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.