NRSG

Emphasis is placed on the role delineation for the LPN/VN to RN. This course includes a review of the nursing process, critical thinking, and clinical decision making for use with medical surgical nursing and pharmacological concepts.

This course provides an introduction to the principles of pharmacology, including: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, potential medication reactions and drug-drug/food-drug interactions. Importance is placed on recognizing major drug classifications. Nursing concepts related legal and ethical nursing implications of medication administration are stressed. Students are given the opportunity to practice dosage calculation while safely administering medication in the laboratory setting.

This course focuses on the nursing process and care of clients across the lifespan who are experiencing cognitive, mental and behavioral conditions while maintaining therapeutic communication. Emphasis is placed on management of clients facing emotional and psychological stressors and/or addiction issues. Promoting and maintaining the mental health of individuals and families is also considered. Concepts of crisis intervention, therapeutic communication, anger management, and coping skills are integrated while reducing risk potential throughout the course. The community as a resource for care and support services is addressed. Clinical experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts and implement safe client-centered care to clients with mental health issues in various settings.

This course focuses on providing safe, quality client centered care of adult clients with medical and/or surgical health alterations using the nursing process while reducing risk potential. Emphasis is placed on the care of clients with alterations in selected body functions. Concepts of management, organization systems, health promotion, health education, therapeutic communication, evidence based practice, and interprofessional collaboration are integrated throughout the course. Clinical learning experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts of nursing, promote healthy behaviors and implement safe care to clients and selected groups in a variety of healthcare settings.

This course focuses on analyzing the nursing process in order to provide client centered care for adult clients with one or more chronic health alterations while reducing risk potential. Emphasis is placed on the care of clients with chronic alterations of selected body functions. The student applies the concepts of management, organization systems, health promotion, health education, evidence based practice, therapeutic communication, and interprofessional collaboration. Clinical learning experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical nursing concepts, promote healthy behaviors, and implement safe, quality care to clients and selected groups in a variety of settings across the lifespan.

This course provides an introduction to the roles and scope of practice of the nurse in healthcare systems, as well as providing an introduction to basic comfort and client care concepts important to nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide client-centered, safe, quality care while reducing risk potential. The theoretical foundation for basic assessment and nursing skills are presented, and the student is given an opportunity to demonstrate these skills in a clinical laboratory setting. An introduction to the nursing process provides a decision-making framework to assist students in developing effective clinical judgment skills. The principles of therapeutic communication are also introduced.

This course provides an introduction to the roles of the nurse in healthcare systems, as well as profession related and patient care concepts important to nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and skills needed to provide patient-centered safe, quality care. The theoretical foundation for basic assessment and nursing skills is presented, and the student is given an opportunity to demonstrate these skills in a clinical laboratory setting. An introduction to the nursing process provides a decision-making framework to assist students in developing effective clinical judgment skills.

This course provides the framework for students to perform comprehensive health assessments on clients across the lifespan. Students formulate safe nursing actions using the nursing process to collect information and perform a complete health history and physical assessment. Specific risk factors and determinants of health across the life span and contributors to negative health outcomes and health problems are discussed. Laboratory experiences will provide an opportunity to practice assessment skills.

This course provides an integrative, family-centered approach using the nursing process in the nursing care of childbearing & childrearing families. Emphasis is placed on healthy pregnancies and common complications, healthy growth and development, family dynamics, common pediatric disorders and the promotion of healthy behaviors in clients. Clinical experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical nursing concepts and implement safe client–centered care to mothers, newborns, children and families in selected settings while reducing risk potential.

This course facilitates the transition of students to the role of professional nurses within the clinical microsystem and healthcare delivery models. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues and management concepts, as well as developing the skills of delegation, priority-setting, conflict management, and leadership. Legal and ethical issues are addressed with a focus on personal accountability and responsibility. Standards of safe practice and the significance of functioning according to state regulations and statutes while reducing risk potential are analyzed. Clinical experiences provide students opportunities to apply theoretical nursing concepts of leadership. Students also prepare to take the national licensure examination.

This course focuses on advanced concepts of nursing care as they relate to clients across the lifespan with complex, multisystem alterations in health. Emphasis is placed on discrimination of time management and organizational skills while managing the care of clients with multiple needs and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team. Complex clinical skills, as well as priority setting, clinical judgment, and tenets of legal and ethical practice while reducing risk potential, are integrated throughout the course. Clinical experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts and implement safe care to clients and selected groups in a variety of settings.

This capstone course requires students to prepare to sit for the NCLEX-RN® licensure examination. The course facilitates the student's transition into professional nursing through concepts of time management, prioritization of care, and health promotion across the lifespan. The emphasis of this course is a comprehensive nursing program review to support mastery of essential nursing content for beginning practice as an entry-level registered nurse.