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88 School of Nursing512c, Clinical Practice in Community Health Nursing. 3 credit hours. Communityhealth nurses provide preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitation services in a variety ofcommunity settings. This practicum focuses on the delivery of these health services innational and international community organizations. Nursing responsibility for caseloadmanagement offers opportunity to interact with other members of the interdisciplinaryhealth care team. Selected observational experiences augment core clinical practice.Required for all students in the prespecialty year. Forty hours per week, last half ofsummer term. Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing faculty.513c, Seminar in Community Health Nursing and Public Health. 2.4 credit hours.Sessions explore the multidisciplinary theoretical foundations that are the basis for communityhealth nursing practice. Topics include history of community health nursing andpublic health science; structure and function of federal, state, and local health organizations;funding mechanisms for community health care; epidemiological and biostatisticalindicators of community health; methods of family and community analyses.Required for all students in the prespecialty year. Last half of summer term. GraduateEntry Prespecialty in Nursing faculty.514b, Clinical Practice in Maternal-Newborn Nursing. 2.6 credit hours. This coursefocuses on clinical practice essential to nursing care of childbearing families. Clinical settingsinclude hospital and ambulatory care. Required for all students in the prespecialtyyear. Sixteen hours per week, second half of spring term and first half of summer term.M. Beal, coordinator.515b, Seminar in Maternal-Newborn Nursing. 1.5 credit hours. This course presentstheory essential to the provision of nursing care of childbearing families. Applicationof the nursing process as it relates to the promotion, maintenance, and restoration ofhealth is emphasized. Required for all students in the prespecialty year. One and one-halfhours per week, second half of spring term and first half of summer term. M. Beal, coordinator.516a, Clinical Practice in Medical-Surgical Nursing. 4 credit hours. This coursefocuses on the scientific principles, psychomotor techniques, and communication skillsfundamental to nursing practice. Sociocultural variations influencing patient care areintroduced. Faculty guide small groups of students in individually planned clinical experiencesthat provide opportunities to use the nursing process in caring for the hospitalizedadult with selected pathophysiological problems. Experience also includes weeklyclinical conferences and observations. Required for all students in the prespecialty year.Clinical experience twelve hours per week. L. Pellico, coordinator.517a, Seminar in Medical-Surgical Nursing. 4 credit hours. This course focuses onthe dynamic relationship of physical and psychosocial responses to pathophysiologicalproblems occurring in the hospitalized adult. Application of the nursing process as itrelates to the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health is emphasized.Required for all students in the prespecialty year. Four hours per week. L. Pellico, coordinator.