Nursing Courses
NRS 102 – Nursing Fundamentals – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides the foundation necessary for the nursing student to provide safe, holistic, patient-centered care to diverse populations. The content will explore and build upon foundational concepts of the nursing process, therapeutic communication, basic physiological, cultural, spiritual, psychosocial and health promotion needs of the population.
NRS 103 – Nursing Fundamentals Lab – 3 cr
Course Description: This course presents an introduction to basic nursing skills to facilitate safe care. The focus will be on the steps of the nursing process, documentation, addressing basic patient needs, standard precautions, patient safety and safe medication administration. Skills include vital signs, physical assessment, basic hygiene care, elimination, nutritional and fluid needs, sterile technique, airway support and drug dosage calculations.
NRS 113 – Pharmacology for Nurses – 3 cr
Course Description: This course focuses on the pharmacotherapeutic, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacokinetic properties of drug therapy related to the human body. The content will address all major drug classifications, the principle properties of commonly prescribed drugs and the interaction in all major body systems in humans. For each classification, the nursing student will consider data collection, safe dosage/administration including all routes, therapeutic effect, adverse reactions/interactions, and patient education.
NRS 123 – Adult Nursing I – 3 cr
Course Description: This course introduces the nursing student to the concepts in medical-surgical nursing and care of the non-complex adult client with acute and chronic conditions. Concepts presented will emphasize the nursing process, health promotion, care plans, risk factors, pharmacology, ethics and other related areas in healthcare delivery related to nursing practice.
NRS 122 – Adult Nursing I Clinical – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides selected patient experience in a variety of settings to allow the student to apply theory and skills. The clinical focus is on beginning nursing care for medical-surgical adults with care for acute and chronic conditions. Emphasis is placed on assessment skills, the nursing process, health promotion, care plans, pharmacology and related areas of nursing care delivery.
NRS 133 – Adult Nursing II – 3 cr
Course Description: This course is a continuation of Adult Nursing I and will instruct the nursing student to increasingly complex concepts in medical-surgical nursing and care of the adult client with acute and chronic conditions. Concepts presented will emphasize critical thinking utilizing the nursing process, health promotion, care plans, multiple risk factors, pharmacology, ethics and other related areas in healthcare delivery related to nursing practice.
NRS 132 – Adult Nursing II Clinical – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides selected patient experience in a variety of settings to allow the student to apply theory and skills. The clinical focus is on increasing critical thinking and providing nursing care to increased acuity for medical-surgical adults with acute and chronic conditions. Emphasis is placed on assessment skills, the nursing process, health promotion, care plans, pharmacology and related areas of nursing care delivery.
NRS 202 – Women’s Health & Childbirth – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides foundational instruction for providing nursing care along a continuum of women’s health and childbearing. Specific content will include physiological, psychosocial, cultural and developmental needs, reproductive and sexual health, psychological and physiologic changes of pregnancy, prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum and care of the newborn.
NRS 201 – Women’s Health & Childbirth lab – 1 cr
Course Description: This lab course will provide the nursing student a supportive and supervised environment to practice skills sets that specifically address the managed care of women’s health and childbearing. The course will also provide simulated experiences to allow for the nursing student to practice assessments, communication, teaching/learning and managing care of women’s health and stages of childbearing.
NRS 211 - Women’s Health & Childbirth Clinical – 1 cr
Course Description: This course will provide the nursing student the opportunity to observe, assess and participate in the care of women’s health and childbearing stages. The focus will be on the role of the nurse in meeting physiological, psychosocial, cultural and developmental needs of reproductive and sexual health, psychological and physiologic changes of pregnancy, prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum and care of the newborn.
NRS 222 - Pediatric Nursing – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides foundational instruction for providing nursing care for the pediatric patient from infancy to adolescence. Specific content will include related human growth and development, physiological, psychosocial, cultural and developmental needs, health promotion and disease prevention of all pediatric age groups.
NRS 221 – Pediatric Lab – 1 cr
Course Description: This lab course will provide the nursing student a supportive and supervised environment to practice skills sets the specifically address the managed care of the pediatric client. The course will also provide simulated experiences to allow for the nursing student to practice assessments, communication, teaching/learning and managing care of the pediatric client from infancy to adolescence.
NRS 231 - Pediatric Clinical – 1 cr
Course Description: This course will provide the nursing student the opportunity to observe, assess and participate in the care of the pediatric client. The focus will be on the role of the nurse in addressing related human growth and development, physiological, psychosocial, cultural and developmental needs, health promotion and disease prevention of the pediatric client.
NRS 242 – Mental Health Nursing – 2 cr
Course Description: This course focuses on mental health concepts and issues. Basic mental health concepts and issues examined include cultural beliefs, legal and ethic issues, therapeutic nurse-client communication and relationship, factors affecting health and wellness of client with common psychiatric health needs and disorders.
NRS 241 – Mental Health Nursing Clinical – 1 cr
Course Description: This course will focus on continuing nursing knowledge and skills as related to mental health nursing. It will provide for the continued application of the nursing process, critical thinking, and caring therapeutic interventions in acute, chronic and community-based psychiatric- mental health.
NRS 253 – Advanced Care for Adults – 3 cr
Course Description: This course expands theory to advanced integration of complex concepts in medical-surgical nursing and care of the adult client with complex health alterations. Focus on nursing care of complex patients with multisystem health issues in order to facilitate the wellbeing within the context of critical or complex illness.
NRS 252 – Advanced Care for Adults Clinical – 2 cr
Course Description: This course provides selected patient experience in a variety of settings to allow the student to apply advanced integration of complex concepts in medical-surgical nursing and care of the adult client with complex health alterations. The clinical focus is on nursing care of complex patients with multisystem health issues in order to facilitate the wellbeing within the context of critical or complex illness.
NRS 251 – Advanced Care for Adults Lab – 1 cr
Course Description: This lab course will provide the nursing student a supportive and supervised environment to practice skills sets the specifically address the managed care of the adult client with complex health alterations. The course will also provide simulated experiences to allow for the nursing student to practice assessments, communication, teaching/learning and managing care of the complex patients with multisystem health issues in order to facilitate the wellbeing within the context of critical or complex illness.
NRS 261 – Nursing Capstone-NCLEX Prep – 1 cr
Course Description: This course will provide students with various ethical and leadership concepts that will further strengthen rationale for nursing decisions and actions. Lifelong learning and personal/professional development will be explored. Preparation for the registered nurse licensure exam will be addressed through comprehensive NCLEX review.