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Course Criteria
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6.00 - 10.00 Credits
Masters Thesis
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2.00 Credits
Prereq: Admission to nursing major. Begins the student's development as a professional nurse. Cultivates students as co-participants engaging in a variety of learning interactions. Traditional and evolving roles of the professional nurse will be explored with an emphasis on societal forces. Philosophy and conceptual framework of the College of Nursing at UNMC will be examined and the relationship among the concepts will be explored. Content promotes acquisition of the professional role through the development and enhancement of life-long learning skills.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq or concurrent: NU262 and NU280. Holistic approach to lifespan assessment of the well individual. Through the processes of knowing, relating, and developing the student will attain a better understanding of self and others. Examine health beliefs, identify factors impacting adoption of healthy life-style, and develop a health promotion plan for self and others. Students use knowledge from prerequisite and concurrent courses as they obtain health histories and perform physical examinations on selected clients. Identify expected findings, identify the presence of alterations, and explore health promotion behaviors. Further skills to be developed include: interviewing; developing a narrative; formulating a health history; developing assessment skills in the physical, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, spiritual, and environmental areas. Completed assessments will be used in the framework of the nursing process. The role of the nurse as a competent, caring professional will be applied to health assessment and health promotion.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq or concurrent: NU262 and NU268. Theory and practice focusing on essential psychomotor and therapeutic interpersonal skills for professional nursing. Opportunity to develop and practice skills in laboratory and clinical settings with adult clients.
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7.00 Credits
Prereq: Level I standing courses. Prereq or parallel: NUMED 270 and NU325. Permission. Focus on the nursing care of individual adult clients within the context of their families. Core knowledge from prerequisite and parallel courses will be used to support integration of content. Emphasis placed on the students' beginning utilization of decision making models and development of clinical judgement to restore, promote and protect the health care of adult clients. Variety of health care settings will be utilized to maximize student experiences. Through the processes of knowing, relating, and developing the student will attain a better understanding of self and adult clients and their families.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: Anatomy and physiology. Permission. Focus on the pathophysiologic basis for selected alterations in health across the lifespan. Theories of disease causation will be explored. Acquired, immune, infectious, carcinogenic and genetic alterations in health in the body systems will be presented with an emphasis on etiology, cellular and systemic pathophysiologic response and clinical manifestations. Interdisciplinary management will be introduced.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Level I and Level II standing courses. Focus on the nursing care of the at low/high risk childbearing family across antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn periods. Decision making processes are applied in a family- centered approach to promote and to restore health in the at low and high risk pregnant woman/fetus/newborn. Concepts of wellness, developing, relating and knowing are integrated into the nursing care. Current trends and issues related to family centered maternity nursing will be explored. Ambulatory, inpatient and home management of various levels of wellness will be implemented in a variety of clinical settings.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Level I and Level II standing courses. Focus on the application of problem-solving approaches to promote, protect, and restore the health of children from infancy through adolescence within the context of the family. The concepts of growth, developing, relating and knowing are emphasized. Current trends and issues related to family centered health care of children will be explored. A variety of clinical experiences will be provided in ambulatory, inpatient and community settings.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq: Statistics. Permission. Introduction to the language and skills of evidence-based nursing practice and research. Practical skills required to identify and appraise best evidence to support nursing practice. Components of the research process. Issues related to implementation and integration of best evidence in practice.
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3.00 Credits
(4 cr) Prereq: Level I, Level II, and Level III standing courses. Concurrent: NU420. Permission. Presents nursing care which emphasizes the process of relating to promote, restore, and protect the mental health of individuals and groups. Explores the human experience of mentally ill clients as they interact with environmental forces including their families and health care providers. Current trends and issues related to psychiatric mental health nursing will be explored. Variety of settings will be used to provide learning experiences.
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