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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to promote understanding of the aging process, the role of the nurse and implications for promoting health in the least restrictive environment. It will include discussions of geriatric syndromes, complexity of co-morbidities while managing helath outcomes, implications of transitions of care in promoting health, settings of care and economic and policy implications as well as national/international models of care. Course activities are designed to enhance the student's critical thinking as it relates to holistic approaches to promoting health and independence in older adults. Prerequisites: NR.110.303, 304, 306, 307, and 313 Corequisites: NR.110.312, 314, 315, 403
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the beginning nursing student to principles of Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) for application in the clinical setting: patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, informatics, quality improvement, interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork, and patient safety. Further, the focus of discussion will include the nursing process, scope of professional practice in nursing and medicine, professional and leadership behaviors, ethical decision making, health care delivery, and introduction to health care policy and financing as it relates to patient care. Patient Centered Care will provide opportunities to apply this content. Pre/corequisites: NR.110.303, 110.304, 110.307, and 110.313
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2.00 Credits
This combined clinical and laboratory course integrates the knowledge, skills and attitudes from all of the first semester courses. Students practice competencies in assessment, communication, nursing interventions, documentation, and medication administration in a variety of clinical settings. By the end of the semester, students will apply the nursing process and selected QSEN competencies to patients from diverse backgrounds. Pre/corequisites: NR.110.303, 110.304, 110.306, and 110.313
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on the basic psychopathology of mental disorders and the theories and principles underlying nursing care of patients with alterations in mental health status. An historical perspective on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, including a discussion of the predominant theoretical frameworks for treatment will be presented. The major psychiatric diagnoses will be defined, described, and discussed in terms of their etiology, clinical manifestations, and approaches to treatment. Psychiatric nursing as a specialty area of practice and the application of psychiatric principles across clinical populations will be emphasized. Health promotion, crisis intervention, and famliy and community concepts related to mental illness will be addressed. Contemporary concerns will be presented related to the impact of mental illness on family stress and burden, substance abuse, and family violence. Personal, family, societal, political, legal, and ethical considerations pertaining to mental illness will be explored. Prerequisites: NR.110.303, 304, 306, 307, and 313 Corequisites: NR.110.314, 403
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3.00 Credits
This course highlights the major drug classifications and the nursing management required for drug therapy. Information regarding the core drug knowledge (pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, contraindications and precautions, adverse effects, and drug interactions) are presented. Information on the core patient variables (health status, lifespan and gender, lifestyle, diet, and habits, environment, and culture) and their use in accurate patient assessment in drug therapy are also presented. Emphasis is given to the importance of nursing management in drug therapy (maximizing therapeutic effect, minimizing adverse effects, and patient and family education). The course content provides the foundation of basic pharmacology necessary for a nurse in general practice. Pre/corequisites: NR.110. 304 and 313
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2.00 Credits
This course concentrates on the theoretical and clinical application of the healthcare principles involved in the assessment, planning and implementation of the nursing process appropriate for adults with various health problems in the acute care setting. The health status of the American population will be addressed with emphasis on the impact of major diseases as identified in Healthy People 2020. The course will focus on developing skills in problem-solving, clinical judgment, critical thinking so that students may function as a beginning member of the healthcare team in the provision of interdisciplinary care for a variety of patient situations. Prerequisites: NR.110.303, 304, 306, 307, and 313 Corequisites: NR.110.314, 312
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
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2.00 Credits
This course concentrates on the theories underlying the principles involved in the planning and implementation of nursing interventions appropriate for adults with various complex health problems. The health status of the American population will be addressed with emphasis on the impact of major diseases of the individual, the family, and the community. The course will focus on developing skills in problem-solving and clinical judgment so that students may function successfully in a variety of patient situations, including those where: (a) rapidly changing situations predominate and (b) the aging process and the health problems of advancing age predominate. In an acute inpatient setting, students will assess, analyze, plan, implement, and evaluate the nursing care of adult patients under direct supervision. Comprehensive nursing care for patients with a wide range of disorders will be addressed as well as the need for patient teaching and continuity of care as the patients returns to the community. Prerequisites: NR.110.303-110.315 Pre/corequisite: NR.110.403
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2.00 Credits
In this course, the student will study the unique health and developmental needs of neonates, infants, children and adolescents. This course is designed to develop perspectives on wellness and illness in children emphasizing family-centered care that incorporates screening, teaching, and health counseling. There is a strong health promotion focus across settings. The student will use the nursing process to provide comprehensive care to children in diverse settings across the care continuum. Health issues specific to children and health issues expressed in unique ways in children will be emphasized. Integration and application of child development knowledge is a requirement of this course. Clinical practice consists of seven weeks of instructor-supervised patient care of children and their families. Clinical practice in ambulatory settings and simulation experiences are offered. Prerequisites: NR.110.303-110.315
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the scientific process with emphasis on its application in nursing. The steps of the research process will be presented as well as the major research designs, including experimental and quasi-experimental studies, surveys, descriptive and qualitative designs. Students will review and critique selected nursing research studies. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of the logical process of research, on the scientific rigor necessary for carrying out studies of nursing interest, and on critically reading and using nursing research in nursing practice. Prerequisites: None
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