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6.00 Credits
This course will focus on the nursing care management of adults with common diseases/ illnesses. Patients with peri-operative considerations, alterations in pain control, fluid and electrolytes balance, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, hematological, and immunological systems, gastrointestinal, renal, integumentary, neurological, musculoskeletal, male reproductive, and infectious disease systems will be discussed.
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nursing care and health promotion of the childbearing and childrearing family. Content includes the process of normal childbirth and dynamics of the childbearing family as well as identification and care of high-risk clients. This course also addresses the care of the sick child.
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2.00 Credits
This course will focus on the nursing management of geriatric adults. Contemporary theories of gerontology, theories of again, physiological/psychological functioning, impact of developmental changes, illness, and dysfunction will be emphasized.
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2.00 Credits
This course examines the increased importance of legal and ethical issues in nursing and health care. Students will study legal principles that guide nurses in both general and specialized areas of practice. The course will introduce the legal system, nursing law, and relate nursing practice to the legal system. The course will also introduce nursing students to ethical theory and principles and identify models for the recognition, analysis, and resolution of ethical problems in health care practice. Current issues related to ethical and moral dilemmas such as informed consent, allocating medical resources, organ donation, euthanasia, abortion, palliative and end-of-life care, and treating impaired infants will be covered.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to various nursing theorists and evolving theories of nursing science, which support the development of professional nursing practice. Students examine philosophy, theorist and theory concepts integrating the Systems- Developmental-Stress model and critical thinking. Corequisite: NURS 357 BSN Transitions
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5.00 Credits
This course is designed to help the student view individuals, families, groups and communities as open systems in continual, mutual interaction with other systems. The Systems Developmental-Stress Model provides the framework for assessing individuals, families, groups and communities. The biological, interpersonal, intrapersonal, non-human environmental and socio-cultural subsystems are ways in which assessment of clients at different developmental stages from conception through elderly along the health-illness continuum with increased emphasis on deviations from health will be considered. The Nursing Process is the method by which primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention will be promoted in individuals, families, groups and communities. Public Health nursing principles will be emphasized along with an introduction to the community as a system. The leadership role of the nurse, the role of the nurse as change agent based upon organization, change and group theories will be explored. Prerequisites: NURS 357 BSN Transitions and NURS 450 Theoretical Basis of Nursing Corequisites: NURS 452 Nursing Process & Health Promotion Groups/Community Laboratory
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5.00 Credits
Laboratory experiences will be coordinated with theoretical content in Nursing Process & Health Promotion Groups/Community Theory. The student will use the nursing process and the Systems-Developmental- Stress Model in a variety of settings with clients at different developmental stages from conception through elderly. The students are encouraged to use critical thinking as they view individuals, families, groups and communities as open systems in continual, mutual interaction with other systems. Clients will be assessed at various places along the health illness continuum with increased emphasis on deviations from health. Families, groups and communities will be the primary focus for the student as he/she continues to use public health principles and the community as a system. Laboratory settings are community focus and may include: day care centers, well baby clinics, visiting nurse service, schools, hospital outpatient services, family planning programs, homeless shelters community agencies and psychiatric-crisis walk-in clinics. Emphasis will be placed on individuals, families and groups as members of the community. Prerequisites: NURS 357 BSN Transitions and NURS 450 Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Corequisite NURS 451 Nursing Process & Health Promotion Groups/Community Theory
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3.00 Credits
The scientific approach to problem-solving and research methodology as applied to nursing. The course will include analysis of selected nursing research studies, identification of researchable problems in nursing, opportunities for peer evaluation and groups discussions. At the end of this course the student is expected to be an informed consumer of nursing research. Prerequisite: NURS 450 Theoretical Basis of Nursing; PSYC 230 Statistics in the Social Sciences
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2.00 Credits
This course continues the socialization process of students into nursing as an area of study in high education. Historical perspectives, current issues and trends set within the contexts of changing societal needs are considered, with emphasis on the changing role of the nurse in the health care delivery system. Emphasis may shift in any semester to address a current or emerging trend or issue in Nursing.
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2.00 Credits
Therapeutic Touch is a course designed for nurses, health care professionals and others interested in developing their potential to assist in the healing process. The concept of therapeutic touch is based on the assumption that human beings are complex energy fields and that the ability to enhance healing in others is a natural human potential.
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