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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between management and leadership. The student will consider and practice the skills needed by a nurse manager to effectively plan, organize, staff, direct and control nursing and health care as it is provided by groups of workers. In this course, the student is beginning the process of being socialized into the novice registered nurse role. This role development is accomplished by having the student consider the staff and management roles as interdependent. Prerequisites: Completion of 300-level nursing courses. Fall and spring semester. Fulfills writing intensive requirement.
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3.00 Credits
NU 413 is the clinical experience for Illness Across the Life Span II. Utilizing the nursing process, the student cares for the child, adult and geriatric client in acute care settings. The student will also observe and participate in the care of home health clients under direct supervision and participate in interdisciplinary team meetings. The emphasis is to maximize quality of life and maintain optimal level of functioning. The concepts of critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and priority setting are emphasized utilizing the nursing process as the foundation. Collaboration, communication, delegation, and patient teaching are incorporated into the total care of the client/family. Prerequisite: Completion of 300-level nursing courses. Fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
The student will apply all previously gained knowledge from course work toward the baccalaureate in nursing to working with individuals, families, and communities and other aggregates. The concept of community health nursing being a blend of nursing and public health science is central to the course. The epidemiological process is introduced as the unifying concept for the wide range of programs and services found in community health. The nursing process is applied in providing services to the community as client. Beginning skills in assessing health needs of communities in order to identify high-risk groups are practiced. Coordination with other disciplines to provide disease prevention, health promotion, and protection interventions is stressed. The impact of the external environment on the health of individuals, families, and aggregates is emphasized. The student examines the role of the nurse as an advocate for health care policy to ensure the health of populations. Prerequisites: completion of 300-level nursing courses, NU 404, NU 413. Spring semester. Fulfills National Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
The Capstone Clinical is designed to assist students in the integration of the competencies essential for the practice of professional nursing. During the semester, the student will progress from a structured supervised framework of practice to a framework where the student becomes able to have general supervision from the faculty and agency preceptors. The clinical site will be dependent upon the student's needs based upon the joint analysis of the student and faculty prior to the placement. A 1-credit NCLEX Lab will be taught during the spring semester of the senior year as part of the Capstone Clinical course (students taking NU 417 in the fall for 3 credits will take the 1-credit NU 417 Lab in the spring). This lab is intended to assist the student's own preparation for their NCLEX examination. Students will be expected to retain accountability and responsibility for their personal NCLEX preparation plan and for the completion of their preparation plan. The lab will utilize on-line computerized resources, information from multiple published written NCLEX review resources, as well as NCLEX review DVD resources. Prerequisites: completion of 300-level nursing courses, or concurrent NU 414, NU 413. Fall and spring semester. (NU 417 Lab offered only in spring).
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is for the student to develop a personal pledge to becoming a nursing leader. The overall concept for the course is that all professional nurses are leaders - (not just those in who are in positions of authority) and that professional nurses need to develop their leadership role and abilities in order to create nursing's preferred future of quality health care for all. Through classroom presentations and discussions, selected readings, examinations and the development of a personal leadership portfolio, the student will engage in a semester long journey into the exploration and commitment to leadership. Prerequisites: completion of 300-level nursing courses. NU 404, NU 413. Spring semester.
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1.00 Credits
This course will prepare students with knowledge and skill of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Skill development will focus on the mastery of core scientific principles of Advanced Cardiac Life Support sponsored by the American Heart Association. Prerequisites: Completion of 300-level nursing courses. Offered at the discretion of the department.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the public sector with specific emphasis on the role of the manager in directing public institutions. Skill development and understanding of policy-making, management, and professional ethics are key course objectives. Designed to prepare students for service at municipal, state, and federal levels of government. Fall semester. Fulfills writing intensive requirement.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity to apply former course work to administrative responsibilities in a public sector work environment. Prerequisite: Consent of the chairs of the Business, Accounting, and Economics Department and the Political Science Department.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with philosophical thinking and writing, as well as some of the literature and ideas from various historical periods which constitute the humanities. As time permits, audiovisual and experimental approaches will be used in lectures. Each semester.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the basic moral concepts of goodness, right, and obligation and an overview of the ways in which these concepts operate in such contexts as society, religion, and the law. Applications of these discussions to contemporary moral issues. Each semester.
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