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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Valid LPN license and acceptance into Advanced Placement Program. This course is offered in the summer semester and addresses the transition in the roles from LPN to RN with comparisons and differences in responsibility and accountability to the patients. Other topics addressed in the course include therapeutic communication, nursing process, nursing diagnosis, physical assessment skills, drug calculation review, aspects of critical thinking, and roles of the RN under the Nurse Practice Act. Assignments include case studies for developing nursing diagnoses, completing a health history assessment and demonstrating physical assessment skills by performing a head to toe assessment. Some components require independent study.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the ADN Program. This course is constructed to enable beginning nursing students to synthesize the many complex physiologic and psychosocial concepts that support comprehensive nursing care. Nursing skills are presented in the order in which they are likely to be encountered in the health care setting. Six lecture/lab and eight clinical hours are provided each week.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science classes. The course provides instruction and clinical practice in meeting the physiologic, psychologic, and adaptation of the mother and family to pregnancy. Emphasis is on the normal with deviations from the normal. Applications of knowledge in normal growth and development, normal nutrition, and medications in integrated obstetrical care centers, clinics, community centers and obstetricians offices are utilized. Eight lecture/lab and eight clinical hours are provided each week.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science classes. A course designed to study modern nursing. Emphasis is placed on levels of current nursing practices, concepts, organization, literature, legal and ethical aspects.
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10.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science classes. This course provides the nursing student opportunity to learn how to observe and assess signs, symptoms, reactions, and behaviors of hospitalized patients through use of the nursing process. Emphasis is placed on the pathophysiology underlying any disease conditions and applies principles from the biological, physical, social, behavioral, medical and nursing sciences in the care of these patients. Includes lecture and clinical components.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science classes. This is a continuation of Medical-Surgical Nursing I. Emphasis is placed on managing the care of a group of patients. This course also integrates techniques of nursing leadership and delegation to unlicensed assistive personnel. Includes lecture and clinical components.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science courses. This course is designed to introduce the student to common characteristics of each drug classification and each prototype drug within the group. This class presents relevant information about current medications by showing the reasoning behind the ways in which drugs of different classes are used in treating patients with various disorders. Emphasis is on drugs of the autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, and the central nervous system.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the ADN Program. This course is an introduction to the administration of medicine. Basic information concerning the various pharmaceutical names and preparations, their administration techniques, and nursing implications will be given. Emphasis in the class is upon calculations used in the administration of medicine. This must be taken concurrently with Fundamentals of Nursing.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science courses and Human Growth and Development. This course is designed to provide instruction and clinical practice in meeting the needs of the child and family from infancy through adolescence. Principles and theories of child development as well as culture, experience, and nutritional influences are integrated. Focus is placed on acute and chronic illness, hospitalization effects, congenital abnormalities, and nursing care specific to particular age groups and health problems.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or above insequential nursing and science classes. This course is designed to introduce the student to history and trends in psychiatric nursing, major psychiatric theoretical models, the five axes of the psychiatric classification system, the major psychiatric illnesses inclusive of definitions, clinical manifestations, psychopharmacology, medical treatments, nursing interventions and milieu management. This course is intended to provide fundamental knowledge of mental health concepts and interactional techniques for the beginning nurse. The role that emotions and stress play in the behavior of the client and client's family are emphasized to give the student with a better understanding of behavior and provide a useful framework for planning and providing nursing care in any health care setting. Hospital-based and community-based mental health clinical experience is included.
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