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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course builds on Foundations of Nursing in Chronic Illness 1. The evidence base related to family care giving and symptom management is a major focus and basis for nursing interventions with patients and families. Ethical issues related to advocacy, selfdetermination, and autonomy are explored. Complex skills associated with symptom management, negotiating in interdisciplinary teams, and the impact of cultural beliefs are included in the context of client and family-centered care. Exemplars include patients with chronic mental illness and well as other chronic conditions and disabilities affecting functional status and family relationships. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. (Can follow Nursing in Acute Care 2 and End-of-Life).
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5.00 Credits
5 credits Clinical Lab required for NRS221A.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course builds on Nursing in Acute Care I focusing on more complex and/or unstable patient care situations some of which require astute assessment skills, rapid decision making, and some of which may result in death. The evidence base supporting appropriate focused assessments, and effective, efficient nursing interventions is explored Life span factors, cultural variables, and legal aspects of care frame the ethical decision-making employed in patient choices for treatment or palliative care within the acute care setting. Case scenarios incorporate prioritizing care needs, delegation and supervision, family & patient teaching for discharge planning. Exemplars include acute psychiatric disorders as well as acute conditions affecting multile body systems. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits Clinical Lab required for NRS222A.
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1.00 Credits
2 credits This course is designed to formalize the clinical judgments, knowledge and skills necessary in safe, registered nurse practice. The preceptorship model provides a context that allows the student to experience the nursing work world in a selected setting, balancing the demands of job and life long learner. Faculty/ preceptor/student analysis and reflection throughout the experience provide the student with evaluative criteria against which they can judge their own performance and develop a practice framework. Includes seminar, self-directed study and clinical experience. Required for AAS and eligibility for RN Licensure
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7.00 Credits
7 credits Clinical Lab required for NRS224A.
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1.00 Credits
3 credits This course introduces the theoretical background that enables students to provide safe and effective care related to drugs and natural products to persons throughout the lifespan. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions regarding using current, reliable sources of information, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of drug therapy, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding safe and effective use of drugs and natural products, intervening to increase therapeutic benefits and reduce potential negative effects, and communicating appropriately with other health professionals regarding drug therapy. Drugs are studied by therapeutic or pharmacological class using an organized framework
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2.00 Credits
3 credits This sequel to Clinical Pharmacology I continues to provide the theoretical background that enables students to provide safe and effective care related to drugs and natural products to persons throughout the lifespan. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions regarding using current, reliable sources of information, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of drug therapy, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding safe and effective use of drugs and natural products, intervening to increase therapeutic benefits and reduce potential negative effects, and communicating appropriately with other health professionals regarding drug therapy. The course addresses additional classes of drugs and related natural products not contained in Clinical Pharmacology
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1.00 Credits
3 credits This course introduces pathophysiological processes that contribute to many different disease states across the lifespan and human responses to those processes. Students will learn to make selective clinical decisions regarding using current, reliable sources of pathophysiology information, selecting and interpreting focused assessments based on knowledge of pathophysiological processes, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding pathophysiological processes, and communicating with other health professionals regarding pathophysiological processes. Prerequisites: Anatomy and Physiology sequence; Microbiology
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2.00 Credits
3 credits This sequel to Pathophysiological Processes I continues to explore pathophysiological processes that contribute to disease states across the lifespan and human responses to those processes. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions regarding using current, reliable sources of pathophysiology information, selecting and interpreting focused assessments based on knowledge of pathophysiological processes, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding pathophysiological processes, and communicating with other health professionals regarding pathophysiological processes. The course addresses additional pathophysiological processes not contained in Pathophysiological Processes 1.
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