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5.00 Credits
This course focuses on the care of patients and families who experience acute and chronic psychiatric disorders. Students will focus on the mutuality level of relationship centered care. Specifically, the course will emphasize cultivating caring relationships; respecting patient's dignity, integrity, and self determination; encouraging patient's autonomy and self help potential; and creating collaborative relationships between patient/practitioner and practitioner/practitioner. Specific content will include crises intervention, group dynamics, therapeutic communication, and the dynamics of dysfunctional families. In addition, nursing interventions for the current diagnostic categories of adult psychiatric illnesses such as addictions, thought disorders, personality disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, violence disorders, and post partum psychosis (DSM IV-TR) will be examined. Nursing practice experiences will focus on the development of case management and interdisciplinary team skills with groups/families and individuals in settings such as psychiatric-mental health inpatient and partial hospitalisation agencies, day care programs, and tertiary psychiatric care centers. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: NUR 3300, 3310, 3320, and 3330. Co-requisite: NUR 4210. Credits: 5 hours
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6.00 Credits
This course examines the nursing care needs of patients of all ages with complex/co-morbid or critical conditions. Students will be given opportunities to expand their clinical judgment through the selection of holistic nursing therapies used in conjunction with traditional medical and nursing interventions in the care of patients who are ill. Opportunities to promote health and wellness will be provided. Advance assessment skills and physiologically based therapies will be taught and practiced in a variety of complex clinical settings. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: NUR 3300, 3310, 3320, 3330. Co-requisite: NUR 4200. Credits: 6 hours
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1.00 Credits
Emerging trends and issues in nursing are a reflection of the health care environment as it evolves. Each semester this course will focus on one of these issues or trends. This course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Admission to the Professional Nursing curriculum. Credits: 1 hour
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses on at-risk/vulnerable populations with emphasis on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in the community. Students will focus on the mutuality level of relationship-centered care by cultivating caring relationships with teams and other practitioners and valuing diversity. Students will use epidemiology (biostatistics) to examine significant disease trends and to ascertain significant disparities of care between various groups. Health policies, health economics, models of health care delivery and their effects on the delivery of community health services will be examined from a global perspective. Nursing practice sites will include public health agencies, community nursing agencies, hospice, palliative care sites, and rehabilitation agencies. Students will focus on health education/aggregate care in each site, with particular attention to Healthy People 2010 objectives. The professional nurse's role in influencing health policy, health care, telehealth, health law, public policy, and the health of a community will be examined. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: NUR 4200, 4210. Corequisite: NUR 4320. Credits: 6 hours
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the leadership roles and management functions expected of a beginning professional nurse within the structure of an organization. Students learn basic organizational assessment, leadership, and health care management from the perspectives of voluntary agencies, health care provider organizations, and service delivery. Topics for discussion include principles of delegation, conflict resolution, peer review and evaluation, changes theories, measurement of quality of care, and professional model of nursing care. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: NUR 4200, 4210. Co-requisite: NUR 4310. Credits: 4 hours
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3.00 Credits
This course involves a detailed study of the human neuro-musculo-skeletal anatomy of the head, neck, upper limbs, back, and lower limbs which underly function. Students will use standard assessment of function to analyze individual and group performance. Corequisite: OT 2010. Credits: 3 hours
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1.00 Credits
This course is a companion lab for OT 2000. Corequisite: OT 2000. Credits: 1 hour
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3.00 Credits
Orientation to the profession of occupational therapy. Will include the history of the profession, current professional roles, issues and trends in the field. Included in this course are self-instructional modules in medical terminology as well as uniform terminology specific to occupational therapy. Credits: 3 hours
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3.00 Credits
A study of physical, mental, emotional, and social patterns of growth, development, and aging. Aspects to be given special emphasis for the occupational therapy student will be motor development, physiology of aging, growth patterns, and functional development in any of the above aspects. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Pre-OT or Nursing student. Credits: 3 hours Semester Offered: Fall, Winter
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2.00 Credits
Participation in a health service or agency to provide experience with hospital procedure and an orientation to patient groups. A daily log is required. Student must submit a proposal for the course for departmental approval prior to registration. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: OCTJ or OCTM. Credits: 2 hours
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