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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURP 100, 105 and 110, PSYC 142, LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisites: NURP 150, 160 and 165. This course looks at the physical, mental, and psychosocial aspects of aging and at the impact of aging on adaptation to health stressors. Topics covered include physical and functional assessment, normal changes of aging on body systems, common chronic diseases of the elderly, nutrition and pharmacology in the elderly, and health care systems for the elderly. Legal and ethical issues are considered throughout. Students are provided the opportunity through clinical experiences to utilize the nursing process in developing a plan of care to meet the needs of elderly patients and their families. Observation experiences in community agencies concerned with the health and welfare of the aging are also provided. 1.5 lecture hours, 22.5 clinical laboratory hours per week for 3 weeks. 490 2007-08 Vincennes University Catalog
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURP 100, 105 and 110, PSYC 142, LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisites: NURP 150, 155 and 165. This course is designed to develop basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential to provide safe nursing care to the pediatric patient/family experiencing common health stressors. Emphasis is given to normal growth and development and health promotion, including nutrition. Clinical experiences provide students the opportunity to develop skills and to utilize the nursing process to meet the basic needs of the pediatric patient/family. Observation experiences are planned in community agencies concerned with child health and welfare to enhance students’ knowledge base of growth and developmental principles and pediatric health care. 3 lecture hours, 22.5 clinical laboratory hours per week for 4 weeks.
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1.00 Credits
Corequisite: NURP 160. This course is designed to be a companion course to NURP 160. Students will further explore topics covered in the companion course in order to improve understanding and retention of nursing concepts. 1 class hour.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURP 100, 105, and 110, LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisites: NURP 150, 155, and 160. This course explores the complexities of the health care system and the issues that practical nurses will confront as they begin a career in practical nursing. Emphasis is placed on the ethical, legal and moral responsibilities, the role, and the expectations of practical nurses in the health care delivery system. Career planning and management, along with discussion of the transition from the role of students to beginning practical nurse practitioners, are included. 2 lecture hours.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURP 150, 155, 160, and 165, PSYC 142, and LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisite: NURP 205. This course is a culmination of the practical nursing program. It is designed to build on the knowledge base acquired in previous courses. Beginning leadership and management skills are introduced, and students are given the opportunity to manage care for a group of patients. The course further introduces students to the care of patients experiencing mental and emotional stressors. Emphasis is placed on strategies in communicating therapeutically. Students are provided the opportunity through clinical experiences to utilize the nursing process in developing a plan of care for patients with complex medical and/or surgical problems and to assist patients with mental and emotional stressors. Experiences are also planned in a variety of settings to enhance students’ knowledge base of patient needs and nursing problems in varying degrees of complexity. 4 lecture hours, 22.5 clinical laboratory hours (8-week theory course; 4-week clinical laboratory).
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURP 150, 155, 160 and 165, PSYC 142 and LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisite: NURP 200. The focus of this course is on the care of the childbearing woman and family during pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium. Includes health promotion for the mother and developing fetus, common stressors of pregnancy, and adaptation needs of the newborn. Clinical experiences in the areas of labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn nursery provide students with the opportunity to utilize the nursing process and to develop skills to meet the needs of the woman, family, and newborn. Experiences are also planned in a variety of settings to enhance students’ knowledge base of pre- and postnatal care. 5.5 lecture hours, 22.5 clinical laboratory hours (8-week theory course; 4-week clinical laboratory).
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8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the Associate Degree Nursing Program. Introduces the philosophy and conceptual framework of the curriculum. Basic legal aspects, communication skills, impact of illness and hospitalization on the client, external safety, client teaching and learning, death and dying as they apply to nursing are discussed. The nursing process is taught to organize nursing care as well as to promote client health and adaptation to stressors. The fundamental skills and knowledge used in basic nursing care are covered. Content focuses upon common assessments and nursing interventions to meet the basic physiological needs of normal (basic) nutrition, bowel and urinary elimination, activity and mobility, and sleep and rest. Promoting client adaptation to pain, safety needs, fundamental pharmacological concepts, perioperative care, fluid and electrolytes, and alterations associated with infection and inflammation are included. College laboratory is utilized for the students to acquire basic nursing skills. Clinical laboratory in longterm and acute health care agencies allows students to apply the nursing process to facilitate the adaptation of the client with common health problems. 5 lecture hours, 4.5 college laboratory hours, 4.5 clinical laboratory hours.
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1.00 Credits
Corequisite: NURS 100. This course is designed to be a companion course to NURS 100. Students will further explore topics covered in the companion course in order to improve understanding and retention of nursing concepts. 1 class hour.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURS 100. Corequisite: NURS 150. Builds on basic curricular concepts, core threads and principles. Newborns up to one month of age experiencing hepatic, respiratory, mobility, neurological, cardiovascular and nutritional stressors are covered. Consideration is given to assisting the mother and family in adaptation to antepartal, labor, birthing, and postpartal stressors. Gynecological stressors and women’s health issues are addressed. Acute care facilities are utilized. Students apply the nursing process in the clinical setting to facilitate adaptation of women and newborns experiencing common stressors. 5 lecture hours, 9 clinical laboratory hours (8-week course).
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1.00 Credits
Corequisite: NURS 130. This course is designed to be a companion course to NURS 130. Students will further explore topics covered in the companion course in order to improve understanding and retention of nursing concepts. 2 class hours (8 week course).
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