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NUR
45 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 2100Health Promotion and Nutrition Lifespan3
Credit(s) 3 This course focuses on the holistic approach to the health promotion and nutrition of the individual and family throughout all developmental stages, across the lifespan. This course will address the primary influences on health and health risks specific to each age group, with cultural care considerations. Emphasis will be the role of the nurse in guiding individuals and families through life transitions.
Credit(s) 3 This course provides the student with the theoretical principles of nursing interventions designed to assist clients in meeting their human needs. The course focuses on the use of the nursing process in the application of knowledge from nursing, including the behavioral, social, and biological sciences and the humanities, to meet acute and chronic unmet human needs of clients. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140 Corequisites NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300
Credit(s) 3 This course is the clinical component of NUR 3000 : Fundamentals of Nursing, and consists of 45 hours of skills lab and 90 hours of clinical experience. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140 Corequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300
NUR 3030Basic Nursing Simulations and Skills Laboratory1
Credit(s) 1 This course provides the student with the study of nursing therapeutics that serve as the basis for many aspects of nursing care. Nursing techniques and the evaluation of the outcomes of those techniques for a selected group of health care concepts will be discussed, demonstrated, practiced and validated in this laboratory course. Simulation activities will comprise a component of this course. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140 Corequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030, NUR 3100 and NUR 3300
Credit(s) 3 This course will introduce the nursing student to the effects of disease processes on human biology at the cellular and systemic levels. Emphasis is placed on understanding risk factors and prevalence, clinical manifestations, diagnostic indicators, and anatomical and physiologic changes seen in selected prevalent disease processes. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140 Corequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3200 or RN to BSN Admission
Credit(s) 2 Knowledge and skills to conduct a basic health assessment including health history and physical examination. Interpretation of normal findings and identification of deviations from normal. Prerequisites Admission to Nursing Major Corequisites NUR 2100 and NUR 3140
Credit(s) 3 A course intended to improve the communication skills of health care professionals. Three components of communication are the focus of this course: enhancing interpersonal communication skills; developing teaching skills; and health care informatics. Elective.
Credit(s) 3 This course introduces management and leadership concepts essential in professional nursing practice in the 21st century. Management and leadership theories, roles and functions serve as the foundation for the course. Key concepts covered include managing quality using informatics tools and systems, patient safety, staffing, fiscal planning and decision making.
Credit(s) 3 This course explores professional nursing in relation to the sociocultural, environmental, demographic, and economic factors impacting health and healthcare in the Appalachian region. The course will explore specific issues in Appalachian health to analyze current practices and develop optimal patient-centered nursing care. In addition, students will discuss how cultural competence, health equity, health literacy, and holistic care to promote public wellness.
Credit(s) 1 This course provides the student with the study of nursing therapeutics and techniques of medication administration. Safe medication administration, dosage calculation, medication administration techniques, and the evaluation of outcomes of those techniques for patients will be discussed, demonstrated, practiced, and validated in this laboratory course. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140
Credit(s) 3 Explores salient professional nursing concepts including cultural, ethical and legal influences on practice, theoretical foundations of nursing practice, nursing leadership and nurses’ contribution to the health of the public. Prerequisites Admission to the RN to BSN Program
Credit(s) 3 This course introduces principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapy. The use of the nursing process for safe medication administration including legal and ethical standards will be discussed. Lifespan, genetic, and cultural implications of drug therapy are explored. Prerequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3130 , and NUR 3140 Corequisites NUR 2100 , NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3200 or RN to BSN Admission
Credit(s) 3 This course is part II of the Pharmacology requirement for nursing. It focuses on fundamental principles in systems pharmacology and their application. Topics include: drug classifications and the effect of body biochemical processes on the disposition of drugs, including quantitative expression of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME); specific aspects of systems pharmacology, including autonomic and cardiovascular pharmacology, neuropharmacology and toxicology. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300 Corequisites NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530
Credit(s) 3 This course focuses on how nursing knowledge and clinical judgement relate to health promotion, disease prevention, and nursing care of adult patients experiencing chronic and acute medical conditions. Students will explore the role of nursing in restoring and/or maintaining wellness within selected disease processes. Emphasis is placed on the use of the nursing process to promote safe and effective patient-centered care within the ethical and legal frameworks that govern nursing practice. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300 Corequisites NUR 3310 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530
Credit(s) 3 This course focuses on the psychiatric-mental health needs of the individual and family. Biological, psychological, and emotional systems will be emphasized. Development of nursing knowledge and skill for intervention with social-emotional balances and imbalances in the lifespan will be explored. Stress, adaptation, communication, and personality development are emphasized. Behavioral and cognitive concepts, crisis theory, and mental health theories are explored. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300 Corequisites NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530
NUR 3530Adult Medical Surgical Nursing Simulation and Skills Lab1
Credit(s) 1 This course provides the student opportunities to learn and demonstrate mastery of selected nursing skills. The elements of the course are focused on enhancing previously learned technical and soft skills and incorporating additional care skills into the student’s nursing practice. The students will engage in hands-on skill demonstration and simulation in the nursing care of selected adult healthcare scenarios. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 and NUR 3300 Corequisites NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , and NUR 3500
Credit(s) 3 Comparison of health status, delivery systems and education of health professionals in selected industrial and developing countries. Open to non-majors. Elective.
NUR 4030Medical Surgical and Childrearing Families Simulation and Skills Lab1
Credit(s) 1 This course is the laboratory component to NUR 4300 Adult Medical Surgical Nursing II and NUR 4400 Nursing Care of Childrearing Families . This course provides the student opportunities to learn and demonstrate mastery of selected nursing skills. The elements of the course are focused on enhancing both previously and currently learned technology, interventions, soft skills, critical thinking, application of clinical reasoning and nursing judgement. Emphasis is placed on caring for patients and families across the lifespan with both chronic and complex acute disease processes. Students will engage in hands-on skill demonstrations as well as low and high-fidelity simulation in the nursing care of selected childrearing patients and adult healthcare scenarios. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 , NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530 Corequisites NUR 4300 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4400 , NUR 4410 , and NUR 4710
Credit(s) 3 Examines the patterns and health care of the people of rural Appalachia for the purpose of adapting knowledge and health care models to their rural life-style and needs. Special attention is focused on assessment and planning to enhance patient self-care and on evaluation of interventions to improve and/or maintain health. Prerequisites Admission to the RN to BSN Program
Credit(s) 3 This course will explore essential genomic competencies for professional nurses to improve clients’ health and increase their longevity. Health and wellness in context of human diversity for individuals and families is emphasized. Implications for best practices associated with genomic information including ethics and counseling are highlighted. Prerequisites Admission to the RN to BSN Program
Credit(s) 3 This course is a continuation of NUR 3400 Adult Medical Surgical Nursing I course, with a focus on the application of clinical reasoning and nursing judgment as it relates to health promotion, disease prevention, management, and care of adult patients experiencing both complex, acute and chronic medical conditions. Emphasis is on disease processes, nursing assessment, analysis, implementation, and evaluation. Additional topics include safe and effective person-centered care, evidence-based practice, correlation of disease prevention and population health, collaboration with other professions/family/and the patient, standards of professional nursing, including both legal and ethical decision making. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 , NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530 Corequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4400 , NUR 4410 , and NUR 4710
NUR 4310Adult Medical Surgical Nursing II Clinical3
Credit(s) 3 This course is the clinical component of NUR 4300 Adult Medical Surgical Nursing II and consists of 135 hours of clinical experience. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 , NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530 Corequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4300 , NUR 4310, NUR 4410 , and NUR 4710
Credit(s) 3 This course includes the study of nursing care as it relates to families experiencing stressors associated with family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, caring for the newborn, infants, children, and adolescents. The content of the course also focuses on specific physiologic changes and pathophysiological disorders of childbearing and childrearing families experiencing the stressors accompanying the illness of one of its members, with biological, psychosocial, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. The course emphasizes using the nursing process in applying knowledge from the nursing and other disciplines as a basis for assisting persons in meeting their needs and promoting wellness. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 , NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530 Corequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4300 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4410 , and NUR 4710
NUR 4410Nursing Care of Childrearing Families Clinical3
Credit(s) 3 This course is the clinical component of NUR 4400 Nursing Care of Childrearing Families , and consists of 135 hours of clinical experience. This clinical will give students experience in family planning, prenatal, labor and delivery, and post natal care. Experience in the care of the pediatric client will also be a focus. Corequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4300 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4400 , and NUR 4710
Credit(s) 3 Development of clinical decision-making skills related to health and chronic illness of individuals and families in rural communities. Prerequisites Prelicensure, all first semester senior nursing courses; RN to BSN Admission to the Nursing major, MTH 1010 , MTH 1180 Corequisites
Credit(s) 2 This course is the clinical component of NUR 4600 Community Health Nursing , and consists of 90 hours of clinical experience. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 Corequisites NUR 4600 , NUR 4800 , NUR 4810 , NUR 4930 , and NUR 4940
Credit(s) 2 This course is the clinical component of NUR 4600 : Community Health Nursing, designed specifically for the RN to BSN student. Prerequisites Admission to the Nursing Major, MTH 1010 and MTH 1180 Corequisites NUR 4600 (RN to BSN Students Only)
Credit(s) 1 Case management and clinical decision making in nursing of individuals and families in rural communities. Elective. Prerequisites RN to BSN Students Only Corequisites NUR 4653
Credit(s) 3 Clinical decision making and case management based on principles of home health nursing practice. Application of clinical skills, family and community concepts with emphasis on clinical reasoning and decision making. Elective. Prerequisites RN to BSN Students Only, NUR 3130 and NUR 3150
Credit(s) 3 This course emphasizes public health and community nursing concepts essential for professional nursing practice. Focus is on the concepts of community health nursing practice, epidemiology and disease transmission, comprehensive assessment of risk factors and health problems, program planning and intervention, environmental health, and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. A major emphasis is placed on public health in rural communities. Prerequisites RN to BSN Students Only
Credit(s) 3 This course is designed to explore the theory and methods of evidence based practice with emphasis on its role in providing quality patient-centered care. It will provide an overview of research methodologies and processes, critical review of research, and the asking and answering of clinical nursing questions through the synthesis of current literature and analysis of clinical practice guidelines. Prerequisites NUR 3000 , NUR 3010 , NUR 3030 , NUR 3100 , NUR 3200 , NUR 3300 , NUR 3310 , NUR 3400 , NUR 3410 , NUR 3500 , NUR 3510 , and NUR 3530 or Admission to the RN to BSN Program Corequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4300 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4400 , and NUR 4410
Credit(s) 3 This course will assist students with analysis of selected economic, ethical, legal, political, professional and social issues influencing nursing and health care delivery. Students will be introduced to leadership and management principles and their application to nursing practice. Prerequisites NUR 4030 , NUR 4300 , NUR 4310 , NUR 4400 , NUR 4410 , and NUR 4710 Corequisites NUR 4600 , NUR 4610 , NUR 4800, NUR 4930 , and NUR 4949
Credit(s) 3 Building on Management and Leadership I, this course presents concepts related to managing and leading in the changing healthcare environment. Interdisciplinary team building in a culturally diverse environment, delegation, conflict management, organizational structures and leading planned change in a variety of health care settings will be presented. Prerequisites RN to BSN Students Only
Credit(s) 3 A capstone course which requires students to integrate principles of patience centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics, and patient safety through discussion, personal reflection and development of a professional portfolio. Prerequisites RN to BSN Students Only
Credit(s) 3 This course is designed to enhance transition to professional nursing positions. A major focus is on strengthening critical-thinking skills in the application of nursing knowledge. Students will have the opportunity to assess and analyze their ability to synthesize concepts of nursing care and apply those concepts in clinical, simulated and standardized examinations. Prerequisites All lower division nursing courses and Liberal Arts Core Requirements; Must be enrolled in last semester of nursing education Corequisites NUR 4600 , NUR 4610 , NUR 4800 , NUR 4810 , NUR 4940
