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3.00 Credits
This course offers the learner an opportunity to explore the cultures of a variety of populations. The course is designed to provide the learner with tools to effectively deliver healthcare to people of different cultures. Emphasis is placed on cultural communication, assessment, and evidence based practice related to cultural care.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers the student the opportunity to discuss healthcare policy and explore political system operations. Disparity in care and social inequity for vulnerable populations such as the uninsured, elderly, physically or cognitively disabled, and terminally ill are discussed. Current healthcare issues such as quality of care are analyzed. Funding of the US healthcare system, both private and public, is evaluated. Comparisons are made to other industrialized nations' healthcare systems. Value systems are analyzed as they impact healthcare reform. Emphasis is placed on the professional's role as a change agent in the political arena and healthcare system. Credit cannot be received for both NRN 448 and IPHC 448.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the RN-to-BSN student the opportunity to explore the organizational structures, management roles, and leadership behaviors within healthcare systems. Systems theory is utilized, and relevant issues such as employee management, budgeting, communication, interprofessional teamwork, quality improvement, and ethical decisionmaking within organizations are addressed. Group process and change theory are also emphasized. For the practicum of this course, the RN will synthesize the application of theory, evidence-based practice, nursing management, and leadership.
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3.00 Credits
This elective course discusses the historical, physiological, social, cultural, emotional, and spiritual issues affecting women's health. It integrates current healthcare findings including a maturational perspective with a systems approach. The course will explore empowering and emancipating ways to utilize healthcare services and develop a proactive wellness agenda.
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1.00 Credits
This elective course will assist the learner to gain and demonstrate a thorough understanding of healthcare language. Knowledge of the construction and use of terms is acquired. The course teaches basic principles of healthcare word building. Once the basic principles of word building are learned, the learner will be able to apply them to develop an extensive healthcare vocabulary. Intensive effort is devoted to the recognition of the basic elements, which form healthcare words, as well as the use of dictionaries and other references. This course is helpful to anyone entering a health-related field.
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1.00 Credits
This elective course is designed to develop and improve knowledge about child abuse and neglect. It will promote knowledge development through online discussions, reflections, case studies, and critical thinking activities. The topics will focus on children and issues involved in maltreatment, risk factors for the victims and perpetrators, assessment findings, cultural beliefs and customs within families, mandatory reporting, and the care/safety of suspected abuse victims.
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4.00 Credits
Skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment of individuals are learned and practiced. The major focus is on assessment of the healthy adult client, with inclusion of common variations. Assessment of the elderly is also addressed. Communication skills, physical assessment skills, and use of the functional health pattern assessment tool are emphasized. Students analyze assessment data for common risk factors and identify strategies for health promotion. Beginning professional nursing behaviors are learned and practiced. Strategies for performing health assessment of the family are discussed.
Prerequisite:
NURS 317 AND NURS 320
Corequisite:
(NURS 317 AND NURS 320) AND NURS 309
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the steps of the research process, and provides the student with the basic skills and knowledge to evaluate research. Emphasis is on the review and critique of published nursing research with consideration of the utilization of research findings in clinical practice. Ethical considerations in nursing research are addressed.
Prerequisite:
NURSE 320
Corequisite:
NURS 307 OR NURS 321
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5.00 Credits
This course utilizes the nursing process to address the nursing care needs of individuals who have psychiatric and mental health disorders. Predisposing biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors contributing to the development and continuation of these disorders are examined. Precipitating stressors, coping resources and coping mechanisms are evaluated in relation to an individual's pattern of response. Nursing interventions for these disorders based on the crisis, acute, maintenance, and health promotion stages of treatment are analyzed. The impact of psychiatric illness on the family and other social systems is also explored. Foundational elements of the course include the therapeutic use of self, effective communication skills, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice.
Prerequisite:
NURS 301 AND NURS 309 AND NURS 317 AND NURS 320
Corequisite:
NURS 306 AND NURS 318 AND NURS 321
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6.00 Credits
This is the first of four sequential courses to introduce students to the role of critical thinking and the nursing process as a mechanism to synthesize knowledge and master basic nursing skills needed to promote, maintain and restore health in hospitalized patients. The course will integrate the nursing process, principles of communication, decision-making, and basic nursing skills necessary for applying pathophysiological concepts, health assessment and nutritional data to the experience of health and illness of patients across the life span with diverse ethnic, cultural and geographical backgrounds. Clinical experience includes but is not limited to acute inpatient settings and nursing centers for the geriatric population. Learning activities are designed to facilitate transition into the role and responsibilities of the professional nurse.
Prerequisite:
NURS 301 AND NURS 317 AND NURS 320
Corequisite:
NURS 301 AND NURS 317 AND NURS 320
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