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10.00 Credits
Prerequisite: "C" or better in NUR 201, NUR 202 and BIO 204 . The focus is initially on the child and adult client with health care problems that seriously disturb or threaten life status. The inter-relationship among the concepts of person, health, and nursing are fully developed. The student uses the nursing process in caring for adult clients with unstable health care needs related to thermal injury, hepatic, urinary, and sensorineural disorders. The focus progresses from individuals to groups of clients within the hospital. The role of the nurse manager is presented encompassing effective communications, human relations, time management, and cost containment. Contemporary issues, legal and ethical issues, and professional responsibilities are explored. Learning experiences occur on Medical-Surgical Units, Critical Care Units, and Kidney Dialysis Unit, IV Therapy, Nursing Home settings and Home Health (75 lecture and 225 laboratory hours).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NUR 103 and BIO 226. This course presents basic pharmacological principles. For all major drug families, relevant physiology and pathophysiology are reviewed. Drug actions and interactions are explored and the major drug classifications are reviewed using a system by system approach. The nursing process is integrated as it relates to the drug therapy for each client. The course will enhance the student's ability to care for and educate patients receiving medications.
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2.00 Credits
Meets the special needs of nursing students and non-science students studying nutrition. Presents a broad-based approach incorporating fundamental scientific principles with regard to diet therapy, new research, and concepts in the care of patients with diseases of the G.I. tract, liver, gallbladder, blood, cardiovascular, and urinary tract are included.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: BIO 226 and BIO 227. This course will provide theory and skills necessary to collect a comprehensive health history and to perform a complete physical examination. The students will master these skills under supervised student practice in the skills laboratory.
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2.00 Credits
The course emphasizes the theory and practical instruction involved in a structured phlebotomy program to include simulated and experiential exercises. The content areas will be health care delivery systems, basic anatomy and physiology, specimen collection, infection control, professionalism, and laboratory testing.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course considers the nature of knowledge (epistemology) and value (axiology). In the first half of the course we investigate the work of philosophers who have sought to understand the origin and certitude of knowledge. These philosophers include rationalists, empiricists, and alternative thinkers such as Berkeley and Kant. In the second half of the course we confront the complex questions of moral philosophy, which involves disciplined reflection on human freedom and responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
This is a philosophical inquiry into the structures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This course begins with a substantial examination of Eastern religious traditions in order to cultivate a holistic and historical perspective on the related elements of myth, symbol, and ritual in the world's religions. In our study of religion, we seek to understand how religious expression functions as an integral component of philosophical reflection and what impact it has on human activity.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to philosophical reflection through the study of ethical theories and their application to moral problems in contemporary society. Students use readings from major theorists to establish and critique the traditional structures of moral reasoning and to focus arguments concerning the moral dilemmas of our time.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MAT 100 or equivalent. Conceptual physics is a laboratory course that emphasizes the concepts of physics while de-emphasizing complex mathematical calculations. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, heat and temperature, sound and topics from modern physics. There are three hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students who have received credit for PHY 111 or PHY 112 cannot subsequently receive credit for PHY 100. In the case that a student completes PHY 100 prior to completing PHY 111 or PHY 112, then PHY 100 will count as free elective credit only.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MAT 100 or equivalent. Conceptual physics is a laboratory course that emphasizes the concepts of physics while de-emphasizing complex mathematical calculations. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, heat and temperature, sound and topics from modern physics.
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