Curriculum
This curriculum includes 12 credits:
NURS 325 — Critical Issues Shaping Professional Nursing
During the last decade the health care system has undergone dramatic shifts, driven by changing economic, demographic, and technological forces. This course explores the impact of these forces on health care delivery, and the concerns relating to ethical, legal, and social issues that influence nursing practice. The readiness and flexibility of the profession to adapt to a changing society will be explored as well as the new opportunities these qualities have for career development. Concepts necessary for succeeding in the nursing profession will be studied.
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NURS 370 — Issues in Aging and Longevity
This course focuses on current issues in promoting longevity with healthy aging. Current biopsychosocial theories on aging are explored. The multidisciplinary needs of older adults, including relationship challenges, are addressed.
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NURS 337 - Genetics in Nursing and Health
This course will discuss the implications of the Human Genome Project and how to apply genetic knowledge to patient knowledge to patient care in the following ways: identifying those in need of further genetic testing, offering genetic information, recording genetic information, referring patients and families for further genetic information and evaluation, support informed choice regarding health decisions, advocacy for privacy, confidentiality, and non-discrimination with regard to genetic information, and participate in management of patients with genetic conditions. The ethical consideration as they relate to genetics will also be explored. This is a writing intensive course.
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NURS 375 — Nurses Building a Healthy Community: Theory & Practice
This course focuses on the professional role of the community/public health nurse working collaboratively with aggregates, community partners and health officials within the community as part of an interdisciplinary team in order to promote a healthier community. An introduction to conceptual frameworks that guide community-based, population-focused practice and research is included in both the classroom and the clinical portions of the course. The student uses skills in community assessment; program planning and nursing interventions to help identified populations within the community attain and maintain their optimum level of health. Selected measures for evaluating the outcomes of community health nursing programs are discussed as well as those that may be broader in scope.
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