A one hour elective course for students interested in pursuing nursing as a professional career. The student is introduced to
the history of nursing, issues and trends, basic nursing education, advanced education for nurses, and nursing career opportunities.
Students interested in nursing or a career in science are encouraged to take this course during the fall semester of their freshman year.
Summer prior to Junior year. Prerequisite: Permission of Admission and Progression Committee. A non-clinical, three-hour course
which introduces the student to selected basic concepts in professional nursing. Purpose of the course is to introduce
nursing concepts to nursing majors. The course focuses on nursing as a caring profession, nurses' roles and functions, ethics,
standards, legal aspects, holism, wellness, health care settings, communication, teaching/learning, critical thinking, and the nursing process.
The Conceptual Framework and Philosophy of TECH's Department of Nursing will be explored.
Principles of normal nutrition at all stages of the life cycle are emphasized. Growth and development
needs are incorporated into the maintenance, restoration of nutritional health, and in the prevention of nutritional deficit.
Exploration is conducted of the social, religious, and cultural factors which affect the family's nutritional health.
Prerequisite: Admission to Upper Division Nursing or consent of instructor. This course focuses
on the principles and concepts of alternative therapies for clients of all ages in a variety of health care settings.
Alternative therapies are explored in relationship to conventional medicine in the prevention of negative health conditions,
promotions of health practices, and support and restoration of wellness.
Prerequisite: Admission into upper-level junior nursing courses. The course provides the student with theory and guided practice
of basic psychomotor and math nursing skills in a multimedia simulated laboratory setting. $60 laboratory fee.
Fall. Prerequisite: Admission into upper-level junior nursing courses. Co-requisites: 3502 and 3404.
This course is an introduction to the cognitive framework of the curriculum which emphasizes holistic man, environment, and nursing as an
interacting system. The course focuses on bio-psycho-social and spiritual behaviors as indicators of health throughout the life cycle.
The nursing process and the scientific method of problem solving are presented as systematic approaches to nursing care. Further
emphasis is placed on assessment of health needs and health practices of individuals in structured episodic health care settings.
Beginning concepts of professionalism and care of clients with self-limiting alterations to health are integral parts of this course. $25 testing fee.
Fall. Prerequisite: Departmental permission.
The student uses the nursing process to assess the client by the utilization of observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation skills.
The language of Health Assessment is taught and methods of proper documentation are emphasized. The course provides guidance in
specific assessment techniques and enables the student to recognize normal findings throughout the life cycle. The student collaborates
with members of the health-care team in the sharing of health findings in order to make a specific nursing diagnosis. Activities are
provided which include the community as an aggregate client. $10 laboratory fee.
NUR 3404. Practicum in Nursing I C Nursing the Individual Client
Prerequisite: Admission to upper level junior nursing courses, NUR 3103.
Practicum facilitating the integration, synthesis, and application of theories, concepts, and psychomotor nursing skills
taught in NUR 3103, 3204, 3304 and 3502. The student uses maintenance nursing behaviors to assist individuals to reach
functional adaptation. 12 clinical hours equal to 4 credit hours. $10 laboratory fee.
This course is designed to offer basic skills and knowledge needed to recognize and intervene with a client at the end of life.
Emphasis is to implement the nursing process with clients at the end of life. Students will apply concepts,
theories, principals and techniques gained from their general education and previous nursing courses.
Prerequisites: NUR 3103. A continuation of NUR 3103.
A guided practice of intermediate-level theory and skills in a multimedia simulation laboratory. $20 laboratory fee.
Spring. Prerequisites: 3204, 3304, 3404, 3502.
This course, utilizing the nursing process, builds upon NUR 3204 and includes the bio-psycho-social and spiritual needs of the family.
The course emphasizes family development, the childbearing experience, and the child's unique response to the internal and external environment.
$25 Testing Fee.
Spring. Prerequisites: NUR 3502, 3204, 3304, 3404.
This course focuses on the relationships between the action of drugs, their effects and the contraindications for their administration.
The relationship between specific patient needs and the type of drugs that would be effective to meet that need will be analyzed.
The nursing care related to each type of drug and the rationales for the care will be included.
Prerequisites: BIOL 2014 and 3074. This course focuses on the mechanisms and concepts of selected pathological disturbances
in the human body. Emphasis is placed on how the specific pathological condition effects the functioning of the system involved,
as well as, its impact on all other body systems.
NUR 3805. Practicum in Nursing II C Nursing the Family
Spring. Pre- or co-requisites: NUR 3103, 3204, 3304, 3404, 3502, 3606 and 3703. A practicum course which facilitates the integration,
synthesis, and application of the theories, concepts, and skills taught in NUR 3103, NUR 3502, NUR 3606, and NUR 3703. $10 laboratory fee.
These courses are practicum courses designed to enable a student to prove clinical competence.
Students who have failed a junior or senior level theories and concepts course but have passed the accompanying practicum
course must prove clinical competence in order to progress to the next level. For the student who failed, NUR 3892 or NUR 4892 would
be taken the same semester that the student is repeating the accompanying theories and concepts course. Students who have been absent
from the upper division of the nursing curriculum must prove clinical competence at the level of the last practicum course they successfully
completed before they can reenter upper division.
Prerequisite: Departmental permission. This course is designed to offer a selection of topics which will meet student needs and interests.
The course provides the student with the opportunity to expand and improve knowledge in a carefully selected topic of relevance to nursing and/or
health care. General demand will play a part in the topics offered. May be repeated for credit if course content differs.
Fall. Prerequisite: NUR 3606, 3703, 3805. The course focuses on the prevention of illness, maintenance of health and the
restoration of wellness in the care of clients and families experiencing major dysfunctions in adaptation. The nursing process
is the methodology used to assist clients and families toward achieving optimal health. Principles of growth and development throughout
the life cycle, utilization of research findings, principles of communication in crisis, and the role of the nurse in crises situations
are included in the courses. Psycho-social theories and concepts relevant to the care of the emotionally disturbed client and family
are explored in depth. $25 Testing Fee.
Prerequisite: Admission to Upper Division Nursing, senior standing or consent of instructor.
An introductory research course which focuses on evaluating the validity and applicability of research findings for the
improvement of nursing practice. Emphasis is on scientific inquiry and the role of the nurse as an intelligent consumer of research.
NUR 4405. Practicum in Nursing III C Nursing Clients in Crisis
Fall. Pre- or co- requisites: NUR 3103, 3304, 3502, 3606, 3703, 3805, 4202, 4206, and 4303.
This is a clinical nursing course which provides the opportunity for the integration of theories and concepts in the
application of the nursing process in the care of the emotionally and/or physically dysfunctional client, family or group
who are undergoing adaptation difficulties due to major deviations from wellness. The health care is delivered according to scientific
principles, research findings, and accepted standards of care. Nursing behaviors and nursing roles are emphasized which are appropriate
to the level of the students. Learning experiences are gained through caring for clients. $10 laboratory fee.
Prerequisites: Departmental permission or consent of the instructor.
The course is designed to offer the student the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate early treatment for
cardiopulmonary arrest in the adult patient utilizing current ACLS protocols as guidelines for emergency care.
Spring. Prerequisites: NUR 4202, 4206, 4303, and 4405.
The course focuses on the prevention of illness, maintenance of health, and the restoration of wellness of individuals,
families, and communities. Concepts of epidemiology, prevention, decision making, and collaboration are utilized to
organize and deliver distributive nursing care in complex situations. Theories and techniques of management are studies which
relate to self, team members, and care of groups of clients. The emerging role of the professional nurse is explored. $25 Testing Fee.
NUR 4806. Practicum in Nursing IV-- Nursing in the Community
Spring. Pre- or corequisites: NUR 4206, 4303, 4405, and 4606.
A clinical course which integrates theories and concepts from all nursing courses and provisions for
practice in predominantly distributive healthcare settings. Emphasis is on the utilization of the nursing process,
the prevention of illness, maintenance of health, and the restoration of wellness of individuals, families, and communities,
experiencing adaptation to complex health problems. Management skills and techniques are utilized in the delivery of holistic nursing care.
Activities are provided which facilitate the role transition from student to professional nurse. Clinical experiences occur in a variety
of distributive health-care settings. $10 laboratory fee.
These courses are practicum courses designed to enable a student to prove clinical competence.
Students who have failed a junior or senior level theories and concepts course but have passed the accompanying
practicum course must prove clinical competence in order to progress to the next level. For the student who failed,
NUR 3892 or NUR 4892 would be taken the same semester that the student is repeating the accompanying theories and concepts course.
Students who have been absent from the upper division of the nursing curriculum must prove clinical competence at the level of the
last practicum course they successfully completed before they can reenter upper division.
Prerequisites: Departmental permission or NUR 4303.
Faculty and student collaborate on the selection, development, and evaluation of an individual project or topic in an area of nursing or health.
15 clock hours per credit hour.
