NUR-490 |
Community Health Nursing in Ireland |
This course explores the healthcare of individuals, families and aggregates in a variety of community settings in Ireland. The concepts of community health nursing and the roles of the professional nurse in the community of Ireland are critically analyzed and compared to the US Public health System. The impact of the health care delivery system of Ireland is presented. Health promotion, health protection and disease prevention are examined. Critical thinking is emphasized in assessing the community of Ireland. A variety of community settings as observational experiences are utilized including home care, hospice, extended care facilities and population |
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3.00 |
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NUR-491 |
Global Outreach |
The goal of interprofessional education is to prepare future healthcare providers and professionals to work together as a team to improve patient and population health care. This includes engaging in foundational research on interprofessional education / collaborative practice; the use of interprofessional collaborative practice models to provide better care for clients. Service learning provides an opportunity for health care providers to learn more about health vulnerabilities that communities face and gain firsthand experience of working with underserved populations. Service learning uses experiential learning, reflection and reciprocal learning to increase student awareness of community health needs. Health care providers will be more likely to utilize these skills of collaborative practice, experiential learning, reflection and reciprocal learning in their own clinical |
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practice. |
3.00 |
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NUR-500 |
Adv Pharmacotherapeutics for Adv Nursing |
This course will cover selected topics in pharmacology and clinical therapeutics that are important in advanced nursing roles. Lectures cover the basics of pharmacologic mechanisms, dose-response relationships, pharmacokinetics( in children, adolescents, adults, elderly and pregnant women) and factors that alter a drug ' s bioavailability. Pharmacological agents include: autonomic, analgesics, anti-infective drugs and agents affecting the central nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory and GI systems. In addition, this course will discuss safe prescribing of controlled substances including opioids. The implications of age, pregnancy and lactation on drug action will be considered. Pharmacogenomics, human drug testing, drug laws, herbal medicines, OTC drugs |
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and nutritional agents will be discussed. |
3.00 |
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NUR-501 |
Fundamentals of Nursing |
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This is the foundation fundamentals and nursing skills course. This course provides an introduction to the | |||
fundamentals of nursing practice. Students will utilize the nursing process as a framework to apply nursing | |||
knowledge, diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes to individuals. Course concepts are grounded in evidencebased | |||
practice to promote, maintain, and restore health. Topics related to safety, oxygenation, ventilation, | |||
circulation, perfusion, ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination, urinary, movement, sensory input and the | |||
nurse patient relationship and the roles of the professional nurse are explored. Emphasis is placed on applying | |||
knowledge and practicing skills in the nursing skills laboratory, simulation laboratory, and clinical setting. |
5.00 |
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NUR-502 |
Health Assessment |
This course is designed to develop health assessment skills across the lifespan. This is the foundation health assessment course to introduce the student to principles and techniques of nursing assessment, focusing on patient-history taking, interview and communication techniques, and techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Lectures are designed to help the students apply their knowledge of health assessment to both primary and acute care settings. Emphasis is placed on gathering reliable and relevant information; recognizing variations of normal findings; and identifying abnormal findings using common health problems as exemplars. The laboratory component is designed to promote cognitive and psychomotor skills necessary to complete a comprehensive health assessment including the physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual aspects of health to support person-centered care. Integrated in the assessment, is the collection and analysis of data which are essential in planning safe and effective patient care. Practice of assessment techniques occurs through safe and effective experiential learning. Application of assessment findings to clinical decisionmaking |
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is addressed. |
3.00 |
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