31 courses with the subject NUR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
NUR 311Socialization to Professional Nursing3
This course sets the foundation for professional practice that is built upon throughout the curriculum. As the healthcare industry changes swiftly, so does professional nursing practice. This course introduces students to all aspects of the nursing profession, including an overview of nursing roles, theories, and professional practice. In addition, this course will introduce nurses as members of the healthcare team, emphasizing the importance of patient-centered care, interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, and evidence-based practice.
This course is an introduction to foundations of nursing practice and the nurse patient relationship. The essential elements of caring, critical thinking, teaching, assessment, communication, and professionalism are addressed. The phases of the nursing process are introduced with the focus on holistic assessment of the patient from wellness to illness in the acute care setting. The nursing skills needed for the integral components of patient care will be taught. Key concepts that will be covered are technology, infection control, and injury prevention which will promote a safe patient environment. Learning experiences guide the development of affective, psychomotor, and cognitive skills necessary for the practice of a professional nurse. Lab and clinical experience included.
NUR 325Health Assessment in Professional Nursing Practice3
This course provides practicing nurses the opportunity to learn the theories and skills involved with assessment of physical, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of clients across the life span through theory and virtual laboratory sessions. The major focus is on the well individual with references to illness for comparison. Health Assessment is designed to assist the student in developing history interviewing skills, perform a systematic physical examination and a psychosocial assessment. As a provider of care, functioning in the professional role, students will learn to integrate knowledge from the physical and behavioral sciences, initiate a comprehensive assessment review and document data findings. NUR 325 utilizes differential interpretation of normal versus abnormal, with an emphasis placed on the well individual with references to illness for comparison. NUR 325 fosters the development of critical thinking abilities, utilizing the nursing process, identifying assessment characteristics of a variety of symptoms that forms a basis for clinical reasoning. Practice Experience Included for RNtoBSN Students.
This course provides the opportunity through classroom and laboratory sessions for students to learn the theories and skills involved with the assessment of physical, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of clients across the life span. The major focus is on the well individual with references to illness for comparison. Health Assessment is designed to assist the student in developing history interviewing skills, performing a systematic physical examination, and a psychosocial assessment. As a provider of care and functioning in the professional role, students will learn to integrate knowledge from the physical and behavioral sciences, initiate a comprehensive assessment review, and document data findings. NUR 326 utilizes differential interpretation of normal versus abnormal, with an emphasis placed on the well individual with references to illness for comparison. NUR 326 fosters the development of critical thinking abilities, utilizing the nursing process, as well as identifying assessment characteristics of a variety of symptoms which forms a basis for clinical reasoning.
This course will examine the basic principles and processes of pathophysiology, including cellular communication, genetics, forms of cellular injury, fluid and electrolytes, acid-base balance, immunity, stress, coping, illness, and tumors. We will discuss how systems interact during times of illness and how nursing care is impacted.
NUR 346Care of Populations and Communities (1 to 2)
This course focuses on the health of populations and communities through the study of epidemiology, health promotion, and disease prevention across the lifespan. The influences of environment, genetics, culture, economics, and access to care are analyzed throughout the course. The organization and function of federal, state, and local health care systems and their relationship are also explored. The practical experience (clinical component) will allow the student to interact and apply the concepts learned in this course. The design of the clinical experience lends itself as a service-learning project to introduce nursing students to community programs and services that focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and risk reduction for specific populations. Service-learning is one mechanism for creating intentional partnerships and meaningful experiential learning opportunities. Students will have the opportunity to assess community-based programs, identify health promotion initiatives, make recommendations, develop health education activities, and present findings through assignments and reflective journals.
NUR 347Care of Populations and Communities in Professional Nursing Practice3
This course focuses on the health of populations and communities through the study of epidemiology, health promotion, and disease prevention across the lifespan. The influences of environment, genetics, culture, economics, and access to care are analyzed. The organization and function of federal, state, and local health care systems and their relationship is explored. The clinical practice experience component will allow the student to interact and apply concepts learned in this course. Practice Experience Included.
Maternal, paternal, fetal/neonatal physiologic and psychosocial responses to childbearing. Family theory provides framework for interpreting and understanding the way the family adjusts to pregnancy, birth, and the addition of the newborn.
This course will provide an in-depth look at the older adult who constitute a majority and growing proportion of people who receive nursing care. The health status of older adults is diverse and frequently very complex, often influenced by income level, living arrangements, and need for physical and psychosocial support. The focus is on learning strategies to assist the aging population in maintaining optimal health with chronic illness. To accomplish this, the student will discuss modalities for health promotion, health maintenance, disease prevention, and treatment of illness. Clinical included.
NUR 413Trends and Issues in Professional Nursing Practice3
This course focuses on current trends in the nursing profession and health care. Trends and issues regarding nursing education, research, and practice are analyzed within a historical, social, and multicultural systems framework. Topics include the ethical and legal aspects of nursing and health care, the legislative process, role of the nurse as political advocate, and professional development. Students will appraise the future of nursing, with particular emphasis on the creativity, critical thinking and decision-making needed to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex health care system. A 42-hour clinical component will allow students to apply their leadership abilities in the practice setting. Practice Experience Included.
Identification of physiological and psychological stressors that affect patient behavior. Interference with oxygenation, elimination, nutrition, endocrine and neurologic systems, sexuality and reproduction in relation to maturation of individual and family. Lab component relates classroom theory to nursing practice. Prerequisite(s); if any: All 300-level required clinical nursing courses.
NUR 444Care of Populations with Psychiatric Concerns (0 to 3)
This course presents the biopsychosocial model as a framework for understanding psychiatric mental health nursing. The nursing process is used to operationalize critical thinking and clinical decision-making in the care of individuals, groups, and families responding to complex neurobiological and psychosocial alterations. A diverse range of biopsychosocial interventions will be utilized including psychotropic medications, individual and group therapies, and psychoeducational. Clinical hours provide the student the opportunity to practice the delivery of nursing care with individuals, groups, and families who are experiencing a range of neurobiologic and psychosocial alterations related to psychiatric disorders. Clinical practice occurs in diverse settings where emphasis is placed on the development of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship and the utilization of therapeutic communication as the ideal context for the delivery of excellent care. A diverse range of biopsychosocial interventions will be utilized including psychotropic medications, individual and group therapies, and psychoeducational.
NUR 445Introduction to Research Methods and Design3
This course introduces students to the scientific method that provides a foundation for evidence-based practice. Critical elements of the research process will be taught, discussed, and applied using published research studies. Emphasis will be placed on scientific integrity and maintaining ethical standards. Students develop the skills needed to become critical consumers of research literature and participants in the research process.
This course focuses on the nurse’s role in promoting adaptation in the childrearing family. Stressors considered include perinatal complications in the childrearing family, well-child health promotion, and childhood illness. Emphasis is placed on the nurse’s use of anticipatory guidance and knowledge of the normal processes of childrearing and child development. Several unifying principles guide the organizational structure of the course: the family as the unit of care, the integration of growth and development, focus on wellness as well as illness, and the critical role of research in guiding nursing practice. Clinical is included.
This course introduces the student to palliative and hospice care nursing across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the interprofessional approach to nursing care for the physical, psychological, social and spiritual concerns of patients and families as they relate to pain, symptom management, and comfort care, and end-of-life decisions. Students will explore their own perceptions of death and loss and how this affects their ability to care for themselves and their patients.
Issues past and present as they impact on practice of professional nursing. Topics may include historical development of nursing profession; legal responsibility; ethical issues; image of nursing; role of nurse as political advocate; and development of professional role.
Individually supervised research and study. Provides opportunity for students to engage in original research or to pursue scholarly investigations beyond the boundaries of established courses. Arranged by agreement between the student and the instructor, subject to approval of coordinator and division dean.
