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NUR 204 Self-Awareness for Nurses Practicing in an Interdisciplinary Environment
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
ENL 131
PYC 100
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=24 hours for the 14 week semester. Focuses on the development of self-awareness and relationship centered care skills for the beginning professional practitioner within a changing, interdisciplinary-based health care system. The student is provided with an underlying framework of ideas to build on throughout the nursing curriculum at the McAuley School of Nursing. Critical thinking, values clarification, cultural diversity, interpersonal communication, group dynamics and team building are addressed. Development of a philosophy of caring in a professional nursing role is approached from a perspective of historical tradition, social justice, reflective thinking and a values-centered professional education. An introduction to servant leadership with service to the community is included. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 205 Health Assessment
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
BIO 254/255 and 257
CHM 101
CHM 102
MTH 101
PYC 100
SOC 100
The above prerequisite courses or admission into the Accelerated Second Degree Nursing program.
2 semester hours at 50 minutes per semester hour = 40 hours for the 14 week semester. Co-requisites: NUR 244, NUR 245 or NUR 255, NUR 256. Focuses on the process of health assessment of adults. Utilizes interviewing techniques to obtain a basic health history that incorporates spiritual, socio-cultural, psychological, and physical dimensions. Issues of privacy, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are discussed. Laboratory experience provides students with opportunities to perform specific physical assessments. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 244 Fundamentals of Adult Health Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Pre-requisites: BIO 244/245, CHM 101, CHM 103,MTH 101, SOC 100 Co-requisites: NUR 205, NUR 245, NUR 246
3 semester hours @ 50 Minutes each=35 hours for the 14 week course. Focuses on introducing the nursing process as a strategy for making clinical judgments and implementing care. Ethical and legal guidelines and an understanding of the inner spirit and humanity of the individual care of an adult client with altered heath status are discussed as the framework for providing holistic care. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 245 Skills in Adult Health Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Pre-requisites: BIO 244/245, CHM 101, CHM 103,MTH 101, SOC 100 Co-requisites: NUR 205, NUR 245, NUR 246
This course focuses on introducing the beginning student to planning and implementing safe and effective interventions for adult clients with altered health status. This course emphasizes documentation and the development of psychomotor skills associated with various nursing interventions. Additional focus will be placed on scientific principles that underlie the application of these skills. This course incorporates critical thinking, interactive learning, supervised return demonstration and hypothetical situations. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
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NUR 255 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care I
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Accelerated Second Degree Nursing Program
5 credit hours per week at 50 minutes per credit hour. This course sets the foundation for nursing practice across the lifespan by focusing on health promotion, risk reduction and disease prevention of individuals and families across the lifespan. It introduces the student to Healthy People 2010 and the application of theory to individuals and healthy families within the community. Both physical and mental illness are addressed. A concept-based approach is used in the application of nursing principles to meet basic psychosocial, human, and physiologic needs. Teaching-learning principles are introduced. Nursing Process is used as a framework for critical thinking, implementing care, and evaluating outcomes. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 256 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care Practicum I
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Accelerated Second Degree Nursing program
15 clinical hours per week at 3 clock hours per each credit hour. Students begin practice with health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention across the lifespan. These practicum experiences are centered in the community with healthy families. Healthy People 2010 provides a context for family and community assessments, development of therapeutic communication skills, application of principles of teaching/learning and the practice of fundamental nursing skills. A variety of community settings will be utilized in the implementation of nursing care to diverse and vulnerable populations across the lifespan. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 160 | 32 |
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NUR 271 Introduction to Professional Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Accelerated Second Degree Nursing program
50 Minutes per credit hour per week. Examination of various roles assumed by nurses, such as caregiver, advocate, manager, and coordinator, and the concepts underlying professional practice. Explores the historical and current context of Nursing as a healthcare discipline. Introduces the philosophical framework of Nursing practice, incorporating the concepts of social justice, ethical decision-making, and reflective practice. Discusses the concept of a social contract and the legal requirement for Nursing as a self-regulating profession. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 280 Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 205
NUR 338
Pre-requisites: NUR 205, NUR 244, NUR 245, NUR 245 Co-requisites: NUR 255, NUR 256 for accelerated nursing program students, NUR 286, NUR 287,NUR 338 for prelicensure students
3 semester hours @ 50 minutes per semester hour=35 hours for the 14 week semester. This course focuses on preparing the undergraduate nursing student with a foundation of the basic principles and concepts of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics. Major drug category prototypes will be presented as they relate to the management and treatment of disease states. The course will assist the student in outlining: drug classes, therapeutic uses, general and adverse side effects, as well as drug interactions. Implications associated with the administration, monitoring, and nursing interventions are incorporated. The goal of this course is to highlight the essential information, promote true comprehension, and integrate pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics with concurrent clinical coursework. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 286 Health Restoration in Adults
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 204
NUR 205
NUR 244
NUR 245
NUR 246
Co-requisites: NUR 287, NUR 338, PYC 250
4 semester hours @ 50 minutes per hour=47 hours for the 14 week semester. Focuses on health restoration of adults. Emphasis is placed upon: assessment and management of physical and psychological symptoms related to common disease and treatment; anticipation and management of health-related complications; and restoration of optimal level of function if individuals. Addresses social, physical, psychological, and spiritual responses of the individual throughout the course of illness, including end of life. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 287 Adult Health Practicum
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 244
NUR 245
NUR 246
Co-requisites: NUR 280, NUR 286, NUR 338, PYC 250
3 semester hours @ 3 hours each=126 hours for the 14 week course. Enhances theoretical learning related to health restoration of adults in a variety of settings. Integration of principles from nutrition, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and nursing science provides a foundation for clinical judgment and decision making. Emphasis is placed upon application of the nursing process to individuals with common/reoccurring acute and chronic illnesses. Nursing care is evaluated in the context of adherence to standards of professional performance. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 322 Professional Issues Within the Health Care System
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
This is a 3 credit hour theory course where one credit equals 50 minutes. Over a 14 week semester the total number of class hours are 35.Provides the returning nurse with an opportunity to explore nursing issues such as professional role development and empowerment strategies along with an examination of increasing trends to community-based health care. Delivery of care across the health care continuum is emphasized within a community context and partnership development. Historical, current and future trends in the discipline of nursing are examined, along with health care issues within a framework of social justice and ethical decision making. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 324 Nurses' Ways of Knowing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Admission to the BSN completion option
This is a 3 credit hour theory course where one credit equals 50 minutes. This course provides the registered nurse with an overview of the historical, current and future trends and issues in the profession of nursing and how nursing contributes to healthcare outcomes. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of nursing knowledge, theory, practice and research A major portion of content will explore the history, application, benefits and challenges of technology in the workplace. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 332 Health Restoration of Adults and Their Families
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
PYC 250
NUR 286
NUR 287
Co-requisites: NUR 334, NUR 335
Focuses on health restoration of adults and their families. Emphasis is placed upon assessment and management of physical and psychological symptoms related to complex/multisystem disease and treatment, anticipation and management of life-threatening complications, and restoration of optimal level of function of individuals and their families. The course addresses social, physical, psychological and spiritual responses of individuals and their families. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 334 Mental Health of Adults and Their Families
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
PYC 250
NUR 286
NUR 287
Co-requisites: NUR 332, NUR 335
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes per hour=24 hours for the 14 week semester. Provides the theoretical base for meeting the mental health and psychiatric needs of individuals, families, and small groups in their communities. The interrelationship between psychological, social, biological, and spiritual subsystems is examined within the context of mental health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and psychiatric illness management of individuals and their families. An emphasis is placed on increasing self-awareness and therapeutic use of self with relationship-centered care, with a focus of ethical and social justice issues related to mental health. The impact of health care policies and economics are explored with the framework of the mental health care delivery system. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 335 Integrated Practicum with Adults and Their Families
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
PYC 250
NUR 286
NUR 287
Co-requisites: NUR 332, NUR 334
4 semester hours @ 3 hours per semester hours=168 clinical hours. This integrated clinical experience enhances the theoretical learning related to complex health restoration and mental health needs of adults and their families. Synthesis of principles from psychiatric nursing, adult health nursing, pharmacology, pathophysiology and the social sciences provides a foundation for clinical judgment and decision-making in a variety of settings. Application of the nursing process is emphasized with individuals and their families in acute care, home care, and community-based sites. Nursing care is evaluated in the context of adherence to standards of professional performance. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 338 Pathophysiology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 244
NUR 245
NUR 246
Co-requisites: NUR 286, NUR 287 for prelicensure, NUR 255,NUR 256 for SDO
4 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=47 hours for the 14 week semester. Provides students with a basic overview of biological alterations involved in disease processes and how these alterations disrupt the homeostatic balance required for normal functioning. This course focuses on clinically relevant topics and is systematically organized. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 342 Advanced Health Assessment for the Registered Nurse
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This is a 2 credit hour with one credit for theory and one hour for lab time. Lab time is computed on a 2:1 ratio with based on a 50 minute hour with a total of 35 hours over a 14 week semester. This course focuses on the multidimensional process of health assessment of individuals and families including history taking and physical examination, as well as developmental, cultural, spiritual and family assessment that will guide the nurse in the health promotion and disease management of the client. Students will have the opportunity to refine and expand health assessment skills related to data collection and physical examination for heir professional development. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 355 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care II
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 205
NUR 255
NUR 256
NUR 271
NUR 338
Second degree option students only
6 - 50 minute hours each week for 14 weeks. This course focuses on illness management for high volume, high cost, high morbidity/mortality health alterations of individuals and families across the lifespan. It uses application of theory to individuals, healthy families, childbearing and childrearing families within the community. It includes implementation and evolution of illness and care management of the mother and infant, pediatric, adult and elderly populations. A concept approach will be used with exemplars as the foundation. Secondary and tertiary prevention are incorporated.. | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 356 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care Practicum II
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 205
NUR 255
NUR 256
NUR 271
NUR 338
Second degree option students only
Each credit (7) equals 3 clock hours each week of clinical practice for 14 weeks. Clinical Practicum on illness management to high volume, high cost, high morbidity/mortality health alterations in individuals and families across the lifespan. Students provide nursing care to physically and mentally ill pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients in both acute care and community settings. In addition to addressing the care of individuals and families, they will work on collaboration, delegation, and prioritization skills. Therapeutic communication includes crisis intervention, psychiatric interviewing, and counseling. Diverse and vulnerable populations in urban Detroit serve as the clinical setting for care. | 7 | 0 | 0 | 278 | 16 |
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NUR 360 Nursing Research and its Utilization in Health Care
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Pre-requisites: STA 225, NUR 286, NUR 287 NUR 255, NUR 256 (accelerated nursing students only) NUR 324, NUR 342 (nursing degree completion students only)
3 semester hours @ 50 minutes per hour=35 hours for the 14 week semester. Explores nursing research and its utilization in health care within the context of scientific merit and clinical relevance. Following an overview of the research process, emphasis is placed on its use in solving clinical problems, enhancing clinical judgments, and/or measuring phenomena in clinical practice. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 364 Childbearing and Childrearing Families in Health and Illness
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 332
NUR 334
NUR 335
Co-requisites: NUR 362, NUR 365
4 semester hours @ 50 minutes each= 46 classroom hours. Provides the theoretical base for nursing care of families in childbearing and childrearing across both health and illness dimensions. Focuses on the biophysical, socio-cultural, and spiritual subsystems of the family within the context of community. Principles of developmental theory and normal adaptation along with research-based knowledge are examined for their impact(s) on the health of the family system. An important aspect of this course will be to center the care of the family in the community with emphasis on addressing the ethical and social justice concerns related to pregnancy, fetal, newborn, and childhood health issues. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 365 Integrated Practicum with Childbearing & Childrearing Families
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 332
NUR 334
NUR 335
Co-requisites: NUR 362, NUR 364
4 semester hours @ 3 hours per semester hour=168 clinical hours. This integrated clinical experience enhances the theoretical learning related to the childbearing and childrearing families within the framework of the urban community. This clinical encompasses not only extensive use of multiple community agencies but also takes the students into the hospital for select acute care experiences. The clinical experience begins with a strong focus on health and wellness, preventive care and the normal developmental stages of children and families. The students will then progress to working with families in acute phases of health (labor and delivery) and illness (the hospitalized, high-risk newborn and child). This clinical experience also addresses the care of the high risk family within the framework of home health care and community agencies and looks at how health care systems and policies affect the health of a family. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 371 Professional Nursing Role Development: Transition to Practice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 205
NUR 255
NUR 256
NUR 71
NUR 338
Second degree option students only
2 - 50 minute hours per week for 14 weeks. Discusses the management and leadership responsibilities of Nursing in an ever-changing environment of integrated healthcare systems. Organizational and leadership theories are presented with a focus on strategic planning, managed care, quality management, fiscal management and human relations skills. Discusses the necessity of continuing education and the need for a Nursing role in public policy in relation to contemporary health care issues. Explores advanced practice and future possibilities for Nursing practice. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 386 Research and Scientific Inquiry II: Application and Utilization
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 205
NUR 255
NUR 256
NUR 271
NUR 338
Second degree option students only
2 - 50 minute hours per week for 14 weeks. Nursing theories are introduced and research designs/methods are discussed. Ethical issues related to research are also presented. The steps of the research process are applied to a clinical problem identified in NUR 285. Students critique the literature and write a literature review. Emphasis is placed on the use of research in quality improvement and outcomes analysis. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 420 Intervening with Families and Aggregates at Risk
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 360
NUR 362
NUR 364
NUR 365
3 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=35 hours for the 14 week course. Focuses on the health promotion, illness prevention, and mental health nursing care of families and aggregates at risk and in crisis in the community. A family eco-systems approach is taken to explore family dynamics within a socio-cultural and community context. Major public health and social justice issues, such as domestic violence, child/adolescent/sexual/elder abuse, substance abuse, and homelessness are explored. Nine hours of service learning are completed in this course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 434 Care and Case Management Across the Health Continuum
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This is a 3 credit hour theory course based on 50 minutes per credit hours with the total of 35 hours over a 14 week semester. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 442 Community as Partner: Implications for Urban Health
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
All 300 level courses Co-requisites: NUR 444, NUR 445. NUR 420 must be taken either prior to or concurrent with NUR 442.
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=24 hours for the 14 week course. This course focuses on the development of partnerships from an assets-based approach within the community as a means of addressing global health concerns and health promotion for identified aggregates in the urban community. Principles of epidemiology and public health policy will be examined and applied in addressing the health issues of the urban community, particularly health care access and environmental issues. Ethical issues in community health nursing along with cultural aspects of health behaviors will also be explored. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 444 Leadership & Management in Nursing in a Changing Health Care System
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
All 300 level courses. Co-requisites: NUR 442, NUR 420 must be taken prior to or concurrent with NUR 444.
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes each= 24 hours for the 14 week course. Focuses on leadership and management knowledge and skills in a changing, integrated health care system. Organizational leadership/management theories are presented, along with concepts such as strategic planning, change, managed care, quality management, fiscal management (resource allocation, budgeting), and human relations skills (negotiation, conflict resolution, team building, labor relations, coaching and empowering staff:. Using reflective thinking, students will explore ethically driven leadership with attention to social justice issues. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 445 Integrated Leadership and Community Practicum
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
All 300 level courses. Co-requisites: NUR 442, NUR 444. NUR 420 must be taken prior to or concurrent with NUR 445.
3 semester hours @ 3 hours each=126 clinical hours. This integrated clinical experience enhances and integrates the theoretical learning related to nursing leadership and management and caring for population-based health problems within a specified community. Students will integrate community health concepts such as epidemiological trends, partnership development, wellness and health promotion, socio-cultural and environmental factors, and leadership skills. A comprehensive community assessment, including planning, implementation and evaluation of community interventions is included. The final cumulative experience is collaborative planning, implementation and evaluation of a health care project with community/organizational partners. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 446 Practicum of Adult Health Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Pre-requisites: BIO 254/255, CHM 101, MTH 101, SOC 100 Co-requisites: NUR 205, NUR 245, NUR 246
1 semester hour @ 3 hours each= 42 hours for the 14 week course. Focuses on socializing students to nursing in the community/hospital setting through health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention activities of adults with altered health status. Emphasis is on the application of the nursing process, health assessments skills communication techniques, and technical skills learned in concurrent nursing courses. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 447 Leadership for Change for the RN
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
For BSN completion students only
This course focuses on leadership and management within a changing health care environment. Organizational leadership/management theories are presented allowing students to complete an organizational analysis of their health care system. Concepts such as strategic planning, change management, quality management, fiscal management, human relations skill development and project management are emphasized. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 448 Project Management for the RN
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
For BSN completion students only
This integrated practicum experience focuses on the cumulative analysis of nursing knowledge, skills and reflective approaches in transitioning to a professional baccalaureate nursing role. This integrated experience enhances and integrates theoretical learning related to nursing leadership and management and the concepts of working in a team for the purpose of health promotion and disease management. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 0 |
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NUR 451 Emergency Nursing Elective
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Senior level in the BSN program.
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 week course. Focuses on the unique physiologic and nursing care needs of the emergency patient and their families. Emphasis is placed on multi-system integration and prioritization of emergent needs of emergency patients. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 452 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care III
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 352
NUR 353
NUR 369
NUR 385
NUR 280
This class meets for 7.5 - 50 minute hours each week for 9 weeks for a total of 70 didactic hours. Addresses complex and multi-faceted health problems of individuals, families and communities. Emphasis is on acute and chronic complex problems of physical and mental health and their impact on families and communities. Management and evaluation of the acutely, critically ill patient and their family is addressed and includes end of life advocacy. Students learn the process of community partnership development and strategic planning from a community-based health project in the related practicum. Issues of violence in society, environmental disasters and advocacy are analyzed. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 453 Evidence-Based Culturally Competent Care Practicum III
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 352
NUR 353
NUR 369
NUR 385
NUR 280
This 5 credit hour class meets for 24 hours per week for 9 weeks. Focuses on clients, families and communities with complex multi-factorial problems across the lifespan. It includes global health trends that impact on the health of local communities. Acute and chronic complex physical and mental illnesses are examined along with their impact on families and communities. Practicum sites are located in urban areas with diverse and vulnerable populations. Students have two distinct clinical foci: 1) the patient with traumatic illness in a specialty care unit and 2) a local community where they plan, implement and evaluate a community-based health care project. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 210 | 0 |
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NUR 454 Spiritual Care: Research and Practice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 360
NUR 362
NUR 364
NUR 365
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=24 hours for the 14 week course. In this course spiritual care as a dimension of nursing practice is examined within the context of the health-illness continuum. The student is afforded the opportunity to identify components of a personal spirituality which may enable him/her to impact the value-belief system of individuals, families, and communities utilizing research and nursing process. The influence of religious and cultural beliefs as they impact spiritual care is studied. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 455 Quality Monitoring within the Client Care System
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Focuses on the Joint Commissions Accreditation of Health Care Organizations Agenda for change, namely improving organizational performance. Emphasis is placed on quality monitoring in the nurse/client and organizational systems as well as collaboration among and between systems. Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research are evaluated. | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 456 Trans-cultural Nursing Care Elective
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Completion of all 300 level nursing courses.
2 semester hours @ 50 minutes each=24 hours for the 14 week course. This course explores the care values, beliefs, and health practices of culturally and spiritually diverse populations. The role of the registered nurse as a culturally sensitive caregiver is explored. Key content includes: assessment of clients of diverse cultures: identification of clients’ culturally-based care needs; planning appropriate culturally-based interventions; providing culturally sensitive and competent nursing care; and evaluating outcomes of that care. Trans-cultural nursing theories and models are introduced. Strategies to facilitate understanding of intercultural communication in health care settings are included. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 458
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The global threat of terrorism looms as one of the great health challenges of our time. Each individual has a personal responsibility to become informed about roles we must play in the prevention of man-made disasters. Health care providers, in particular, need to assume an active role in educating themselves about potential biological, chemical and radiological threats. Acting as first responders, providing information to their own communities and advocating for the dissemination of neighborhood emergency plans are critical skills which can mean the difference between life and death. This course will familiarize the student with terminology regarding biological warfare agents, public health preparedness skills, the nursing response to spiritual and emotional needs of victims, self-care issues and disaster relief programs. | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 460 The Power of Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Focuses on the historical background, growth, and future development of nursing. Examines nursing and the health care system from a feminist perspective. Emphasis is placed on the development of the nurse as a sociopolitical advocate. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 464 Nursing: History and Image
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Traces the historical development of nursing profession from ancient times to the present including the cultural and societal changes that have shaped the image and practice of nursing. The roots of nursing are explored as they are found in mythology, ancient culture, and religion. Contemporary images of nursing are examined. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 467 Alternative Health Care Therapies Elective
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Completion of 300 level nursing courses.
Focuses on an integrative view of complementary/alternative health care therapies which can be incorporated within traditional nursing care. The ultimate goal is to introduce wellness maintenance, and illness prevention to the student. Emphasis will be on self-assessment, self-care, and self-direction. The student can then help clients to achieve wellness. Included will be a survey of many health care modalities available to the health care consumer apart from the traditional scope of health care. Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based therapies that can be endorsed, and encouraged by nurses to their clients. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 473 Gerontologic Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Describes the aging experience and its implication for nursing practice. Examines aging policies and programs, problems affecting the aged population and develops approaches to gerontic care based on recent multi-disciplinary research. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 474 Women's Health Issues
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 362
NUR 364
NUR 365
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Examines current trends, issues, and research in women's health care across the lifespan from a multifactorial perspective including social, political, cultural, legal, economic and technological trends. The role of the professional nurse in effecting and improving women's health care is emphasized. The history of women's health is explored to understand the traditional medical model of care to women. Feminist theories and research is discussed to challenge this traditional model. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 475 Cardiovascular Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 332
NUR 334
NUR 335
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Focuses on the unique physiologic and nursing care needs of the cardiac client. Areas such as cardiac assessment, electrophysiology, diagnostic procedures, hemodynamic monitoring and pacing are discussed as well as care of the client undergoing open heart surgery. In depth 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is an integral part of the course. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 476 Health Promotion: Teaching Across the Life Span
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Focuses on theories and methods of health teaching and learning across the life span. Emphasis is placed on strategies for determining learning needs and readiness, establishing learning objectives, selecting and organizing instructional strategies, learning experiences and evaluating educational plans, process and outcomes. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 477 Pediatric Oncology Nursing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 362
NUR 364
NUR 365
1 semester hour @ 50 minutes each=12 hours for the 14 hour course. Focuses on expanding the student's awareness of cancers in the pediatric population and their impact(s) on the family. Students will be challenged to analyze concepts of death and dying from the child's perspective and to discuss the reactions of the family to death and dying. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 478
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Incorporating nursing concepts and physiological principles related to the care of the acutely and chronically ill patient, the student will explore multiple disorders affecting the neurological system. The primary focus of this course of study is the role of the neuroscience nurse and the current modalities utilized to impact neurological injury and impairment. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 486 Research and Scientific Inquiry II: Synthesis and Dissemination
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: NUR 280, NUR 352/353, NUR 369
Builds on concepts introduced in NUR 386. Ethical and legal implications of research with historically vulnerable populations will be addressed. Students will critically read select literature and provide a synthesis of research in an area of their interest. Evidence based practice and outcomes analysis are discussing in conjunction with quality improvement and "best practices." Summative evaluation is based on a real life or simulated dissemination of select research findings to a specific target audience using an appropriate mechanism. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 491 Comprehensive Nursing Preceptorship
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 452
NUR 453
NUR 469
NUR 485
Students complete a 40 hour week in clinical practice for 5 weeks for a total of 200 clinical hours. Focus is on the cumulative synthesis of nursing knowledge, skills, and caring approaches in transitioning to a professional baccalaureate-nursing role within an interdisciplinary, population-based model of care. This preceptorship is an immersion experience in which the student has the opportunity to practice the role of an entry-level baccalaureate nurse under the guidance and supervision of faculty and health care system and community agency preceptors. The students will practice leadership and management skills in an urban health center that treats diverse and vulnerable populations. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 |
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NUR 496 Directed Reading/Studies
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Approval of assistant dean.
Directed reading/study in an area of the student's special interest. Assignments vary according to the number of credits. | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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NUR 498 Comprehensive Nursing Practicum
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
NUR 442
NUR 444
NUR 445
3 semester hours @ 3 hours each=116 patient care hours. An additional 10 hours is required for seminar time. Focuses on the cumulative synthesis of nursing knowledge, skills, and caring approaches to transition into a professional baccalaureate-nursing role within an interdisciplinary, population-based model of care. Practicum clinical experiences within the region enable students to practice leadership and management skills while working with members of the health care team. The practicum is an immersion experience in which the student has the opportunity to practice the role of an entry-level baccalaureate nurse under the guidance of faculty and the direct supervision of an experienced clinician. Seminars are held to examine issues facing entry-level practitioners, such as ethical challenges, role transition, team building, conflict management, delegation, population-based care and community outreach, along with cost and quality outcomes in health care. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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