10 courses with the subject NRS, 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.
NRS 330Nurses as Adult Learners3
The emphasis in this module is on the experiential nature of non-traditional education, self-reflection activities and selected nursing processes. Selected nursing processes include: critical thinking concepts, groups as peer, and mutual goal setting as an instrument for change and growth. The objective of the module is personal discovery and affirmation through examination of personal strengths and subsequent adjustments that may assist areas of personal growth.
NRS 340Professional Nurse: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities5
This module presents the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for current professional nursing practice. Classroom activities focus on library usage skills, an introduction to nursing research, concepts of professional nursing, communication skills, nursing and crisis theories, the history of nursing, and spirituality. A paper is written in which professional nursing concepts are integrated into an individual philosophy of nursing.
This module presents the skills necessary to perform a written health history and comprehensive physical assessment. Connections are made between physical findings and common abnormalities.
This module presents an introduction to elementary probability theory and random variables. These are applied to statistical theory involving descriptive statistics, correlation, hypothesis testing, and analysis of variance.
This module guides the student through the research process and teaches the art of becoming a critical consumer of research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are examined. Students critically read and critique nursing research.
This module focuses on nursing with the community as the client. Theories of community nursing are examined and applied in community agencies. Epidemiology, communicable diseases, and crisis theory are considered.
NRS 420Principles of Nursing Management and Supervision4
This module presents motivational theory and its application to individual and group functioning. Leadership styles and governance models are examined. Legal issues are discussed. The effect of organizational change on nursing delivery systems is evaluated. The concepts of power, oppression, advocacy, delegation, stress, and change are addressed.
In this module the nurse explores nursing research and applies it to a clinical problem. The module consists of writing, implementing, and orally presenting it as a capstone presentation to the instructor and learning group. Honors Program drive and derive from the ideas formed The EMU Honors Program is an aca- by human experience. demic minor designed to provide aca- • Develop tools to bring balance to the demically gifted students with greater destabilizing impact of challenging opportunities for challenge and growth. core ideas, and the ability to contex- The goals of the program are designed to tualize one’s own story amidst the help students: Biblical understandings of the wider • Develop the ability to examine ideas as Anabaptist and Christian traditions. human constructs made to bring order • Develop the ability to formulate, cri- to chaos and sense to life, and the tique and begin to implement ideas in ability to respectfully & systematically a leadership capacity. wrestle with ideas, even those funda- mental to core beliefs. The EMU Honors Program seeks to • Develop the ability to read and use the attract bright and motivated students to wide variety of “texts” (written, visual, participate in a challenging curriculum, relational, scientific, cultural, etc.) that and is highly recommended to students who entered EMU with an Honors Special Programs • 205
This module focuses on nursing with the family as the client. Theories of family nursing are examined and applied with the family experience. Family development and crisis theory are considered.
