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3.00 Credits
Assesses and compares contemporary health care systems, their sociopolitical environments, nursing management models, and the inter-related effects upon quality and satisfaction of patient/client health care. This course analyzes leadership theories and application strategies to develop effective nursing leaders for service in a variety of health care settings and across the continuum of care. The project includes investigation of one health care system/care management model different from the common ones of the United States. Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing Program. Corequisite: NURS 3354 Adult and Gerontologic Health.
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3.00 Credits
Practicum] Promotes the application of theory studied previously or concurrently in courses of NURS 3102 Promoting Health of Populations, NURS 3202 Social Issues in Health and Nursing, and NURS 3346 Health Assessment into a beginning professional nursing practice, and primarily with adult patients/clients in a variety of locations. This course includes concepts related to evidence-based nursing practice. Planning, implementing, and evaluating care outcomes of therapeutic nursing and pharmacological modalities are supported by research and professional literature. (Graded on a Pass/No Credit basis) See Tuition and Fees for required fee amount. Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing Program. Corequisites: NURS 3102 Promoting Health of Populations, NURS 3202 Social Issues in Health and Nursing, and NURS 3346 Health Assessment.
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3.00 Credits
Practicum] Application of concepts related to the care management of adult and gerontologic patients/clients experiencing acute, sub-acute, chronic, and terminal health problems. A variety of patient/client-centered individual and interdisciplinary health care models are practiced, in multiple settings, using quality, effectiveness, and efficiency outcome criteria for evaluation. This course continues building on Therapeutic Nursing Interventions I. Completion of this junior year course requires a written self-evaluation and supervising faculty's written evaluation of the learner's nursing knowledge and skills level using the Junior Level Nursing Program objectives as the measurement standard. A reviewed and signed copy by both the student and nursing faculty is filed in one's professional nursing portfolio. (Graded on a Pass/ No Credit basis.) See Tuition and Fees for required fee amount. Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing Program. Corequisites: NURS 3362 Bio-psychosocial Nursing and NURS 3354 Adult and Gerontologic Health
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3.00 Credits
A review of professional nursing roles, responsibilities, and the expanded scope of practice expected of beginning baccalaureate nurse graduates. This course introduces the process of health policy formation using current literature, WWW resources, case studies, and interviews with guest experts. Appreciation for professional memberships in and contributions to official nursing bodies, health advocacy groups, and selected political-legal health legislative actions are also addressed. This course assists the learner to generate an effective presentation of self for entry-level registered nurse positions, to investigate application requirements for advanced nursing degrees, and to evaluate health and nursing educational resources for self-directed and continued learning. Students produce a series of mini documents reflecting professional growth plans of future employment and further education/continued learning that are reviewed and approved by faculty advisors and filed in their professional portfolio. Prerequisite or corequisite: Senior Nursing Majors; NURS 4562 Nursing Research: Methods & Applications.
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3.00 Credits
Study of health and health care needs of Gerontologic adult populations. This course emphasizes population-focused assessment of and interventions for diagnoses common to aging adults. Considers the influence of factors of aging relative to pathophysiology, pharmacology, psycho-social status, medical therapeutic interventions, and nursing care needed by clients/patients as they cope with health issues. Topics include the nurse's therapeutic use of one's self in meeting physical, spiritual, family, social, and environmental needs of elderly patients/clients. Prerequisite: NURS 3354 Adult Health.
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3.00 Credits
A course that identifies standards, analyzes quality of performance, and evaluates care outcomes in selected aspects of health care. This study includes the various types of health delivery systems and personnel. Attention is given to working with health care costs, trends and financial constraints, other resource limitations, parent organizations and nursing budgets, generation and allocation of new and redesigned resources, and associated ethical issues. Students interface principles of strategic planning and action implementation with clinical health concerns. This course requires synthesis of theory and practice learned throughout the nursing curriculum in order to complete a strategic proposal for acceptance by a mock board of experts. Prerequisites: NURS 3432 Health Care Systems, Care Management, and Nursing Leadership; Prerequisite or Corequisite: NURS 4452 Communities and Diverse Populations and Clients.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on health and disruption in prospective families, and families of traditional and different configurations by using a variety of theories, assessment tools, and intervention strategies. This course emphasizes family as the client, and considers health care needs of parents, caretakers, children, grandparents, and alternative family members from sociocultural perspectives. It includes phases of preconception, reproduction, early childhood growth, development, and maturation into the teen years. Students use research methods, such as epidemiological, demographic, and descriptive analyses, to further understand nursing implications and appropriate interventions. Prerequisites: NURS 3354 Adult and Gerontologic Health, NURS 3362 Bio-psychosocial Nursing, and NURS 3956 Therapeutic Nursing Interventions II. Required immunizations: second in Hepatitis A series, third in Hepatitis B series; annual TB test (performed after the May following your junior year).
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3.00 Credits
Promotes synthesis of previous learning specific to normal body structure and functions, common disruptions of major organ systems, and related clinical therapeutic interventions, across the health continuum and lifespan. Students produce a scholarly knowledge base of research findings, contemporary health resources, patient/client data, and related socio-economic information pertinent to one population in a selected clinical focus reflected in the nursing praxis statement. Students will show understanding of the normal structure and function of the human body, pathophysiological changes occurring with dysfunction in major organ systems, and resultant clinical therapeutic intervention by written assignments, projects, and in practice licensure examination. This capstone course in the nursing curriculum requires a scholarly nursing praxis paper showing influence and intent of a selected clinical focus on one's graduate nursing practice. Prerequisite: NURS 4452 Communities and Diverse Populations as Clients; Corequisite: NURS 4973 Focused Senior Nursing Practice.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes analysis strategies and macro-level interventions that guide and influence the health of communities and their sub-populations. This course stresses development of collaborative community partnerships and healthy environments that promote effective client/population interactions. Students consider the broader social, economic, political, and environmental determinants of health in developed and developing nations, especially the growing concerns related to immigrants and refugee populations. See Tuition and Fees for required fee amount. Corequisites: NURS 4344 Health of Traditional and Alternative Families and NURS 4943 Therapeutic Nursing Interventions III.
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3.00 Credits
Assumes a basic level understanding of pathophysiological concepts and related nursing interventions. This course utilizes a body systems approach and teaches senior nursing students how to approach advanced pathophysiological concepts utilizing a critical thinking, higher level, integrative approach. Students will integrate and apply pharmacology, physical assessment, clinical decision making, and health promotion skills as they learn to more effectively care for medically complex adults. Corequisite: NURS 4442 Nursing Across the Health Continuum & Lifespan.
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