HUN 2201 NUTRITION (3)
PR: Course work in chemistry and biology or permission of faculty. Open to majors and non-majors. The study of fundamental principles of normal nutrition as they relate to human life and growth from conception through senescence, interpretation of current nutrition information, and application of nutrition knowledge in the establishment of good eating habits
NUR 2935 SELECTED TOPICS IN NURSING (1-3)
PR: CI. Freshman or sophomore standing. Open to non-majors. Content will depend upon student demand and faculty interest and may focus on any area relevant to health care. May involve class, seminar, and/or observational field experiences (non-clinical). May be repeated for credit for different topics.
NUR 3064C HEALTH ASSESSMENT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN (3)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
PR: NUR 3113, 3114, 3114L, 3064C. Concurrent with NUR 3215L. Nursing Majors. Examines adults with alternations in health maintenance, nutritional/metabolic, elimination, and sexuality/reproductive functional health care patters. Critical thinking is used to analyze effects of changes in health status.
NUR 3215L CLINICAL PRACTICE IN ADULT HEALTH I (3)
PR: NUR 3113, 3114, 3114L, 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)
PR: NUR 3113, 3114, 3114L, 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 3827 LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT ASPECTS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (2)
PR: NUR 3066C and 4256L. Focuses on nursing concepts and theories underlying community/public health. Explores the evolving, autonomous and leadership roles of the community health nurse and the socio-political-economic environments that impact upon nursing practice in the community health care system.
NUR 3829 ETHICAL LEGAL ASPECTS IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE -XMW (3)
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 4040 TRANSCULTURAL NURSING (2)
Open to both students and caregivers in health-related fields. Designed to assist students to become aware of own values as related to various cultural groups and to identify health practices and beliefs of these groups, health resources available and adaptive measures by caregivers to meet their needs.
NUR 4041 CULTURE IN NURSING PRACTICE (2)
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 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH (2)
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 4216 ADULT HEALTH II (3)
PR: NUR 3829, 3145, 3215, 3215L, 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)
PR: NUR 3829, 3145, 3215, 3215L, 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)
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. Open to non-nursing majors.
NUR 4395C SPECIALIZED TECHNIQUES IN CHILD HEALTH ASSESSMENT (3)
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)
PR: NUR 4616, 4616L, 4636, 4636L. Concurrent with NUR 4256L. 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 4535L CLINICAL PRACTICE IN PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH (1)
PR: NUR 4616, 4616L, 4636, 4636L. Concurrent with NUR 4256. Nursing Majors. Focuses on clinical internention using critical thinking and communication skills with clients who require complex psychiatric rehabilitative care. Opportunities are offered to apply knowledge of psychoparthology and psychopharmacologic therapies.
NUR 4616 FAMILY HEALTH (4)
PR: NUR 4216, 4216L, 4041. Concurrent with 4611L. 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)
PR: NUR 4216, 4216L, 4041. Concurrent with 4611. Nursing Majors. Includes therapeutic interventions for childbearing and childrearing families within a variety of settings.
NUR 4636 COMMUNITY HEALTH (2)
PR: NUR 4216, 4216L, 4041. Concurrent with 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)
PR: NUR 4216, 4216L, 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 4766 CRITICAL CARE (2)
PR: NUR 4616, 4616L, 4636, 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 4765C REHABILITATION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN (2)
PR: NUR 4636, 4636L. Nursing Major or CI. Basic concepts of rehabilitation related to human responses. Analysis of the changes in health status and nursing implications.
NUR 4792 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND HIV INFECTION (2)
Open to students and caregivers in health related fields. Examines prevalent sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection from a nursing perspective. Emphasis is on epidemiologic principles, immuniology, treatment, prevention, and ethical/legal considerations.
NUR 4837 LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT AND ROLE TRANSITION (3)
PR: NUR 4257L. Provides opportunities to apply principles of leadership and management to current practice as experienced in the preceptorship, to explore roles of the various health team members, to analyze legal/ethical parameters of current practice and to examine one's philosophy of nursing and its implications for practice.
NUR 4838 LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT (3)
PR: NUR 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)
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. May be repeated to maximum of 5 credits.
NUR 4935 SELECTED TOPICS IN NURSING (2-8)
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 and may be repeated for different topics.
NUR 4938 HONORS SEMINAR (4)
PR: Acceptance into the honors program in nursing and CI. The Honors Seminar is designed to provide selected students with an opportunity to explore major works of nursing in-depth and to present, discuss, and defend a proposal for a research project.
NUR 4948L PRECEPTORSHIP (3)
PR: NUR 4636, 4636L. Nursing Majors. Individually contracted practicum collaboratively planned by students, faculty and agency personnel.
NUR 4975 HONORS THESIS (2)
PR: Honors Seminar and CI. The student under the supervision of a faculty advisor will formalize, conduct, analyze and report in writing and orally a research project in nursing. May be repeated up to 2 credit hours.
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Publication Date: June 1, 1995
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