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  • 4.00 Credits

    Credits 4 (4 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - F/W This course builds on Foundations of Nursing in Chronic Illness I. The evidence base related to family care giving and symptom management is a major focus and basis for nursing interventions with patients and families. Ethical issues related to advocacy, self-determination, and autonomy are explored. Exemplars include patients with chronic mental illness as well as other chronic conditions and disabilities affecting functional status and family relationships. Prerequisite: Successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better, of all prior nursing curriculumcourses. Concurrent enrollment in NR S221B is required.
  • 5.00 - 15.00 Credits

    Credits 5 (15 Lab Hrs/Wk) - F/W This course provides the student the opportunity to use complex skills to manage symptoms and care needs of the chronically ill patient. Negotiating in interdisciplinary teams, and considering the impact of cultural beliefs related to illness are included in the context of patient and family-centered care. Prerequisite: Successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better, of all prior nursing curriculum courses. Concurrentenrollment in NR S221A is required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Credits 4 (4 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - W/Sp This course build on Nursing in Acute Care I focusing on more complex and/or unstable patient care situations some of which require strong recognition skills, rapid decision making, and some of which may result in death. Case scenarios incorporate prioritizing care needs, delegation and supervision, family and patient teaching for discharge planning. Exemplars include acute psychiatric disorders as well as acute conditions affecting multiple body systems. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior nursing curriculum courses with a grade of "C" or better.Concurrent enrollment in NR S222B is required.
  • 5.00 - 15.00 Credits

    Credits 5 (15 Lab Hrs/Wk) - W/Sp This clinical course focuses on evidence based care using supporting appropriate focuses assessments. Students use effective, efficient nursing interventions to manage care of the acutely ill clients. Life span factors, cultural variables, and legal aspects of care frame the ethical decision-making employed in patient choices for treatment or palliative care within the acute care setting. Prerequisite: Successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better. Concurrent enrollment isrequired in NR S222A.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits 2 (2 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - Su/Sp This course formalizes the clinical judgments, knowledge and skills necessary in safe, registered nurse practice. It examines the scope of practice for the registered nurse. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse as a leader, a team member, educator and a lifelong learner. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior nursing curriculum courses with a grade of "C" or better. Concurrent enrollment in NRS224Bis required.
  • 7.00 - 21.00 Credits

    Credits 7 (21 Lab Hrs/Wk) - Su/Sp This course formalizes the clinical judgement, knowledge and skills necessary in a safe registered nurse practice. The preceptorship model provides a context that allows the student to experience the nursing work world in a selected setting, balancing the demands of job and lifelong learning. Faculty/preceptor/student analysis and reflection throughout the experience provide the student with evaluative criteria against which they can judge their own performance and develop a practice framework. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all prior nursing curriculum courses with a grade of "C" or better. Concurrentenrollment in NR S224A is required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credits 3 (3 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - F/W This course introduces the theoretical background that enables students to provide safe and effective care related to drugs and natural products to persons throughout the lifespan. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions in the context of nursing regarding medication using current, reliable sources of information, understanding pharmacokinetics and pharmocodynamics, and developmental physiologic consideration. Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of drug therapy, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding safe and effective use of drugs and natural products, intervening to increase therapeutic benefits and reduce potential negative effects, and communicating appropriately with other health professionals regarding drug therapy. Drugs are studied by therapeutic or pharmacological class using an organized framework with attention to physiological conditions. Concurrent enrollment in NR S110A and NR S110B is required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credits 3 (3 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - Su/F/Sp This sequel to Clinical Pharmacology I continues to provide the theoretical background that enables students to provide safe and effective care related to drugs and natural products to persons throughout the lifespan. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions in the context of nursing regarding using current, reliable sources of information, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of drug therapy, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding safe and effective use of drugs and natural products, intervening to increase therapeutic benefits and reduce potential negative effects, and communicating appropriately with other health professionals regarding drug therapy. The course addresses additional classes of drugs and related natural products and physiological conditions not contained in Clinical Pharmacology I. Prerequisite: Successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better, ofall prior nursing curriculum courses.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credits 3 (3 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - W/Sp This course introduces pathophysiological processes that contribute to many different disease states across the lifespan and human responses to those processes. Students will learn to make selective clinical decisions in the context of nursing regarding current, reliable sources of pathophysiological information, selecting and interpreting nursing assessments based on knowledge of pathophysiological processes, teaching persons from diverse populations about disease and body system changes related to pathophysiological changes, and communicating with other health professional regarding pathophysiological processes. Prerequisite: Successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better, of allprior nursing curriculum courses. Concurrent enrollment in NR S111A and NRS111B, and completion of BI234 with a grade of "C" or better.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credits 3 (3 Lecture Hrs/Wk) - F/Sp This sequel to Pathophysiological Processes for Nursing I continues to explore pathophysiological processes that contribute to disease states across the lifespan and human responses to those processes. Students will learn to make selected clinical decisions in the context of nursing using current, reliable sources of pathophysiology information, selecting and interpreting focused nursing assessments based on knowledge of pathophysiological processes, teaching persons from diverse populations regarding pathophysiological processes, and communicating with other health professionals regarding pathophysiological processes. The course addresses additional pathophysiological processes not contained in Pathophysiological Processes for Nursing I. Prerequisite: successful completion, with a grade of "C" or better, of all prior nursing curriculumcourses. Concurrent enrollment in NR S112A and NR S112B is required.
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