Nursing (RN)
NURS 190 |
Nursing Practice I |
| 8 Credit(s) | Offered Fall Semester |
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NURS 190 provides the foundation for nursing practice and caring relationships. The course focuses on the whole person from birth through the lifespan. The course is directed toward the student’s acquiring knowledge, increasing personal and professional understanding, and developing intellectual, interpersonal, and psychomotor nursing skills to assist the person in optimizing health. Learning experiences in health care agencies and community settings provide opportunities for students to apply course content utilizing therapeutic nursing interventions to assist individuals and families in meeting their needs as they adapt to lifespan stressors and environmental stressors.
Lecture: 4 hours per week |
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NURS 195 |
Nursing Practice II |
| 8 Credit(s) | Offered Spring Semester |
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NURS 195 focuses on the medical-surgical management of pathological processes common through the lifespan, effects on person/family, and implications for nursing care. The course emphasizes the application of the nursing process, caring relationships, and other therapeutic nursing interventions to assist the person in adaptation. Learning experiences in health care settings provide students with opportunities to develop skills in implementation of the nursing process, application of communication abilities, caring behaviors, and utilization of therapeutic nursing interventions.
Lecture: 4 hours per week |
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NURS 198 |
Nursing Practice Clinical Practicum |
| 1 Credit(s) | Summer Session (Two-week block) |
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This course is an elective for students enrolled in the Associate Degree Nursing program. It provides students with opportunities to apply the theory and skills from preceding nursing courses in clinical nursing practice. Patient care experience in an acute care health setting allows students to further develop skills in critical thinking and application of the nursing process, effective communication with patients, family and other health care providers, and implementing therapeutic nursing interventions.
Lab: 3 hours per week |
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NURS 290 |
Nursing Practice III |
| 8 Credit(s) | Offered Fall Semester |
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NURS 290 focuses on providing nursing care for persons/families experiencing pregnancy, childbirth, or acute chronic illness. Emphasis is on utilizing knowledge of the altered physiology/pathology, treatment modalities, critical thinking, and therapeutic nursing interventions to optimize health. Learning experiences in health care settings provide students with opportunities to further develop nursing competencies while collaborating with others in caring for multiple clients.
Lecture: 4 hours per week |
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NURS 295 |
Nursing Practice IV |
| 9 Credit(s) | Offered Spring Semester |
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Nursing Practice IV focuses on providing nursing care at any of the six levels of health care: preventative, primary, secondary, tertiary, restorative and continuing care. The course also focuses on providing care for persons/families with mental health disorders. The course emphasizes the development of critical thinking and the development of competencies required to provide care for individuals, families, and groups of patients in a variety of health care settings. Learning experiences take place in mental health facilities, acute care and long-term care facilities, and community health care settings. These experiences provide the student opportunities to develop competencies in providing care, clinical decision making, collaborating with other health care providers, and professional development.
Lecture: 4 hours per week |
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