Nursing: Associate Degree in Nursing

Introduction to the profession of nursing and core nursing concepts organized around the framework of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. Covers principles of critical thinking, use of the nursing process, the role of the nurse in health care, cultural views of health, and principles of growth and development.

Focuses on comprehensive understanding of the physiology of homeostasis and the effects of patient self-efficacy, culture, environment, and illness. Covers alterations of fluid and electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, chronic neurological conditions, sensory deficits, diabetes, and wound care from the perspective of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns.

Focuses on the application of the nursing process to patients from the perspective of Gordon's functional health patterns. Emphasizes the care of adult patients with nutrition-metabolic, activity-exercise, and elimination functional health patterns. Pharmacology related to the course content and patient responses to cultural practices and beliefs are integrated.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts and skills in the laboratory environment. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care planning for patients with risk for or actual dysfunctional health patterns.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for adult and gerontologic patients. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care for patients at risk for or with alterations in functional health patterns.

Builds upon and provides in-depth and advanced application of foundational nursing concepts and skills in a laboratory or simulated environment. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care planning for patients with risk for or actual dysfunctional health patterns.

Focuses on the application of foundational nursing concepts and skills in supervised direct or simulated care for adult and gerontologic patients in long term care settings. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the organizing framework for assessment and patient-centered care planning.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for adult patients with medical-surgical conditions. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care for patients at risk for or actual dysfunctional health patterns.

Focuses on application of the nursing process to patients from the perspective of Gordon's functional health patterns. Emphasizes care of patients with cognitive-perceptual, self-perception/self-concept, role-relationship, coping/stress-tolerance and sexuality-reproductive dysfunctional health patterns. Nurse/patient relationships, therapeutic communication, safety, related pharmacology, identification of barriers to care and the impact of cultural practices/beliefs are integrated.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for patients with behavioral health conditions. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care for patients at risk for or actual dysfunctional health patterns.

Focuses on the application of the nursing process to patients from the perspective of Gordon's functional health patterns. Emphasizes the care of adult patients with nutrition-metabolic, activity-exercise, and health perception-health management dysfunctional health patterns. Pharmacology related to the course content and patient responses to cultural practices and beliefs are integrated.

Focuses on the application of the nursing process to patients from the perspective of Gordon's functional health patterns. Emphasizes the care of adult patients with nutrition-metabolic, activity-exercise, cognitive-perceptual, health-perception/health-management, and self-perception/self-concept dysfunctional health patterns. Pharmacology related to the course content and patient responses to cultural practices and beliefs are integrated.

Overview of the major theories and models that guide health promotion interventions including environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors that influence health care practices. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based strategies to promote individual, family, and community health for diverse populations. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns serve as the organizing framework for assessing the health of individuals, families, and communities.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for adult patients with medical-surgical conditions. Emphasis is on nursing skills, communication, and clinical judgment in order to plan and implement evidence-based care for patients at risk for or actual dysfunctional health patterns.

Focuses on application of the nursing process to maternal-newborn patients from the perspective of Gordon's Functional Health patterns. Emphasizes care of maternal-newborn patients at risk for or with actual nutritional-metabolic, activity-exercise, role-relationship, and cognitive-perceptual dysfunctional health patterns and adult patients with sexuality-reproductive dysfunctional health patterns. Related pharmacology and cultural practices and beliefs are integrated.

Expands upon the application of concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in a supervised or simulated care setting. Emphasis on nursing skills, communication, and clinical judgment in order to plan and implement evidence-based care for patients experiencing alterations in multiple dysfunctional health patterns.

Focuses upon application of the nursing process to pediatric patients from the perspective of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. Emphasizes care of pediatric patients with risk for or actual alteration in nutritional-metabolic, activity-exercise, elimination, health-perception/health management, cognitive-perceptual, and self-perception/self-concept dysfunctional health patterns. Related pharmacology and specific cultural practices and beliefs are integrated.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for maternity and newborn patients. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care for patients at risk for or with alterations in functional health patterns.

Focuses on leadership, management of care, and professionalism as the student transitions into the healthcare system as a professional nurse. Legal obligations, licensure requirements, organizational culture, self-care, healthcare informatics, and evidenced-based practice are emphasized.

Builds upon the application of foundational nursing concepts discussed in prior and current nursing courses in supervised direct or simulated care for pediatric patients. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and the nursing process are used as the framework for assessment and patient-centered care for pediatric patients at risk for or with alterations in functional health patterns.

Introduction to human nutrition with an emphasis on the relationship of nutrition to growth, development, health, and physical and mental functioning across the lifespan. Sources, functions, interrelationships, and human requirements of proteins, carbohydrates, fat, minerals, vitamins and water will be examined. Topics also include analysis of personal dietary habits, public health issues such as obesity and access to food and food security, and the role of nutrition in chronic disease.

Explores values, ethics, and legal decision-making frameworks and policies used to support the well-being of people. Introduces ethical and legal principles governing healthcare with a focus on nursing practice including historic milestones in nursing.

The Ethics and Policy in Healthcare series explores values, ethics, and legal decision-making frameworks and policies used to support the well-being of people. This second course in the three-course series presents organizational structures, legal considerations, policies, procedures, and ethical principles/theories related to healthcare.

The Ethics and Policy in Healthcare series explores values, ethics, and legal decision-making frameworks and policies used to support the well-being of people. This third course in the three-course series presents research, leadership, workplace issues, and ethical dilemmas in healthcare with an emphasis on nursing.

Explores the influence of culture on psychosocial issues in healthcare for diverse patient populations. Focuses on the application of the nursing process to patients experiencing Self-Perception/Self-Concept and Coping/Stress-Tolerance dysfunctional health patterns related to a substance-related or addictive disorder. Safety, pharmacologic management, and health promotion/maintenance are emphasized.

Focuses on the application of the nursing process to patients experiencing Self-Perception/Self-Concept, Cognitive-Perceptual, and Role-Relationship dysfunctional health patterns related to behavioral health disorders affecting maternal, pediatric, and diverse sexual identity patients. Safety, pharmacologic management, cultural practices, and health promotion/maintenance are emphasized.

Focuses on psychiatric crisis and common interventions in dealing with violence, anger, aggression, suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and elder abuse. At-risk populations with tremendous poverty, physical, and social needs will be identified and strategies for early detection through screening will be examined. Individualized treatment plans for moving into self-management, relapse prevention, and bridging systems will be discussed.