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NURS 109 NURSING ASSISTANT PRACTICUM 3CR
This course will give students an opportunity to integrate the learning from
Nursing Assistant Theory and Lab skills into the clinical environment caring
for healthcare clients. Students will demonstrate safe client care through
performance of nursing assistant skills in a healthcare environment. These
skills include: infection control, vital sign measurement, safe transfer,
ambulation and positioning and feeding patients. In addition the students
will demonstrate accurate documenting, reporting and communication skills.
Prerequisites: ENGL 093, IFAD 158 or equivalent, COME 120, or instructor
permission. Corequisites: NURS 107, NURS 108.
NURS 110 INTRODUCTION TO
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
3CR
This is an introductory course in use of critical thinking in application of
scientific knowledge, nursing process into the physiological response to health
disturbances. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
NURS 111 NURSING FOUNDATIONS 4CR
Introductory course in the fundamentals of nursing care focused to foster
global and cultural awareness. Provides theoretical background and
introduces the nursing process emphasizing roles of the LPN and RN.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Corequisite: NURS 112.
NURS 112 NURSING FOUNDATIONS PRACTICUM 2CR
This course allows the student to apply introductory critical thinking skills,
observe the nursing process, practice communication techniques, and
demonstrate basic nursing skills in a long-term care setting. Prerequisite:
Instructor permission. Corequisite: NURS 111.
NURS 113 HEALTH ASSESSMENT
AND PROMOTION
2CR
This course is an introduction to the concepts of health promotion throughout
the life span as a basis for performing a total client assessment. Critical
thinking skills and cultural needs are included. Combined lecture and
laboratory practice on a well adult. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
NURS 116 COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
IN NURSING
2CR
This course is an introduction to the principles of therapeutic communication
and techniques for use with clients, families, and co-workers. Students
identify patterns of communication and explore common blocks to effective
communication. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
NURS 117 SKILLS LAB I 2CR
This course is the first of a two-course series introducing the nursing student
to the process and rationale of basic nursing skills and procedures. It includes
didactic instruction and supervised practice of basic nursing skills in a
laboratory environment. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
NURS 121 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING I 4CR
The first of two courses presenting nursing care as it relates to common
disturbances of homeostasis. Critical thinking skills and cultural needs of the
client are introduced. Students utilize a systems approach to patient care.
Prerequisites: NURS 111, NURS 112. Corequisite: NURS 122.
NURS 122 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING I
PRACTICUM
5CR
This course offers the opportunity for the student to continue to apply
and expand nursing skills, critical thinking skills, and communication skills
in an acute care setting. Prerequisites: NURS 111, NURS 112. Corequisite:
NURS 121.
NURS 128 SKILLS LAB II 2CR
This is the second of a two course series introducing the nursing student
to the process and rationale of nursing skills and procedures. It includes
didactic instruction and supervised practice of intermediate nursing skills in a
laboratory environment. Prerequisite: NURS 117.
Course Descriptions
NURS 129 GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING 2CR
A course introducing the nursing student to concepts and processes of
assessment, care and health promotion for the older adult. Students will explore
the nurse role as change agent in the planning and delivery of care in the older
adult. Prerequisites: NURS 121 NURS 122.
NURS 131 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING II 4CR
This course introduces common disturbances of homeostasis across the adult
life span. Students continue to build on knowledge gained in prerequisite
course work in developing an understanding of disease processes and the role
of the nurse in the care of clients with altered functioning related to disease
processes. Prerequisites: NURS 121, NURS 122. Corequisite: NURS 132.
NURS 132 MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING II
PRACTICUM
5CR
In this course the student continues to expand and integrate critical thinking
skills, knowledge of the nursing process, communication techniques, and
technical skills in an acute care setting. Prerequisites: NURS 121, NURS 122.
Corequisite: NURS 131.
NURS 134 INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY 3CR
A systems approach is utilized as it relates to pharmacological interventions
by the nurse. There is an emphasis on client information literacy, cultural
awareness, and issues involving non-compliance with therapies. Prerequisites:
NURS 111, NURS 112.
NURS 135 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 3CR
Introduces concepts relating to emotional, mental, and behavioral disturbances
and disorders of clients. Emphasizes basic concepts including legal and ethical
principles related to mental health and illness, and the role and responsibilities of
the nurse in the chronic and acute mental health care setting. Prerequisites:
NURS 121, NURS 122.
NURS 139 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRACTICUM 3CR
This course covers care for individuals with psychiatric disturbances and their
families in acute care, outpatient, and community mental health care settings with
clients manifesting complex neurophysiological and psychosocial disturbances.
Emphasis is on working with the interdisciplinary team in both acute and
outpatient care settings. Focus is on individual mental health assessment, milieu
assessment, and psychiatric care planning. Prerequisites: NURS 121, NURS 122,
NURS 128, NURS 129, 134. Corequisites: NURS 131, NURS 132, NURS 135.
NURS 205 PROFESSIONAL NURSING TRANSITION 3CR
This course assists the working LPN with re-entering academia, learning the
role of a RN, and prepares them for the transition into providing a higher level
of care. Corequisites: NURS 221, NURS 222, NURS 225 and NURS 226.
NURS 213 LEADERSHIP AND PRACTICE
FOR THE LPN
3CR
Explores the legal, ethical, and philosophical aspects pertaining to the role of the
practical and registered nurse in Washington State. Teaches effective transition
skills, professional planning, and lifelong learning. Prerequisites: NURS 131,
NURS 132, NURS 135, NURS 139.
NURS 214 NURSING PRACTICE
AND THE FAMILY UNIT
4CR
Students learn about physiological changes that occur during noncomplicated
pregnancy and birth, common complications, physiological
adaptations of the normal newborn, normal growth and development of a
child from infancy to adolescent. Cultural awareness and diverse approaches
to parenting are specifically addressed in this course. Prerequisite: Instructor
permission. Corequisites: NURS 215, NURS 213, NURS 219.
NURS 215 NURSING PRACTICE
AND THE FAMILY UNIT PRACTICUM 2CR
Students observe acute care experience with mothers, newborns, and families,
conduct an assessment of children in a community setting. Cultural awareness
and information literacy of the new family unit is emphasized. Prerequisite:
Instructor permission. Corequisites: NURS 214, NURS 213, NURS 219.
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Course Descriptions
2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4 • L A K E W A S H I N G T O N I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y • C A T A L O G 219