TERM 5 NUA120 IV Therapy Fundamentals Prerequisite: None Credits: 3 / Course Hours: 40
This course provides nursing concepts for providing safe intravenous (IV) therapy, including entry-level skills such as IV preparation, monitoring, and maintenance, IV initiation and discontinuation, and administration of IV medications. The essentials of “OMEGA-7” provides the conceptual framework for critical thinking in approaching health and the nursing process. The lab application will provide practice of the IV skills and procedures.
NUR207 Nursing Fundamentals III¹ Prerequisites: NUR106B, PHA102 Credits: 5.0 / Course Hours: 60
This course builds upon NUR 106 with additional theory of nursing practice and skills. This course introduces health promotion across the life span, including developmental concepts, conception through young adult, and the aging adult. Nursing content includes leading, managing and delegating, safety, security, emergency preparedness and perioperative nursing. In the health care delivery system, this course content includes collaborative practice and care coordination across settings. As promoting healthy physiologic responses, this course content includes oxygenation, perfusion, fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. As promoting healthy psychosocial responses, this course content includes self-concept; stress & adaptation; loss, grief & dying; sensory functioning; sexuality and spirituality. The lab application content includes a skills performance review; medication administration, medication dosage calculation; situational assessment; extremity restraints; preoperative and postoperative care; oxygen therapy; suctioning of airways; tracheostomy care; peripheral venous access initiation and monitoring; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance; blood transfusion administration.
NUR217 Clinical Nursing II Prerequisites: NUR106B, NUR116B; Co-Requisites: NUR207 Credits: 2.0 / Course Hours: 60
This clinical course further introduces the novice nurse to the clinical setting; supports NUR 207; teaches/reinforces the nursing skills and procedures for: therapeutic communication, infection control, health and physical assessment, compassionate care of the adult and older adult populations. The NCSBN clinical judgment measurement model and OMEGA-7 will support clinical judgment and critical thinking. Onsite clinical instruction, supervision, evaluation, and placement will be the responsibility of the qualified college nursing faculty in collaboration with practicing nurses.
ENG116 English and Writing Prerequisite: None Credits: 4.0 / Course Hours: 40
This course allows students to develop their writing skills and to explore the various styles of English writing. The student will read and discuss various examples of writing and literature in order to develop their own writing styles and abilities. The proper use of English grammar will be emphasized and the student will write about instructor selected topics in order to explore those various styles of English writing. TERM 6 NUR208 Introduction to Adult Health Medical-Surgical Nursing Prerequisites: NUR207,NUR217; Co-Requisite: NUR218 Credits: 5.0 / Course Hours: 60 This course is the first in a consecutive series of adult health/medical-surgical nursing classes, which introduces the student to core concepts related to medical-surgical nursing practice issues from a physiologic, pathophysiologic, and psychosocial context. This series provides an understanding of the nurse’s role in health and illness within evolving practice environments and across the spectrum of health and illness. As roles essential to nursing care, this course content includes basic concepts in nursing; biophysical and psychosocial concepts in nursing practice, concepts and challenges in adult and older adult patient management and perioperative concepts. The lab application content includes medical surgical; fluid and electrolyte balance; pain management; end of life care and coordination of care in the perioperative and medical-surgical arena.
1. Please see Addendum following this catalog for updated credit hours for NUR207 effective September 1, 2024 (click to view)
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