La Roche College

From hospitals to home health care, from public health organizations to health education, nursing is a dynamic profession with a world of opportunity. La Roche College 's nursing department provides cutting-edge instruction and hands-on learning experiences. We offer a variety of nursing programs designed to fit your needs, whether you're new to the field or are a seasoned professional.

THE LA ROCHE APPROACH
For you to obtain an edge before you graduate, you need practical experience in the healthcare world. You will have that opportunity at La Roche.
The Department of Nursing offers classes for students new to the nursing field, as well as classes for current nurses seeking further education. Nursing students at La Roche College gain hands-on experience in our Nursing Resource Center. The center exists to provide a place for students to practice and develop nursing skills. It contains a lab with 4 patient areas, 2 examination areas, 4 examination models, and a complete care doll with a multi-sounds trained.
La Roche nursing students are exposed to a broad range of experiences by completing clinical rotations in different areas, including medical-surgical, pediatrics, community health, obstetrics, geriatrics, psychiatric, critical care, and emergency care. La Roche provides these experiences through our partnerships with many Pittsburgh area health-care institutions, including Heritage Valley Health System, Mayview State Hospital, Ohio Valley General Hospital, St. Clair Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and West Penn Allegheny Health System.

LA ROCHE COLLEGE OFFERS:
- Associate of Science in Nursing degree, a 2 year program for those students seeking a career in nursing
-Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree completion program for licensed nurses seeking a baccalaureate degree via the traditional or accelerated format
- Master of Science in Nursing degree with a Nursing Management Specialty
-Certification in Forensic Nursing or School Nursing

Students at La Roche College will benefit from our Nursing Resource Center . The center contains a lab with 4 patient areas, 2 examination areas, 4 examination models, and a complete care doll with a multi-sounds trainer. Students utilize the Nursing Resource Center to practice and develop nursing skills.

Students at La Roche College will be exposed to a broad range of experiences by completing clinical rotations in many different areas; including medical-surgical, pediatrics, community health, obstetrics, geriatrics, psychiatric, critical care, and emergency care. La Roche provides these experiences through our partnerships with many Pittsburgh area health-care institutions, including Heritage Valley Health System, Mayview State Hospital , Ohio Valley General Hospital, St. Clair Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and West Penn Allegheny Health System.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

The baccalaureate program is designed to offer registered nurse students (graduates from diploma and associate degree programs) the opportunity to complete a professional degree that focuses on the scholarly approach to the discipline of nursing. The traditional program allows nurses to complete course requirements within the traditional format of a 15-week session per semester. The baccalaureate program provides a foundation for graduate education in nursing. The bachelor of science degree program for registered nurses is accredited by the National League of Nursing Accrediting Commision (NLNAC), 61 Broadway, New York, New York, 10006, (212) 363-5555.

The objectives of this program are to insure that graduates will be able to:
1. Understand the relationship of liberal arts and sciences with nursing as a basis for professional identity
2. Practice within the Structure of the Code of Ethics and Standards of the discipline
3. Utilize the process of scholarly inquiry as the basis for health care decision-making and nursing practice
4. Critique research for the purpose of applying findings to nursing practice
5. Participate with the community in the political and regulatory processes which influence health care

Many graduates of the La Roche B.S.N. program elect to pursue graduate work at the College. Specific entrance requirements, admission procedures, course descriptions, etc., for graduate study are available from the La Roche College Office of Admissions for Graduate and Continuing Education.

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La Roche College Courses

HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN NURSING PRACTICE
This course focuses on health assessment, health promotion, and disease prevention for major health concerns of individuals throughout the life span. Emphasis will be placed on refining the registered nurse's ability to develop an in-depth health history and health risk profile and to perform physical assessment of clients of varying ages. Evidence-based screening tests for early detection of disease, immunizations and prophylaxis to prevent disease and counseling to modify risk factors that lead to disease will be explored.

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to enhance their leadership skills. The principles of leadership and management which enable the registered nurse to assume a more advanced leadership role will be examined. Effective leadership for the current less structured yet increasingly complex health care environment will be explored. Personal, professional, legal and ethical values in professional nursing practice will be examined. Nursing research will be related to the leadership role.

HEALTH TEACHING
In this course, students will be guided in appropriating knowledge foundational to health teaching. They will interrogate the concept of health, theories of teaching-learning and the connection among health beliefs, the nurse-family interrelationship and patterns of health practice. They will be invited to apply foundational knowledge to health teaching within institutional guidelines and changing health care environments. They will explore legal and ethical implications inherent in health teaching. Students will be guided in proposing implications for nursing research and practice in health teaching.

NURSING RESEARCH I
This course is designed to explore the nature, value, and utility of nursing research. An overview of the process by which research is conceived and conducted is presented, with emphasis on varying approaches and methodologies, conceptual consistency, and ethical considerations. Critical appraisal of published research affords the student the opportunity to become a more discriminating consumer of research and a better-informed participant in the research process. The relationships among research, theory, and practice are presented and linked to the student's arena of practice. Core Course.

CURRENT ISSUES IN NURSING
This course is designed to examine selected issues in nursing and health care with a focus on contemporary situations. Students will be provided the opportunity to identify nursing practice issues and suggest strategies to address them. Principles and techniques of developing a logically constructed argument reflecting a particular viewpoint about a selected issue will be presented.

COMMUNITY NURSING I
This course is designed to expand the students' knowledge of nursing by acquainting them with concepts and principles of public health and community health nursing. Students will utilize their knowledge and understanding of nursing, humanities, natural and applied sciences with community nursing skills to provide care for individuals and families in a variety of community health care systems. The course focuses on levels of prevention, health promotion and disease prevention, and ethical and legal issues in community health nursing practice and the right of families to make decisions about health care. Students will examine the differences, which may exist in the cultural, social and religious differences between the nurse and client and the impact of this on community health nursing practice.

NURSING DURING ACUTE ILLNESS
The focus of this course is on the health care needs of acutely ill individuals. Emphasis will be on nursing interventions to assist individuals and families as they respond to acute illness. Nursing care necessary for stabilization, health restoration and rehabilitation will also be examined. Issues of significance to acutely ill individuals and their families will be explored.

NURSING OF THE ADOLESCENT
This course will provide the student with knowledge of the physical, emotional, intellectual and social health care dimensions of the adolescent in our society. The focus will be on the adolescent's developing health care needs and the role of the community, school or pediatric nurse who works with and cares for adolescents. Nursing interventions to promote health and prevent illness, including restorative and rehabilitative processes, will be examined.

MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
This course is designed to examine the role of the nurse in care of individuals with common mental health disorders in primary care settings. The concepts of mental health and mental illness will be explored from the neurobiological, personal, interpersonal and societal perspective. Current mental health care policies and initiatives and related nursing research will also be explored.

OVERVIEW OF GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to interrogate issues that interface with the expanding specialty of gerontological nursing and selected nursing models. Students will have the opportunity to apply knowledge in the implementation of nursing intervention with older persons in a variety of nursing practice settings.

NURSING RESEARCH II
This course is designed to provide the opportunity for continued investigation into the role of research in nursing practice. Through a variety of research activities students will be invited to apply the concepts of research and the research process that were presented in Nursing Research I to an independent exploration of a selected area of interest in nursing.

HEALING IN NURSING PRACTICE
This course is a nursing elective in which students will have an opportunity to focus on the philosophical and theoretical foundations of healing within the context of nursing practice. Students will examine ways of healing in nursing such as: guided imagery, relaxation response, music, biofeedback, and acupuncture. In addition, students have an opportunity to learn the theory and practice of therapeutic touch as a unique healing modality. Students will derive implications for nursing research and evaluate recent research related to healing.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF NURSING PRACTICE
This course is designed to examine the relationship among the legal rights, responsibilities, and obligations of the practicing professional nurse in today's complex and changing health care delivery environments and systems. The implications for legal and ethical decision making will be applied to a variety of situations within institutional and community settings.

HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN
In this course students will have the opportunity to explore the historical and contemporary health experiences of women with an emphasis on their current health care needs. They will review the changing role of women in society, the women's movement, and feminism as factors which have influenced women's health care and professional nursing practice.

COMMUNITY NURSING II
This course is designed to provide the student with the expanded opportunity to apply the principles of community health nursing to the health needs of a community. The health status of a community is assessed and the community health needs and the potential of the community to meet the needs is identified. Political, economic and environmental factors and their influence on health and the delivery of health care are reviewed and analyzed. Focus is on disease prevention and health promotion, education and maintenance.

CHILD HEALTH AND THE SCHOOL NURSE
This course is designed to explore the scope and responsibilities of the school nurse in planning, implementing and evaluating school health for children K-12. The focus will be on health promotion and maintenance at all levels of the child's development, and will encompass healthy and challenged children. The unique role of the school nurse in caring for children and in collaborating with parents and members of the school education team will be emphasized. PreRequisites: This course is available only to students accepted into the School Nurse Certificate Program.

NURSING PRACTICE WITH THE FATALLY ILL
This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to interrogate the concepts of fatal illness as they are lived in the practice of professional nursing. Fatal illness will be explored within the context of death as a natural process of living and the odyssey of modern dying structures. Students will be guided in coming to understand the myriad profiles of grief and bereavement as they explore the faces of loss, the changing nature of hope and the work of grief. Ethical and legal issues in the dying process and preparedness for death will be examined. Students will be guided to explore dimensions of professional nursing practice with fatally ill persons and their families.

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