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1.00 - 13.00 Credits
Qualified students work at training sites that provide experience appropriate to their major. These experiences will provide the opportunity for students to gain knowledge of the various tasks performed in their career field. A student may take any number of CWE credits per term, not to exceed 13 credits per year. Prerequisite: Instructor approval. 1 credit = 33 hours of lab.
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9.00 Credits
A 164 hour course designed to provide basic nursing skills for employment as a Certified Nursing Assistant once a student has a successfully passed the CNA written and practical examination administered by the Oregon State Board of Nursing. The course consists of 85 hours of classroom instruction , followed by 80 hours of supervised clinical instruction. Course restrictions: Conviction of a felony and/or drug usage or distribution may result in the Oregon State Board of Nursing withdrawing the privilege of writing the Certified Nursing Assistant examination. Prerequisities: A student must be at least 16 years of age and must take UCC's placement tests and score 30 or more on Reading, Writing, and Math.
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9.00 Credits
This course introduces the learner to the framework of the Oregon Consortium Nursing Education (OCNE) curriculum. The emphasis is on health promotion across the life span including self-health as well as client health practices. To support self and client health practices, students learn to access and read research literature about healthy lifestyle patterns, risk factors for disease/illness, and interventions to promote health behavior change. Students learn to conduct age-apropriate and culturally sensitive assessments about client health practices and risks, recognize roles of a multidisciplinary team, give and receive feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Screening of healthy school aged children, teaching the family experiencing a normal pregnancy, interventions to prevent substance abuse and motivational interactions with healthy, community-dwelling older adults are exemplars. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the nursing program. 5 hr lecture/seminar; 12 hrs lab/wk.
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6.00 Credits
This course introduces assessment and common interventions (including technical procedures) for clients with chronic illnesses common across the life span in major ethnic groups within Oregon. The client and family's "lived experience" of the illness, coupled with clinical practice guidelines and extant reseacrch eveidence is used to guide clinical judgments in care to the chronically ill. Roles of multidisciplinary team in care of the chronically ill and legal aspects of delegations are explored. Cultural, ethical, health policy, and health care delivery system issues are explored in the context of the chronic illness care. Case exemplars include children with asthma, , adolescent methamphetamine abuse, adult-onset diabetes, and older adults with dementia. Prerequisite: NRS 110. 3 hrs lecture/seminar, 9 hrs clinical/lab/ wk.
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6.00 Credits
This course introduces the learner to assessment and common interventions (including relevant technical procedures) for care of patients during an acute episode of disease/illness. Common disease/illness trajectories and their clinical practice guidelines and/or standard procedures are considered in relation to their impact on providing culturally sensitive, client-centered care. Prerequisite: NRS 111. 3 hrs lecture/seminar, 9 hrs clinical/lab/wk.
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9.00 Credits
This course build on Foundations of Nursing in Chronic Illness I. 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, self-determination, 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 affectingfunctional status and family relationships. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. (Can follow Nursing in Acute Care II and End-of-Life). 5 hr. lecture/seminar and 12 hours clinical/lab per week. maps index contacts undecided career & technical transfer education general information
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9.00 Credits
This course builds on Nursing in Acute Care I focusing on more complex and/ or unstable patient care situations some of which require strong recognitional 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 and patient teaching for discharge planning. Exemplars include acute psychiatric disorders as well as acute conditions affecting multiple body systems. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. (Can follow Nursing in Chronic Illness II and End-of-Life Care). 5 hr. lecture/ seminar and 12 hours clinical/lab per week.
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9.00 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. 2 lecture/seminar and 21 hrs. clinical lab/wk.
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2.00 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 appropporiately with other health professionals regarding drug therapy. Drugs are studied by therapeutic or pharmacological class using an organized framework. Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing program; BI 231, 232, 233 Anatomy and Physiology sequence; Co-requisite: NRS 110. 2 lecture/seminar hrs/wk. F
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2.00 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 I. Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing program; NRS 230. Co-requisite: NRS 111. 2 lecture/seminar hrs/wk. W
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