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2.00 Credits
Special topics in healthcare offers students the opportunity to explore further an identified area of interest that will enhance their healthcare practice. There are a variety of options a student may pursue to complete this requirement. The course description will vary depending on what the student chooses for this requirement. Multiple courses are offered during May term. Additional courses, identified by the student and approved by the faculty may fulfill this requirement. Prerequisites: Will vary depending on individual course requirements.
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2.00 Credits
Explores issues affecting the homeless. Lectures and field experiences are designed to increase students' sensitivity and awareness of issues affecting the urban poor. Various political, social, environmental, economic, and health- related issues will be explored.
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2.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student nurse to the area of forensic nursing. The course will focus on different new areas of forensic nursing with a concentration on the role of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE. Additional 4 hours clinical dates and times to be determined once enrolled in the course. Contact Jon Worthen at jworthen@westminstercollege.edu once enrolled in the course. DISCLAIMER: Course availability to be offered is dependent on the ability to acquire clinical placement options. The course may be cancelled any time prior to the start of May Term.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed for all members of the college community who want to explore self-care issues related to their own wellness. Students have opportunities to investigate strategies to achieve and maintain wellness within themselves and others in the world around them. Topics include health maintenance, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and healthy lifestyles.
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2.00 Credits
Students will be presented with a broad exposure to adult critical care nursing. While the clinical experiences will be observational in nature, the student will be exposed to high acuity nursing in a variety of specialty ICU settings. This class will be an introduction to management of this complex patient population and the role of the professional nurse in the high acuity setting.
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4.00 Credits
Participants will travel to Western India to explore and understand social, cultural, economic, and environmental determinants of health through coursework, field trips, and service learning activities, primarily in the village of Wai, Maharashtra. Students will engage with local schools, women's groups, and community centers to advance community health and social entrepreneurship, primarily through the art of storytelling. Students and local community members will share and record their exchanges through written, oral, or visual stories that will be the basis of a multimedia reflective project that students will submit after the trip. In addition to immersion and service work in Wai, students will gain a broad appreciation for the range of Indian culture, history, and health conditions by visiting sites of cultural importance. Trip leaders have expertise in global health, Indian culture, literature, and storytelling, and social entrepreneurship. The transformative learning that takes place through active listening and learning with community groups and first hand observations of the broader pursuit of health and wellbeing in India will shape each student's personal philosophy of global citizenship.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to Hopi and Din cultures. It includes social, educational, environmental, political, economic, artistic, health and caring aspects of lived histories and practices. Students will have the opportunity to explore the complex histories, worldviews, and perceptions of the environment, relationships, and values of Din/Hopi people through a variety of perspectives. All students will participate in a nine-day field trip designed to explore health issues, educational practices, and ecosystems on Hopi and Din Nations in northern Arizona and southern Utah. Students will visit Indian Health Services and private health care facilities, schools, Hopi and possibly Din families, museums, and National Park sites. Students will participate in a guided field and river trip on the San Juan River. Students will also visit related organizations in Salt Lake City after field experience. Students from all majors are welcome.
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2.00 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity for further exploration of complex issues in child health nursing. The course focuses on growth and development, physical assessment and nursing care of the hospitalized child from birth through adolescence.
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2.00 Credits
The purpose of this course will be to explore a few areas in health care and how movies shape the general public's perception of public health. Areas to consider are: epidemiology, disaster management, mental health issues, access to care, treatment options for disease, and the role of health care providers. The class will include watching movies related to a specified area, discussion groups, and a paper analyzing how reality and movies are different and what kind of education may be needed to change public perception.
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1.00 Credits
This course will provice students the opportunity to pursue and in-depth independent study of an area in nursing leadership. Students must, in consultation and with the guidance of a faculty member, develop a project proposal indicating the objectives, scope and dissemination of the project prior to beginning the project. The completed project must display the student's abilities as an effective writer as well as the thorough familiarity with the selected topic area. For the RNBS program
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