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  • 4.00 Credits

    Introduces the student to disease processes and prevention, collaborative care, and implementation of the nursing process for adults and older adults. Enhances student knowledge regarding assessing human response to changing health and applying the appropriate nursing intervention for safe, patient-centered care. Applies evidence-based practice for the care of adults and older adults. Prerequisite:    ( FDNT 212 and NURS 236 and NURS 316 and NURS 317 and NURS 316 and BIOL 241 and PHYS 151 and PHYS 161 )
  • 5.00 Credits

    Provides students with opportunities to apply the nursing process to adults and older adults in a variety of settings and demonstrates nursing professionalism in their interactions with individuals, families, and community. Increases students' ability to perform comprehensive health assessments and collaborate with members of the health care team to identify problems, plan, intervene, and evaluate care for adults and older adults. Emphasizes safe, patient-centered comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care, and professional standards of practice. Prerequisite:    ( NURS 212 NURS 212 and NURS 214 and NURS 236 and NURS 236 and BIOL 241 and PHYS 151 and NURS 316 and NURS 336 )
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides the nursing student with a pathophysiological approach to the therapeutic use of medications. Relationships between pharmacology and pathophysiology are explored. An emphasis will be placed on understanding prescribed pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, nursing assessment and interventions, and patient well-being related to the effects of specific diseases or conditions
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to current social issues, models, and evidence-based research in health promotion, disease prevention, and population health relevant to individuals and communities. Explores individual and population health promotion assessment, health behavior interventions, and disease prevention in diverse populations to improve patient and population health outcomes. Develops and implements an intervention and prevention plan which addresses individual and population health problems. Critiques research and evidence-based practice relevant to population health.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Emphasizes leadership, communication and relationship building, knowledge of the health care environment, and resource management. Discusses leadership/management skills and processes. Examines the role of designer/ manager/coordinator of care in professional nursing in depth. Prerequisite:    ( NURS 312 and NURS 337 and NURS 339 and NURS 432 and NURS 434 and NURS 435 ) or ( NURS 312 and NURS 337 and NURS 339 and NURS 436 and NURS 437 )
  • 2.00 Credits

    Opportunities for clinical practice as a provider of public/community health nursing care for the individual, family, population, and global community and to function as a member of the interprofessional team when working among diverse and/or vulnerable populations. Emphasis is placed on leadership, management, and providing safe, comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care. The effect of health policy on client care is an integral part of the course.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Focuses on the principles, concepts, and best practices that guide nursing practice in a variety of psychiatric/mental health settings. Addresses the role of the nurse in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention/intervention as it relates to individuals, families, and aggregates with mental health and psychiatric conditions. Prerequisite:    ( NURS 336 and NURS 337 and NURS 338 and NURS 339 and NURS 412 )
  • 2.00 Credits

    Focuses opportunities for students to provide mental health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention in a variety of settings and diverse populations. Increases student ability to perform as a member of inter-professional teams in acute and community based psychiatric care facilities and to identify personal beliefs and how it impacts the therapeutic relationship. Assimilate evidence-based practice through critical reasoning to apply nursing strategies to assist individuals, families, and groups.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Focuses on public/community health nursing care for the individual, family, population, and global community. Examines the influences of the health care delivery systems and theoretical frameworks applicable to public/community health. Considers the impact of technology, environment, society, and current issues in public/community health nursing. Prerequisite:    ( NURS 336 and NURS 337 and NURS 338 and NURS 339 and NURS 412 )
  • 4.00 Credits

    Focuses on the adult and older adult, family, and community with critical and/or complex health problems with a patient centered approach to nursing care. Emphasizes the relationships among clinical manifestations of disease states, treatment, cultural influences and associated nursing responsibilities. Focuses on utilizing their knowledge base of diagnostics, pharmacology, interventions, and rehabilitation needs through critical reasoning to plan the care of patients with critical and/or complex health problems. Emphasizes the incorporation of evidence-based practice interventions into nursing practice. Prerequisite:    ( NURS 336 and NURS 337 and NURS 338 and NURS 339 and NURS 412 and NURS 437 )