General Course Descriptions - Houston Community College System

Viet 1412 Beginning
VietnAMese ii
prerequisites: Viet 1411 or satisfactory
score on an advanced placement
examination or at least 2 years of high
school Vietnamese within the last two
years. Must be placed into gust 0342 (or
higher) in reading and engl 0310/0349
(or higher) in writing.
Credit: 4 (3 lecture, 2 lab)
Continuation of Vietnamese 1411 . Further development
of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and
writing skills, and cultural awareness . More advanced
grammar . Transfers as foreign language credit . Core
Curriculum Course .
Viet 2311 interMediAte
VietnAMese i
prerequisite: Viet 1412 or equivalent; Must
be placed into gust 0342 (or higher) in
reading and engl 0310/0349 (or higher)
in writing.
Credit: 3 (3 lecture)
Further development of listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills and cultural awareness acquired in
Beginning Vietnamese . Presentation of more complex
language structures . Oral and written practice based
on selected readings . Class conducted mainly in
Vietnamese . Core Curriculum Course .
Viet 2312 interMediAte
VietnAMese ii
prerequisite: Viet 2311 or equivalent; Must
be placed into gust 0342 (or higher) in
reading and engl 0310/0349 (or higher)
in writing.Credit: 3 (3 lecture)
Continuation of VIET 2311 . Special emphasis on
written communication . Readings, discussions and
compositions . Class conducted mainly in Vietnamese .
Core Curriculum Course .
Vnsg 1122 VoCAtionAl nursing
ConCepts
prerequisite: Admission to program
Credit: 1 (1 lecture)
Introduction to the nursing profession and its
responsibilities and the legal and ethical issues in
nursing practice . Concepts related to the physical,
emotional, and psychosocial self-care of the learner/
professional .
Vnsg 1161 CliniCAl - prACtiCAl
nursing i
prerequisite: Admission to program
Corequisite: Vnsg 1423
Credit: 1 (6 lab)
A method of instruction providing detailed education,
training and work-based experience, and direct patient/
client care, generally at a clinical site . Specific detailed
learning objectives are developed for each course by
the faculty . On-site clinical instruction, supervision,
evaluation, and placement is the responsibility of the
college faculty . Clinical experiences are unpaid external
learning experiences . Course may be repeated if topics
and learning outcomes vary . Clinical experiences focus
on providing basic nursing care to adult patients/clients
in a hospital or long-term care facility .
Vnsg 1162 CliniCAl - prACtiCAl
nursing ii
prerequisite: Vnsg 1161
Corequisite: Vnsg 1330
Credit: 1 (4 lab)
A method of instruction providing detailed education,
training and work-based experience, and direct patient/
client care, generally at a clinical site . Specific detailed
learning objectives are developed for each course by
the faculty . On-site clinical instruction, supervision,
evaluation, and placement is the responsibility of the
college faculty . Clinical experiences are unpaid external
learning experiences . Course may be repeated if topics
and learning outcomes vary . Clinical experiences focus
on antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn
care in the community and hospital setting .
Vnsg 1163 CliniCAl - prACtiCAl
nursing iii
prerequisite: Vnsg 1162
Corequisite: Vnsg 1334
Credit: 1 (4 lab)
A method of instruction providing detailed education,
training and work-based experience, and direct patient/
client care, generally at a clinical site . Specific detailed
learning objectives are developed for each course by
the faculty . On-site clinical instruction, supervision,
evaluation, and placement is the responsibility of
the college faculty . Clinical experiences are unpaid
external learning experiences . Course may be
repeated if topics and learning outcomes vary . Clinical
experiences focus on child care in the community and
hospital setting .
Vnsg 1216 nutrition
prerequisite: Admission to program
Credit: 2 (2 lecture)
Introduction to nutrients and their role in proper growth
and development and the maintenance of health .
Vnsg 1219 proFessionAl
deVelopMent
prerequisite: Vnsg 1400
Credit: 2 (2 lecture)
Study of the importance of professional growth . Topics
include the role of the licensed vocational nurse in
the multi-disciplinary health care team, professional
organizations, and continuing education .
Vnsg 1227 essentiAls oF
MediCAtion AdMinistrAtion
prerequisite: Admission to program
Credit: 2 (2 lecture, 1 lab)
General principles of medication administration
including determination of dosage, preparation,
safe administration, and documentation of multiple
forms of drugs . Emphasis will be placed on the
pharmacological aspect of drug classifications
including the uses, actions, pharmacodynamics,
indications, pharmakinetics, contraindications,
adverse effects and nursing implications .
Vnsg 1238 MentAl illness
prerequisite: Vnsg 1400
Credit: 2 (2 lecture)
Study of human behavior with emphasis on emotional
and mental abnormalities and modes of treatment
incorporating the nursing process .
Course desCriptions
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Vnsg 1266 prACtiCuM-
prACtiCAl nurse i
prerequisite: Vnsg 1161
Corequisite: Vnsg 1409 and Vnsg 2331
Credit: 2 (15 lab)
Practical general training and experiences in the
workplace . The college, with the employer, develops
and documents an individualized plan for the
student . The plan relates the workplace training and
experiences to the student’s general and technical
course of study . The guided external experiences
may be paid or unpaid . This course may be repeated
if topics and learning outcomes vary . Clinical
experiences focus on providing advance nursing care
to adult patients/clients with circulatory, respiratory,
endocrine, digestive and mental illness disorders in a
community and hospital setting .
Vnsg 1267 prACtiCuM-
prACtiCAl nurse ii
prerequisite: Vnsg 1266 and Vnsg 1162
Corequisite: Vnsg 1410
Credit: 2 (16 lab)
Practical general training and experiences in the
workplace . The college with the employer develops and
documents an individualized plan for the student . The
plan relates the workplace training and experiences
to the student’s general and technical course of
study . The guided external experiences may be paid
or unpaid . This course may be repeated if topics
and learning outcomes vary . Clinical experiences
focus on providing advance nursing care to adult
patients/clients with muscular-skeletal, neurosensory,
renal and reproductive disorders in a community and
hospital setting .
Vnsg 1320 AnAtoMy And
pHysiology For Allied HeAltH
prerequisite: Admission to program
Credit: 3 (3 lecture)
Introduction to the normal structure and function of the
body including an understanding of the relationship of
body systems in maintaining homeostasis .
Vnsg 1330 MAternAl- neonAtAl
nursing
prerequisite: Vnsg 1400
Corequisite: Vnsg 1162
Credit: 3 (3 lecture)
Utilization of the nursing process in the assessment
and management of the childbearing family . Emphasis
on the bio-psycho-socio-cultural needs of the family
during the phases of pregnancy, childbirth, and the
neonatal period including abnormal conditions .
Vnsg 1334 pediAtriCs
Corequisite: Vnsg 1163
Credit: 3 (3 lecture)
Study of childhood diseases and childcare from infancy
through adolescence . Focus on the care of the well
and the ill child utilizing the nursing process .
Vnsg 1400 nursing in HeAltH
And illness i
Credit: 4 (4 lecture)
prerequisite: Admission to program
Introduction to general principles of growth and
development, primary health care needs of the
client across the life span, and therapeutic nursing
interventions .