A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality health care to the adult population across the care continuum. Students will gain knowledge of the major categories of pathophysiologies of disease affecting their adult patient and the adult population, as well as, the health care team management and nursing responsibilities for care.
- A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to ensure quality care to this older adult and older adult population. Students will gain knowledge of the major categories of pathophysiologies affecting the older adult patient and the older adult population, as well as, the health care team management and nursing responsibilities for care.
A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient - centered care, evidence - based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality end - of - life care. Students will gain knowledge of the particular end - of - life needs and the evidence - based assessment and interventions needed to improve the quality of end - of - life experiences for patients and their families. Prerequisite: admission to the nursing major. Co-requisites: NRS 303, NRS 310/310L, NRS 311/311L, NRS 305, and NRS 305P.
- Teacher: Rhonda Vardy (faculty)
A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to ensure quality care of the mentally ill patient and the mentally ill population. Students will gain knowledge of mental illness affecting patients and populations, as well as, the health care team management and nursing responsibilities for care.- Teacher: Kim Bro (faculty)
- Teacher: Pam DeMoss (faculty)
- Teacher: Crista Weber (faculty)
- Teacher: Lisa Kragenbrink (faculty)
A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality health care to the adult population. Students will develop systematic health assessment skills incorporating subjective and objective physical, laboratory, and technological assessment findings and other health care team member information and findings. Skills developed will be used as the basis of formulating nursing diagnoses and identifying interventions necessary to improve the health status of adults.- Teacher: Kim Bro (faculty)
- Teacher: Pam DeMoss (faculty)
- Teacher: Crista Weber (faculty)
- Teacher: Lisa Kragenbrink (faculty)
A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality health care to the adult population. Students will develop evidenced based intervention skills integrated with critical thinking skills to determine the need for intervention and to select the appropriate interventions to achieve improved patient outcomes. Skills developed will be used to implement an integrated plan of care necessary to improve the health status of adults based on accurate assessment and nursing diagnosis.
- A course designed to prepare students for management and leadership within the health care setting. Students will gain knowledge of theories and skills of management and leadership and integrate this knowledge with the essential core competencies to promote health care teamwork in affecting the highest quality patient-centered care.
- Teacher: Tamara Bussan (faculty)
A course designed to prepare students in the essential health professional core competencies of critical thinking, communication, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality health care to meet the multidimensional health care needs of populations within a community context. Students will gain knowledge of community health frameworks used; multicultural, social and environmental factors considered; and the spectrum of conditions/pathophysiologies affecting vulnerable populations, as well as, the health care team management and nursing responsibilities for care of the community as client. Pre-requisites: NRS 201, NRS 303, NRS 310/310L, NRS 311/311L, NRS 305, NRS 305-P, NRS 306, NRS 307-P, NRS 308, NRS 308-P, and NRS 401. Co-requisites: NRS 309, NRS 309-L, NRS 402, and NRS 403-P.
