Nursing (ASN) Courses

NSG 101 Introduction to Professional Nursing Concepts (5 cr)

This course includes an introduction to the foundation of nursing practice. Broad course content includes the history of nursing, the health care delivery system, cultural considerations, caring and clinical judgment, verbal/non-verbal communication, physical assessment, the nursing process, nursing diagnosis, the nurse-patient relationship, overview of growth and development, health perception, health promotion, health maintenance, introduction to nutrition, body systems, managing bowel and bladder elimination, self care, mobility, supporting respiratory functions, managing sleep and rest, managing pain, managing stress and anxiety, coping and managing functional limitations. Clinical sites will include community clinics, rural hospitals, long-term care centers and senior centers.

PREREQUISITE: BIO 133 or Anatomy (college-level) equivalent course; COREQUISITES: NSG 102.

NSG 102 Professional Nursing Skills I (1 cr)

This course introduces clinical skills as a foundation of nursing practice.  The course focuses on concepts and clinical skills basic to the practice of nursing across the lifespan.  Students are introduced to the holistic care of clients, beginning clinical decision-making and foundational therapeutic nursing interventions.  Nursing process, documentation, therapeutic communication skills, aseptic technique and medication administration are included as well as other fundamental nursing skills.  Caring, critical thinking, communication, evidence-based practice and professionalism will be stressed throughout the course.

COREQUISITES: NSG 101.

NSG 131 Nursing Health Promotion Across the Life Span (5 cr)

This course provides a foundation for health promotion. The focus is wellness. Broad course content includes definition of health, objectives for promotion and prevention, emerging populations and health, health promotion and the individual across the life span, health promotion and the family, health promotion and the community, interventions for health promotion, global health promotion in the 21st century, nutritional status across the life span, elimination patterns, health lifestyle, activity/exercise pattern, sleep-rest pattern, cognitive-perceptual pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern, sexuality-reproductive pattern, coping-stress tolerance pattern and value-brief pattern. Clinical sites will include community clinics, rural hospitals, long-term care centers, senior centers, day care centers, schools, OB clinics and acute care including ante-partum labor/delivery sites, post-partum sites and newborn nursery sites.

PREREQUISITES: BIO 134, ENG 101, NSG 101, NSG 102, PSY 101; COREQUISITES: NSG 132

NSG 132 Professional Nursing Skills II (1 cr)

The course builds upon concepts and clinical skills related to the practice of nursing across the life span introduced in Nursing Skills I.  Advanced medication administration, blood administration, tracheostomy care, enteral feeding and care of central vascular access devices are included as well as special skills necessary for care of children and the child-bearing family.  Caring, holistic care, critical thinking, communication, evidence-based practice and professionalism will be stressed throughout the course.

PREREQUISITE: BIO 134, ENG 101, NSG 101, NSG 102, PSY 101; COREQUISITES: NSG 131.

NSG 160 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span I (6 cr)

The course utilizes a functional health pattern framework for nursing care across the life span including medical-surgical and mental health content. Broad topics will include health perception-health management pattern, nutritional-metabolic pattern, sleep-rest pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern and sexuality-reproductive pattern. Clinical sites will include acute care adult, pediatrics, mental health, and community sites.

NSG 200 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span II (6 cr)

This course is a continuation of NSG 160 and utilizes a functional health pattern framework for nursing care across the life span. Focus is medical-surgical and mental health content. Broad topics include activity-exercise pattern, cognitive-perceptual pattern, self-perception/self-concept pattern, role-relationship pattern, coping-stress tolerance pattern and value-belief pattern. Clinical sites will include acute care adult, pediatrics, mental health and community sites.

PREREQUISITES: PHA 202, NSG 160

NSG 230 Nursing Care of Patients Across the Life Span III (6 cr)

Role of the nurse as a leader and manager, managing patient care across the life span, end of life care, overview of care of critically ill patients with complex problems, nursing skills for managing critical ill patients with complex problems, nursing management of patients with multiple organ dysfunction, nursing management of acute cardiac conditions, nursing management of trauma patients, nursing management of patients with acute obstetrical conditions.

PREREQUISITES: NSG 200, NSG 280, BIO 132

NSG 231 Role Transition to Professional Practice (6 cr)

This 7-week rotation is a clinical preceptorship in medical-surgical, adult, child, and neonatal critical care units. It includes course content of socialization into the RN role, transition to entry-level practice, self care, burnout, moral, ethical and legal issues in nursing practice, Nurse Practice Act, ANA code of ethics, impaired nurse, death and grief, conflict resolution, planned change, collective bargaining, staffing, retention/recruitment, resume writing, mentoring and coaching.

PREREQUISITES: BIO 132, NSG 200, NSG 280

NSG 280 Caring in a Diverse Health Care Environment (3 cr)

This course facilitates an integration of personal and professional values that form the foundation for a philosophy of care giving and prepares students for the realities and challenges of care giving in their health care profession. The course examines dimensions of self-care to enhance preparation for a career in a health care profession. It explores the holistic care of others including vulnerable and culturally diverse patients, with a focus on suffering, faith, hope, healing and death and dying. Applications for culturally sensitive care-giving for diverse patients include an examination of religious beliefs and cultural health traditions and the impact of diversity in the health care workplace.

PREREQUISITE: Two semesters of nursing courses with three semesters receommended; CO-LISTED: PHI 280.