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2 creditsStudents develop personal, social, and theoretical perspectives on the discipline of nursing as a caring profession. Provides the conceptual bases for the interpersonal foundations of nursing practice. Includes an overview of the profession of nursing and nursing roles.
5 credits (3 didactic and 2 practicum)Provides the basis for health assessment of individuals from infancy through old age.
3 creditsOffers an introduction to the pathophysiological processes that underlie many different disease states and health deviations across the life span. Explores human responses to these processes. Prerequisites: Nur 370 and 371.
5 credits (2 didactic and 3 practicum)Focuses on development of the conceptual bases for beginning therapeutic nursing interventions. Emphasizes the application of cognitive, psychomotor, and interpersonal skills with clients in a health care setting. Prerequisites: Nur 370 and 371.
3 creditsProvides a basic theoretical framework for pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and their application to nursing. Focuses on nursing implications relevant to pharmacology, including application across diverse populations, elements of clinical decision making, safe nursing practice, and establishing and monitoring client outcomes. Prerequisites: Nur 370 and 371.
3 creditsFocuses on the use of critical thinking strategies to acquire understanding of client responses to their health status. Students analyze significant problems experienced by clients when coping with health and illness. Explores therapeutic nursing interventions. Prerequisites: Nur 370 and 371.
3 creditsIntroduces the analysis of ethical issues and dilemmas arising in nursing practice and health care systems. Emphasizes values clarification, models for ethical decision making, collaborative approaches to analysis of ethical dilemmas, consideration of relevant legal aspects, and related documents that guide professional practice. Explores legal aspects of nursing practice. Prerequisites: first summer courses and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
3 creditsExplores the family as both client and context. The family is examined as health care client and negotiator, an expressor of cultural diversity, a system, and an environment for individual development. Discusses family structure, process, function, and coping in relation to health, illness, and transition. Focuses on assessment and intervention across the life span using theory and research in family nursing. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
3 creditsExamines the essentials of nursing care for older people. The foci are normal aging and individual, family, and contextual factors influencing the processes and outcomes of aging. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
4 creditsFocuses on the analysis, integration, and evaluation of the scientific knowledge underlying the nursing management of adult human responses to potential or actual physiological alterations in health status. Emphasizes clinical decision making for setting priorities and selecting therapeutic interventions across the trajectory of health and illness. Examines the effects of multiple interacting environments upon the ill adult. Usually taken concurrently with Nur 385. Prerequisites: first summer courses and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
7 creditsPromotes the application of scientific knowledge to the diagnosis and management of adult human responses to potential or actual physiological alterations in health status. The clients are primarily hospital-based, physiologically unstable adults with diverse characteristics. Emphasizes continuity of care across the trajectory of health and illness. Examines the effects of multiple interacting environments upon the nurse-patient relationship. Prerequisites: first summer courses and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376), and Nur 384 (or concurrent enrollment).
3 creditsExamines the theoretical and research foundations of family as context and client. Includes developmental theories, clinical decision making, and health promotion models as they describe families in health and illness. Emphasizes concepts of therapeutic nursing interventions with families who are child rearing. Usually taken concurrently with Nur 387. Prerequisites: first summer courses and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376), and Nur 380 (or concurrent enrollment).
5 creditsApplies the theoretical, research, and practice foundations to nursing care of families. Practices therapeutic nursing interventions with families and children. Prerequisites: Nur 380 and 386 (or concurrent enrollment); first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
3 creditsProvides a basic foundation of knowledge and skills involved in the physical and psychological assessment of individuals.
3 creditsIntroduces past and current thinking in the profession regarding the role of the nurse in research and the relationship between nursing practice and nursing research. Provides students with the skills and understanding to critically review research reports and discuss ethical issues related to research. Emphasizes the application of research to improve client outcomes. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
7 creditsExamines selected psychosocial and physiological processes and their relationship to caring and caring therapeutics in clinical nursing practice. Provides opportunities to explore multiple nursing roles, apply therapeutic interventions, think critically, and communicate skillfully with multiple clients in designated settings. Prerequisites: completion of the first year of upper division coursework, including Nur 370, 371, 372, 374, and 376.
3 creditsAnalyzes concepts related to nursing leadership and management in the context of health care delivery systems. Examines leadership and management roles in relation to tradition, change, and socially responsible nursing practice. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
3 creditsAnalyzes health and social policy and examines the impact of relationships among sociocultural, political, economic, technologic, environmental, ethical, and legal factors on nursing practice, health care delivery, and public policy. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
4 creditsExamines the theoretical and research bases for mental health nursing of vulnerable populations across the life span. Explores the mental health problems of individuals, families, and groups within their environmental and cultural context. Emphasizes the self-reflective aspect of critical thinking as it pertains to therapeutic interventions and interpersonal relationships. Usually taken concurrently with Nur 485. Prerequisites: first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
6 creditsProvides experience delivering nursing care to selected vulnerable populations. Students apply critical thinking skills and knowledge to mental health nursing interventions with diverse clients. Prerequisites: Nur 484 or concurrent enrollment; first summer and first fall quarter courses (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
4 creditsExamines community health nursing, public health, and other disciplines to enhance the quality of life through health promotion and disease prevention at the community level. Students identify health issues for selected populations and plan assessment, intervention, and evaluation strategies for use with individuals, families, and aggregates. Nur 487 is usually taken concurrently. Prerequisites: two of the three following course sets: Nur 157, 484, 485; 380, and 386, 387; 384, 385. First summer and first fall quarter courses are also required (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
6 creditsProvides the opportunity to use an ongoing multidimensional assessment process to mutually formulate and implement plans of care for promoting the health of client systems within the context of public health approaches to health promotion and disease prevention. Prerequisites: Nur 486 or concurrent enrollment; two of the three following course sets: Nur 484, 485; 380 and 386, 387; 384, 385 and first summer and first fall quarter courses are also required (Nur 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, and 376).
2 creditsProvides an opportunity for synthesis and evaluation of professional nursing role behaviors essential to care of clients who are experiencing complex care needs in a variety of settings. Emphasizes refinement of critical thinking and communication skills and the integration of a range of therapeutic interventions into nursing practice, including those appropriate to individual clients, their families/significant others, and relevant population-based groups. Prerequisites: all other upper division nursing major courses.
7 creditsProvides an opportunity for synthesis and evaluation of professional nursing role behaviors essential to care of clients who are experiencing complex care needs in a variety of settings. Emphasizes refinement of critical thinking and communication skills and the integration of a range of therapeutic interventions into nursing practice, including those appropriate to individual clients, their families/significant others, and relevant population-based groups. Prerequisites: all other upper division nursing major courses.
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