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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an overview of nursing concepts and theories focusing on meeting basic human needs across the lifespan based on the wellness/illness continuum within the practical nurse scope of practice. Theoretical concepts focus on care of the well client, elderly client, and clients with selected physiological, psychological, and mental health problems. Emphasis is on the role of the practical nurse in the nursing course plan utilizing established nursing diagnoses. Focus is on the development of the critical thinking process related to nursing care of clients in acute, long term, and community settings.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the basic principles of nutrition in health and disease throughout the human life cycle. Also see HOEC 1050.
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2.00 Credits
The chemical, biological, biochemical, and psychological processes serve as a foundation for the understanding wellness and illness states. The structural and functional pathophysiology of human body systems are discussed in relation to changes that occur when there is an alteration in health. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the nurse s understanding of the diagnostic and treatment modalities during the illness state and appropriate measures that can be taken to maintain the wellness state.
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2.00 Credits
The chemical, biological, biochemical, and psychological processes serve as a foundation for the understanding wellness and illness states. The structural and functional pathophysiology of human body systems are discussed in relation to changes that occur when there is an alteration in health. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the nurse s understanding of the diagnostic and treatment modalities during the illness state and appropriate measures that can be taken to maintain the wellness state.
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1.00 Credits
Learning the meaning of 350 Latin and Greek language elements as word parts, enabling the student to interpret and understand more than 10,000 complex medical terms. Open enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the development of clinical competency in the performance of selected nursing skills and procedures. It provides for participation in the care of clients experiencing problems of alteration in health and selected mental health disorders. The course provides for clinical practice experiences with individuals and families in a variety of acute, long term and community settings. It includes application of holistic nursing concepts and theories related to health promotion, disease/illness prevention, and health restoration of individuals.
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2.00 Credits
The focus of this course in on basic health assessment, history skills, and promotion of wellness by using holistic nursing assessments for well clients. This includes use of healthy life style strategies and primary prevention. Using a developmental perspective, the course will provide the student with the opportunity to develop beginning knowledge and skills necessary to assess the health status of the client by collecting health history and performing a physical examination. The content builds upon the student s knowledge of science and humanities, as related to the holistic aspects of health. Assessment will reflect recognition of normal, variation of normal, and deviations from normal findings. The course provides supervised practice in the laboratory setting to assist the student with skill development. It is expected that the knowledge and skills the student learns in this course will serve as a basis for further development of assessment skills in the clinical nursing courses that follow.
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2.00 Credits
Pharmacology and Nursing Practice provides the student with an in-depth working knowledge of the appropriate use of medications in all levels of health care. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the nurse understanding the principles of drug actions, interactions, side effects, and adverse effects of medications. Medication administration principles are incorporated into the nursing process, providing the student with a framework for accountable medication administration. Dosage calculation concepts are integrated within the course to promote safe medication administration. This course emphasizes the importance of critical thinking when considering the patient as a whole and the impact of medications on the health of the individual.
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1.00 Credits
Pharmacology and Nursing Practice II provides the student with an in-depth working knowledge of the need for appropriate use of medications in all levels of health care. Emphasis is placed on the nurse understanding drug actions, interactions, sideeffects, and adverse reactions in relation to chemotherapeutic, cardiovascular, hematological, endocrine, and neurological medications. This course emphasizes the importance of safe and appropriate nursing judgment when administering these medications and evaluating their effectiveness.
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3.00 Credits
The course is focused on nursing concepts and theories to meet basic human needs across the life span based on the wellness/illness continuum. Theoretical concepts focus on care of the adult client, and well childbearing clients and childbearing families. Emphasis is on use of the nursing process related to pediatric and adult clients with selected alterations in health. Focus is on the utilization of the critical thinking process related to nursing care of clients in acute, long term, and community settings.
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