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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is composed of three separate areas of study, challenging students to apply previously acquired skills and knowledge in new situations with specialized populations where they will temporarily return to the role of novice. The components of the course are designed to introduce the novice student to the domains of practice in the areas of maternal-child, psychiatric-mental health, and pediatric nursing. Students will be guided by expert nursing faculty in these areas as they work with clients and families undergoing changes throughout their life spans in institutional and community settings. Students will continue to gain experience in all of the domains of nursing practice using Patricia Benner¿s novice-to-expert nursing model and Maslow¿s Theory of Human Needs as organizing frameworks for the care of individuals and families with selected physical and psychosocial problems.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This seminar course facilitates the transition of the student from the role of advanced beginner as a new graduate, toward competent clinical practice as a registered nurse. The new knowledge presented focuses on Benner's domain of Organizational and Work-Role Competencies and addresses topics important to the nursing profession (i.e., transition to practice, cultural diversity, professional ethics, legal aspects, and the impact of technology on nursing). The seminar's learning format is designed to foster self and professional development and a commitment to lifelong learning. Students are actively prepared to take the National Licensure Examination in nursing and to enter professional practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to introduce the student to Patricia Benner's "Novice to Expert" nursing model and give an overview of major nursing theories. The student is exposed to how nursing theories/ models function as a framework for nursing practice and nursing research.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to assist students in acquiring increased skills in health assessment as a basis for collaborative nursing in the diagnostic and monitoring domain of nursing practice. The students become familiar with techniques of physical assessment and use appropriate terminology to describe assessment findings. Normal findings and changes are presented.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to focus the student's understanding of the functional health of clients and families. It is taken concurrently with the Health Assessment course in order to validate functional health with physical findings to support a nursing diagnosis. The students are also sensitized to the attitudinal, physical and architectural barriers that our society places on persons with disabilities and chronic illness.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to assist students in developing a nursing assessment and a comprehensive plan of care for families in crisis. Family theory, crisis intervention and concepts of family health promotion will be covered. Application will focus on concepts related to families in maturational and situational crisis as they present in various acute care and community based settings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to introduce the student to principles of teaching and learning within community health education. Theories and principles of adult education are covered, as well as strategies for teaching diverse groups of learners. Skills in presentation development, preparation, modular development and the use of multi media aids are covered.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course examines adult health from a holistic caring framework utilizing the nursing process. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and science of nursing as it applies to health promotion, disease prevention and health supporting activities. The impact of physiological and psychosocial concerns as related to actual or potential alterations in adult health is explored. Psychomotor laboratory and facilitated simulation experiences serve to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes inherent in the profession of nursing. Students work in concert with the clients to support their achievement of the highest level of wellness.
  • 1.00 Credits

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  • 4.00 Credits

    This course examines adult health alterations from a holistic caring framework expanding the nursing process to incorporate concept mapping and clinical reflection. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and science of nursing that include disruptions in healing and homeostasis. Increasingly complex psychomotor laboratory and guided simulation experiences serve to further the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes inherent in the profession of nursing. Students work in concert with the client to achieve the highest level of wellness in an acute care setting.
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