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3.00 Credits
Directed study may be arranged for students interested in study in the field of nursing relative to areas of special interest.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines ethical positions arising from the advancement of modern medicine. Emphasis is placed on ethical theories and principles that guide decision-making. Students use critical thinking skills to analyze ethical issues and to make action oriented decisions on controversial medical questions. Students will present a final research project on an ethical dilemma.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares the student to perform a holistic health assessment for an adult and child. It introduces the learner to the knowledge of age specific problems and skills necessary for implementation of a comprehensive assessment. Emphasis is placed on utilization of a systematic process for obtaining a health history and performing a physical exam. Students incorporate techniques of inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation while performing a physical exam and demonstrate appropriate use of the stethoscope, oto-ophthalmoscope, tuning fork, and percussion hammer. In addition, the student participates in documenting outcomes and preparing health promotion teaching plans. Socio-cultural influences, growth and development including gerontology and cost containment are concepts integrated throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
Clinical Pharmacology is an elective course for senior nursing students, BSN transfer students, and registered nurses. This advanced course involves the study of drug preparations, their mechanism of action, physiological effects of the body, methods of administration, therapeutic dosages, caregiver responsibilities, interactions, untoward effects and legal implications. Each student designs and implements a project to teach a client about their medication or medications. Interactive classroom activities foster students' critical thinking skills.
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3.00 Credits
Problems in Philosophy examines some of the fundamental questions, controversial issues, and major problems faced by people in relationship to the world. It also focuses on some of the methods for inquiry and problem-solving that people have devised to make their world more comprehensible. The course is designed, through readings and class discussions, to promote critical thinking and to develop effective techniques of systematic inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
Ethics is a course designed to inquire into the nature of values and how we acquire them. It studies some major ethical systems derived from such values that have been used to evaluate man's conduct. It encourages students to discuss theories as applied to existing moral dilemmas. Writing is continued in assignments related to readings, class discussions, and lectuers.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The student may contract for one to three credit hours of independent study through an arrangement with an instructor who agrees to direct such a study. The student must submit a plan acceptable to the instructor and the department chair. To be substituted for the listed humanities requirements, a directed study course must be so designated by the department chair. Writing is continued in assignments related to readings, class discussions, and lectures.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the existing literature that seeks to answer the question "What is the Meaning of Life " Major topics include: free will vs. determinism, the theistic solution to the problem, the non-theistic solution, and an examination of the cogency of the question itself. Writing is continued in assignments related to readings, class discussions, and lectures.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of specific ethical problems in the practice of medical science. Ethical issues examined include abortion, impaired infants, euthanasia, paternalism, truth-telling, confidentiality, human and animal experimentation, reproduction, cloning, and scarcity of resources. The purpose of the course is to provide an accepted ethical and biomedical framework to enable the student to reason clearly and effectively about the ethics involved in medical science and technology. Class sessions emphasize student participation and debate and use case studies as a format for discussion. The course assumes no prior knowledge of philosophical ethics. The course has also been designed to help students refine their ability to read and write scholarly work.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop and refine students' views about the nature of science, and the nature of change, both gradual and revolutionary, in scientific theory. This course uses work in the history of science and philosophy of science to address the nature of scientific disciplines (the theories and problems which characterize them); the relations between theory and the empirical work; and the nature of theory changes in the sciences. The course has also been designed to help students refine their ability to read and write scholarly work, including a major research project.
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