25:705:306
Health Assessment across the Life Span (3)
Focuses on health assessment of well individuals and families. Clinical reasoning process used in simulated settings to assess health patterns and develop diagnoses of health assets and actual and potential health problems.
Prerequisites: 01:119:127-128 or 21:120:241-242; 25:120:245; 01:119:131-132 or 21:120:235; 01:160:128 or 21:160:108, 110; 11:709:255 or 25:520:255; 25:705:202, 223, 229, 233; required course in descriptive/inferential statistics. Corequisites: 25:705:307, 310, 390, 395.
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25:705:307
Nursing Care Provider I (2)
Focuses on developing clinical reasoning/judgments to provide nursing care to individuals across the life span. The care provider role and professional role are introduced with basic nursing knowledge and skills applied in various health care settings.
Prerequisites: 21:120:141-142 or 01:119:127-128; 25:120:245; 21:120:235 or 01:119:131-132; 21:160:108, 110 or 01:160:128; 25:705:202, 223, 229, 233. Corequisites: 25:705:306, 310, 390, 395.
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25:705:310
The Childbearing Family (6)
The focus of this course is on nursing care needs of diverse childbearing families. Theories of health during the reproductive period will be discussed. Perinatal nursing will be examined and the nurse's role in providing care to childbearing families will be delineated. Environmental and cultural dimensions influencing health promotion, risk reduction, and health restoration of the childbearing family will also be explored. Standards of practice will form the basis of content. The student will use clinical reasoning/judgment to provide nursing care to diverse childbearing families based on standards of practice. Opportunities to interact and collaborate with multidisciplinary providers in a variety of settings will be provided. The student will be expected to provide comprehensive nursing care to the childbearing family as a unit and individually: mother, father, and infant, building on knowledge previously learned.
Prerequisites: 01:119:127-128, or 21:120:141-142; 01:119:131-132 or 21:120:235; 01:160:128 or 21:160:108, 110; 11:709:255 or 25:520:255; 25:705:202, 223, 229, 233; required course in descriptive/inferential statistics. Corequisites: 25:705:306, 307, 390, 395.
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25:705:314
Health and Illness of Children and Adolescents (6)
This course focuses on the theoretical and scientific knowledge relevant to the nursing care of culturally diverse children and adolescents and on the clinical application of knowledge in the nursing care of children and adolescents. Emphasis is placed on knowledge and clinical reasoning pertinent to health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention. Nursing strategies pertaining to the primary health care of children and adolescents will be discussed. Nursing strategies pertaining to the management of acute and chronic illnesses and symptom management in children and adolescents are applied and evaluated.
Prerequisites: 25:705:306, 307, 310, 390, 395. Corequisites: 25:705:320, 322.
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25:705:320
Health and Illness of Adults (6)
This course focuses on the theoretical, clinical, and scientific knowledge relevant to the nursing care of culturally diverse adults. Emphasis is placed on knowledge and clinical reasoning/judgments pertinent to health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and the management of symptoms and illness in adult clients.
Prerequisites: 25:705:306, 307, 310, 390, 395. Corequisites: 25:705:314, 322.
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25:705:322
Nursing Care Provider II (2)
Focuses on the application of clinical judgments and skills in the care of acutely ill clients. Emphasis on the use of clinical judgment to promote, restore, and maintain health in culturally diverse individuals with acute health problems across the life span. Relevant care provider skills are practiced.
Prerequisites: 25:705:306, 307, 310, 390, 395. Corequisites: 25:705:314, 320.
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25:705:390
Research Process in Nursing (3)
Introduction to research and its application to the field of nursing; includes the research process, theory development, philosophies related to the inquiry process, and research methodologies as they relate to the clinical setting. Analysis of current research in light of its relevance to clinical practice or the development of nursing theory.
Prerequisites: Required course in descriptive/inferential statistics; 21:355:101-102 or 01:355:101-102.
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25:705:395
Pharmacotherapeutics (3)
Emphasis on the nurse's role in the administration of safe and
therapeutically effective drug therapy. Major drug classifications are
discussed in relation to administration methods, pharmacological effects,
toxicity, and nursing precautions and implications. Drug therapy is
discussed in relation to life span development changes, religious
preferences, and cultural mores.
Prerequisites: 21:120:141-142, 25:120:245, or 01:119:127-128; 21:160:108, 110, or 01:160:128.
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