrated delivery systems, and their approaches to quality management and reporting will be explored.
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  • NURS 560: Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Boullata; O'Neill. Prerequisite(s): NURS 684. Principles of clinical pharmacology are applied to the nursing care of pediatric patients. Prescribing and monitoring procedures for the drug regimens used to treat pediatric patients are reviewed. Problems inherent in misuse of commonly used drugs are also considered.
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  • NURS 561: Human Genetics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ganguly. Prerequisite(s): NURS 605, 607, 684, 695, or recent completion of first two years of required undergraduate sciences. This course is designed to promote an understanding of human molecular genetics and its implications for health. Heredity in terms of molecular structures is explained. The role of genetic alterations in human disorders and cancers is examined. Analysis of selected clinical disorders illustrates the promise of applied genetic technology, as well as the ethical, legal, and social challenges.
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  • NURS 562: Case Study in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Cuellar. Undergrads Need Permission. This course will examine the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in health promotion and disease prevention, as well as in acute and chronic health conditions, through evidence-based research and practice. Implications of CAM on culture, health disparities, society, economics, safety, legal, ethical, and health policy issues will be explored and discussed.
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  • NURS 566: Living with Dementia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Strumpf; Cotter. 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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  • NURS 567: Managing Life-Threatening Illness From a Palliative Care Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Strumpf; Reifsnyder; Vito. for Graduate Students and Junior and Senior Undergraduate Nursing Students (with Course Faculty Permission). Managing Life-threatening Illness from a Palliative Care Perspective focuses on the application of evidence-based methods for systematic assessment and relief of physical symptoms accompanying advanced illness within a framework of nationally recognized standards for adult geriatric, oncology, palliative and end-of-life care. This course meets requirements for graduate-level elective credit
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