200
Considers historical, cultural, professional, and futuristic points of view relative to the nursing profession. Course work includes the philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual aspects of nursing; the nursing process; and the role of the professional nurse in responding to health needs. 3 lecture hours per week (45 theory hours)
Prerequisite to all other nursing courses.
This course may not be taken concurrently with other nursing courses.
Explores selected professional issues that affect the ability of a nurse to deliver professional nursing care. The course examines the transition from the role of the registered nurse to that of a Bachelor prepared nurse via strategies for professional, personal, cultural, and spiritual growth and development. Emphasis is on nursing therapeutics, ethics, professionalism, research, critical thinking, and communication as the advanced practice nurse acts as leader and change agent in the process of promoting wellness for individuals and aggregates. (RN to BSN or RN to MSN students only) 45 theory hours
Licensed registered Nurse, permission of instructor.
Presents the process and practice of professional nursing with emphasis on integrating essential knowledge from the physical and behavioral sciences with nursing procedures. Nursing theory and the nursing process provide the background for this rigorous course. 3 lecture hours per week, 45 theory hours, 60 clinical and 30 lab hours per semester. Clinical fee.
Admission to Nursing Major,
NUR 201, and sciences required in first three semesters.
Taken concurrently with NUR 206.
Details the process and practice of professional nursing. The health assessment component emphasizes the importance of utilizing techniques of inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation as tools to providing holistic client-centered care. The mastery of health assessments provides the professional nurse with the database necessary for deriving nursing diagnoses-that which designates nursing's authentic locus-and to intervene and assist in actual or potential health problems, thereby assisting the client to achieve optimal levels of self-care. This health assessment will be presented by a systematic head-to-toe approach emphasizing integration as a whole. The use of nursing theory and the nursing process will be the conceptual framework for practice. 2 theory hours and 2 laboratory hours per week.
Freshman and first-semester sophomore courses required in the Nursing Program or per- mission of instructor.
Taken concurrently with NUR 204.