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This course focuses on providing a continuum of care for women from the time of menarche through menopause. Students will focus on nursing care provided for women and families during preconception, normal and high-risk pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods. Focus is also placed on the nursing care of the healthy and high-risk neonate. In addition, emphasis is also placed on women’s health across the lifespan.

This clinical course provides students the opportunity to apply the essential concepts, theories, and safe, effective nursing care in meeting maternal, newborn, and women’s healthcare needs. Students will explore the nursing care provided for women and families during preconception, normal and high-risk pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods. Focus is also placed on the nursing care of the healthy and high-risk neonate.

This course presents the essential concepts, theories and developmental processes vital in understanding the health concerns and problems of children, adolescents and their families. Students examine family-centered nursing care in the health promotion and health maintenance of infants, children and adolescents. Topics include growth and development of the child, caring for and teaching children and families with acute and chronic illness, communication, critical thinking, cultural competence and self-care, nursing process, nursing theory, and legal/ethical aspects of nursing care of children.

This clinical course offers students the opportunity to apply key concepts, theories, and processes essential for addressing the health and developmental needs of pediatric patients. Emphasizing the nurse's role and the importance of continuity of care, students will engage in clinical and simulation learning experiences designed to meet the needs of children and families across healthcare settings.

For basic students only. This course explores the concepts and theories necessary to promote and restore health of adults and older adults with biological problems and their related physiological and psychological responses. There is an integration of both physical changes and developmental tasks with the implementation of care considerations of patients throughout the life span.

The course provides the opportunity for students to apply concepts and processes learned in the classroom to help adults and older adults in the promotion and maintenance of health. Students examine both adults and older adults from physical, social, psychological, and developmental perspectives, through a combination of laboratory, simulation and clinical practice activities. Clinical experiences occur in a variety of acute care facilities.

This course explores the specialized care of patients across the lifespan with chronic or complex disease states that require extended care and the application of palliative care measures. The emphasis is on professional nursing roles and responsibilities in designing, managing, and evaluating culturally sensitive care to support, maintain, and optimize patient functioning. Students will explore the impact of their values on patient care as they examine the fundamental principles of palliative care, focusing on pain/symptom management, ethical dilemmas, effective communication strategies and interprofessional teamwork.

For basic and pre-MSN students. The health care delivery system is examined from political, economic, legal and ethical perspectives with particular emphasis on the written analysis of legal and ethical dilemmas related to the practice of nursing.

This course explores techniques for effective verbal and written communication in nursing and other healthcare fields. This is a writing intensive course that utilizes guided instruction, peer review workshops, and formative feedback to assist students in expressing and synthesizing new knowledge by completing communication logs, weekly responses, and application papers where students will explore guidelines and techniques to establish relationships with patients, families, and colleagues; reflect on how their personal style affects communication; demonstrate understanding of the connection between communication and caring; and explore strategies for self-care to build confidence for personal and professional effectiveness.

This introductory course in nursing and health care statistics covers common applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. This course will allow the student to summarize numerical data and gain a working vocabulary of important statistical methods. Opportunities are provided to manipulate data, perform basic statistical tests, and summarize findings in tabular, graphical, and narrative form. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world nursing and health care situations to improve clinical outcomes.

For basic students only. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of pharmacology and therapeutics in the treatment of illness, and the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health in patients across the lifespan. The major drug categories are reviewed with emphasis placed on the therapeutic use, action and adverse reaction, as well as benefits and risks to the drug therapy. This prepares the health professional for safe, therapeutic pharmacological interventions.

This course explores essential concepts of the principles of nutrition across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on clinical and therapeutic nutrition as it affects the functioning of body systems and health disorders in the clinical practice area.

This course focuses on the preparation of nursing and public health students regarding the practices of healthcare in Latin America. The students will be introduced to the Latin American cultural considerations as well as the major health issues of concern. Additionally, students will be exposed to concepts of the expected professional behavior and barriers to transcultural care of healthcare providers in a foreign country.

This is a travel abroad course that requires travel to countries in the Latin American. Nursing and public health students travel to the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica to learn about and apply community health promotion/disease prevention concepts in a transcultural environment. In addition, the travel component of the course includes 3 days in the urban center of San Jose, Costa Rica as well as the rainforest/rural areas of Monteverde, with guided, interactive tours covering the history, culture, and healthcare trends of the country. As a community health practicum, the service-learning component includes opportunities to practice concepts of health promotion/disease prevention through community education activities.