Current version - Indiana University South Bend

IU SOUTH BEND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 4371
NURS-H 369
NURS-J 360
NURS-K 192
NURS-K 300
Nursing Care of childbearing
FAMIlies: Clinical (1-2 cr.)
P: NURS-H 351, NURS-H 352, NURS-H
353, NURS-H 354. C: NURS-H 361,
NURS-H 362, NURS-H 366, NURS-H
367, NURS-H 368. Clinical component of
nursing care for the pregnant, labor, and
birthing women and newborn with focus
on family centered care.
OPERATING ROOM NURSING (1-6 cr.)
P: Sophomore-year courses, or consent
of the instructor. The course is designed
to provide further opportunities for
students to meet objectives of the Indiana
University School of Nursing. Learning
opportunities are available so students
can increase knowledge about, and add
to their ability to, provide nursing care for
patients undergoing the stress of surgery.
(nursing elective)
topics in nursing (0.5-3 cr.)
Topics and seminars covering current
nursing subjects including pharmacology,
informatics, leadership, clinical updates
and skills. Topics and credit hours vary.
May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
S/F graded.
transcultural health care (3 cr.)
This course allows students to explore
how culture affects health care decision
making and how the health care system
integrates culture in its delivery of care.
NURS-K 301 complementary health therapies (3
cr.)
This survey course is designed to
introduce the student to non-mainstream
health care therapies. Students critically
examine and explore the origins and
practice of each therapy. The course
serves as an introduction to a variety
of therapies, including healing touch,
guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture,
aroma therapy, reflexology, and massage,
to name a few.
NURS-K 302
NURS-K 304
geriatric pharmacology (2 cr.)
This course examines numerous factors
(e.g., poly-pharmacy, drug-to-drug
interactions, developmental issues)
that impact absorption, distribution,
metabolism, and elimination of
pharmaco-therapeutic agents in elderly
persons. Students are challenged to
develop primary and secondary strategies
to detect and resolve problems associated
with use of these agents.
Nursing Specialty Elective (3 cr.)
NURS-K 305
NURS-K 401
NURS-K 421
NURS-K 486
NURS-K 490
NURS-K 492
New Innovations in Health and
Health Care (3 CR.)
P: R.N.-B.S.N. student. This course
explores emergent trends in health and
health care, including technological
advances in health care, developing
approaches to care based on new
knowledge and/ or research findings, and
trends in health care delivery in a themed,
survey or independent study format.
integrative health (3 cr.)
Blending the traditional and
nontraditional integrative health. This
course focuses on the integration of
complementary health care with the
traditional western medicine approach
to disease and illness. Complementary
therapies are critically examined in
light of their ability to alleviate pain and
suffering and improve quality of life in a
variety of disease and illness states.
american health care: international
experience (2-3 cr.)
P: Junior-level courses completed. This course
provides students from the United States with
a chance to live and study in Northern Ireland
and provides students from the United
Kingdom with a similar experience. This
exchange enhances the students’ awareness
of the cultural, economic, and political factors
in determining the health/illness perspective
of a nation. It aims to enable students to
develop a wider, more global perspective
on the key concepts of personal and societal
health issues.
transforming negative environments
(3 cr.)
This upper-division elective assists each
student establish a connection between
changes in social, political, and economic
conditions to their lived experience.
Health care policies/practices founded
on patriarchal values and models are
critiqued. Students are challenged
to transform traditional health care
organizations into systems characterized
by power-sharing, consensus-building,
self-governance, and empowerment.
(nursing elective)
ci Elective (1-6 cr.)
P: Consent of instructor. S/F grading
only. Planned and supervised clinical
experiences in an area of concentration.
Nursing Elective (1-6 cr.)
P: Consent of instructor. Opportunity for
the student to pursue study in an area of
interest.