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  • NSG 456: Interprofessional Simulation

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The primary objective of this course is to examine the interrelationship of various healthcare professions through simulation activities. In this course, students will examine the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to establish effective teamwork across healthcare disciplines. Teamwork has been found to be one of the key initiatives within patient safety that can transform the culture of healthcare delivery. Patient safety requires effective communication and other teamwork skills to deliver quality healthcare and to prevent medical errors, patient injury, and harm. To address this, health sciences students will explore a team-based, interdisciplinary, integrative approach to healthcare delivery through online self-study, simulation, debriefing, and self-reflection. Speaking emphasis skills will be assessed during performance of case presentations in simulations and analytical oral interpretations of the performance in debriefing. Students will examine strategies that enhance collaboration, communication, and patient safety, leading to integration of various perspectives into a unified framework of healthcare delivery.
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  • NSG 480: Advanced Clinical Simulation in Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    In this class students will role play a variety of roles during advanced patient care scenarios using SIM-MAN technology. During scenarios students will assess patient condition, critically think through patient care problems, implement nursing interventions, and evaluate patient outcomes in crisis situations. Students will evaluate performance of self and peers during debriefing sessions for continued improvement in problem solving complex patient care situations and evaluate outcomes.
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  • NSL 212: Health Assessment and the Fundamentals of Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This course provides the nursing student with skills in physical and psychosocial assessment of adult clients. The course also assists in the development and demonstration of the fundamental skills in nursing to include a checking of competence for all skills necessary to begin clinical practicums. Prerequisite:    NSG 101
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  • NSL 311: Laboratory

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    Clinical experiences are provided in agencies where relatively well populations have been identified, such as schools, day care centers, and childbirth settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, NSG 310
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  • NSL 312: Laboratory

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    Clinical experience is provided in rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and acute care settings. These environments provide flexibility for students to implement changes for clients and acquire skills which will be utilized in other nursing courses. Prerequisite:    NSG 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, NSG 310
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  • NSL 381: Nursing Foundations and Population Health/Gerontology

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    In this course the student will examine various nursing theories and concepts; conceptual frameworks; theories from other disciplines which apply to nursing; nursing history; nursing education; professionalism in nursing; nursing leadership; the nursing process; nursing diagnosis, nursing research; ethical, legal, economic, and political aspects of nursing and current issues in nursing. The student will also study and learn to practice psychosocial and physical assessment skills as well as learning how to do: vital sign assessment, provide bedside nursing care, hygiene and comfort; transfer and positioning techniques for clients, and understand and demonstrate competence in the utilization of standard precautions as a health care provider. The emphasis of this course will also be on the maintenance, and promotion and health of the older adult and introduction to the care of the inpatient. Clients with chronic health problems in both these populations are addressed. Content is organized around the concepts of wellness, chronicity and acuity. The nursing process is used to assist these clients to grow and or adapt through supportive, therapeutic, palliative, and preventive measures. Prerequisite:    NSG 530, NSG 532, NSG 533 Corequisite:    NSG 381
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  • NSL 383: Caring for Healthy, Acute, and Chronic Populations - Pediatrics/Maternity/Medical-Surgical I

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The emphasis of this course is the medical-surgical, childbearing family, and the pediatric patient. Content will focus on prevention of illness and promotion of health by assessment of the health status, appropriate intervention, and evaluation of the health promotion plan. Chronic states as well as acute health conditions will be addressed as well. Content is organized around the concepts of wellness, chronicity and acuity. The nursing process provides the framework for the care to be given in a variety of settings with clients. Prerequisite:    NSG 381, NSL 381 Corequisite:    NSG 383
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  • NSL 385: Caring for Acutely Ill Populations - Medical-Surgical II & Behavioral Health/Immersive Experience

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The emphasis of this course is on the care of persons with acute medical-surgical and acute holistic health crises. Concepts of holistic care are highlighted throughout classroom and clinical experiences. The content will focus on the use of the nursing process to assist clients in crisis. The framework for the care to be given will reflect concepts including the use of leadership, management, and public /population health nursing concepts to manage and improve health. Students will collaborate, coordinate, and advocate as they use the nursing process independently and interdependently to focus on the complex problems of individuals, families, communities, populations, and systems. Students are expected to function as self-directed learners who correlate nursing/scientific theory and concepts with identifiable research problems in varied environments. Clinical experiences are provided in an immersion experience in acute care psychiatric inpatient and medical surgical settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 381, NSL 381, NSG 383, NSL 383 Corequisite:    NSG 385
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  • NSL 411: Laboratory

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    Clinical experiences are provided in acute care psychiatric in-patient and in medical surgical settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 311, NSL 311, NSG 312, NSL 312
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  • NSL 412: Laboratory

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The clinical experience is provided in acute care medical surgical settings and in Community/Public Health settings. The student will have the opportunity to use leadership and systems level skills and to develop interdependency in their nursing practice. Prerequisite:    NSG 311, NSL 311, NSG 312, NSL 312 Corequisite:    NSG 412
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