Nursing - NURS

This introductory course provides the student with an understanding of the professional nurse's role within the health care system. Emphasis is placed on ethics, professional obligations, values, expectations of the profession and accountability for lifelong learning. Students will learn the methods of communicating professionally and effectively with individuals, significant support persons, and as members of the interdisciplinary heath care team. The impact of family will be included.

An introduction to the philosophical, conceptual, and theoretical basis for the development of professional roles and practices for baccalaureate nurses. Content includes historical, contemporary, legal, ethical, and technological influences on nursing as an applied science in healthcare. Topics include application of recognized standards of care, professional role development, accountability, responsibility, autonomy, and delegation. Inter-professional collaboration and communication in healthcare settings, and diverse nursing roles are explored. Application of evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, clinical judgement, and leadership principles are integrated into the course.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the analysis, examination, and application of nursing research to professional nursing practice. Students will review, analyze, and critique current nursing research for scientific merit and determine methods to apply this evidence to the care of diverse patient populations across the lifespan. In addition, students will examine how to lead the integration of best-practice evidence on a systems level for the delivery of optimal health care and improved patient outcomes.

This course prepares the learner to assess in depth the biopsychosocial health status of clients across the lifespan. Learners will learn to obtain a complete and accurate health history, perform a systematic physical examination, and learn techniques to complete a holistic health assessment across the lifespan, within a framework for clinical decision making. Acquired data will be used to formulate a comprehensive problem list for the client and to refine documentation skills. Content will be designed to provide correlation of assessment strategies with an understanding of the mechanisms of illness and health problems of the main body systems. Health and wellness in the context of disability will be addressed. This course assists in the socialization of the learner into the role of the clinical nurse leader or nurse educator in the current healthcare delivery system.

This course provides an introduction to biostatistics for nursing and allied health professionals. The course covers descriptive statistics, basic probability concepts and distributions, classic estimation and hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, sampling and survey construction, analysis of frequency and count data, and measures of validity and reliability. This advanced statistical knowledge allows nurses to understand and use healthcare research.

The focus of this course is the culmination of the care and management of the holistic, diverse, acutely-ill client across the lifespan. Emphasis is on the refinement of clinical decision making skills, achievement of clinical competence, and demonstration of professional nursing practice. The capstone experience of this course provides opportunities to incorporate informatics, to explore quality improvement opportunities using the National Patient Safety Goals.

Nurse-client encounters involve the interaction of three cultural subsystems: the culture of the nurse, the culture of the client and the culture of the setting. This course explores the influence of culturally diverse backgrounds within the health care system of the United States. The weaving of gender, age, race, ethnic and religious diversities of the nurse and client will be emphasized. This course fulfills the diversity requirement at TMCC. This course is offered online only and is open only to students admitted to the nursing program.

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to explore and apply the principles of pathophysiology to the nursing care of diverse patients across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the relationships between physiological, psychological, and developmental variables in the care of patients.

The focus of this course is a continuation of the nursing care and management of patients/clients with an altered health status that affects both individuals and families across the lifespan. The child-bearing and child rearing family are also included as a population. The course applies the concepts of clinical pharmacology, psychopathology, pathophysiology, health maintenance, promotion and restoration to the care of patients/clients. The lab/clinical portion of this course include selected observation, clinical assignments and the use of computer simulation and skills laboratory.

The focus of this course is on nursing care and management of the individual across the health wellness illness continuum using the nursing process. Student will integrate knowledge of the diverse and holistic needs of the individual. Students will apply and implement communication strategies through collaboration, and teaching and learning; topics include stress and coping and grief and loss. The childbearing and child rearing family are also included as a population.