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4.00 Credits
This course teaches students to incorporate basic acquired knowledge and skills in assisting clients who have impaired body structure or function at various levels on the health/illness continuum with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors. Emphasis is on nursing process, therapeutic communication, critical thinking, and the health team's role in providing for safety, comfort, health teaching, and rehabilitation in common illness and conditions of human systems of all ages. Safe techniques of drug preparation and administration, surgical asepsis, and technical nursing skills are incorporated into the course. Nursing care planning is a primary focus, using Maslow's hierarchy of needs for prioritization of nursing diagnoses. These skills are demonstrated and practiced in the on-campus Nursing Arts Lab and in affiliated institutions. Prerequisites: ALHT 100, NURS 102, NURS 110, NURS 120, BIOL 220 and BIOL 225 (NURS 102, and BIOL 225 may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 125; NURS 102 and BIOL 225 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 3, 3) Spring 0.000 OR 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
This four-credit freshman practicum provides students with a supervised clinical experience in the nursing lab and area nursing homes. Students utilize observation, communication, and techniques of nursing, including ADL care, vital signs, and basic medical asepsis based upon knowledge concurrently acquired in the classroom and nursing lab. Students are expected to apply beginning-level assessment and communication skills through utilization of Maslow's hierarchy. Students apply the nursing process and critical thinking at a beginning level in care of assigned clients for maintaining, supporting, or restoring an optimal level of wellness. Students begin to explore the impact of the internal and external environments on human systems, as well as the physical, psychological, sociological, cultural, developmental, and spiritual aspects of healthcare delivery. Legal and ethical responsibilities are incorporated at a beginning level. Students acquire an understanding of the role of the beginning nurse in providing for geriatric clients' basic human needs, including teaching/learning needs. Due to the composite nature of This course, students have the opportunity to experience primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of health care. Prerequisites: ALHT 100 and BIOL 220 (may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 110; ALHT 100 and BIOL 220 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 0, 12) Fall 4.000 Credit Hours 12.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory, WEBCT Based Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
This nursing practicum provides students with supervised clinical experience in hospital facilities, nursing homes, community offices and agencies, and the on-campus nursing lab. Students focus on using the nursing process in assessing selected clients and in planning and implementing their care. Students must perform specific procedures according to accepted professional standards. Prerequisites: ALHT 100, NURS 102, NURS 110, NURS 120, BIOL 220, and BIOL 225 (NURS 102 and BIOL 225 may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 115; NURS 102 and BIOL 225 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 0, 12) Spring 4.000 Credit Hours 12.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
This course expands upon holistic concepts of human systems and the nursing process through Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It focuses on pathophysiologies and psychosocial concepts to health management of individuals, families, and communities through the healthcare delivery system. Health promotion and teaching on the wellness-illness continuum and restoration of optimum levels of health during the life cycle are stressed. Knowledge of pharmacology is expanded by discussing common medications used to treat alterations in each system and prototypes of the major drug groups. The legal and ethical responsibilities of the professional nurse are discussed. Health promotion through health teaching is initiated. Prerequisites: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent), NURS 220, NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (NURS 220, NURS 255 and BIOL 230 may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 230; NURS 220 or NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 3, 3) Fall 0.000 OR 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
This course continues to build on previous nursing knowledge from ALHT 100-NURS 230. Human systems, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the nursing process provide the framework for the approach to treatment on the wellness-illness continuum and the restoration to optimum levels of health. Emphasis is placed on students' ability to synthesize and evaluate health-related and disease-related situations presented with progression toward advanced communication skills and independent critical thinking. Correlation of laboratory data, nutritional therapy, and pharmacological intervention to client health is required. Prerequisites: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent), NURS 200, NURS 220, NURS 230, NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (NURS 220 and NURS 255 may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 240; NURS 220 or NURS 255 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 3, 3) Spring 0.000 OR 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 OR 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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3.00 Credits
This nursing theory course prepares the generalist nurse to develop a psychiatric theoretical background for the understanding of human coping with stress and crisis in individuals, families, and communities within the professional role. Therapeutic interventions based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, designed to promote, maintain, and restore mental health, are presented. Legal, ethical, and political issues relating to mental health and the healthcare delivery system are explored. The belief that mental health nursing is an integral part of all nursing is emphasized. The nursing process as a critical-thinking tool provides a framework for discussing meeting human needs. Prerequisites: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent) (3: 3, 0) 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
The clinical component provides students the opportunity to expand upon concepts learned in the classroom and previous clinical experiences. Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs, students prioritize physical and psychosocial client care and decision making through all phases of the nursing process including medicine administration, nutrition, and legal and ethical issues. Students are expected to utilize advanced communication skills. Basic health teaching/promotion and critical-thinking skills while identifying and participating in advocacy roles are emphasized. Prerequisites: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent), NURS 220, NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 200; NURS 220 or NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 0, 12) Fall 4.000 Credit Hours 12.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to apply and advance the concepts learned in Medical-Surgical Nursing III (NURS 210) and previous classroom and clinical experiences. Students are expected to utilize assessment skills, communication skills, and the nursing process to aid clients at various stages of the life cycle. Emphasis is placed on priority setting, problem solving, and critical thinking in managing the care of selected clients. Client teaching, discharge planning, and legal and ethical responsibilities will be incorporated into the plan of care. Students are expected to identify physiologic and psychosocial needs of the clients including application of pharmacological, nutritional principles, and lab data. Students will move toward a competent, skilled, and caring professional role. Prerequisites: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent), NURS 200, NURS 220, NURS 230, NURS 255, and BIOL 230 (NURS 220 and NURS 255 may also be taken as corequisites) Corequisites: NURS 210; NURS 220 or NURS 255 (if not taken as prerequisites) (4: 0, 12) Spring 4.000 Credit Hours 12.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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3.00 Credits
This is a maternal/child health theory course that builds on the basic maternal child-care and pediatrics studies learned in Nursing Through the Lifespan or its equivalent. Using human systems and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, emphasis is placed on utilizing the nursing process as a critical-thinking tool to assist the new family in achieving optimum levels of health during child-bearing and child- rearing years. An additional focus is therapeutic communication for health teaching and anticipatory guidance for parenting. Prerequisite: Completion of first year of the Nursing program (or its equivalent) (3: 3, 0) 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Lecture Nursing and Health College Human Services Division Nursing Department
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3.00 Credits
3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate-Bachelor Program Schedule Types: Intern Nursing and Health College Nursing & Allied Health Division
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