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• NURS 118: Guatemala: A Cross Cultural Nursing Immersion

  3.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Combines hands-on learning and service with a cultural- immersion experience as students travel to Guatemala to examine Guatemalan culture, its health care standards, Guatemalan's access to healthcare, and the country's current health-care system. This course builds upon the student's use of the Nursing Process and the clinical skills they acquired during the first year and beyond in the nursing curriculum. Focus is also on integrating the use of clinical skills, health promotion, critical thinking, and education while stimulating the student's self-awareness, confidence, and their pursuit of life-long learning. A course fee is required. Prerequisite: NURS 140 and 141 with grades of C or higher. Instructor's signature is required. Prerequisite:    NURS 140 & NURS 141
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• NURS 120: Zambia: A Cross-Cultural Nursing Immersion

  3.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Combines hands-on learning and service with a cultural- immersion experience as students travel to Zambia to examine Zambian culture, its health care standards, Zambian's access to healthcare, and the country's current health-care system. This course builds upon the student's use of the Nursing Process and the clinical skills acquired during the first year and beyond the nursing curriculum. Focus is also on integrating the use of clinical skills, health promotion, critical thinking and education while stimulating the student's self-awareness, confidence, and their pursuit of life-long learning. A course fee is required. Prerequisite: NURS 140, 141, 142, and 144 with grades of C or higher; Instructor's signature is required. Prerequisite:    NURS 140 & NURS 141 & NURS 142 & NURS 144
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• NURS 125: Dosage Calculations

  2.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Designed for students recently accepted into the Nursing program, are currently enrolled in the Nursing program, or have obtained permission of the course instructor. The course covers a complete basic review of Math principles followed by information necessary to calculate and safely administer medications. Calculation and administration of medications to adults and children are discussed. Oral and parenteral doses will be addressed, as well as, the introduction of intravenous therapy. Prerequisite: Permission of the Nursing Program Faculty.
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• NURS 140: Introduction to Nursing Practice Concepts I

  1.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Focuses on the clinical skills necessary to practice safe nursing care at a fundamental level. The clinical skills include: psychomotor skills, rationale, critical thinking, and physical assessment. This course also introduces fundamental skills which include safety, vital signs, intake and output, hygiene, TED hose application, ROM (range of motion), patient positioning, patient transfer techniques, body mechanics, standard precautions, isolation, oxygen therapy, oral/pharyngeal suctioning, safe non-parenteral medication administration, and medical asepsis. This course emphasizes the concept of caring and caring interventions and uses hands-on skill development, theory, and simulation scenarios to facilitate student learning. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: BIOL 121 with a grade of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 142 and 143; or permission of the Nursing Faculty. Prerequisite:    BIOL 121
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• NURS 141: Introduction to Nursing Practice Concepts II

  1.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Builds upon the nursing practice concepts introduced in NURS 140. This course focuses on intermediate clinical skills necessary to provide safe and effective aseptic nursing care. The clinical skills include: psychomotor skills, rationale, critical thinking, and physical assessment. This course also builds upon the fundamental skills covered in NURS 140 and includes: sterility, isolation with sterility, introduction to IV therapy and IV pumps, safe parenteral medication administration, enemas, urinary catheter insertion and care, specimen collection, and central line awareness. This course emphasizes the concept of caring and caring interventions and uses hands-on skill development, theory and simulation scenarios to facilitate student learning. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: BIOL 121; NURS 140, and 142 with grades of C or higher. Corerequisite: NURS 143 and 144.
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• NURS 142: Health Assessment Concepts for Nursing Practice

  3.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Introduces students to the health and physical assessment of clients and the detection of findings which indicate an abnormal condition. This course covers the concepts of accountability, advocacy, assessment, caring, cellular regulation, cognition, comfort, communication, culture, diversity, elimination, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, basic electrolyte balance, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, thermoregulation, tissue integrity, and violence as they all relate to the health and physical assessment clients. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: BIOL 121 with a grade of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 140, 143; BIOL 122; and PSYC 101.
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• NURS 143: Concepts of Informatics in Nursing Practice

  1.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Introduces the concepts and skills related to Informatics in nursing practice. Didactic instruction focuses on basic computer competency, information literacy as aids in the decision making process and the provision of evidenced-based nursing practice. In addition, the necessity for providing a "culture of safety," related to the use of Informatics in nursing practice, is stressed. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: BIOL 121 with a grade of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 140 and 142.
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• NURS 144: Fundamental Concepts for Nursing Practice

  3.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Introduces students to the foundational concepts for the practice of nursing. The foundational concepts emphasized are: accountability, advocacy, caring, cellular regulations, clinical decision making, communication, critical thinking, culture, diversity, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, fluid and electrolytes, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, infection, inflammation, legal issues, metabolism, mobility, nursing process, oxygenation, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, safety, sensory perception, spirituality, stress and coping, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, thermoregulation, time management/ organization, tissue integrity, and violence. Students incorporate cultural values and the client's right to choose in the process of health care decision making. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: BIOL 121; NURS 140, and 142 with grades of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 141, 143; BIOL 122; and ENGL 101.
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• NURS 146: IV Essentials and Dosage Calculation

  1.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  IV Essentials and Dosage Calculation Prerequisite:    NURS 141
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• NURS 150: Holistic Health Concepts for Nursing Practice I

  5.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  Addresses safe nursing care for the adult patient. This course is designed to develop the concepts of accountability, advocacy, behaviors, caring, clinical decision making, cognition, collaboration, communication, culture, diversity, elimination, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, fluid and electrolytes, grief and loss, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, immunity, infection, inflammation, metabolism, mobility, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, safety, sexuality, spirituality, stress and coping, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, time management/organization, and tissue integrity. Students gain the theoretical knowledge and clinical skills needed to organize and provide safe nursing care for diverse individuals. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: NURS 141, 144; BIOL 122; and ENGL 101 with grades of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 143, and PSYC 209. (W)
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