| NRSG 262: Professional Nursing, 2 cr. | |||
| This course begins the student's development as a professional nurse. It will cultivate students as co-participants engaging in a variety of learning interactions. The traditional and evolving roles of the professional nurse will be explored with an emphasis on societal forces. The philosophy and conceptual framework of the College of Nursing at UNMC will be examined and the relationship among the concepts will be explored. Course content will promote acquisition of the professional role through the development and enhancement of life-long learning skills. Class - 2 hours. Prerequisite - Admission to Nursing Major. |
| NRSG 268: Health Assessment and Promotion, 4 cr. | |||
| The major focus of this course is a holistic approach to lifespan assessment of the well individual. Through the processes of knowing, relating, and developing the student will attain a better understanding of self and others. Students will examine health beliefs, identify factors impacting adoption of healthy lifestyle, and develop a health promotion plan for self and others. Students will use knowledge from prerequisite and concurrent courses as they obtain health histories and perform physical examinations on selected clients. They will identify expected findings, identify the presence of alterations, and explore health promotion behaviors. Further skills to be developed include: interviewing, developing a narrative, formulating a health history, developing assessment skills in the physical, psycho social, developmental, cultural, spiritual, and environmental areas. Completed assessments will be used in the framework of the nursing process. The role of the nurse as a competent, caring professional will be applied to health assessment and health promotion. Class - 2.5 hours. Lab - 1.5 hours. Prerequisite or Concurrent - NRSG 262 or permission of instructor. |
| NRSG 280: Essentials of Nursing Care, 4 cr. | |||
| This course provides theory and practice focusing on essential psychomotor and therapeutic interpersonal skills for professional nursing. Student are given an opportunity to develop and practice skills in laboratory and clinical settings with adult clients. Class - 2.5 hours, Lab - 1.5 hours. Prerequisite or Concurrent - NRSG 262 and NRSG 268. |
| NRSG 320: Family-Centered Nursing Care of Adults, 7 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on the nursing care of individual adult clients within the context of their families. Core knowledge from prerequisite and co-requisite courses will be used to support integration of content. Emphasis will be placed on the students' beginning utilization of decision making models and development of clinical judgment to restore, promote and protect the health care of adult clients. A variety of health care settings will be utilized to maximize student experiences. Through the processes of knowing, relating, and developing the student will attain a better understanding of self and adult clients and their families. Class - 4 hours. Lab - 3 hours. Prerequisites - Level I Courses, PHARM 270. NRSG 325 Prerequisite or Concurrent. |
| NRSG 325: Pathophysiologic Basis of Alterations in Health, 4 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on the pathophysiologic basis for selected alterations in health across the lifespan. Theories of disease causation will be explored. Acquired, immune, infectious, carcinogenic and genetic alterations in health in the body systems will be presented with an emphasis on etiology, cellular and systemic pathophysiologic response and clinical manifestations. Interdisciplinary management will be introduced. Class - 4 hours. Prerequisite - Anatomy and Physiology. Permission of Instructor. |
| NRSG 340: Family-Centered Maternity and Women's Health Nursing, 5 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on the nursing care of the at low/high risk childbearing family across antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn periods. Common women's health issues across the lifespan will be addressed. Decision making processes are applied in a family centered approach to promote and to restore women's health. The concepts of wellness, developing, relating and knowing are integrated into the nursing care. Current trends and issues related to family centered maternity and women's health will be explored. Ambulatory, inpatient and home management of various levels of wellness will be implemented in a variety of clinical settings. Class - 3 hours. Clinical - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I and Level II Courses. |
| NRSG 350: Family-Centered Nursing Care of Children, 5 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on the application of problem-solving approaches to promote, protect, and restore the health of children from infancy through adolescence within the context of the family. The concepts of growth, developing, relating and knowing are emphasized. Current trends and issues related to family centered health care of children will be explored. A variety of clinical experiences will be provided in ambulatory, inpatient and community settings. Class - 3 hours. Clinical - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I and Level II Courses. |
| NRSG 385: Health Care Outcomes Management, 5 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on health care outcome management of clients and their families who are experiencing alterations in their health or life processes. This course is designed to build on the previous education and experience of the RN and will provide those concepts and learning experiences that are unique to baccalaureate education. Concepts such as family dynamics, health promotion, symptom management, ethics, and research are integrated into three nursing areas; gerontology, chronic illness, and acute complex problems. Emphasis is placed on the student's ability to use critical thinking skills to promote health care outcomes. Prerequisites - NRSG 325; NRSG 399; NRSG 268. |
| NRSG 386: Evidence-Based Nursing Practice and Research, 2 cr. | |||
| This course provides an introduction to the language and skills of evidence based nursing practice and research. Students will focus on the practical skills required to identify and appraise best evidence to support nursing practice. Students will be exposed to all components of the research process. Issues related to implementation and integration of best evidence in practice will be included. Class - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Statistics. |
| NRSG 410: Client-Centered Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 4 cr. | |||
| This course presents nursing care which emphasizes the process of relating to promote, restore, and protect the mental health of individuals and groups. This course will explore the human experience of mentally ill clients as they interact with environmental forces including their families and health care providers. Current trends and issues related to psychiatric mental health nursing will be explored. A variety of settings will be used to provide learning experiences. Class - 2 hours. Clinical - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II and Level III Courses. |
| NRSG 420: Community Health Nursing, 5 cr. | |||
| In this course the students learn about community-focused nursing practice. The process of knowing focuses on introductory concepts of public health, community assessment, health program development, case management for individuals and families, and analysis of health risks for populations. Health promotion, protection, and restoration interventions for clients across the lifespan are emphasized in clinical practice. Concepts consistent with the nursing dimensions of relating and developing are expanded to include aggregates and multi disciplines in this community-focused experience. The influence of cultural diversity, economics, politics, environments, and ethics as they impact community health nursing practice are explored throughout the course. Opportunities to practice comprehensive, independent nursing care roles and functions in unstructured, diverse health care environments are provided. Class - 2 hours. Clinical - 3 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II, and Level III courses. Prerequisite or Concurrent - NRSG 410. |
| NRSG 425: Concepts, Issues, and Nursing Care Related to Chronic Health Conditions, 4 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on the developmental tasks and biopsychosocial coping of clients and families experiencing chronic health conditions across the life span. The instructional strategy of problem based learning will be used to assist students to examine major problems and issues related to chronicity. During seminar sessions, students will use their decision making skills to plan promotive, protective, and restorative care for selected case studies of clients with chronic health conditions and their families. Cultural, ethical, legal, and economic issues related to chronicity will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration and coordination to provide continuity of care in a variety of environments. During clinical experiences of practice knowledge and skills during interactive experience with clients and families, health care providers, and agencies providing assistance with management of chronic physical conditions. Class - 2 hours. Clinical - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I and Level II. |
| NRSG 435: Health Policy and Issues, 2 cr. | |||
| Emphasis in this course is on professional role development in relation to environmental, social, political, and economic factors which influence health care policy. Selected topics are examined to help students analyze issues, compare and contrast multiple views on issues, and formulate appropriate responses to health care policy. Class - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II, Level III and Level IV Course or permission of Instructor. |
| NRSG 438: Independent Study, 1 - 4 cr. elective | |||
| Independent Study is designed to meet needs and interests of individuals and/or groups of students for nursing theory and/or practice not offered in other courses. Self-directed learning requires independence in motivation and direction as students use their own unique learning abilities to accomplish their selected goals. Prerequisites - senior level standing in the College of Nursing or permission of the instructor. Students must file a plan of study with the instructor the semester before they intend to take the course. |
| NRSG 438H: Honors Independent Study, 3 - 4 cr. elective | |||
| Honors Independent Study is designed to fulfill the research requirement for University of Nebraska Honors programs. Self-directed learning requires independence in motivation and direction as students use their own unique learning abilities to accomplish their selected goals. Prerequisites - senior level standing in the College of Nursing or permission of the instructor. Students must file a plan of study with the instructor the semester before they intend to take the course |
| NRSG 444: Senior Clinical Nursing Externship, 3 - 6 cr. - elective | |||
| The purpose of this course is to provide the student with expanded client care experiences in a faculty supervised practice setting. The course focus is on improving student planning, organization and psychomotor skills, enabling the student to enter their senior year and their professional practice more knowledgeable about the responsibilities of the nursing role, and more secure in their own capabilities. Prerequisites - all 300 Level Nursing Courses. Clinical - 3 hours. |
| NRSG 450: Family-Centered Nursing Care of Clients with Acute Complex Problems, 5 cr. | |||
| This course focuses on nursing care of clients and their families who are experiencing acute alterations in health. Emphasis will be on restoration, protection and promotion of health in high acuity settings. Students will have the opportunity for follow-up of clients they have cared for during acute health alterations. Problem based approaches will be utilized in the planning, organization, and implementation of nursing care. Through the processes of knowing, relating, and developing, the student will gain an understanding of the human health experience as it relates to the acutely ill. Class - 2 hours. Clinical - 3 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II, Level III and Level IV Courses. |
| NRSG 460: Gerontological Nursing, 4 cr. | |||
| This course synthesizes scientific, conceptual and nursing content while focusing on the unique biopsychosocial factors related to the aging client. Demographic, environmental, ethnic, and cultural issues related to aging are explored. Emphasis is placed on the students' ability to apply complex clinical judgment and skills in promoting, protecting, and restoring older adults highest functional capacity. Clinical experiences are provided in diverse environments. Class - 2 hours. Clinical - 2 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II and Level III Courses. |
| NRSG 470: Nursing Management Strategies, 2 - 3 cr. | |||
| Management of human, fiscal, and material resources to promote an environment facilitating delivery of health care is the focus of this course. Skills in influencing, collaborating, facilitating, negotiating, and building teams, selected management strategies, and development of personal effectiveness, accountability, and responsibility for maintaining standards of quality client care are emphasized. Class - 2. Clinical - 1 hour. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II, Level III, and Level IV courses. RN students may take the course for 2 credit theory only |
| NRSG 480: Transition to Professional Nursing, 4 cr. | |||
| This course is a clinical practicum which provides each student an opportunity to assume the role of a beginning professional nurse in concert with a registered nurse preceptor in a health care setting selected by the student in collaboration with faculty. During the practicum students integrate previously acquired knowledge and experience to develop self-reliance, build expertise, and begin role transition. Students employ the human processes of knowing, developing, and relating as they explore and demonstrate competency in the roles of provider of health care, coordinator of health care, and member of the profession. Clinical - 4 hours. Prerequisites - Level I, Level II, Level III, Level IV Courses and NRSG 450, NRSG 460, and NRSG 470. |
| NRSG 485/880: Complementary Therapies in Health Care, 2 cr. elective | |||
| Provides and understanding of theory and practice in a variety of complementary health care modalities. Efficacy, cost, and ethics will be included. Seminar - 2 hours. Prerequisites - None. |
| NRSG 649/849: Entrepreneurship For Health Care Providers, 2 cr. elective | |||
| Examination of the introductory marketing, human resource management, legal, tax, insurance, accounting and financing concepts applicable to the organization and management of profitable business ventures by self-employed health professional and health professional employed by a variety of organizations providing health care services. Prerequisites - None. |
