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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach the skills of CPR for victims of all ages. The course includes cognitive information on the chain of survival including cardiac and respiratory emergencies. Skills to be performed include: CPR for victims of all ages, relief of foreignbody airway obstruction, ventilation barrier devices, bag-mask devices, and use of an automated external defi brillator. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive an American Heart Association course completion card for the BLS for Healthcare Provider Course. The course is recommended for healthcare providers and health care majors. F
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for the beginning student nurse preparing to take tests within and at the completion of nursing fundamental courses. The information presented is designed to maximize success by helping students to develop a positive attitude, understand critical thinking, study and learn more effectively and become test-wise by identifying steps in analysis of a test question. F
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1.00 Credits
A course including systems of measurement, converting dosages among systems, and the calculation of drug dosages as part of the nursing responsibility of administering medications. Mathematical operations using fractions and decimals, calculation of oral and injectible doses of medicines, and calculation and regulation of intravenous fl ow rates are included. This course is specifi cally designed for prospective or enrolled nursing students who need more practice and instruction to master calculation skills than is provided in NURS 1130 Pharmacology. F, S
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1.00 Credits
Using a body system approach, this course is a basic study of the development and usage of medical terminology. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to identify, spell and defi ne medical terms related to the diagnosis, pathology and treatment of the major body systems. F, S
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the philosophy and central competencies of the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing. The central competencies fl ow from the philosophy and organizational framework and are the basis for theory skills, and clinical experiences. The focus is on nursing as a discipline; the nursing process; the person as a psychosocial, spiritual, cultural being; health promotion; environmental safety; and communication. (Prerequisite: admission to nursing major or permission of department)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Fundamentals I, which builds on the central competencies of the nursing program. The student is introduced to essential life functions including: protective, comfort/rest, activity/mobility; nutrition, elimination, fl uid/ gas transport. The focus is on nursing, the nursing process with emphasis on assessment, the client with normal or variations of normal functions, health promotion, environment, and communication. Basic management principles are introduced to assist the student to organize client care. (Prerequisite: admission to nursing major or permission of department. Corequisite: NURS 1041
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2.00 Credits
This clinical course is an extension of Fundamentals I and Fundamentals II, which continues to build on the central competencies of the nursing program. The focus remains on nursing, the nursing process with emphasis on assessment, the client with normal or variations of normal life functions, health promotion, environment, and communication in a variety of clinical settings. Basic management principles are applied to client care. (Prerequisite: admission to nursing major or permission of department. Corequisite: NURS 1040)
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4.00 Credits
With a continued emphasis on assessment, the focus of this course is on planning, implementing and evaluating strategies to promote, maintain and restore optimum health for diverse clients across the lifespan experiencing alterations in life function(s). The course evolves around nursing, nursing process, and clients experiencing alterations in specifi ed life functions: protective, fl uid/gas transport, elimination, nutrition/ metabolism and growth and development. Management principles and therapeutic communication are incorporated into the plan of care for clients experiencing alterations in life functions. (Prerequisites: NURS 1030, 1040, 1041. Corequisite: NURS 1051)
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3.00 Credits
The clinical course operationalizes the development and implementation of plan(s) of care to promote, maintain and restore optimum health for diverse clients experiencing alterations in specifi ed life function(s); protective, fl uid/gas transport, elimination, nutrition/metabolism and growth and development. The student will apply management principles and use therapeutic communication while providing care to client(s) in a variety of clinical settings: acute care, ambulatory and community based settings. (Prerequisite: NURS 1030, 1040, 1041. Corequisite: NURS 1050)
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2.00 Credits
This course applies the nursing process to promote, maintain and restore optimum health for diverse clients experiencing alterations and variations in psychosocial-cultural life functions. The course is structured around eight core competencies applied to clients with mental health. Emphasis is on health promotion, therapeutic communication and legal-ethical aspects of mental health nursing. (Prerequisites: NURS 1050/1051. Corequisite: NURS 1061)
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