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2.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 2 This course offers RN and upper division students the opportunity to expand their skills in adult whole person health and physical assessment. Whole person health and physical assessment focuses on physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual data, and includes a health history, physical examination, and analysis of diagnostic data. Whole Person Nursing is used as the foundation framework for health assessment principles and skills. Emphasis is placed on incorporating principles and skills into current practice of clinical courses. Individualized practice provides student with the opportunity to focus their experiences in areas of greatest need as well as clinical preference. Prerequisite(s): RN or upper division standing.
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3-5 This course emphasizes the core concepts of nursing practice. Students analyze previous personal performance and develop an individualized success and action plan. Students are expected to use critical thinking processes to apply core concept knowledge and principles to clinical situations. The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health experiences are emphasized. Students will incorporate diagnostic findings, pharmacological and nutritional interventions, as will as growth and development stages into patient plans of care. Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor.
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 This course offers an introduction to principles and concepts of community health nursing throughout the lifespan. Coordination and use of community resources are stressed to ensure quality, accessibility, cost effectiveness and continuity of health care. Clinical experiences are provided in official and private agencies, school systems, and other health care delivery systems with emphasis on population focused care.(Offered every semester.) Prerequisite(s): Basic Track: NSG 404; Junior standing and completion of the Red Cross "Introduction to Disaster Service I."
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 This course focuses on applying Whole Person Nursing to persons experiencing complex multisystem health problems. Pathophysiological concepts and principles related to complex, multi-system health problems are analyzed. Nursing care principles and standards related to high acuity situations are emphasized. Clinical experience occurs in acute, subacute, home and community care settings. (Offered every fall.) Prerequisite(s): NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112; BIO 354; successfully meet competency requirement. (See p. 147) Prerequisite or concurrent: NSG 404
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4.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 4 This course provides the student with the opportunity to explore professional concepts within the discipline of nursing. The internal and external environmental influences, including a culturally diverse society, that shaped the evolution of nursing are appraised. A plan for personal/professional development is formulated with consideration of individual career goals. A practicum provides the student the opportunity to synthesize knowledge and skills from the curriculum and to integrate them into an individualized clinical nursing experience. The student is challenged to expand his or her knowledge by managing health care in a particular area of nursing, participate in professional networks, influence health policy, and analyze the legal and ethical parameters of nursing practice. Contemporary nursing is placed within the context of a global and ever-changing health care environment. (Offered every semester.) Prerequisite(s): NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112 Prerequisite or concurrent: NSG 402, 404.
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3 This course introduces students to the research process as a link between theory and practice. Legal, moral, and ethical questions relative to research and use of human subjects are explored. Scientific inquiry, synthesis of literature, and critical analysis of published nursing research are emphasized. (Offered every semester.) Prerequisite(s): Basic Track: NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112; Statistics; Ethics. Junior level students may enroll in the Spring Semester with permission from the instructor.
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 The focus of this course is on the leadership role of the professional nurse as a change agent, educator, manager, and professional role model in an ever-changing society. Synthesis of leadership/management principles and concepts are incorporated into the professional practice role of the nurse to facilitate accomplishment of group goals and to assume beginning leadership roles in managed care health delivery systems. Professional values, teaching/learning, communication and collaboration, and leadership/management skills are emphasized and evaluated through group processes and clinical experiences. (Offered every Spring.) Prerequisite(s): NSG 402, 404
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 1-3 A Professional Nursing Internship is defined as: an authentic in-depth learning experience which takes place outside of the classroom and is characterized by exposure to situations not generally acquired in the classroom or regular clinical setting; supervision by a recognized authority in the field; academic guidance from a faculty member; and evaluation of the internship. The internship is an organized program that occurs in an appropriate health care agency such as a hospital, nursing home, clinic or other approved setting. The student works under the supervision of a registered professional nurse to gain knowledge and to refine and advance their skill level. Prerequisite(s): Nursing GPA 2.5, employer acceptance, and advisor approval.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 1-2 The purpose of the independent study is to allow students to increase knowledge in an area of particular interest and/or carry out a research project to receive academic credit. Students in good academic standing may earn academic credit through the completion of independent study. A maximum of two credits may be earned during the academic career at Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing. Independent studies are offered at the discretion of the student, faculty member, and administration. Each credit hour awarded requires a minimum of 15 hours of study. Prerequisite(s): NSG 404 or consent of instructor.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 2-3 This course offers the senior student an opportunity for in-depth study of critical care nursing of clients with the more common medical/surgical crisis situations. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing the pathophysiology, assessment findings, and treatment of selected imbalances of critically ill clients. Prerequisite(s): NSG 402 or consent of instructor.
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