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Focuses on assessment of the healthy family and the relationship of health assessment to prevention and early detection of disease, incorporating the processes of interviewing, history-taking, and physical assessment. A laboratory component integrating nursing skills and procedures is included.
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Focuses on development of nursing knowledge and management through use of simulated patient encounters. Students will explore concepts related to family and society to develop nursing strategies to foster family and societal care.
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This course provides an introduction to the concepts of evidence-based practice, research, critical inquiry development and application to inform nursing practice that promotes healthcare and facilitates equitable health outcomes of individuals, families and society.
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- Prerequisites: RN licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.
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- Writing Intensive
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Introduces concepts fundamental to professional nursing: roles of professional nurse and interprofessional team members, regulatory guidelines, standards of practice, health care organizations and economics. The nursing process with care planning and concept maps will be presented. Theoretical perspectives on professional nursing and the concept of persons, health and environment are introduced.
Focuses on nursing management of alterations in physiologic integrity across the lifespan that includes health promotion and prevention as well as early detection of alterations in physiological integrity. This course will assist students in the application of theory, use of the nursing process, and identification of clinical implications of US and global health issues.
Critical inquiry into the nursing care of family and society in the context of diverse cultures. Explores concepts related to family and society as clients, the family and societal health experience, and nursing strategies to foster family and societal care.
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A focus on assessment of the healthy family and the relationship of health assessment to prevention and early detection of disease, incorporating the processes of interviewing, history-taking, and physical assessment. A laboratory component integrating nursing skills and procedures is included.
Introduces the value of scientific inquiry, use of scholarly evidence, and significance of critical thinking/development of clinical reasoning. Examines theoretical frameworks pertaining to scientific inquiry and development of nursing knowledge through research and evidence-based practice.
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- NURS 310, NURS 311, NURS 312, NURS 313, NURS 317
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
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Focuses on nursing management of alterations in physiological integrity and meeting needs of patients with commonly occurring acute or chronic health disorders and/or injury. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of clients with acute or complex needs.
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- NURS 310, NURS 311, NURS 312, NURS 313, NURS 317
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Focuses on mental health and psychosocial concepts and the responsibility of nursing in promoting and maintaining psychosocial integrity of individuals. Application of therapeutic communication and caring relationships through evidenced based nursing actions and treatment of common clinical conditions.
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- NURS 310, NURS 311, NURS 312, NURS 313, NURS 317
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Focuses on the critical inquiry of the physiological and psychosocial changes occurring within families during the childbearing period. Incorporates inclusive family support strategies and parental involvement. Includes didactic and experiential learning designed to promote family-focused nursing care and improve family health outcomes.
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- NURS 310, NURS 311, NURS 312, NURS 313, NURS 317
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Focuses on developing clinical judgment, decision-making, and psychosocial understanding of changes experienced by families using simulated patient encounters. Students will treat the patient and family as a unit of care.
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- NURS 310, NURS 311, NURS 312, NURS 313, NURS 317
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This course investigates the concepts related to family as client, nurse-family relationships, and the family health experience by examining family literature and family research. Utilizing family nursing theory as a framework, learners will develop nursing actions and interventions for healthy families and families experiencing acute, chronic, and critical illness. Healthcare policies will be evaluated related to family and societal health to advance equitable care.
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- Prerequisites: RN licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.
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Introduction to fundamental theories and frameworks pertaining to scientific inquiry, development of nursing knowledge, evidence-based and informed practice, and research utilization in nursing practice.
Focuses on nursing management of alterations in physiological integrity and meeting needs of patients with commonly occurring acute or chronic health disorders and/or injury. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of clients with acute or complex needs.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 284, NURS 330, NURS 333, NURS 334, NURS 336
Focuses on the critical inquiry of the physiological and psychosocial changes occurring with families during the childbearing/childrearing transition period. Includes didactic and experiential learning designed to promote family centered nursing care and improved family health outcomes.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 333, NURS 334, NURS 335, NURS 336
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Focus on identification, implementation, and evaluation of patient/family quality and safety measures. Includes quality movement history and evolution, current quality of care issues, research and innovations, intervention strategies, and instruments; with an analysis of health care quality management system models.
This course explores the nurse's role in providing care to individuals and families of diverse spiritual, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds across the lifespan. Learners examine cultural diversity, spirituality, marginalized populations, and the integration of complementary and alternative therapies to provide holistic care. Learners perform spiritual and cultural assessments, create a plan of care, and evaluate the effects of the care plan to promote a holistic approach to nursing.
- Prerequisites:
- RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion Program.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Diverse Cultures - Gold
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Curricular Practical Training: Co-Operative Employment Experience for undergraduate international F-1 pre-nursing/nursing students to gain practical work experience related to the field of nursing for one summer and one adjunct fall or spring term. Special rules and eligibility criteria established by the Pre-licensure Nursing Program must be met. Please contact an advisor in your program for complete information.
An experiential immersion into the healthcare needs of the client and family within another culture with a focus on nursing interventions to promote health. An intense induction into cultural humility will enhance awareness and promote an appreciation for global health.
This course examines application of concepts and strategies for psychosocial and interprofessional communication to elevate professional nursing roles, responsibilities, and interactions that enhance intraprofessional and interprofessional collaboration for equitable healthcare optimization, maintenance, experiences, and outcomes for individuals, families, and society.
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Focuses on identification, implementation, and evaluation of patient/family quality and safety measures. Includes quality movement history and evolution, current quality of care issues, research and innovations, intervention strategies, and instruments; with an analysis of health care quality management system models.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
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Focuses on nursing management of alterations in physiological integrity including patients with commonly occurring complex, multi-system health disorders. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of patients with chronicity of disease and rehabilitation needs.
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- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
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Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, determinants of health, community and systems-levels interventions, and fundamental issues of health equity. Students apply public health science, epidemiology, systems-level thinking, and policy development to support population focused nursing care.
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- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
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Focuses on the critical inquiry of families¿ health and illness experiences. Examines family reserves, coping and resiliency across the lifespan and among vulnerable populations. Promotes family centered nursing care during transitions within child, adolescent, adult and older adult family transitions.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 350W, NURS 351, NURS 353, NURS 356, NURS 357
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