Indiana University South Bend (Division of Nursing and Health Professions)

Welcome to the Nursing Program at Indiana University South Bend. This is a great time to be seeking a career in Nursing or Health Professions. There is a critical shortage of Nurse's around the world. We have one of the finest programs in the country, and an excellent faculty, several of our faculty have a doctoral in nursing. Our faculty take great pride in the curriculum they teach and go that extra mile for each student. We hope the following information on our web site will help you make your decision to apply to our program. If you have any questions, please contact the appropriate people by clicking on the Contact link on the left.

We are very proud that The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, a national agency for the accreditation of baccalaureate and graduate-degree nursing education programs, accredited the Indiana University South Bend Nursing Program through 2010.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING DEGREE PROGRAM
PURPOSE
The B.S.N. program strives to offer a creative curriculum for the education of professional nurses competent in meeting the current and future health needs of society. The curriculum prepares a generalist in professional nursing and serves as a basis for graduate study.
The purpose of the bachelor’s program is to produce graduates who are critical thinkers, culturally competent, coordinators of community resources, politically aware, ethically and legally competent, effective communicators, competent providers of health care, professional role models and responsible managers. The curriculum focuses on health and wellness as well as alterations in states of wellness, viewing persons as part of their environments.
BACHELOR’S PROGRAM OUTCOMES
* A critical thinker who is able to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, rational inquiry, problem-solving skills, and creativity in framing problems.
* A culturally competent person who provides holistic nursing care to a variety of individuals, families, and communities.
* A knowledgeable coordinator of community resources who facilitates individual, family and community access to resources necessary to meet health care needs.
* A politically aware individual who participates in the profession and the practice of nursing with a global perspective.
* An individual who practices within an ethical and legal framework for the nursing profession.
* An effective communicator who is able to share accurate information.
* A competent provider of health care who assumes the multiple role dimensions in structured and semi-structured health care settings.
* A professional role model who promotes a positive public image of nursing.
* A responsible manager who balances human, fiscal, and material resources to achieve quality health care outcomes.

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Division of Nursing and Health Professions Courses

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
This course, taught via a unique audiovisual instruction and interactive approach, teaches the student to easily remember, pronounce, and apply 350 prefixes, roots, and suffixes that combine to form over 11,000 medical terms. This approach is used to teach complex medical terms to ensure maximum retention. I, S

PHARMACOLOGY
The physiologic action of drugs and their therapeutic use, the nurse's role in administering drugs, and the need for continuous study of drug therapy . S

DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES AND HEALTH
This course focuses on the theoretical perspectives of growth and development, family theories and family adaptation at different stages, and usual patterns of aging. Students make assessments and observations of individuals in various stages of growth and development. I, II, S

INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH
This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of nursing practice: health, wellness, illness, holism, caring, environment, self-care, uniqueness of persons, interpersonal rela tionships, and decision making. This course helps the student understand nursing's unique contribution to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research, and practice. I, II

HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinates of health, wellness, and illness across the life span. Environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness, and illness are related to health-promotion, disease-prevention, illness-prevention nursing interventions. I, II

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT
This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including the physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of assessment data is addressed. I, II (R.N. I only)

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT: PRACTICUM
Students have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NURSING
This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical research base. It provides an opportunity for basic care nursing skills development. Students are challenged to use critical thinking and problem solving in developing the ability to apply an integrated nursing therapeutics approach for clients experiencing health alterations across the life span. I, II

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NURSING: PRACTICUM
Students have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the life span. I, II

LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICUM
This course deals with theoretical perspectives of growth and development across the life span, family theories, and family adaptation to common health problems, promoting health across the lifespan, and usual patterns of aging. Students make assessments and observations of individuals and families in various stages of growth and development. I, II

PROFESSIONAL NURSING SEMINAR I
This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of professional nursing practice, including health, wellness, illness, self-care and caring, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students are expected to explore theoretical premises and research related to the unique wellness perspectives and health beliefs of people across the life span in developing care outcomes consistent with maximizing individual potentials for wellness. Students complete a needs assessment as part of this course. I

GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
This course is designed to promote a holistic approach to persons in the later years of life, focusing on the continued development of older adults and the normal aging process. Within the nursing process there is emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. The course includes special assignments with older adults.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING SEMINAR II
This course focuses on the application of nursing theory and research findings in restoring and maintaining individual and family functioning for those dealing with multi-system alterations. Students explore the ethical, legal, and moral implications of treatment options and identify tactics to maximize nursing's effectiveness in facilitating individuals and families through the health care system. Students complete a scholarly analysis as part of their practicum experience. II

ALTERATIONS IN NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
This course focuses on individuals and small groups experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disorders. Content includes the effect of the brain-body disturbances on health functioning. Other content areas are growth and development, stress, mental status, nurse-client relationships, psychopharmacology, and nursing approaches for clients experiencing DSM-IV neuropsychological disorders. I, II

ALTERATIONS IN NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH: THE PRACTICUM
Students provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disturbances related to psychiatric disorders. Student experiences are with individuals and small groups in supervised settings such as acute care, community-based, transitional, and/or the home. I, II

ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH I
This course focuses on the pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic problems. Students use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to plan interventions appropriate to health care needs. I, II

ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH I: THE PRACTICUM
Students apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning, identify health care needs, and determine the effectiveness of interventions, given expected care outcomes. I, II

DATA ANALYSIS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND HEALTH CARE RESEARCH
This course introduces nursing and other health sciences students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world situations in health care. II, S

ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH II
This course builds on Alterations in Health I and continues to focus on pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of the associated needs of clients experiencing acute and chronic health problems. I, II

ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH II: THE PRACTICUM
Students continue to apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning. I, II

THE DEVELOPING FAMILY AND CHILD
This course focuses on the needs of individuals and their families who are facing the phenomena of growth and development during the childbearing and child raising phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting, and restoring healthy status of family members are emphasized. I, II

THE DEVELOPING FAMILY AND CHILD: THE PRACTICUM
Students have the opportunity to work with child bearing and child raising families, including those experiencing alterations in health. I, II

NURSING RESEARCH
This course focuses on development of students' skills in using the research process to define clinical research problems and to determine the usefulness of research in clinical decisions related to practice. The critique of nursing and nursing-related research studies is emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice. I, II, S

OPERATING ROOM NURSING
The course is designed to provide further opportunities for students to meet objectives of the Indiana University School of Nursing. Learning opportunities are available so students can increase knowledge about, and add to their ability to, provide nursing care for patients undergoing the stress of surgery.

TOPICS IN NURSING
Topics and seminars covering current nursing subjects including pharmacology, informatics, leadership, clinical updates and skills. Topics and credits vary. May be repeated for credit if topic differs. S/F graded. I, II

TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH CARE
This course allows students to explore how culture affects health care decision making and how the health care system integrates culture in its delivery of care.

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COMPLEMENTARY HEALTH
This survey course is designed to introduce the student to non-mainstream health care therapies. Students critically examine and explore the origins and practice of each therapy. The course serves as an introduction to a variety of therapies, including healing touch, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, aroma therapy, reflexology, and massage, to name a few.

Geriatric Pharmacology
This course examines numerous factors (e.g., poly-pharmacy, drug-to-drug interactions, developmental issues) that impact absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of pharmaco-therapeutic agents in elderly persons. Students are challenged to develop primary and secondary strategies to detect and resolve problems associated with use of these agents.

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