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  • NSG 234: Gender and Sexual Minority Health

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This course will expose students to historical, current, and emerging health issues experienced by the gender and sexual minority (GSM) populations. This course is rooted in the minority stress approach to health promotion problems amongst the gender and sexual minorities. Introduction to health promotion activities, advocacy, prevention, and community health resources are emphasized. This course is open to all majors.
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  • NSG 235: Introduction to Forensic Nursing

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This survey course introduces forensic nursing and the role of the professional nurse to forensic science. Building on nursing knowledge, the course topics will assist in the development and understanding of the relationship between clinical nursing practice and forensic science. The history of forensic nursing and a variety of forensic nursing specialty roles will be examined. The application of patient teaching, prevention and intervention, long-term health effects and referral resources within the specialty of forensic nursing will be defined for multi-professional practice. Specific groups and vulnerable populations at increased risk to crime will be explored.
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  • NSG 239: Preparing Students for Incivility, Bullying & Lateral Violence in the Workplace

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed to prepare nursing students and new graduate nurses' education for encounters with incivility, bullying, and lateral violence in the workplace. Course content will include reviewing the personal and professional impact of incivility, bullying, and lateral violence. It will also include how incivility, bullying, and lateral violence influences patient care, professional self-esteem, self-worth, and physical and emotional health. Current nursing position statements, policies, and protections will be explored. Resiliency and self-care skills will be taught along with training in conflict resolution and professional communication to help empower students to address incivility, bullying, and lateral violence in the workplace. Orem's Self-Care Theory will serve as the theoretical framework for the course.
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  • NSG 240: Advances in Palliative Care

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This course will focus on the concept of palliative care, one that improves the quality of life of patients and their families at any stage of a serious illness. The course will focus on the distinction between palliative and hospice care. Based on the Nursing Process, the issues of physical problems such as pain, psychosocial and spiritual suffering, through culturally congruent preventative and relief measures will be addressed. Additionally, the distinct advantages of palliative care will be identified to improve quality measures and resource utilization. Prerequisite:    NSG 212
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  • NSG 310: Human Response to Disease

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    Examination of core concepts of alterations of human responses to disease processes at the cellular and systemic level. This course focuses on illness as it affects major body systems. Students will identify and analyze prototypical clinical situations, which will provide a foundation for their nursing practice. This course will link clinical situations to their underlying mechanism of disorder and provide a sound knowledge for the practice of professional nursing. Prerequisite:    NSG 101
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  • NSG 311: Nursing Care of Women, Infants, & Children

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The emphasis of this course is the 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. Associated clinical experiences are provided in agencies where relatively well populations have been identified, as well as acute care population settings. Examples include schools, primary care practices, inpatient settings, and childbirth settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, NSG 310
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  • NSG 312: Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing and Care of the Elder

    5.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    The emphasis of this course is on the assessment, maintenance, and promotion of 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 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, NSG 310
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  • NSG 313: Applied Nursing Research

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the mechanism by which evidence is developed including the research process, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives and patient preference as applied to practice. This course is also a foundation for more complex research applications at the graduate level. Opportunities include development of a literature review, critique of a qualitative and quantitative nursing research study and participating in the conduct of nursing research with a faculty member. Prerequisite:    NSG 212, NSL 212, (MAT 121 or MAT 125)
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  • NSG 317: Gender-Specific Women's Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    This is a writing-intensive course examining gender-specific women's experience with sex and sexuality from a biopsychosocial perspective. The approach is inclusive of multiple foci including age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and other aspects of human difference. Special attention is paid to women's sexuality within the context of gender analysis.
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  • NSG 318: Selected Topics in Nursing

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    West Chester University of Pennsylvania

    An in-depth study of selected, current topics relevant to nursing and health care. This course will emphasize the critical analysis of current topics on health care. Each student will develop a commitment to reading and critiquing nursing literature in professional journals as part of the teaching- learning process.
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