NUR101   Introduction to Health Care Delivery and Health Care Professions

Components of the United States health care system will be introduced including current trends and issues in health care associated with the quality of health care, access and cost. Health care needs of the consumer and environmental issues will be examined. Roles of health care providers in varied health care settings will be explored from interdisciplinary and disciplinary perspectives. Major concepts including health, communication, critical thinking and decision-making, therapeutic interventions, cultural diversity, ethics and socialization into the nursing profession will be introduced.

Prerequisite: none.
(Offered Fall and Spring)

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In this course, concepts of role, including the dynamics of role change will be explored in relationship to students' personal and professional goals. From understanding the interrelatedness of the health care delivery system and professional nursing, students will identify and develop a plan to achieve the aforementioned career goals. This course begins the socialization process for entry into professional nursing.

Prerequisite: RN student.
(Offered periodically)

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This course focuses on concepts and theoretical constructs that form the foundation for therapeutic communication, interviewing, and physical assessment across the life span. Laboratory practice is designed to introduce and reinforce cognitive and psychomotor skills necessary for a systematic and accurate assessment of health status. In addition, the ability to promote adaptive human responses forms the expected outcomes of the course.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major; Biology 210; Chemistry 113; Psychology 103.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR101; Psychology 214.
(Offered Fall)

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Focus of this course is on alterations in cell, tissue and system mechanisms that manifest as health problems throughout the life-span and prevent or limit individuals from making adaptive responses.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major; Biology 210, 325; Chemistry 113; Usual sequence is NUR101, NUR205; Psychology 103, 214.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: Chemistry 206.
(Offered Spring)

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NUR208    Foundations of Practice

This course serves as an introduction to the scientific and theoretical foundations of professional nursing practice. The correlation of nursing theory with nursing process serves as a framework for the identification of health and illness responses. The student will recognize the value of nursing research to improve practice. The development of an attitude of inquiry is expected as the student examines the assumptions that underlie nursing practice behaviors.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major; Biology 210, 325; Chemistry 113; NUR101, NUR205; Psychology 103, 214.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: Chemistry 206.
(Offered Spring)

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This course focuses on the application of nursing process in the promotion of wellness. Simulated and actual clientcare experiences provide an opportunity for the student to begin to develop and practice the role of professional nurse by assisting the individual to regain or maintain an optimal health state. Assessment and therapeutic interventions related to fundamental needs across the lifespan of the gerontologic population are addressed.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major; Biology 210, 325; Chemistry 113; NUR101, NUR205; Psychology 103, 214; Mount Mary College math competency met.

Prerequisites or concurrent enrollment: NUR206, NUR208; Chemistry 206.
(Offered Spring)

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This course focuses on the cognitive and psychomotor skills necessary to conduct a systematic and accurate assessment of an individual's health status. The recognition and promotion of adaptive human responses as well as deviations from normal will be addressed. This course is for the Registered Nurse and will include laboratory experiences and actual performance demonstrations of health assessments.

Prerequisite: RN student.
(Offered as needed)

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The content of this course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of human responses to selected physiological and psychosocial problems in adults within the context of their families. Emphasis is placed on nursing interventions that promote health and wellness for the acutely ill hospitalized individual experiencing alterations in health.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR311, NUR313.
(Offered Fall)

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This course is a continuation of Nursing 303 and is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the human responses to selected physiological and psychosocial problems within their families. Emphasis is placed on nursing interventions that promotes health and wellness for the chronically ill hospitalized individual experiencing alterations in health.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing; NUR 303.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR311, NUR313.
(Offered Spring)

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This course focuses on the application of nursing process in acute care settings. Emphasis is placed on the application of concepts learned in NUR206 Pathophysiology, Foundations, and Nursing 303, Nursing 311 and Nursing 313 to the care of acutely ill adult patients. One credit of this course (two hours per week) is allocated for the learning of psychomotor skills in the college laboratory.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR303, NUR311, NUR313.
(Offered Fall)

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This course focuses on concepts, theories, and the process of research. A systematic inquiry into published nursing research and an understanding of its practice application(s) provide the course emphases.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major.
(Offered Fall)

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This course provides an overview of the principles of normal and therapeutic nutrition for the health of individuals throughout the life-span.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major - Biology 210, 325; Chemistry 113, 206. Non-nursing major: Biology 103; Chemistry 113.
(Offered Fall and Summer)

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This course will introduce the student to the major actions and general classifications of pharmacological agents. The nurse's role and responsibility in administering medications is explored.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major - Biology 210, 325; Chemistry 113, 206; NUR206.
(Offered Fall)

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This course focuses on the special health care needs of the childbearing family. Emphasis is on the development of a knowledge base that prepares the nurse to collaborate with health care team members to promote, maintain, and/or restore the health of mothers and newborns within the context of the contemporary family.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR311, NUR313.
(Offered Spring)

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This course focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed by the professional nurse to provide quality, accessible and cost-effective familycentered nursing care of infants and children. Emphasis is given to the nurse's role in the management and coordination of care that is developmentally and culturally appropriate for children with acute or chronic illness or disability. Concurrent emphasis is given to the nurse's role in promoting and maintaining the health of children across the continuum of care and within the sociopolitical environment.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR311, NUR313.
(Offered Spring)

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This course offers students the opportunity to care for postpartum patients and newborns in the clinical setting. Additional time is spent in the labor and delivery area. Emphasis is placed on the clinical application of theory, assessment and communication skills during this time of role transition.

Prerequisites:
Admission to the nursing major; NUR311, NUR313, NUR314; or junior standing.
(Offered periodically)

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NUR390    Nursing Care of Children and Their Family: Practicum

This course provides the student with pediatric clinical learning experiences in an acute care setting. emphasis is given to continued development of the learner's critical thinking, communication and therapeutic intervention skills pertinent to the nursing care of children and their families.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR311, NUR313, NUR316.
(Offered periodically)

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This survey course will introduce the student to non-mainstream health care therapies that are emerging as important components of the delivery of health care in the Unites States. Students will explore a broad array of healing philosophies and complementary/alternative therapies, issues surrounding their use and the potential usefulness of these therapies to maintain health and reduce stress. The course is designed to stimulate the student's creative learning capacity.

No Prerequisites: Open to nursing and non-nursing students and the general public.
(Offered periodically)

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NUR393   Nursing Management of Common Arrhythmias

This course focuses on the identification, patient assessment and nursing management of basic cardiac arrhythmias.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR206, NUR313.
(Offered periodically)

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This 2 credit Web-enhanced course will be a combination of classroom discussion, online modules, and interactive experiences in various geriatric settings. The purpose is to explore and discuss factors impacting the older adult including stimga, socioeconomic, physioligical, psyschological, ethical and legal issues and design nursing interventions to maximize quality of life. The course will prepare the undergraduate student to provide quality nursing care to elderly clients in a variety of settings, and serve as the foundation for further studies in gerontology.

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing in the nursing program; familiarity with Educator Online Learning System.
(Offered periodically)

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Consent of the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs required prior to registration.

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NUR413    Community Health Nursing

This course focuses on the community as client. The community is viewed as a system of economic, sociopolitical, legal, ethical, cultural, and interpersonal forces. As such, each community influences and holds the potential for managing or solving health problems. The students will learn to assess and analyze community data, identify communitynursing diagnoses, and plan nursing interventions for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. There will be emphasis on a synthesis of the public health science and nursing theory for the purpose of improving the health of the community.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-senior standing.
(Offered Fall)

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This course focuses upon the principles of psychiatric/mental health nursing. The students will apply theoretical and practical components of nursing process to psychiatric/mental health situations. Families are directly influenced by developmental change, by changes of health status in family members, and by changes in the environment. A focus on family response patterns and associated strengths and weaknesses provides the student the opportunity to understand and apply effective methods of family support.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR313.
(Offered Fall)

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This required clinical course is designed to assist the student to make the transiton from the educational setting to the professional nurse role and/or graduate studn; synthesize and integrate knowledge from coursework and apply critical and creative thinking skills in oral and written presentation of a project. The student will manage the care of clients and families with actual and porential complex helath needs and will demonstrate safe, competent, professional nursing practice. This course also provides an opportunity for the student to enact the role of nurse leader and manager in selected health care settings. S/U graded. (Sp)

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-senior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR413, NUR415.
(Offered Fall)

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This course presents leadership concepts and management skills as a basis for understanding the multiple roles of the nurse in health care organizations. Current and potential issues in health care delivery are analyzed. Special emphasis is placed on the implementation of change in response to identified needs/problems in selected health care settings.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-senior standing.
(Offered Spring)

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This course explores issues that impact on the quality of life at the end of life. Medical, sociocultural, psychological, and economic components of the dying process will be considered.

Prerequisites: Junior standing, or the consent of the instructor.
(Offered periodically)

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This course provides the student with an opportunity to focus on clinical ethics in today's health care environment. It will cover codes, values, models and theories of ethics as well as informed consent; end of life issues; nonautonomous and vulnerable populations; and justice and resource allocation.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing or Registered Nurse.
(Offered Spring)

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This course is designed to allow the student to implement nursing process in a selected setting and to explore the sociocultural aspects of people's lives. Enrollment is limited.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-junior standing.
(Offered periodically)

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Consent of the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs required prior to registration.

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This clinical course provides an opportunity for the student to synthesize knowledge from course work and previous as well as current clinical experiences. The student will manage the care of patients and families with actual and potential complex heath needs and will demonstrate safe, competent, professional nursing practice. This course also provides an opportunity for the student to enact the role of nurse leader and manager in selected health care settings.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major-senior standing.

Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: NUR420.
(Offered Spring)

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