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COURSES

 

Nursing (Nurs)

1. Survey of Nursing (2)
Introducing nursing students to the role of the professional nurse, where nurses function, job opportunities; history of nursing, professional adjustments and how nursing meets the criteria of a profession.

5. Medical -Surgical Nursing I (2)
Personal and community health; guided educational experience in beginning nursing skills; accident and disaster nursing; use of community health and welfare agencies. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)

10. Medical- Surgical Nursing II (4)
Prerequisites: Nurs. 1, 5; Biol. 66; Physiol. 1. Guided experience in basic nursing procedures; dosage and action of drugs, diet therapy; principles and methods of planning and implementing safe and effective nursing care. Lecture, laboratory.

20. Medical-Surgical Nursing III (7)
Prerequisites: Nurs. 10, Chem. 2A-B. Guided experience in total nursing care of selected patients; measures necessary for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation; the patient as a person, a member of a family and of a community; integrating diet therapy and pharmacology. Lecture, laboratory.

100. Medical and Surgical Nursing Specialties (8)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 20. Continuation of Nurs. 20. Guided experience in medical and surgical nursing specialties; responsibilities of the nurse in the operating room.

120. Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest (3)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 100. Guided experience with tuberculosis, other chest conditions; prevention, treatment and rehabilitation; emphasis on the patient as a person, a member of a family and of a community; tuberculosis as a community health problem.

150. Maternal and Child Care I (5)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 120. Guided experience with selected obstetric and pediatric patients; measures for management of labor; normal and abnormal states of pregnancy; the newborn infant; emphasis on the patient as a person, a member of a family and of a community.

160. Public Health Administration (3)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 150. Organization and administration of public health services on international, national, state, and local levels; planning, financing, integrating, and evaluating preventive diagnostic treatment and rehabilitative community programs; review of current problems and social welfare legislation.

165. Team Nursing (3)
Prerequisites: Nurs. 150 and 160 (concurrently). Guided experience with selected patients presenting complex nursing problems; role of professional nurse in organizing and directing members of nursing teams for total nursing care.

175. Maternal and Child Care II (7)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 150. Guided experience with selected obstetric and pediatric patients; nursing measures necessary for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation; growth and development of children from infancy through adolescence.

180. Psychiatric Nursing (5)
Guided experience with selected patients in psychiatric hospitals and mental hygiene clinics; therapeutic and interpersonal relationships; related therapies.

185. Public Health Nursing (8)
Theory of basic principles and practices, responsibility of public health nurse in community programs for health and social welfare; guided experience with selected patients presenting complex nursing problems; role of professional nurse in organizing and directing members of nursing teams for total nursing care.

195. Senior Seminar (3)
Prerequisite: Nurs. 165. Study of complex nursing problems and their solutions.

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