Undergraduate - Herzing University

NM 460L Clinical Nursing IIIThis course expands on previous nursing knowledge and skills to provide care to patients with complex health stressors with unpredictableoutcomes. There is a specific focus on caring for patients in specialty settings such as critical care, cardiovascular care, respiratory care,operating room, recovery room, and/or emergency care. Complex clinical problems such as cardiac and respiratory system problems,neurotrauma, cancer, pain management, and multi-system stressors are reviewed in regards to the nursing process. 4.00 credit hours.Prerequisites: NM 220 Adult Health II and NM 220L Clinical Nursing II.NM 465 Nursing ResearchThis course is designed as an introduction to the role of evidence-based nursing practice (EBP) within the profession. The two goals of this courseare: 1) to increase the nurse’s awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the principles involved in nursing research; and 2) to prepare thenurse to better understand and utilize research findings in the continued effort to improve nursing practice. Students will be prepared to readreports of nursing research and critically assess their value in practice. To make this learning more meaningful, students will be encouraged toapply the knowledge gained to their own practices. 3.00 credit hours. Prerequisite: None.NM 470 Preceptorship SeminarThis course is the preparation for the preceptorship course, Nursing Preceptorship With NCLEX Review, for the nursing major. It provides anopportunity for synthesis of prior work and educational experiences with present learning. This knowledge is applied in a self-selected areaof nursing practice that may occur in a wide variety of settings. The contract is implemented in the Nursing Preceptorship With NCLEX Reviewcourse. 1.00 credit hour. Prerequisite: None.NM 480 Leadership and Issues in NursingThis is the second course in the management/leadership sequence of two courses. This course provides the students with the opportunity toexplore the leadership behaviors and organizational structures that enhance the delivery of client care. Specific content includes planning andevaluating care delivery systems, strategic planning, shared governance, budgeting and cost-benefit analysis, reimbursement, interdisciplinarycollaboration, political action, and healthcare trends. Professional issues that are critical to the delivery of nursing care in the U.S. will beaddressed. A major emphasis will be placed on the role of the interdisciplinary approach to delivering high-quality accessible healthcare andthe integral role of the professional nurse on this team. 2.00 credit hours. Prerequisite: NM 335 Designing and Managing Nursing Care.NM 485L Nursing Preceptorship With NCLEX ReviewThis clinical course is the capstone course for the nursing major. Focus of this course will be on integration of the professional role invarious healthcare settings. Students will work with a preceptor to synthesize theory, assessment, and competence expected of BSNgraduates. In a collaborative relationship with a preceptor and a faculty advisor, the student implements a learning contract that isspecific to the student’s learning interests and needs. An NCLEX review will take place during this course. 6.00 credit hours. Prerequisite:NM 470 Preceptorship Seminar.(NO) NURSING—OHIONO 103 Health and Illness Throughout the LifespanThis course will focus on health promotion for clients across the lifespan. Normal changes related to growth and development will becovered. Changes related to the normal aging process will be explored. The student will gather client data, identify nutritional needs,and assist with nursing care plans and reinforcing teaching plans for the healthy family, pregnant woman, newborn, and developing child.Exposure to healthy behavior patterns will allow the student to recognize maladaptive and adaptive patterns of behavior. 2.00 credithours. Prerequisite: PS 101 Psychology.NO 106 Fundamentals of Nursing IThis course introduces the student to the art and science of nursing care, and subsequent courses are built upon the concepts and skills learnedin fundamentals and medical-surgical nursing. The science of basic nursing emphasizes health promotion, nursing process, ethical/legal aspects,health across the life span, critical thinking, nursing skills, up-to-date clinical information, nursing care plans, risk factors, individual education,family involvement, and other related areas. 2.00 credit hours. Corequisite: NO 106L Fundamentals of Nursing I Lab.NO 106L Fundamentals of Nursing I LabThis is the lab portion of NO 101. 1.00 clock hour. Corequisite: NO 106 Fundamentals of Nursing.NO 107 Fundamentals of Nursing IIFundamental nursing care is directed toward the adult in acute and chronic settings, to include the home, hospital, assisted-living facilities,nursing centers, and veterans facilities. The role of the associate-degree nurse is stressed in physiology, pathophysiology, and psychosocialcontext by identifying and utilizing cognitive and technical skills as they relate to the care of the adult. 2.00 credit hours. Prerequisite: NO 106Fundamentals of Nursing I. Corequisite: NO 107L Fundamentals of Nursing II Lab.UNDERGRADUATE Course descriptions 435