Nursing Courses (NUR)

 

221     Issues in Women’s Health (3)

Cross-listed as HSC 221. This elective course is designed to provide students with an overview of topics impacting upon women’s health in contemporary society. The course focuses on controversial issues related to women’s health and investigates the roles that women play as health care consumers and as health care providers. The course is designed for students from multiple areas of study. These students will explore specific health care problems impacting upon women and will analyze contextual factors that affect the delivery of health care to women. Lecture, 3 hours. Prerequisites: LIT 112, CMP 101. Offered As Needed.

 

222     Healing, Holism, and Spirituality in Health Care (3)

Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as PHI 222. An interdisciplinary course designed to explore the meaning and mutual interconnectedness of healing, holism, spirituality, and care. Students investigate the role of spirituality in their own lives, the power of healing and care in medicine and everyday experience, and complementary therapeutic modalities. There is special focus on the living-dying continuum, the interrelatedness of the universe, and the implications of cultural differences. Lecture, 3 hours. Offered Each Year (Fall).

 

305     Health Assessment (3)

This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform a health assessment on an adult and child. This assessment knowledge and skill is utilized as a database for assessing risk and making a nursing diagnosis. The student must project a plan of care that includes health promotion and disease prevention. Emphasis is placed on documentation of normal findings. Lecture, 3 hours. Prerequisite: BIO 313-314. Offered Each Semester.

 

307     Pharmacotherapeutics (3)

Cross-listed as NSC 307. This elective course presents the latest information about the newest medications and up-to-the minute information about traditional drugs in a manner that is relevant to the needs of the professional nurse caring for patients in a variety of clinical settings. Through a nursing process approach, the course stresses pharmacological principles that will aid the nurse in the administration of medications. The course is designed for the nurse who already has a basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Problem-solving sessions throughout the course focus on therapeutic usages and monitoring of each of the classes of agents. Lecture, 3 hours. Prerequisites: BIO 313-314 or BIO 330-340. Offered As Needed.

 

309     Healthcare Risk Management (3)

Cross-listed as HSM 309. This elective course adds a new dimension to healthcare education through its focus on the management of risk and potential financial loss and exposures when delivering health care. Teaching risk management skills will enable students to understand the process of health care delivery so that effectual institutional risk management can take place. Discussions will include: protecting the institution, protection of personal assets, and how liability can be kept at a minimum. Lecture, 3 hours. Offered As Needed.

 

315     Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice (3)

This course provides an introduction to the nature of professional nursing with a dual emphasis on self as learner and self as nurse. The culturally embedded human science of nursing is explored, including the significance of nursing history and current issues impacting upon professional nursing practice. This course also introduces the student to the Department of Nursing Philosophy and highlights the curricular threads of human valuing, nursing theory, nursing research, communication, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Lecture, 3 hours. Offered Each Semester. Also available in a web-based format.

 

316     Holistic Perspectives (3)

Fulfills core competency: Communication Skills. This course focuses on the relationship between values and attitudes of both nurse and client in the health care system based on a holistic approach. Various macro- and micro cultures are explored in terms of specific cultural influences affecting the adaptation response of individuals, families and communities. The rendering of health care to meet health needs as well as cultural specific values, communication, religion, customs and health beliefs and practices are emphasized. Future implications for the health care delivery system based on concepts of caring and humanistic nursing are explored. Lecture, 3 hours. Offered Each Semester. Also available in a web-based format.

 

317     Professional Nursing Practice I (6)

This course is designed to introduce the student to the application of nursing theory, nursing research, and evidence based practice to contemporary nursing practice. The purpose of this course is to acquaint nursing students with the fundamentals of research methods and to understand the importance of research in practice. Evidence based practice will be explored as a basis for further development of professional nursing practice. Nursing theory will be explored as the foundation for development of professional nursing. Communication skills and the teaching- learning process will be explored in classroom and external learning experiences. Lecture, 4 hours; External Learning Experiences, 4 hours. Prerequisites: NUR 315, 316. Offered Each Semester (and Summer).

 

345     Complementary Therapies (3)

This course provides information on current complementary therapies. Complementary Therapies also referred to as Alternate Therapies, recognize that a person is a physical, mental and spiritual being, and that disease affects all areas of life. These therapies, each in their own way, attempt to achieve a state of balance to help people return to wellness and remain healthy in the future. Complementary therapies honor the whole person, recognize the healing power of nature, find and eliminate the cause of illness, prevent disease, and do no harm. Complementary practitioners empower their clients and enable them to participate in the process of staying well. Most complementary therapies have been in existence for thousands of years and have their origins in Chinese or ayurvedic medicine. Each therapy is reviewed as to its history, purpose, uses, contraindications and education/ training of the practitioner. In addition, herbs are studied extensively as to their ability to treat disease, act as drugs and cause herb/drug interactions. Lecture, 3 hours. Offered As Needed.

 

417     Professional Nursing Practice II (6)

This course provides students with opportunities to apply theoretical perspectives to families and groups. The focus of the course is on enhancement of family and group-focused communication skills, the application of critical thinking abilities to family/group situations, and the utilization of research and theory in providing professional nursing care for families and groups. Issues related to families including violence, addiction, divorce, and parenting are explored; group dynamics, group process, and resolving conflict in group situations are also addressed. In addition, leadership theory, and management functions in contemporary nursing practice will be explored. If nurses are to succeed, they must learn how to manage themselves and others effectively within the context of change occurring within the system. Lecture, 4 hours; External Learning Experiences, 4 hours. Prerequisites: NUR 315, NUR 316. Offered Each Semester.

 

432     Professional Issues (3)

This course continues the process of professional nursing socialization. It is designed so that students may lead seminars to discuss issues affecting the nursing profession. The course includes a student led debate and a written articulation of each student’s philosophy of nursing. The major goals of this course are to increase student involvement in policy/politics and to enhance student awareness of the importance of lifelong learning. Lecture, 3 hours. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses; NUR 417. Co-requisite or prerequisite: NUR 453. Offered Each Semester.

 

453     Professional Nursing Practice III (6)

In this course, the student applies the nursing process to the community as the client. Students will provide health care for a group of people with certain commonalities such as ethnic backgrounds, socio-economic status, geographic locations, health status and/or common interests. The focus of the course is on the implementation of communication skills, critical thinking and research in a selected community. This course will emphasize the role of the professional nurse as coordinator of care by helping communities adapt to various stressors and achieve and maintain total wellness. Content presented is related to professional nursing practice, accountability for related leadership as a change agent, and client advocate in group interaction with the community. In addition, this course will emphasize the process of producing a publication quality final paper. To this end, a process of submission of written materials for critique by group members and by faculty followed by revision and re-submission will be utilized. The assessment and recommendations will be graded at the end of the semester. Lecture, 3 hours; External Learning Experiences, 6 hours. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses; NUR 417. Offered Each Semester.

 

 

Health Science Courses (HSC)

 

221     Issues in Women’s Health (3)

Cross-listed as NUR 221. Offered As Needed.

 

400     Current Issues in Health Systems Management (3)

Cross-listed as HSM 400. Offered As Needed.

 

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Master of Science Programs in Nursing/Adult Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care Nursing, Nursing Education, and Nursing Executive Leadership

 

The M.S. degree programs are designed to prepare advance practice nurses in either adult nurse practitioner, palliative care nursing, nursing education, or nursing executive leadership. In the adult nurse practitioner program, students develop expertise through classroom and supervised clinical experiences in a variety of in-patient and outpatient settings. The palliative care program prepares students through an interdisciplinary approach to provide direct patient care and education to individuals and groups with chronic life-limiting illnesses, and/or end of life needs in a variety of health care settings. The nursing education program prepares students for faculty roles in nursing programs. The nursing executive leadership program provides students with the requisite background in nursing concepts (theory and research) as well as in leadership and executive models and theories. For further information about the graduate program, including our accelerated B.S./M.S. program for RNs and our post-baccalaureate and post-master’s certificate programs, consult the Daemen College Graduate Bulletin or contact the Nursing Department or the Daemen College Office of Admissions.