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  • 2.00 Credits

    2 Credit Hours Co-requisite: NUR 222 This course focuses on the role of the associate degree nurse as a member of the health care team in a variety of settings. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, decision-making and the nursing process related to coordination of care and collaboration with members of the health care team.
  • 9.00 Credits

    9 Credit Hours (5 hours lecture; 4 hours clinical) Co-requisite: NUR 232 Prerequisites: NUR 110 or 113, NUR 135, NUR 121, NUR 115 This course focuses on holistic nursing care of members of the child bearing and child rearing family along the health-illness continuum. A family-centered basic needs approach is emphasized in application of the knowledge and skills of decision making, critical thinking and the nursing process. Principles of growth and development, communication, nutrition and pharmacology along with legal, ethical and moral principles are integrated. The clinical component incorporates the collaborative role of the nurse as part of the multi-disciplinary health care team in the acute care setting and in selected community settings. There will be six weeks each of pediatric clinical experience and OB clinical experience.
  • 2.00 Credits

    2 Credit Hours Co-requisite: NUR 225 This course focuses on the associate degree nurse as a member within the profession of nursing and integrates informatics, computer based learning and research. Nursing responsibilities and practice are explored in relation to current health care issues, trends, legal, moral and ethical issues. Career planning strategies, career goals and professional growth and development are incorporated. This course also integrates nursing as it relates to informatics and computer based learning and research.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: NUR 110, ENG 112 Requires the written approval of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Special topics to be indicated. This course may include seminars, conferences, independent study or clinical experience focused on a particular topic, current issue or practice area in nursing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours Offered every Fall semester Exploring valid and invalid patterns of deductive inference, with secondary consideration of inductive reasoning, this course examines the principles of Aristotelian material and formal logic, including signs and signification, abstraction and universals, predication and judgments, and syllogistic reasoning. Informal fallacies are covered as well. The applicability of basic logical principles to both dialectical and rhetorical argumentation is treated in the latter half of the course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours This course introduces the student to philosophy by addressing basic concepts of the philosophy of nature: substance, matter/form, change, causes, chance, space/time, and the problem of the Unmoved Mover. On these topics, we note the views of various philosophers over the course of time, but with special emphasis on the views of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. The second half of the course addresses the properties of man from the Thomistic philosophical perspective: his vegetative, animative, and cognitive operations; the nature of the human soul; the unity of soul and body; the nature, act, and objects of the human intellect; the necessity and freedom of the human will; and the interaction of the intellect and will in the free human act.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours This course introduces the student to ethics as a practical science based on reasoning derived from experience. St. Thomas Aquinas is used as a guide to investigate the purpose of human life, the nature of human actions, the use of right reason to distinguish good from bad action, the role of moral law and conscience, patterns of moral reasoning and the perfecting of moral character by acquisition of positive virtue. From this study, the student should come to understand the rational basis of moral doctrine, to appreciate its profound significance for the human person, and to develop a personal commitment to act always so as to promote his true good.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours A survey of classical and medieval philosophical thought. Emphasis is placed on analysis and critical understanding of perennial philosophical issues. Topics include, but are not limited to, being, nature, causality, knowledge, freedom, God, man, and society. Sources include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Ockham.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours A critical study of Western philosophical thought from the 17th to the 20th century, through the investigation of the works of Rene Descartes and the Rationalists, David Hume and the Empiricists, as well as subsequent thinkers such as Immanuel Kant and George Hegel. Emphasis will be given to the implications of the scientific revolution for the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and ethics.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Credit Hours PHILOSOPHY OF MAN This course is a speculative study of material being (ens mobile) in its entirety. As the first course, after Logic, in the philosophy curriculum, it introduces the student to a basic philosophical perspective of physical reality as a science distinct from, yet complementary to, the empirical sciences. Included within this study is an examination of living material being (ens mobile animatum), focusing primarily on the human person.
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