9 courses with the subject NRSL, 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.
NRSL 320Transitions in Professional Nursing Practice (3 SH)
This course is designed to support a smooth transition for new to practice registered nurses who are employed in their initial professional positions. Successful transition into the role of a professional nurse will be fostered through faculty and peer coaching and support. An overarching aim of this Nurse Residency is professional socialization while fostering stress management, problem-solving, creative thinking, and durability in the new professional position.
NRSL 325Art and Science of Effective Communication (3 SH)
This course is designed to enhance the written, oral and interpersonal communication ability of students. With an emphasis on academic integrity, the course will foster writing skills using American Psychological Association formatting. Other content will address information and media literacy, content creation, and the ethics inherent in their use. Communication skills will be enhanced through discussion of social media, crucial conversations, mediation, and therapeutic communication.
This course 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 course provides students with knowledge and skills in history taking and physical examination of healthy individuals. At the end of the course, each student will be required to do a mastery demonstration of a head-to-toe assessment on a person of choice. The information and skills Course Descriptions - 231
This course focuses on contemporary health care issues and their impact on current policy. An open systems model and change theory is used to explore the US healthcare system, health care organizations, health care policy, payment systems and the role of nurses within this system. Possibilities for health care reform and alternate systems are discussed. The effect of behaviors, attitudes, values and perceptions of participants in the system is examined.
This course 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. Students do a community assessment and project with a community organization.
NRSL 420Principles of Nursing Management and Leadership (3 SH)
This course 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.
NRSL 450Evidence Based Practice with Capstone (6 SH)
The student, as a consumer of nursing research, will explore the basics of how research is conducted and applied to clinical practice. The research process will be reviewed - from identification of the problem to using the findings in practice. The course will culminate with an evidence-based practice project that includes selecting a topic of interest to the student, conducting a review of literature, and preparation of a presentation of the findings. The student will be encouraged to share their work in a clinical setting where related healthcare services are provided. Core: WI. Offered through Lancaster
This course 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. Students home visits with a family and do a family health assessment.
