Blessing-Rieman College (College of Nursing)

Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing (B-RCN) offers a 4-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree through two joint programs with our partners, Culver-Stockton College and Quincy University. Students take all nursing courses and clinicals (nursing experience under the supervision of an instructor) at B-RCN and general education courses at the partner college. Your first nursing course is in the first semester of the Freshman year on the partner campus. Most of the Junior and Senior years are spent on the B-RCN campus. Students who complete the program earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree and are prepared to the state board of nursing examination for licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).

MISSION STATEMENT:

“The missions of Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing is to educate persons of diverse backgrounds to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values needed for professional nursing practice and lifelong learning. This mission is accomplished in a community of learning dedicated to excellence and caring in professional nursing education.”

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DIMENSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This course introduces the student to the diverse nature of professional nursing. Nursing and its evolution from lay healing to the present status of an emerging profession are explored. The Whole Person Nursing Framework is introduced as an organizing framework for nursing practice.

WHOLE PERSON NURSING
This course focuses on Whole Person Nursing as a framework for clinical practice. Core concepts relating to the individual health promotion, critical thinking, and the nurse-patient relationship, with emphasis on communication, are explored.

STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING
This course utilizes experiential learning methods to learn and apply specific strategies for success in school, a job, and life. Content includes meta-cognitive assessment, time and stress management skills, test-taking skills, study skills, memorization, math and reading strategies.

FUNDAMENTALS OF NUTRITION
This course focuses on the use of nutrition as an intervention to promote, maintain, or restore health. Nutrition assessment, diet analysis, meal planning, and basic nutritional support during health alterations are studied.

BASIC NURSING PRINCIPLES AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT I
This course focuses on care of the adult in non-acute settings, using the Whole Person Nursing Framework. Students are guided in use of therapeutic communication and development of basic nursing skills derived from theoretical principles and concepts. An emphasis is placed on health assessment. Competencies related to integration of cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills are practiced and tested in laboratory and clinical settings. Clinical settings occur in Quincy, IL and surrounding areas.

BASIC NURSING PRINCIPLES AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT II
This course focuses on whole person assessment and expands communication and nursing process skills learned in Basic Nursing Principles I. The focus is on development of health promotion and care of adults experiencing uncomplicated health alterations. Scientific knowledge from nursing, physiological, and psychological theories are the basis for planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of nursing actions. Clinical settings occur in Quincy, IL and surrounding areas.

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOLOGY
This course focuses on the use of pharmacologic agents and parenteral therapies as interventions to promote, maintain, or restore health. Pharmacotherapeutics, pharmaco-dynamics, pharmacokinetics, and principles of drug administration are studied. Nursing assessment and intervention related to pharmacologic and parenteral therapies are emphasized. Prerequisites: Admission into the nursing major; Anatomy & Physiology I, Anatomy & Physiology II.

INTRODUCTION TO THEORY
This course focuses on Whole Person Nursing as a framework for clinical practice. Theories with core concepts relating to the individual such as health promotion, critical thinking, adaptation, culture, environment, and caring are explored.

FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING I
This course introduces the student to the diverse nature of professional nursing. The Whole Person Nursing framework is introduced as an organizing framework for nursing practice. Students are guided in use of therapeutic communication and development of basic nursing skills derived from theoretical principles and concepts. Competencies related to integration of cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills are practiced and tested in laboratory and clinical settings. Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing major; English Composition, General Psychology, Anatomy & Physiology.

FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING II
This course focuses on whole person assessment and expands communication and nursing process skill. The focus is on development of health promotion and care of adults experiencing uncomplicated health alterations. Scientific knowledge from nursing, physiological and psychological theories are the basis for planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of nursing actions.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT
This course focuses on the assessment component of nursing care. The course integrates the elements/skills of health and physical assessment with the College’s curriculum framework of Whole Person Nursing. Assignments focus on acquiring assessment skills, exploring the biological-psychosocial-spiritual basis of assessment, developing a systematic method for completing comprehensive assessments across the lifespan, and examining the role of clinical reasoning as part of the assessment process. Emphasis is placed on skill acquisition.

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
This course is designed for anyone desiring a background in the language of medicine and health care. The course is presented utilizing a system of learning medical terms from root words, combining forms, prefixes and suffixes. At the completion of this course the student will be able to recognize, build, define, and correctly spell medical terms.

NURSING FROM ADOLESCENCE THROUGH MIDDLE YEARS
This course focuses on the adolescent, young adult, and family experience with sexuality-reproductivity. How the growth and development, and health of these persons influences health behavior with fertility, childbearingparenting, and sexuality are examined. Clinical experiences develop the nursing roles of general practitioner, educator, and patient advocate within settings providing care to the adolescent, young adult, and childbearing family. Nursing interventions that promote, maintain, or restore health with common, acute, and chronic health responses to sexuality-reproductivity are studied.

NURSING FROM MIDDLE THROUGH OLDER ADULT YEARS
This course focuses on the growth and development, and health of middle-aged through older adults and their families. The experiences of these persons and families with acute and chronic responses to health are examined. Clinical experiences develop the nursing roles of general practitioner, educator, and patient advocate within settings providing care to the middle-aged through older adult patients and their families. Nursing interventions that promote, maintain, or restore health are studied.

NURSING FROM INFANCY THROUGH ADOLESCENCE
The focus of this course is on providing whole person nursing care that is caring and goal-directed to children, ages infancy through adolescence, and their families. The objectives are met in a variety of settings which focus on the unique needs of children along the health and developmental continuum. Course structure includes lecture, discussion, and clinical application in acute care, home, and community settings.

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
This course focuses on individuals and families throughout the lifespan who are experiencing varying states of mental health. The environmental influences affecting the mental health of the individual are examined within the context of the family and/or community. The use of self within the nurse/patient relationship is emphasized as the foundation for communication and therapeutic nursing interventions. Collaboration with other health team members and/or community resources is explored as a way to address the needs of the whole person/family using various treatment modalities.

NURSING CONCEPTS I AND NURSING CONCEPTS II
These courses focus on the growth and development and health of the middle-aged through older adults and their families. The experience of these persons and families with acute and chronic responses to health will be examined. Clinical experiences will develop the nursing roles of general practitioner, educator, and patient advocate within settings providing care to the middle-aged through older adult patients and their families. Nursing interventions that promote, maintain, or restore health will be studied.

MATERNAL AND CHILD NURSING
The course applies the Whole Person Nursing Framework to the care of children, childbearing women, and their families. Emphasis is on the unique needs of these individuals and families along the health and developmental continuums. Students participate as a member of the multidisciplinary health team to promote, maintain, or restore health with common, acute and chronic health responses with the childbearing and childrearing experiences. The focus of clinical is the practice of these concepts in the acute care and community settings. Clinical also provides the opportunity to develop the professional nursing roles.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
This course offers an introduction to principles and concepts of community health nursing throughout the lifespan. Coordination and use of community resources are stressed to ensure quality, accessibility, cost effectiveness and continuity of health care. Clinical experiences are provided in official and private agencies, school systems, and other health care delivery systems with emphasis on population-focused care.

ADVANCED NURSING CONCEPTS
This course focuses on applying Whole Person Nursing to persons experiencing complex multisystem health problems. Pathophysiological concepts and principles related to complex, multisystem health problems are analyzed. Nursing care principles and standards related to high acuity situations are emphasized. Clinical experience occurs in acute, subacute, home and community care settings.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING CONCEPTS
This course provides the student with the opportunity to explore professional concepts within the discipline of nursing. The internal and external environmental influences, including a culturally diverse society that shaped the evolution of nursing are appraised. A plan for personal/professional development is formulated with consideration of individual career goals. A practicum provides the student the opportunity to synthesize knowledge and skills from the curriculum and to integrate them into an individualized clinical nursing experience. The student is challenged to expand his or her knowledge by managing health care in a particular area of nursing, participate in professional networks, influence health policy, and analyze the legal and ethical parameters of nursing practice. Contemporary nursing is placed within the context of a global and ever-changing health care environment.

SCIENTIFIC METHODS IN NURSING
This course introduces students to the research process as a link between theory and practice. Legal, moral, and ethical questions relative to research and use of human subjects are explored. Scientific inquiry, synthesis of literature, and critical analysis of published nursing research are emphasized.

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
The focus of this course is on the leadership role of the professional nurse as a change agent, educator, manager, and professional role model in an ever-changing society. Synthesis of leadership/management principles and concepts are incorporated into the professional practice role of the nurse to facilitate accomplishment of group goals and to assume beginning leadership roles in managed care health delivery systems. Professional values, teaching/learning, communication and collaboration, and leadership/ management skills are emphasized and evaluated through group processes and clinical experiences.

SENIOR PRACTICUM
The practicum provides the senior student the opportunity to synthesize knowledge and skills from the curriculum and to integrate them into an individualized clinical nursing experience. The student is challenged during this practicum to expand his or her knowledge by managing health care in a particular area of nursing, participate in professional networks, influence health policy, and analyze the legal and ethical parameters of nursing practice.

HEALTH POLICY
This is an introductory course in health policy and politics for nurses in the United States. Political activism as it relates to the nursing care of patients is explored historically and within the context of contemporary health care delivery and financing in the United States. Application of the concepts of policy and politics are applied to the workplace, professional nursing organizations, community, and government. More specifically, the student is challenged to learn how to take action for advocacy and to recognize how the nurse, individually and through professional organizations, can influence and shape health policy to improve patient care outcomes.

CULTURAL COMPETENCE
The Cultural Competency in Health Care Course focuses on assisting students in providing culturally competent care for their clients. It will emphasize the belief that culture is a predominant force in shaping values, beliefs, and health care practices. Essential components of this course are: increased self-awareness and understanding of the centrality of culture in providing good health care to all patient populations; clinical excellence and strong therapeutic alliances with patients and the reduction of health care disparities through improved quality and costeffective care for all populations. Emphasized thought the course are broad concepts of cultural and linguistic diversity and their impact on quality health care and the health of individuals, families, and communities. It will include Transcultural Nursing principles, theories, concepts, and research-based knowledge to guide, challenge and explain nursing practices. The health-care needs and practices of specific cultural, ethnic, and other diverse groups will be analyzed.

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