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• NSG 380: Clinical Simulation in Nursing

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will role play a variety of roles during 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. Student will evaluate performance of self and peers during debriefing sessions for continued improvement in problem solving and patient outcomes.
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• NSG 381: Nursing Foundations & Population Health/Gero

  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 381 requires a prerequisite of a C minimum in NSG 530, NSG 532, and NSG 533, and a corequisite of NSL 381.
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• NSG 382: Global Topics in Health Care Delivery: Women, Infants, and Children in South Africa

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will explore core concepts of global health that affect accessing health care in resource-limited settings. The course will evaluate health concerns of South Africa's women and children throughout maternity, delivery and newborn care systems. The course will include seminar and service-learning components. Seminars will focus on the global health concerns in South African women and children such as expansion of maternity care through Central and State government, the nursing professional role as care attendants and midwives, HIV/AIDS detection and prevention as well as the availability of anti-retrovirus medications to prevent HIV in infants and children. Students will assess the health care needs of a high risk population, develop a plan of action that is concurrent with the strategic plan of the South African government and World Health Organization (WHO), and provide care or an educational program that will address that need. Through this course the students will gain the knowledge, skills and understanding of South African culture that are necessary to make significant contributions to improve the global health of women and their families through nursing. Prerequisite:    NSG 382 requires prerequisites of NSG 212 and NSL 212.
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• NSG 383: Caring for Healthy, Acute and Chronic Populations - Pediatrics/Maternity/Medical-Surgical I

  6.00 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. 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 383 requires a prerequisite of a C minimum in NSG 381 and NSL 381; and a corequisite of NSL 383.
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• NSG 385: Caring for Acutely Ill Populations - Medical-Surgical II & Behavioral Health/Immersive Experience

  6.00 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. Prerequisite:    NSG 385 requires a prerequisite of a C minimum in NSG 381, NSL 381, NSG 383, and NSL 383; and a corequisite of NSL 385.
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• NSG 407: Concepts in Critical Care Nursing

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The purpose of this course is to provide students an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in the area of acute critical care nursing. Students will acquire knowledge pertaining to the pharmacological management, advanced cardiac, and respiratory concepts in the critically ill adult. Students will examine ethical principles and concepts that affect clinical practice in the acute critical care setting. Students will explore the role of the critical care nurse, and clinical observation experiences are provided in various acute critical care settings. This course has limited course enrollment and unit assignments will be based on clinical site availability. Prerequisite:    NSG 407 requires prerequisites of NSG 311, NSL 311, NSG 312, and NSL 312 (grade of C or higher required); and corequisites of NSG 411 and NSL 411.
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• NSG 410: Nursing Research Internship

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This internship is a one-semester research work-study appointment in a healthcare-related agency. Students will be mentored in the research process through active collaboration in new and ongoing research efforts. Students will be supervised jointly by a professional at an agency with which the department has a contractual agreement and a Department of Nursing faculty member. Prerequisite:    NSG 410 requires a prerequisite of NSG 313 and students to be undergraduate Nursing majors.
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• NSG 411: Medical Surgical Nursing

  5.00 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. Associated clinical experiences are provided in acute care psychiatric inpatient and medical surgical settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 411 requires a corequisite of NSL 411 and prerequisites of NSG 311, NSL 311 and NSG 312, NSL 312 (with at least a C).
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• NSG 412: Public/Population Health Nursing, Nursing Leadership, & Management

  5.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The emphasis of this course will be on 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 as they focus on the complex problems of individuals, families, communities, populations, and systems. Associated clinical experiences are provided in an immersion experience and Community/Public Health settings. Prerequisite:    NSG 412 requires a corequisite of NSL 412 and prerequisites of NSG 311, NSL 311 and NSG 312, NSL 312 (with a grade of C or higher).
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• NSG 430: Physical and Health Assessments of Diverse Populations Across the Lifespan

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will build a foundation of knowledge and learn concepts and principles underlying assessment of the health status of individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds with emphasis placed on interviewing skills, health histories, and the physical and psychosocial findings in the well person across the lifespan. Students will focus on completing a holistic health and physical assessment by obtaining health histories, performing physical and psychosocial assessments, and formulating initial nursing plans using the nursing process with virtual patients.
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