Course Descriptions
FYS 100 - FIRST YEAR SEMINAR
15 Hours Theory
Credits: 0.00
This course is designed for beginning nursing students during their first semester of enrollment. The focus of this course will be on the cultivation of skills and behaviors necessary for both college and career success. Course topics include study strategies and skills, college survival, communication, engagement, technology, information literacy and 21st century skills with an emphasis on habits of the mind. This is a mandatory, no credit, no fee course.
BIO 201 - MICROBIOLOGY
Prerequisite: Anatomy and Physiology I & II
45 Hours Theory
30 Hours Laboratory, the hours for checking experiments vary
90 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 4.00
Microbiology is designed to introduce the student to basic principles of health science. The course will focus on microbes, their metabolism, genetics, and their relationship to humans. Diseases related to body systems will be used to identify manifestations of pathogens. The scientific method will be used as an approach to determine emerging diseases, immunology and epidemiology. These concepts will be integrated into the classroom and laboratory settings. The laboratory will require students to return to the lab outside of the scheduled lab hours in order to complete experiments started during scheduled hours. Classroom laboratory will provide the opportunity for students to complete exercises related to identification of an unknown organism.
ENG 201 – ENGLISH COMPOSITION II
Prerequisite: English Composition I
45 Hours Theory
90 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 3.00
English Composition II is a writing and reading intensive course that continues the work begun in English I. Primarily a composition class, the course will refresh and expand upon student writing skills while introducing a number of rhetorical forms, reviewing the finer points of APA format, and concluding with each student’s completion of a research project, including a fully developed research essay. Emphasis will be given to writing for the student and healthcare professional.
SOC 201 – SOCIOLOGY
45 Hours Theory
90 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 3.00
This course provides an introduction to sociology and explores the sociological perspective; social groups and social control; social inequality; social institutions; and tenets of social change
PHM 201 – NURSING PHARMACOLOGY
30 Hours Theory
60 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 2.00
This Nursing Pharmacology course is designed for nursing students to learn to identify prototype medications and safe drug administration procedures. The course will present the principles of pharmacotherapeutics and common drug classifications. Drugs used to treat major diseases will be reviewed. Nursing interventions, medication safety and prevention of complications will be emphasized. The supportive-educative needs of the patient will be the focus of the Pharmacology Fair presented at the completion of the course.
NSG 205 Professional Health Caring Concepts
Pre-Requisite: Meet admission criteria with successful completion of PN licensure
Co-requisite: Nursing Pharmacology, Microbiology, English II
30 Hours Theory
30 Hours Laboratory
60 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 3.00
The Professional Health Caring Concepts course will facilitate the knowledge development and understanding between the LPN and RN scope of practice. The concepts of evidence-based practice and nursing theory will help the student assimilate reflective skills. Core competencies, professionalism, collaboration, research, and quality and safety will be infused throughout the theory and lab components. Swanson’s Theory of Caring will be the major focus of nursing interventions.
NSG 210 Complex Health Caring Concepts
Pre-requisites: Successful completion of a PN licensure; Professional Health Caring Concepts; A&P I & II or Completion of Introduction of Health Caring Concepts; Health Caring Concepts and prerequisites assigned to these courses
Co-requisites: Sociology
105 Hours Theory
180 Hours Clinical Practice
210 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 11.00
This course develops the concepts of nursing, healthcare, biophysical, psychosocial/ developmental, and social functioning. This course further develops the concepts of the individual, healthcare, and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of cellular regulation, perfusion, infection, immunity, mobility, comfort, family health-wellness-illness, clinical decision-making, caring interventions, managing care, and safety. Upon completion, students should be able to provide safe nursing care incorporating the concepts identified in this course. Clinical conferences are designed to facilitate the correlation of theory to practice.
NSG 220 Advanced Health Caring Concepts
Pre-Requisites: Introduction to Health Caring Concepts and Health Caring Concepts; Complex Health Caring Concepts and all associated courses or successful completion of a PN licensure and Professional Health Caring Concepts; Complex Health Caring Concepts and all associated courses.
120 Hours Theory
180 Hours Clinical Practice
240 Hours Self-Directed Study
Credits: 12.00
This course further develops the concepts of nursing, healthcare, biophysical, psychosocial/ developmental, and social functioning. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of cellular regulation, perfusion, infection, immunity, intracranial regulation, mobility, comfort, family health-wellness-illness, clinical decision making, caring interventions, managing care, and safety. Upon completion, students should be able to provide safe nursing care incorporating the concepts identified in this course. Clinical practice will expose the student to various specialty nursing settings in acute care and community health agencies. Clinical conferences will be directed toward facilitating the student’s correlation of theory to practice.