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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the role of the nurse in health promotion and maintenance with special emphasis on pregnancy, birth, newborn and family adaptation. This course will have a lab and clinical component with variable hours to allow for hands on experience with childbearing families.
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1.00 Credits
Introduces the concepts of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics as applied to nursing. Introduction to explore theoretical concepts that enable students to provide safe and effective care related to pharmaceuticals and natural products to diverse clients across the lifespan.
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1.00 Credits
Introduces the role of the nurse in promoting and supporting nutritional health. Emphasis is on the role of nutrition in health promotion, prevention of illness, recovery from acute illness and/or management of chronic illness. Students learn to access evidence to support healthy nutritional choices that reduce risk factors for disease and/or illness across the lifespan. Students explore how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, nutritional trends, genetics and integrative therapies influence the nutritional health of the client.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces the student to the role of the nurse in promoting and supporting nutritional health. Emphasis is on the role nutrition plays in health promotion/prevention of illness, recovery from acute illness and/or management of chronic illness. Students learn to access evidence to support healthy nutritional choices that reduce risk factors for disease and/or illness across the lifespan. Students explore how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, nutritional trends and controversies, and integrative therapies influence the nutritional health of the client. Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing program, concurrent enrollment in NURS2700 or NURS2720 and BIOL2202 (unless successfully completed BIOL2202 previously).
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4.00 Credits
Expands the knowledge and skills of the LPN as they transition to the professional role within nursing. Emphasis is placed on health promotion through the lifespan and incorporates theories related to evidence-based practice, quality and safety, communication, collaboration, clinical decision-making/reasoning, informatics, assessment, caring, and health- illness continuum. .
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7.00 Credits
Focuses on the nursing care of clients experiencing chronic illness and/or end of life. Emphasis is placed on understanding the "lived experience" of clients and families. Ethical issues related to advocacy, self-determination, and autonomy are explored. Evidence-based practice is used to support appropriate focused assessments and management of care of clients experiencing concurrent illnesses/co-morbidities. Prerequisites: Successful completion of NURS2700 or NURS2720 and NURS2750 with a grade of C or better. Concurrent enrollment in NURS2850.
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing care of clients experiencing chronic and/or end-of-life disruptions of health across the lifespan. Emphasis is on exploring client and family responses to actual or potential health alterations. The pathophysiology and nursing care of selected disease processes are explored. Focus is placed on developing and applying the empiric, ethical, aesthetic and self-knowledge required when providing nursing care to clients with chronic and/or end-of-life conditions. Provides a comprehensive understanding of chronic disease processes while facilitating critical thinking and analysis of pathophysiological concepts. Evidence-informed practice is emphasized as a basis for safe and efficacious quality nursing care.
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing care of clients with Mental illness. It Identifies major mental illness conditions and their accompanying symptoms as well as available treatments. Theories and concepts related to mental illness are discussed. The cause of mental illness are discusses as well as the overall health impact of the illness on individuals and communities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces theoretical concepts that enable students to provide safe and effective care related to pharmaceuticals and natural products to diverse clients across the lifespan. A framework is presented for approaching the study of pharmacotherapeutics including pharmaceutical research and regulation, quality and safety, major drug classifications, and clinical management. Prerequisites: Successful completion of NURS2700 or NURS2720 and NURS2750 with a grade of C or better.
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2.00 Credits
Focuses on the nursing care of the aging adults with emphasis on improving the quality of care of older adults. Ageism is discussed and facts are separated from myths regarding aging. Health conditions prevalent in older adults are examined and nursing care to mediate the conditions will be identified. Adult protection, advocacy, and placement are also discussed.
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