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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the foundational components of professional nursing practice. Essential to this development is an understanding of the environment of health care today, which is covered through discussion of health care structure and organization, as well as the specific organization of nursing practice within that environment. Discussion of professional nursing practice incorporates history, professional standards and organizations, scope of practice, and practice settings, and the educational requirements. Included in this discussion are the responsibilities, accountability, and legal standards established to provide safe practice to the care of health care consumers. An essential foundation for nursing practice is the ability to apply critical thinking skills in utilizing the central curriculum focus of the Nursing Process as a concept of organizing and providing patient care. These two elements are given particular emphasis to provide students with a strong basis to progress through the program with an outcome of providing competent patient care as a beginning practitioner. The remaining section of the course takes students into application of the Nursing Process through introduction to concepts of health, illness, prevention, and the process of acquiring assessment skills as the first essential step of the process. (2.5 credits theory/ 0.5 credits lab/clinical)
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7.00 Credits
This course focuses on using critical thinking as a foundation for the nursing process. Through the establishment of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship, the student becomes proficient in nursing assessment and physical examination of the individual. Utilizing critical thinking skills, the student analyzes data to develop a plan of care. Based on individual patient needs and priorities, professional nursing practice strategies are implemented. Evaluation activities encompass desired patient outcomes, as well as student self-evaluation of progress in the course. Included is nursing process in the perioperative period.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with a foundation of pharmacological concepts important to the safe administration of drug therapy as a part of patient care. This course emphasizes the mechanism of drug action, the subsequent effects of pharmacotherapy on the body, the nurse's responsibility for safe administration of drugs, and observations of the effects on the client. Drug administration is taught as an application of the nursing process in order to emphasize the degree of critical thinking and professional nurse accountability associated with drug therapy. In addition, major classifications of drugs are addressed. A series of competency-based skill labs are designed to enable students to master essential aspects of medications.
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4.00 Credits
The student will be introduced to the role of the professional nurse based on the Nursing Standards for Professional Practice (Professionalism concept) and explore Tanner's Clinical Judgment model (Clinical Judgment concept) to develop a systematic approach to clinical decision making. The concept of communication will be explored utilizing self-discovery techniques creating a foundation upon which professional, therapeutic, and structured communication skills will be developed. The concept of informatics will be introduced identifying technologies to support the safe communication of health information. Navigation of the clinical information system will be experienced in the clinical setting. Course taught through UPMC: Shadyside School of Nursing.
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5.00 Credits
The course examines foundational, patient-centered concepts for nursing practice including the concepts of functional ability and optimal human function, mobility, and sensory perception. The patient centered concepts of motivation and adherence are examined as a foundation for teaching the student how to effectively educate patients for optimal self-management and function. Course taught through UPMC: Shadyside School of Nursing.
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1.00 Credits
This one credit laboratory experience is designed to complement the content in NUR112. The focus of this course is the development of the knowledge and skills needed to perform a complete physical assessment utilizing a systematic approach of data collection. This laboratory experience will permit the student to engage in developing cognitive and psychomotor skills to support nursing care related to functional ability, mobility, and patient education.Course taught through UPMC: Shadyside School of Nursing.
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7.00 Credits
This course engages the student in the study of the patient across the lifespan with attention to coping and stress tolerance, cognition, and protection with a focus on wellness, health promotion, and chronic illness management. Patient and family preferences, cultural and spiritual variations, and their effects on motivation are emphasized. Attributes and roles of the professional nurse are expanded and applied to diverse patient experiences. A perioperative experience is introduced with an emphasis on safety.
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7.00 Credits
This course expands on and incorporates prior knowledge and experience from N200A in care of the patient across the trajectory of chronic conditions into acute illness. Health and illness concepts related to homeostasis and regulation, oxygenation, and hemostasis (perfusion) are studied and applied to care of the patient with a focus on health promotion and management of chronic and acute disease.
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7.00 Credits
This course continues to expand on and incorporate knowledge and experience from the previous courses including care of the patient across the trajectory of illness. Health and illness concepts related to cellular metabolism, cellular regulation, and mobility are studied and applied to care of the patient with a focus on health promotion and management of acute and chronic disease. Comprehensive care of the patient and family at the end of life and during palliation is examined. Health care concepts relate to the business of health care and the nurse's individual and organizational fiscal responsibilities are applied to practice.
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7.00 Credits
Using prior knowledge of concepts of health and illness, this course focuses on the nursing care of patients with acute illness and subsequent complex health alterations. The concepts of gas exchange, perfusion, intracranial regulation, and traumatic injury are applied with an emphasis on prioritization of complex patient and nursing situations. Family dynamics as it relates to acute illness are explored. The role of the professional nurse is further developed with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and communication. Clinical environments will be intense acute care and sub-acute care settings.
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