USF 2001-2002 Undergraduate Catalog - Page 267 - 268
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NUR 3064C Health Assessment Across The Life Span (3) NU NUR
PR: Admission to nursing major or CI. Focuses on history taking, physical appraisal skills basic to biopsychosocial assessment across the life span. Emphasizes assessment phase of the diagnostic reasoning process to identify alterations in functional health patterns.
NUR 3113 Culture of Nursing (2) NU NUR
PR: Admission to nursing major or CI. Introduction to evolving role of the professional nurse. Examines historical context of nursing's development, nursing's theoretical progression, and wellness-focused practice as a culture.
NUR 3114 Introduction to Clinical Judgment (3) NU NUR
PR: Concurrent with NUR 3114L. Admission to nursing major. Focuses on the basic concepts of health, functional health patterns and communication. Critical thinking is use to analyze the effects of changes in health status and nursing implications.
NUR 3114L Introduction to Clinical Practice (2) NU NUR
PR: Concurrent with NUR 3114. Admission to nursing major. Includes laboratory, clinical experiences, and selected psychomotor skills. Beginning application of clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions for adults.
NUR 3145 Pharmacology in Nursing Practice (2) NU NUR
PR: Admission to nursing major or CI. Examines pharmacotherapeutics; pharmacodynamics; pharmacokinetics; adverse reactions and contraindications; therapeutic indications according to functional health patterns; and nursing implications.
NUR 3215 Adult Health I (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113, NUR 3114, NUR 3114L, NUR 3064C. Concurrent with NUR 3215L. Nursing Majors. Examines adults with alternations in health maintenance, nutritional/metabolic, elimination, and sexuality/reproductive functional health care patterns. Critical thinking is used to analyze effects of changes in health status.
NUR 3215L Clinical Practice in Adult Health I (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113, NUR 3114, NUR 3114L, NUR 3064C. Concurrent with NUR 3215. Nursing Majors. Clinical intervention for adults with alternations in functional health patterns in a variety of settings. Emphasizes clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions.
NUR 3284C Gerontological Nursing (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113, NUR 3114, NUR 3114L, NUR 3064C. Nursing Majors. Focuses on theories of aging and human development; assessment of functional health patterns; and planning health promotion and disease prevention activities with older adults. Critical thinking is used to analyze the effects of interventions on individuals and groups.
NUR 3829 Ethical Legal Aspects in Nursing and Health Care MW (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113 or CI. Nursing Majors. Introduction to contemporary bioethical and legal issues confronting health care providers in a variety of settings. Focuses on identification of legal and ethical principles underlying the decision-making process in nursing and health care.
NUR 4041 Culture In Nursing Practice (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113 or CI. Nursing Majors. Introduces knowledge and skills needed to give culturally congruent nursing care to people from diverse cultural groups. Compares and analyzes health-related practices, values, beliefs among major cultural groups.
NUR 4165 Nursing Inquiry (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3113, Nursing Majors or CI. An exploration of the research process. Emphasis on identification of researchable nursing problems and evaluation of research that is applicable to nursing practice.
NUR 4194 An Interdisciplinary Perspective in HIV Disease 6A MW LW (3) NU NUR
Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on HIV disease. Topics include the etiology, spectrum, and treatment of HIV disease; international perspectives; issues of race, gender, and ethnicity; values, ethics, and their influences on responses to HIV; and how the media has shaped the epidemic.
NUR 4216 Adult Health II (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3829, NUR 3145, NUR 3215, NUR 3215L, NUR 3284C. Concurrent with NUR 4216L. Nursing Majors. Focuses on adults with health problems related to activity/exercise and cognitive/perceptual health patterns. Critical thinking is used to analyze the effects of changes in health status.
NUR 4216L Clinical Practice In Adult Health II (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 3829, NUR 3145, NUR 3215, NUR 3215L, NUR 3284C. Concurrent with NUR 4216. Nursing Majors. Clinical intervention for adults with selected health problems in a variety of settings. Emphasizes clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions for adults with a variety of health problems related to alterations of functional health patterns.
NUR 4245 Wellness: Health Promotion and Maintenance in Nursing (2) NU NUR
Open to non-nursing majors. Introduction to concepts of wellness and health promotion. Concepts of wellness include nutrition, exercise, rest, activity, spiritual factors and their relationship to wellness and health promotion and application to nursing practice.
NUR 4395C Specialized Techniques In Child Health Assessment (3) NU NUR
Designed to teach the reliable administration and interpretation of the NCAST II and the HOME instruments. Inter-observer reliability will be achieved through observation of parent-child interaction.
NUR 4525 Psychiatric/Mental Health (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4616, NUR 4616L, NUR 4636, NUR 4636L. Concurrent with NUR 4525L. Nursing Majors. Explores mind, body, spirit alterations in functional health patterns experienced by clients with acute an chronic mental health illnesses. Examines psychopathology, psychopharmacologic therapies and community resources.
NUR 4525L Clinical Practice In Psychiatric/Mental Health (1) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4616, NUR 4616L, NUR 4636, NUR 4636L. Concurrent with NUR 4525. Nursing Majors. Focuses on clinical intervention using critical thinking and communication skills with clients who require complex psychiatric rehabilitative care. Opportunities are offered to apply knowledge of psychopathology and psychopharmacologic therapies.
NUR 4616 Family Health (4) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4216, NUR 4216L, NUR 4041. Concurrent with NUR 4616L. Nursing Majors. Focuses on health promotion, identification of risk factors, illness care, disease prevention, and health restoration and maintenance with childbearing and child rearing families.
NUR 4616L Clinical Practice In Family Health (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4216, NUR 4216L, NUR 4041. Concurrent with NUR 4616. Nursing Majors. Includes therapeutic interventions for childbearing and childbearing families within a variety of settings.
NUR 4636 Community Health (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4216, NUR 4216L, NUR 4041. Concurrent with NUR 4636L. Nursing Majors and admission to the major for RN or BS students. Focuses on theories/concepts essential to community health nursing, emphasizing illness prevention and health promotion of individuals, families, communities. Roles of community health nurses and environments that affect health are explored.
NUR 4636L Clinical Practice In Community Health (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4216, NUR 4216L, NUR 4041. Concurrent with NUR 4636. Nursing Majors and admission to major for RN or BS students. Provides opportunities to engage in community health nursing practice to promote health and prevent illness with individuals, families, and communities.
NUR 4643 Nursing Interventions into the Acute Effects of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (2) NU NUR
Focuses on the assessment and treatment of individuals and families who are in the acute phases of addiction. Emphasis will be placed on treatment outcomes for designated populations with consideration for cultural, socioeconomic, political and ethical/legal factors.
NUR 4644 Nursing Interventions into the Rehabilitation of Clients who Abuse Substance (2) NU NUR
Focuses on models of treatment and interventions for clients and families who are in the rehabilitation and relapse prevention phases of treatment for addictions. Emphasis will be placed on rehabilitation outcomes for designated populations with consideration for criminal socioeconomic, political and legal/ethical factors.
NUR 4645 Substance Abuse Across the Lifespan (2) NU NUR
This course introduces the student to concepts of substance abuse and theories of addiction. The applicability of theories and concepts to clinical assessment, diagnosis and intervention with the client populations across the lifespan is explored.
NUR 4765C Rehabilitation Across the Life Span (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4616,NUR 4616L, NUR 4636, NUR 4636L. Nursing Major or CI. Basic concepts of rehabilitation related to human responses. Analysis of the changes in health status and nursing implications.
NUR 4766 Critical Care (2) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4616, NUR 4616L, NUR 4636, NUR 4636L. Nursing Majors or CI. Basic concepts of critical care nursing, focusing on selected health problems to analyze the affects of changes in health status.
NUR 4792 Sexually Transmitted Diseases And HIV Infection (2) NU NUR
Open to students and caregivers in health related fields. Examines prevalent sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection from a nursing perspective. Emphasis is on epidemiological principles, immunology, treatment, prevention, and ethical/legal considerations.
NUR 4838 Leadership/Management (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4616, 4616L, 4636, 4636L. Nursing Majors and admission to major for RN to BS students. Examines health care delivery systems and explores principles of leadership/management and ethical/legal issues within the systems. Skills of leaders and managers are implemented in nursing practice with individuals and groups.
NUR 4905C Independent Study (1-5) NU NUR
PR: Permission of faculty. Open to majors and non-majors. Individual or group investigation of problems relevant to the health of individuals or groups. Project requirements individually planned with faculty preceptor.
NUR 4935 Selected Topics In Nursing (2-8) NU NUR
PR: Junior or senior standing or permission of faculty. Content will depend upon student demand and faculty interest and may focus on any area relevant to nursing practice. May involve class, seminar, and/or clinical laboratory .
NUR 4948L Preceptorship (3) NU NUR
PR: NUR 4525, NUR 4525L,NUR 4616, 4616L, NUR 4636, NUR 4636L. Nursing Majors. Individually contracted practicum collaboratively planned by students, faculty and agency personnel.
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