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3.00 Credits
The course is basic to all nursing clinicals through the program. Complete instruction of health assessment using the system approach is given. The concept of nursing process introduced in NURS 231 will be examined extensively as the method by which professional nurses assist persons to achieve optimum level of health. The student will be provided opportunities to exercise critical thinking, decision making, and ethical judgment through case studies, simulations/role play, and patient interviews. Prerequisite: NURS 231. Corequisites: NURS 311, 315, 317; R.N.s with permission of department chair.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to correlate theory with practice in the primary care setting. The course will initiate the student to living examples of the nursing process: 1) data collecting via interviewing and physical assessment, 2) critical thinking skills via decision making, 3) organization via planning, 4) restorations via appropriate nursing action-implementation, 5) evaluation of the nursing process to meet specific needs. Prerequisite: NURS 231. Corequisites: NURS 311, 313, 317.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a knowledge and practice base for medical-surgical nursing. The focus is primarily on the acute care setting. The course gives in-depth knowledge and principles for patient education that include primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention. This course builds upon knowledge gained in prerequisite courses and applies principles of physiology and pathophysiology to the diverse health care alterations of the adult. Prerequisites: NURS 311, 313, 315, 317. Corequisite: NURS 318. Corequisite: NURS 326.
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2.00 Credits
The first course in a two-course sequence that presents clinical pharmacology and pathophysiology emphasizing rationales and safe drug administration, relationships of drug mechanisms to disease processes, effects of lifespan on drug therapy, application of nursing research to pharmacologic principles. Alterations in biologic processes that affect the body's homeostasis and various dysfunctions of biologic systems are examined. The rationale for diagnosis and therapeutic interventions is introduced. Prerequisite: NURS 231 or permission of department chair. Corequisites: NURS 311, 313, 315.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides guided clinical experiences for the student to operationalize the nursing process in the acute care, medical surgical adult setting. Students apply knowledge and principles of patient education to patients in the clinical setting and apply the nursing process to patients from different cultural backgrounds with diverse health care alterations. Opportunity for reinforcement and further development of assessment skills is provided through hands-on experience in the clinical setting. Experiences are also provided in the lab and/or clinical setting to assist the student in developing psychomotor skills. Students are expected to seek learning opportunities based upon self-assessed learning needs as they utilize the nursing process in multiple clinical settings. Corequisite: NURS 316.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to apply the nursing process to clients who have adaptive and/or maladaptive behaviors. The emphasis in the course is given to nurse/patient relationship and group process skills which can be applied to all areas of nursing. The socioeconomic and ethical dilemmas within communities will be explored. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention services to the mentally ill from diverse cultural groups are identified and discussed. The principles of pharmacology, growth and development, health education, and teaching are interwoven throughout this course. Prerequisites: NURS 311, 313, 315, 317. Corequisite: NURS 322, 326.
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2.00 Credits
Weekly clinical focuses will guide the student in applying theory from NURS 320 to patients in a
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2.00 Credits
Course is designed to introduce concepts of nursing research. The focus is on the professional nurse as a consumer of research in health and nursing. The student further develops skills in critical thinking and ethical decision making in the development of a nursing research project using the research process. Elementary concepts of statistics and the use of computer technology are introduced related to nursing research. R.N.s with permission of department chair.
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2.00 Credits
The second course in a two-course sequence that presents clinical pharmacology and pathophysiology emphasizing rationales and safe drug administration, relationships of drug mechanisms to disease processes, effects of lifespan on drug therapy, application of nursing research to pharmacologic principles. Alterations in biologic processes that affect the body's homeostasis and various dysfunctions of biologic systems are examined. The rationale for diagnosis and therapeutic interventions in introduced. Prerequisite: NURS 317.
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6.00 Credits
This course will lay the foundation for the R.N. to practice with a bachelor of science in nursing. R.N. students will establish professional and collegial relationships with nursing faculty, other R.N. students, and variety of professional nurses in health care agencies. An emphasis will be placed on advancing nursing practice through a combination of independent study, seminar, and clinical experiences. Prerequisite: NURS 324, 313, and permission of instructor.
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