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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100- and 200-level required nursing classes; NUR 310, 320, 324 Corequisite: NUR 330 Nursing practice experience as a novice clinician in implementing the nursing process in the care of adult and elder clients coping with varied lived experiences of wellness and illness within the family system. Acute care settings are utilized with an emphasis on nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions as well as evaluation of nursing care. Clinical decision-making skills are developed.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100- and 200-level required nursing courses Examines concepts of caring, power, and empowerment in relation to the lived experience of mental health. Emphasis is placed on understanding care of the mentally ill throughout history and the directions historical perspective provide for contemporary care. Organizations designed to empower both the mentally ill and their families are discussed. The psychiatric interview as the basis for data generation is examined. Also examined are the concepts of mental wellness, family systems theory relating to mental health, chronic anxiety, physiologically based mental illness, and nursing interventions to promote mental health. The special problems of outwardly and inwardly channeled aggression are also studied. The problems of the mentally ill homeless are examined as well as current research endeavors and the implications of those studies for the future practice of nursing. Learning is guided by the philosophy and the organizing framework of the Nursing Program. Clinical practice experiences are provided in health care settings with clients across the life span with varied lived mental health experiences. Exploration of the evolving role of professional nursing in relation to the care of the mentally ill is emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100- and 200-level required nursing courses Offers a holistic caring approach to the study of family-centered nursing care of children and their families throughout the lived health experience. Emphasis is placed on the interrelated emotional, cultural, psychosocial, environmental, and physical health experiences of the family unit and the effect of these forces upon the normal growth, development, and maturation of children and adolescents. The child and family are discussed as a unit that has the potential for coping with stressors, which are developmental, contextual, or health related. Caring strategies to assist families with children are described as those that enhance, protect, or preserve optimum levels of wellness. The course is designed to impart knowledge, enhance critical thinking, and to foster observational, communication, and assessment skills central to nursing diagnosis, creative problem solving, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the nursing care of children. Content is divided into units and offered during the fall and spring semester of the junior year. Each student has weekly clinical practice in either an outpatient clinic, community resource facility, or an acute care setting.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of faculty Note: Each time this course is offered, the specific topic will be announced. An opportunity to pursue in-depth study and/or field experience in topics of current interest or specialized focus not available in the required nursing curriculum.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of faculty Concurrent with major nursing courses. Intensive individual study of a special problem in nursing.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of faculty
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of faculty This course is designed to provide additional clinical experiences in a variety of settings to increase opportunities for the advanced beginner student to apply nursing knowledge to the lived experiences of clients. Emphasis is placed upon critical thinking and implementation of nursing process. Clinical and ethical decision making skills, use of nursing models, and research finding will be further developed. Stress and coping within the context of social and economic forces and culturally diverse backgrounds is also examined.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100-, 200-, and 300-level required nursing courses Corequisite: NUR 424 Focus is on the concepts of caring and developmental processes related to wellness and illness of adult and elder clients within a family system. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and use of the nursing process in examining major health problems in relation to stress and coping within the context of social and economic forces and culturally diverse backgrounds. Topics include coping and illness in adult and elder clients, common stressors and their management (chronic illness, pain, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, sensory alteration), coping with problems of regulation and metabolism, nutrition, and elimination, and coping with sensorimotor problems.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100-, 200-, and 300-level required nursing courses Corequisite: NUR 420 Application of nursing knowledge to the lived experience of adult and elder clients within a family system with major health problems. Clinical experiences are provided in acute care and tertiary settings with an emphasis on nursing diagnosis and interventions as well as evaluation of the nursing care and development of clinical decision-making skills.
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4.00 Credits
(enrollment limited to NURB students) Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 310 (enrollment limited to returning RN students) Focus is on the concepts of caring and the developmental process related to wellness and illness of clients across the life span and within the family system. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and use of the nursing process in examining stress and coping within the context of social and economic forces and culturally diverse backgrounds. Clinical experiences take place in a variety of settings where emphasis is placed on the application of nursing knowledge to the lived experience of human health care across the life span.
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