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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for all new students wishing to improve their academic success and experience a smooth transition to college. It is designed to help students create greater success in college and in life. Students will learn proven strategies to strengthen personal responsibility, enhance self-awareness, and improve self-management. Students will also learn to effectively utilize campus resources and will receive academic advising and educational planning support.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Topic-dependent. Examination of a special topic in college studies, intended for all students.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the role of the professional nurse within a culturally competent, equitable, inclusive framework. Professional nursing includes learning about professional identify inclusive of self-care, fundamental concepts of nursing practice, regulatory frameworks, determinants of health, as well as holistic person-centered care practices across the lifespan. Students will learn principles of communication, evidence-based practice, and clinical judgment that guides quality, safe care within the context of the holistic nursing process.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to expand the knowledge and skills of the LPN as they transition to the professional role within nursing. Emphasis is placed on health promotion through the lifespan and incorporates theories related to evidence-based practice, quality and safety, communication, collaboration, clinical decision-making/reasoning, informatics, assessment, caring, and health-illness continuum.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the components of the comprehensive nursing health assessment across the lifespan. Students will begin to develop therapeutic communication and basic assessment skills. Students will be introduces to the concept of informatics, how to integrate nursing, computer, and information sciences to manage data.
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4.00 Credits
The Minnesota State Nursing Assistant curriculum is the approved preparation for nursing assistants. Students are introduced to the basic nursing skills and concepts necessary to become a certified nursing assistant and work in a health care setting under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse. Students learn how to measure vital signs and assist individuals with physical needs such as personal hygiene, elimination, mobility, exercise, and nutrition. Students also learn about emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs, and receive basic training in behavior management. Students participate online and on campus in lecture and by practicing in the lab. Students apply what they have learned in class to care for residents in a long-term care facility during 16 hours of clinical participation at the end of the course. Attendance is mandatory per Department of Health regulations. Students successfully completing this course are ready to take the Headmaster LLP Nursing Assistant Competency Test. After passing this test, students can be placed on the Minnesota Department of Health Nursing Assistant Registry.
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4.00 Credits
The Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide Certificate course prepares the student to provide physical nursing care to individuals in long term care facilities, hospitals, board and care homes, and in the clients own home. Students learn how to measure vital signs, assist individuals with physical needs such as personal hygiene, elimination, mobility, exercise and nutrition. This course also includes information on emotional, spiritual and psychosocial needs, and basic training in behavior management for persons with dementia. Attendance is mandatory, per Minnesota Department of Health regulations. Students successfully completing this course are eligible to take the Pearson Vue Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide Competency Test. After passing this test students can be placed on the Minnesota Department of Health Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide Registry. Lecture 2 hours, Lab 4 hours, Clinical 24 hours at the end of the course.
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to experiential learning in the role of the nurse that enables the student to apply the components of therapeutic communication and basic assessment skills across the lifespan. Students will also learn to use technology appropriately within various information and computer applications designed for documentation of data. Dosage calculation will be introduced.
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on holistic health promotion across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on holistic health care practices, education of self-care management including practicing self-care. This course will assist the student to develop their role as an ethical member of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team. The student will incorporate physiological and psychosocial concepts within the framework of the nursing process and clinical judgment. Students will access research evidence to guide safe preventative care. Populations studied will include adults and older adults.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on experiential learning that enables the student to apply holistic health care practices including education of self-care management. The student will incorporate communication techniques giving and receiving feedback about performance and use reflective thinking about their practice. The student will apply physiological and psychosocial concepts within the framework of the nursing process assisting in the development of clinical judgment. Students will apply research evidence to guide safe preventative care. Populations studies will include adults and older adults.
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