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pages i-viiiSchool of Nursingand Allied Health214 Clarion University of PennsylvaniaNURS 299: Special Topics in Nursing 1-3 s.h.This course deals with topics of special interest for all nursing students. It will focus on identified nursing subjects needed to keepstudents abreast of the changing trends in the profession and provide them with a mechanism for updating their nursing knowledgeand clinical competencies. This course may be offered summers and weekends during the academic year, according to demand, andwill be open to all students.Nursing Bachelor’s Degree CoursesNURS 320: Death and Grief 3 s.h.Explores the dying process from various conceptual and theoretical frameworks. Focuses on historical, ethical, socio-culturaland interpersonal perspectives on death. Students address their own mortality and develop a personal philosophy of death and grief.Opportunities are provided for students to interact with professional experts as well as individuals experiencing grief/death issues.Spring, annually, and as needed. Open to all students.NURS 335: Alternative Therapies 3 s.h.Explores various approaches to health and healing that lie outside the realm of conventional Western medicine. Focuses on howthese therapies are presented on the World Wide Web and how the registered nurse can evaluate their effectiveness. Students willresearch selected topics and critically appraise the quality of information found on the Internet. Open to all students. Fall, annually.NURS 340: Nursing in Transition 3 s.h.Provides a theoretical foundation for the transition from technical to professional nursing practice. Addresses the concepts ofnursing, health, individual, and environment. Explores nursing as an evolving profession with emphasis on the historical perspectives,environmental context, and future trends that could impact health care. Views individuals from a holistic perspective, and exploresthe spectrum of health. Introduces nursing theory and nursing inquiry as the basis for the practice of professional nursing. Open tostudents who are licensed RNs and others with permission of instructor. Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 342: Thinking in Contemporary Nursing 3 s.h.Focuses on thinking as a skill and its practical application in the health care arena. Emphasizes critical thinking, creative thinking,reasoning, decision making, problem solving, and metacognition as they relate to the many facets of professional nursing practice.Provides students opportunities to transfer skills to problems of a professional and personal nature. Open to students who are licensedRNs and others with permission of instructor. Spring, annually, and as neededNURS 346: Health Assessment 2 s.h.Enables the registered nurse to enhance skills in assessing the health status of individuals. Provides an opportunity to obtain acomprehensive health history and perform a screening physical assessment. Emphasizes recognizing deviations from normal andintegrating physiological, psychosocial, developmental, spiritual, and transcultural dimensions in order to formulate diagnostichypotheses. Open to students who are licensed RNs. Spring, annually, and as needed.NURS 347: Creating a Wellness Lifestyle 2-3 s.h.Introduces the student to the concepts of wellness and health promotion from a holistic perspective. Within this framework, studentsexplore how to gain more control over their lives through effective stress management, management of time and change, and adequateself and social support. Assists students in increasing self-responsibility and negotiating the health care delivery system. Discusses healthmeasures such as diet, exercise, and sleep as they relate to a wellness lifestyle. Explores the balance of caring for others and caring forself. Each student is guided in formulating an individualized wellness plan. Open to all students. Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 351: Public School Nursing 3 s.h.Emphasizes the new dimensions of school health and public school nursing. Defines and explores personal qualifications, professionalpreparation, and the expanded role of the school nurse in the classroom and clinical practicum. Concentrates on health education andhealth promotion of school age children and adolescents. Each student has a clinical practicum with a certified school nurse in the publicschool setting. One and one-half lecture and 4-plus clinical hours weekly. Prerequisites: NURS 340, 361, and 346 or a B.S. in nursing.NURS 342 is a pre- or co-requisite for undergraduate students. Open to RN students and students holding a B.S. in Nursing. OfferedFall, ‘odd’ years.NURS 357: Leadership Nursing 3 s.h.Provides a theoretical foundation for the practice of independent and interdependent nursing. Introduces the principles of leadershipand management, and emphasizes their application to professional nursing. Focus includes concepts of motivation, change, groupprocess, empowerment, and nursing care delivery systems. Open to licensed RNs and others with permission of instructor. Spring,annually, and as needed.NURS 361: Nurse as Educator 3 s.h.Requires students to develop and provide health education to individuals, families, and communities. Focuses on the nursing process,the teaching/learning process, and health care informatics. Provides opportunities for the student to implement the teaching/learningprocess in the delivery of health education programs. Open to students who are licensed RNs. Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 365: Health Promotion for the Elderly 3 s.h.Provides students with information and strategies related to the promotion and maintenance of health in a holistic manner for theelderly population. Promotes inquiry and stimulates the critical-thinking processes of the student by emphasizing health and wellnessconcepts. Open to all students. Offered Fall ‘even’ years.NURS 368: Human Caring 3 s.h.Provides an opportunity for in-depth exploration of the concept caring. Appropriate to students entering any human service major.Derives content primarily from scholarly works in the discipline of nursing. Supplements Jean Watson’s theory of human caring withguided experiences designed to facilitate personal discovery of one’s caring capacities and opportunities to more fully integrate theminto the work of one’s discipline. Open to all students. Spring, annually, as needed.
Clarion University of Pennsylvania 215NURS 376: Frontiers in Nursing 3 s.h.Provides an opportunity for students to explore the U.S. health care system, its complexities, problems, alternatives for managingproblems, and its impact on individuals and populations. Social, technological, political, and economic contexts provide a frameworkto explore the collaborative efforts of professionals to transform health care delivery both nationally and internationally. Studentsaddress current, complex national and international health issues. Open to all licensed RNs and others with permission of instructor.Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 380: Applied Statistics for Health Care Professionals 3 s.h.Introduces students in health care professions to knowledge and understanding of statistics as applied to health care practice andreasearch. Introduces the basic rules and principles of statistics through investigation of quantitative and qualitative problems in healthcare. Prerequisite: C or better in MATH 111 or higher. Open to all students. Spring, annually.NURS 445: Inquiry in Nursing 3 s.h.Emphasizes the role of inquiry as it applies to nursing. Includes principles of research and scientific method of inquiry and applicationof critical and decision making skills. Focuses on the ways research influences nursing and nursing care. Critiques current research forapplicability to professional nursing practice in a variety of settings. Prerequisites: NURS 380 and a minimum grade of C in NURS361, 340 and 342. Open to licensed RNs only. Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 470: Promoting Healthy Communities 3 s.h.Introduces essential knowledge and important nursing roles for health promotion and illness prevention at the family and communitylevel. Students will explore principles of epidemiology, demography, and relevant nursing and health-related theories and models asthey apply to the health of individuals, families, and aggregates. Prerequisites: NURS 340, 342, and 361. Pre or co-requisite NURS346. Open to licensed RNs only. Fall, annually, and as needed.NURS 480: Role Seminar in Professional Nursing 3 s.h.This capstone course provides a culminating experience in the implementation of the professional nursing role. Emphasizes presentand evolving nursing contributions in a reformed health care system. Students are guided in the development of a self-directedpracticum in a selected role. Must be taken as a co-requisite to NURS 481. Prerequisites: Grade of C in NURS 340, 342, 346, 357,361, 376, 380, 445, 470. Open to licensed RNs only. Spring, annually, and as needed.NURS 481: Practicum in Professional Nursing 2 s.h.Provides opportunities for the student to implement and evaluate a self-directed clinical experience guided by the objectivesidentified in the program capstone course, NURS 480. Students may select experiences from a variety of clinical focuses appropriateto the course including practice, research, education, administration, and policy. This course must be taken as a co-requisite to NURS480. Six clinical hours weekly. Prerequisites: minimum grade of C in NURS 340, 342, 346, 357, 361, 376, 445, and 470. Open tolicensed RNs only. Spring, annually, and as needed.NURS 499: Special Topics in Nursing 1-6 s.h. variableDeals with topics of special interest to professional nurses. Focuses on identified nursing subjects pertinent to the practice ofprofessional nursing. May be offered during the academic year as well as summers and weekends, according to demand.pages i-viiSchool of Nursingand Allied HealthDepartment of AlliedHealthRenee Bloom, M.S., R.T. (R), chair204 Montgomery HallTelephone: 676-6591, ext. 1265E-mail address: rbloom@clarion.eduAccreditationJoint Review Committee on Education in RadiologicTechnology (JRCERT) for B.S. in Radiologic SciencesProgramCommittee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoArc)Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health EducationPrograms (CAAHEP)Degree ListingAllied Health (A.S.)Radiologic Sciences (B.S.)Respiratory Care (A.S.)Program InformationThe field of allied health encompasses a vast arrayof specially-trained healthcare professionals includingradiologic technologists and respiratory therapists. Alliedhealth professionals perform vital medical services and workin collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers to deliver integrated and comprehensivequality health care in hospitals, clinics, and private practiceoffices.Rapid advances in medical technology as well as a largeaging population have resulted in an increased demand forqualified allied health professionals. According to the UnitedStates Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, thecareer outlook for many allied health professions is good toexcellent, and the need for many of these professions is expectedto increase faster than average through the year 2012.
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