NCLIN 302 Practicum: Health Assessment (1-5, max. 5)
Lecture and lab emphasize nursing skills in communication,
interviewing, functional and physical health assessment.
Includes: basic communication skills, beginning physical
and psychosocial assessment of the individual across the
lifespan, and family assessment. Credit/no credit only.
Offered: AS. |
NCLIN 306 Practicum: Basic Skills of Nursing Practice
(4)
Practicum in communication, interviewing, health assessment,
identification of threats to health in clinical settings.
Explores risk, vulnerability identification, communication,
physical/psychosocial assessment of individuals across lifespan,
nursing care planning, documentation, psychomotor skills
development. Credit/no credit only. .Prerequisite: NCLIN
302, which may be taken concurrently. |
NCLIN 402 Practicum: Care in Illness I (4)
Provides supervised nursing care to individuals/families
with acute/ chronic illness across the lifespan. Emphasizes
beginning skills in systematic assessment, including person/environment
fit, developing competency in selected nursing therapies,
and developing role as care agent for persons of all ages.
Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: NCLIN 401, which may
be taken concurrently. |
NCLIN 406 Practicum: Care in Illness II (1-10, max. 10)
Provides supervised nursing care to individuals and families
with acute and chronic illness. Emphasis on increasing skill
in systematic assessment, developing competency in selected
nursing therapies, and developing role as caring agent for
persons of all ages. Credit/no credit only.
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NCLIN 409 Partnerships in Community Health (6)
Analysis, application, and evaluation of community partnership
process for health. Analysis of nursing role in community/public
health, including community building, collaboration, policy.
Development and formulation of community interventions to
maintain/promote biopsychosocial health/promotion of health/prevention
of injury and disease.
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NCLIN 411 Transition to Professional Practice (12-20)
Emphasis on mastering theoretical concepts, applying theory
and research findings, improving skill competency, and developing
leadership capabilities. Recommended: completion of first
five quarters in the BSN program.
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NCLIN 416 Practicum: Nursing of Families: Childbearing
and Childrearing (4)
Provides the opportunity for supervised nursing of childbearing
and childbearing families and individuals. Emphasizes expanding
nursing process skills, especially health promotion, with
individuals and families during childbearing and childrearing.
Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: NURS 415, which may
be taken concurrently. Offered: AW. |
NCLIN 418 Practicum: Psychosocial Nursing (4)
Provides supervised psychosocial nursing care to
individuals/families/groups/communities
with threats to or alterations in psychosocial health. Emphasizes
increasing skill in systematic assessment, developing competency
in selected psychosocial nursing interventions, and evaluation
of treatment outcomes. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite:
NURS 417, which may be taken concurrently. Offered: AW.
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NCLIN 500 Comprehensive Health
Assessment (3)
Provides framework for systematic collection, interpretation,
and communication of data to determine health status of
individuals. Develops beginning advanced practice competence
in history-taking and screening physical examination of
adolescents and adults. Analysis of multiple health indicators
to determine health status. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite:
permission of instructor.
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NCLIN 501 Diagnostic Health Assessment (1-5, max. 5)
Provides framework for learning symptom analysis, selection/performance
of examination techniques, and selection/interpretation
of common diagnostic procedures. Develops beginning competence
in focused history-taking and directed physical exam to
evaluate common health problems in adolescents and adults.
Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: NCLIN 500, which may
be taken concurrently.
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NCLIN 502 Pediatric Health Assessment and Promotion (1-5,
max. 5)
Gives experience in obtaining a health history and performing
a physical assessment of infants, children, and adolescents.
Interviewing techniques, problem-oriented charting, and
a systems approach to the physical examination. Emphasis
on screening principles, health promotion, and wellness
care for children/families. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite:
permission of instructor.
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NCLIN 503 Advanced Fieldwork Community Health Nursing
(2-6, max. 12)
Guided experience in delineating nursing roles in community
settings. Development of a philosophy of community health
nursing. Application of core concepts pertaining to health,
ethics, care, and community. A minimum of four hours of
guided experience weekly. Prerequisite: graduate standing
and permission of instructor.
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NCLIN 505 Diagnostic Testing and Monitoring in Serious
Illness (2)
Lecture, discussion, and laboratory sessions to develop
students' assessment, diagnostic, and monitoring expertise
in the care of acutely ill individuals. Students refine
clinical decision-making skills, apply specialized assessments,
gain insight into clinical experts' critical thinking, and
refine assessment knowledge for a specific patient population.
Prerequisite: NCLIN 501 or equivalent.
Instructor Course Description: Juvann M. Wolff
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NCLIN 508 Seminar in Group Treatment (1)
Seminar on the theoretical basis for working with various
treatment groups. Analysis of selected approaches to group
treatment. Analysis of leader responsibilities and functions
in the development of therapeutic group experiences. |
NCLIN 509 Teaching Methods and Practicum in Nursing Education
(2-10, max. 10)
Guided experience in selected teaching-learning situations
in nursing, in both classroom and clinical situations. Identification,
analysis, and solution of teaching-learning problems in
clinical nursing. Minimum of seven hours of guided experience
weekly.
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NCLIN 510 Group Work with High-Risk Youth (3-6, max. 6)
Theory and application course in group counseling for high-risk
youth. Central theme is group leader effectiveness in helping
young people increase school performance, decrease drug
involvement, and increase emotional well-being. Open to
graduate students in nursing, education, and related human
services professions.
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NCLIN 512 Advanced Practicum in Parent and Child Nursing
I (2-12, max. 25)
Clinical seminar and practicum provide opportunities to
develop advanced nursing practice competencies in the care
of women, parents, children, and/or adolescents. Application
of theory and principles to direct care, consultation, education
and/or care coordinator roles with individuals and/or groups.
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NCLIN 514 Seminar in Home Care for Chronic Illness (3)
Home-care services as component of community health nursing.
Understanding effects of direct nursing functions on care
of chronically ill persons and their families. Selected
field study experiences in community health settings. Prerequisite:
NURS 563, graduate standing, and permission of instructor.
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NCLIN 525 Managing Clinical Effectiveness Within Care
Systems (1)
Optimizing person-provider clinical therapeutic transactions
at multiple levels of care systems complexity and population
aggregation. Emphasis on designing, managing and evaluating
clinical effectiveness and efficiency within care systems.
Prerequisite: NURS 524 or permission of instructor. |
NCLIN 526 Managing Organizational Effectiveness Within
Care Systems (1)
Analysis of management strategies for attaining effective
and efficient organizational structures and processes within
health care systems. Prerequisite: NURS 524 or permission
of instructor. |
NCLIN 531 Nursing Process in Parent-Child Nursing (4)
Includes lecture, seminar, and laboratory instruction designed
to assist the student with knowledge and skill acquisition
related to nursing care of individuals and families with
regard to childbearing and childrearing. Prerequisite: NURS
530.
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For assistance please contact Jaime Palmer.
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