Associate in Science
Nursing
Degrees and Certificates
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Nursing,
Courses
NURS111G: Nursing I
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In this foundational course, students are introduced to the roles of the Associate Degree Nurse as a provider and manager of care and a member within the discipline of nursing. Students develop introductory knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal and psychomotor skills to provide care to adult patients in rehabilitation and skilled nursing care settings.
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NURS112G: Nursing II
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Students continue to develop competence to provide and manage care as a member within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families. The delivery of patient centered care across the life span in a variety of settings is emphasized with a special focus on adult, maternal-newborn, pediatric, and psychiatric/mental health populations. Nursing knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal and psychomotor competencies are further developed.
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NURS200G: Advanced Placement Seminar
Licensed Practical Nurses develop the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal and psychomotor skills to succeed in advanced placement entry into the Associate Degree Nurse Program. The philosophy, objectives, and organizing curricular concepts of Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing and their interrelationships are introduced. Students develop competence to provide and manage care as members within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families with common health problems in protected, favorable environments. Students learn to respect the patient and family as central members of the health care team and develop commitment to advocacy, and provision of safe, high quality, holistic, and evidenced-based practice. Nursing care content includes the nursing process, health promotion, safe medication administration, communication/documentation, teamwork/interdisciplinary collaboration, effective utilization of resources, and patient/family education. Students learn to apply a systematic approach to health assessment. The nursing concepts of safety/prevention of injury, systems-based practice, leadership, professionalism, and ethical decision making are explored in theory within the legal, political, regulatory and economic context of health care. Students are introduced to nursing research, review nursing literature, and write a research paper. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice more complex nursing skills in simulated activities. Students apply the nursing process to online case studies in pediatric, psychiatric/mental health, and adult health acute care settings.
NURS211G: Nursing III
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Students develop competence to provide and manage care as a member within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families. The delivery of patient centered care across the life span in a variety of settings is emphasized with a special focus on more complex problems in adult, maternal-newborn, pediatric, and psychiatric/mental health populations. Nursing knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal and psychomotor competencies are further developed.
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NURS212G: Nursing IV
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Students develop competence and independence to provide and manage care as members within the discipline of nursing for patients, families, and communities. The delivery of patient centered care across the life span in a variety of settings is emphasized with a special focus on multi-system problems in adult medical-surgical and community health nursing. Nursing knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal, and psychomotor competencies are further developed and refined. |