Nursing 334-5 Child/Adult Mental Health This course weaves together the threads of research, theory, and practice into a fabric of knowledge and competencies essential to psychiatric-mental health nursing. The content and processes for the care of identified psychiatric patients are emphasized but are also relevant to the care for all those with whom nurses interact. The nurse’s role as a multidisciplinary team member is emphasized. The clinical experience is divided into two components. One clinical component will take place at the State Hospital. The second component will include community clinical experience and a prison health service experience. Prerequisites: Nrsg 205, Nrsg 206, Nrsg 210, and all supportive courses. Spring 397-1 Nursing Cooperative Experience This course is designed to allow students to work in an expanded role as nurse technicians or nurse interns in a health care facility during the summer before their senior year in the nursing major. Students will work under the supervision of registered nurses while they are employed by the health care facility. Registration for this course allows the student to work in the capacity of an intern or a nurse technician rather than as a Certified Nurse Assistant during summer employment. Prerequisites: Nrsg 333 and Nrsg 334. Summer 424-6 Child/Adult Health III This course focuses on the nursing care of clients and families experiencing multiple problems or striving to maintain or regain optimal health within the context of a variety of cultures. The physical systems covered are the cardiovascular and neurological systems. Selected nursing care situations require the student to synthesize knowledge from previous nursing courses and supportive courses while using the nursing process as a framework to provide nursing care. Learning takes place in a variety of settings: classroom, college laboratory, MeritCare, MeritCare Children’s Hospital, and the Anne Carlsen Center for Children. Prerequisites: Nrsg 332, Nrsg 333, and Nrsg 334. Fall
425-6 Community Health Nursing This course provides experience in using all prerequisite courses and nursing knowledge as it applies to the health of families, population groups, and communities. Conceptualizing a holistic view of the family/community includes an analysis and interpretation of bio-psychosocial-spiritual factors including culture, community resources, and epidemiology in relation to health. A synthesis of all steps of the nursing process is applied in working with families. Clinical experiences are gained from involvement with various community agencies. The student gains experience in assuming the role of the nurse in collaborating with health team members in the delivery of primary care. Prerequisites: Nrsg 332, Nrsg 333, and Nrsg 334. Fall 426-9 Nursing Management This course focuses on the development of the student in the role of a beginning nurse leader in a clinical practice discipline. The purpose is to provide the nursing student with the basic concepts and theories needed for nursing management and the crucial components of nursing leadership. The content is focused on skills that nurses need to manage care for groups of patients, manage care within the changing health care environments, manage resources for care, delegate and supervise the work of other licensed and unlicensed assistive personnel, and coordinate care with other health care disciplines. The purpose of the clinical experience is to provide the nursing student with application of skills that support the basic concepts and theories needed for effective management of client care. Prerequisites: Nrsg 424, Nrsg 425, and Nrsg 497. Spring 427-2 Nursing as a Profession This course is an in-depth examination of concepts of nursing, the nursing role, and related issues that influence health care delivery. Both the role of professional nursing within the health care delivery system as well as the role of the individual nurse as an integral member of the health team are analyzed. Nursing is viewed as 164