This course offers essential assessment development opportunities for RN-BSN students. It includes intensive work on the concepts of physical assessment, growth and development, health promotion, and therapeutic communication skills as they are applied to diverse populations. The course provides simulated experiences that enable students to use key concepts applied to scenarios that simulate caring for individuals across the lifespan.
This course offers essential assessment development opportunities for RN-BSN students. It includes intensive work on the concepts of physical assessment, growth and development, health promotion, and therapeutic communication skills as they are applied to diverse populations. The course provides simulated experiences that enable students to use key concepts applied to scenarios that simulate caring for individuals across the lifespan.
This course was created for the RN-BSN track. Pathopharmacology I for the RN-BSN student is the first of two courses addressing pathophysiologic and pharmacologic concepts basic to evidence-based nursing practice. Pathophysiologic concepts essential for understanding major health problems that occur across the life span are discussed. Emphasis is on understanding how and why various pathophysiological signs and symptoms occur; this knowledge facilitates best practices to promote health in persons across the lifespan.
This course was created for the RN-BSN track. Pathopharmacology I for the RN-BSN student is the first of two courses addressing pathophysiologic and pharmacologic concepts basic to evidence-based nursing practice. Pathophysiologic concepts essential for understanding major health problems that occur across the life span are discussed. Emphasis is on understanding how and why various pathophysiological signs and symptoms occur; this knowledge facilitates best practices to promote health in persons across the lifespan.
This course is designed to support the registered nurse in the development of evidence-based practice and critical thinking to become a clinical leader and confident, collaborative professional. Nurses will have opportunities to discuss and apply knowledge about scope of practice, patient & family-centered care, stress management, communication, identifying and intervening in patient deterioration, conflict resolution, ethics, leadership at the bedside, and professional development.
This course was developed for undergraduate nursing students in the BSN program. While addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder, we have for too long treated addiction as an acute condition. This introductory course covers addiction models, including the medical/disease, psychological, moral, sociocultural, and biopsychosocial models. Students will explore harm reduction and abstinence philosophies to drug and alcohol use.
Study and analysis of current and topical problems and issues in nursing. Directed by a faculty member with expertise in the topic under study. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits.
Study and analysis of current and topical problems and issues in nursing. Directed by a faculty member with expertise in the topic under study. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits.
This course will introduce the student to the perioperative nursing process. Students will learn basic information about planning patient care for all three perioperative phases-preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. Class will meet for 4 hours (1 hour didactic; 3 hours lab)every other week for 8 weeks.
This course provides health professions students with an interactive, seminar-based forum within which to explore the characteristics and implications of collaborative interprofessional practice around a contemporary health care issue with interprofessional implications.
