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3.00 Credits
McCauley, L.; Morrssink; Cotroneo. Prerequisite(s): Undegrads Need Permission. This course will provide a foundational overview of the field of public health and grounding in the public health paradigm. Content will include the history of public health, an introduction to the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, policy and management and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries, future directions for public health and an introduction to issues in international health, ethics, context analysis (specifically the notion of urban health), health promotion and disease prevention paradigms.
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Magro; Lynn. Prerequisite(s): NURS 617. This course explores the various routes of anesthetic administration addressing the potential benefits and risk of each. Special emphasis is placed on specific anesthetic agents and their appropriate use. The responses and common complications associated with these agents are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Magro; Lynn. Prerequisite(s): NURS 508. This course examines the classifications of anesthetics, their pharmacokinetics and pharmacokinetics and the most common side effects and adverse effects. Adjuvant therapies most commonly utilized with anesthesia are reviewed and their interactions are explained. Anesthetic techniques related to pain management are presented. Monitoring techniques employed with the administration of anesthetics are reviewed.
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3.00 Credits
McCool; Durain; Lewis, L. This course will utilize a multidisciplinary approach to address the field of women's health care. The constructs of women's health care will be examined from a clinical, as well as sociological, anthropological and political point of view. Topics will reflect the historical movement of women's health care from an obstetrical/gynecological view to one that encompasses the entire life span and life needs of women. The emphasis of the course will be to undertake a critical exploration of the diversity of women's health care needs and the past and current approaches to this care. Issues will be addressed from both a national and global perspective, with a particular focus on the relationship between women's equality/inequality status and state of health. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Stringer; Baime. Junior and Senior Undergraduates and Graduate Students. This course, for nursing and medical students explores theory and research about physiologic stress responses as the basis for a standardized, replicable mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention. Mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention is a previously standardized, evidenced based, clinical intervention that provides a systematic approach to develop enhanced awareness of moment-to-moment experience (mindfulness) of perceptible mental processes. The concept of the stress reaction, the biology of the effects of stress on the body, mindfulness-based communication, and its role in healing experienced by patients, will be critically examined in a culturally relevant context.
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3.00 Credits
McHugh; Keim; Kershbaumer. Prerequisite(s): Baccalaureate in Nursing plus a Master's Degree in Nursing or in a Health Related Area. Current Master or Doctoral Students with permission of the Program Director and the Course Director. 2 c.u. This course is designed to provide expert advanced practice nurses and midwives, currently holding faculty positions, with a theory and practice base to promote excellence in classroom teaching. The focus of the course is theories and principles of teaching and learning related to adult learning. Personal and educational philosophies and their relationship to the learner are explored. Basic components of curriculum development are integral to the course. A designated mentor teacher at the home university with a Masters or Doctorate degree, nominated by the student and approved by the Course Director, works in partnership with the student and Penn faculty.
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3.00 Credits
McHugh; Keim; Kershbaumer. Prerequisite(s): NURS 600. This course builds on the knowledge attained in NURS 600 as well as the knowledge and skills of the expert clinician. The focus of the course is clinical teaching for the advanced practitioner, perceptor preparation and issues related to establishing and maintaining clinical sites. Academic responsibilities of faculty members, ethical and legal issues in education and educational effects of professional trends, health care policies and rapidly changing environments are also explored.
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3.00 Credits
Lafferty / Tkacs. Prerequisite(s): Completion of undergraduate courses that include Biochemistry, Nutrition, Anatomy and Physiology or permission of the instructor. This course integrates advanced pathophysiology and clinical implications for graduate nursing students. Recent scientific advances will be discussed with application to new approaches to disease and symptom management. The interrelationships between clinical pathophysiology and basic physiology and genetics are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Piper, A. This course examines health care from an economic perspective tailored for the nurse manager and executive. Emphasis is on the allocation of health care resource policies in the United States with examination of different health care programs. Within the health care industry, focus is on public and private health care funding in addition to the role of managed care systems with relation to financing and delivery of health services. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Breckenridge. Exploration of the conceptual-theoretical basis of nursing. Analysis and evaluation of conceptual models of nursing and nursing theories with emphasis on implications for nursing practice.
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