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  • NURS 188,288,388,488: Special Topics in Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    Particular topics such as health viewed through films, wellness workshops, women's health issues, and health care technology are explored. These courses are nursing electives open to all university students. 3 semester hours each
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  • NURS 216: Nutrition in Health Care

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This course is designed to increase the student's knowledge of the basic principles of nutrition. The course content focuses on the normal nutritional needs of humans throughout the life cycle and the application of nutrition principles to promote health. The course assists students in assessing nutritional status and initiating nursing interventions to improve or maintain nutritional status and to promote wellness. Prerequisite: none. 3 semester hours
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  • NURS 226/227: Foundations of Nursing Practice With Lab

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This course introduces scientific reasoning and selected theory and evidence-based nursing interventions within the nursing process framework to meet the diverse and complex needs of individuals. Effective therapeutic communication and professional accountability and responsibility are emphasized. The course includes 28 hours of skills practice and testing in the campus laboratory. Prerequisites: Matriculated nursing student, completion of CHEM 105, 106 and BIOL 121, 122. Pre- or corequisites: BIOL 219, 220. 2 class hours and 2 laboratory hours weekly. 3 semester hours
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  • NURS 230: Calculating With Confidence

    1.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    The purpose of this course is to assist students to achieve an understanding of the processes that are the basis for the mathematical applications necessary to determine correct medication and fluid administration in nursing practice. Students will be guided toward developing their own style of problem solving that promotes personal understanding of the underlying concepts that are the basis of medication/fluid calculations. Sessions are highly interactive with students discovering the steps necessary for successful solutions as they work on progressively more complex problems. Prerequisite: Matriculated nursing student. 1 semester hour
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  • NURS 299: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    Individual investigation and analysis of a nursing topic in an area of special interest is undertaken. Reading, research, consultation, and discussion are required. Credit, scope, topic, and prerequisites are arranged individually. Open to freshmen and sophomore students.
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  • NURS 350: Care of The Adult

    9.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This first clinical course introduces the student to care of the hospitalized adult in various states of illness. Utilizing the nursing process and nursing diagnoses as organizers, the health needs of individual clients are considered. Mental health concepts, therapeutic communication, developmental stages, gerontological considerations, and nutritional aspects are integrated both in theory and in clinical situations. The course provides the student with opportunities to learn and demonstrate the nurse's caregiver roles (provider of care, teacher, advocate, change agent, and communicator). Course includes 168 clinical hours. Prerequisite: Junior status. Pre- or corequisites: NURS 351 and NURS 352. 9 semester hours
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  • NURS 351/353: Health Assessment With Lab

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    In this course, students gain knowledge and develop skills of health assessment. The nurse's role in health assessment is presented from a holistic perspective. Health assessment concepts and physical examination techniques are emphasized. Activities are designed to facilitate the learners' acquisition of the theory and skills necessary to do a health assessment of the normal adult. Disease conditions are included as necessary for understanding the concepts of examination. The course includes didactic presentation and laboratory practice. Students are expected to participate in laboratory sessions as examiners and examinees. Course includes 28 hours in campus lab. Prerequisite: Junior status or registered nurse. 3 semester hours
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  • NURS 352: Pathophysiologyand Pharmacology

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This course focuses on selected physiological alterations of the human body that are pathologic in nature. Possible causes of the alterations and physiological changes are discussed along with the physiological effects and responses. Basic pharmacology and appropriate pharmacological interventions are reviewed for each pathophysiological change discussed. Prerequisite: Junior status or registered nurse. 3 semester hours
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  • NURS 357: Nursing Perspectives

    3.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This course provides the entering registered nurse with the opportunity to explore professional nursing from the perspective of baccalaureate education. The course is designed to increase the learner's knowledge of the history, philosophy, and conceptual basis of professional nursing. The impact of current trends in health care on the client, the nurse, and the profession is also discussed. This course is designated as a writing enriched course. Prerequisite: Registered nurse. 3 semester hours
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  • NURS 360: Care of The Childbearing Family

    6.00 Credits
    Widener University-Main Campus

    This course focuses on the needs of the woman and her family system during the reproductive health cycle, and the health care of the neonate from conception through the neonatal period. Included in the course are current issues and trends in maternitynewborn health care and women's health. Consideration is also given to legal, ethical, and cultural aspects of related health issues. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse as a caregiver in the hospital and community settings. The roles of the nurse as a member of a profession and as a beginning utilizer of research are included. Course includes 84 clinical hours. Prerequisite: Successful completion of NURS 350, 351/353, and 352. 6 semester hours
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