Courses

This course emphasizes critical care nursing, focusing on the management of clients clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills, as well as implement evidence-based settings, while effectively collaborating with interprofessional teams. Students will lab, and simulation.

The purpose of this course is the synthesis and assimilation of skills and clinical reasoning drawn from all previous nursing courses and is intended to prepare students to function independently in the management and provision of nursing care to an assigned cohort of patients. The focus of the course is on the professional roles of caregiver, educator, consumer research, advocate, counselor, leader, and inter-and intra- professional team member.

Lab and clinical required. Course through which students learn the responsibilities of professional nursing in providing nursing care to the adult patient with various medical-surgical problems. Lab and clinical required.

The purpose of this course is for students to develop knowledge towards the competent care of adult patients. This course aims to deepen knowledge, enhance skills, and shape attitudes necessary for the development of competency in adult health nursing practice.

This course utilizes conceptual and competency-based process to focus on the four chronic disease care, regenerative or restorative care, and hospice/palliative/supportive evolving professionalism, and consideration for individual patient needs. Emphasis in nursing, safety, quality, patient-centered care planning, and provision of safe, compassionate

Continues to explore the concept of illness as an alteration in health states. Presents principles of safe, effective medication and intravenous therapy administration. Explore health alterations in adults in response to internal and external environmental dimensions, focusing on surgery, gastrointestinal, endocrine, integumentary, immune, and musculoskeletal systems. Examines selected theories for interrelationships among physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual components.

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Focuses on clinical decision making in the management of adult medical-surgical clients across health care settings. Emphasis is placed on acute health stressors and their effect on the whole person. Students apply critical thinking to prioritize client needs, promote evidence-based practice, and provide compassionate nursing care. LEC, LAB.

Introduces the nursing process including a study of basic adaptive/ maladaptive human behaviors and mechanisms. Focuses on commonly occurring health deviations. This class meets three hours per week with assigned clinical experiences weekly. Minimum clinical requirement of 90 clock hours per term.

This course designed for accelerated, pre-licensure nursing students will be delivered in a hybrid format. The class component will be completed online and the clinical and lab requirements will be completed face-to- face. Minimum clinical requirements of 90 clock hours per term to be scheduled by course coordinator. Adult Health Nursing I: Introduces the nursing process including a study of basic adaptive/maladaptive human behaviors and mechanisms.