Northern Michigan University (School of Nursing)

MISSION STATEMENT

The primary mission of the Department of Nursing is to educate professional nurses who are caring, competent, and qualified to practice in a constantly changing environment and with diverse populations.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

1. Integrate theoretical and evidence-based knowledge in the application of the nursing process to individuals, families, groups, aggregates and/or communities across practice settings.
2. Formulate nursing care that promotes wellness and incorporates the rights, unique abilities, beliefs, and values of persons as those persons develop throughout their life experiences.
3. Demonstrate leadership and management skills by collaborating with health team members in response to the clinical organizational, technological and fiscal challenges in the practice environment.
4. Demonstrate proficiency in written, verbal, nonverbal, and information technology modes of communication in professional settings.
5. Incorporate accountability, professional values and the application of professional nursing standards in the practice of caring and compassionate nursing in a changing health care environment.
6. Incorporate professional goals that include a commitment of service to the community and life-long learning.

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School of Nursing Courses

BASIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT, INTERVIEWING AND COMMUNICATION
The focus of this course is basic assessment skills. Assessments of mental status, psycho-social status, functional patterns and physical status will be taught with a systems approach. Skills in interviewing, communication, history taking and physical assessment will be attained.

BASIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT, INTERVIEWING AND COMMUNICATION (LAB)
The focus of this course is the application of theory taken in NE 200. Students will practice organization, analysis and communication of data using a basic diagnostic reasoning process. The development of these skills will take place in a laboratory setting.

INTRODUCTION TO NURSING CONCEPTS (THEORY)
Students will be introduced to major concepts in the nursing model, laying a foundation for the major. The client as an individual is viewed as a total system. Focus is on health promotion and maintenance with adaptive mechanisms identified.

INTRODUCTION TO NURSING SKILLS I (LAB)
This course focuses on skills required to care for adult clients using demonstration and simulated practice.

INTRODUCTION TO NURSING SKILLS II (CLINICAL)
Students will use the skills taught in NE 202 in a structured, non-emergent environment.

PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS
This course focuses on the fundamentals of drug actions, the application of specific drugs in treatment of disease, normal and abnormal responses to drug therapy, and appropriate nursing actions to achieve desired outcomes of drug therapy.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Pathophysiology is the study of how normal physiological processes are altered by disease. Theories relating to pathogenesis, etiology and clinical manifestations are used to study common diseases. Concepts from anatomy and physiology courses provide the foundation for exploring altered physiologic function and are basic to nursing practice.

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NURSING
Study of a particular topic reflecting special interests of students and instructor. Intended for freshmen and sophomores.

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING (THEORY)
Utilizing stress-adaptation, developmental, and psychological models, the course further develops nursing assessment and intervention while exploring patient rights/legal issues for individuals and groups of mental health clients. A major focus is on the development and implementation of nursing care which promotes mental health for a variety of clients in various health care settings.

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING (CLINIC)
Students will develop and implement therapeutic modalities that promote and/or maintain mental health with mentally ill clients. Opportunities are provided to integrate learning into practice in clinical settings that include in and out-patient mental health programs.

ADULT HEALTH NURSING (THEORY)
This course provides the theoretical foundation necessary to make critical decisions in planning and implementing therapeutic nursing interventions in caring for the adult experiencing acute complex health needs in a structured hospital or home environment.

ADULT HEALTH NURSING (CLINICAL)
This clinic provides an opportunity to implement the theoretical foundation of NE 311. The primary focus of the course is the utilization of the nursing process in the care of adult clients experiencing complex health needs in a structured environment either in the hospital or home. Students will continue to develop critical thinking abilities, effective communication skills and therapeutic nursing intervention skills.

INTRODUCTION TO NURSING RESEARCH
This course is intended to provide an introduction to the research process in nursing, an appreciation of the development and use of the scientific method in the discipline of nursing, and its application to human responses and health behavior across the life span.

NURSING IN A MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY
Study of cultural practices and patterns relative to health and illness among special populations. Emphasis is on identification of ways in which nursing assessments and interventions may be modified to accommodate racial and cultural differences of clients and their families within the American culture.

ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN FAMILY NURSING
An exploration of family nursing in which the family unit is the focus of care. Family assessment models provide the framework for planning nursing care for families in a variety of health care settings.

MATERNAL-INFANT NURSING (THEORY)
Emphasis is on the primary family unit during the expanding years. Physiological adaptation of the female during pregnancy, the fetus and mother during labor and delivery and the dyad during the postpartum period are examined within the context of the nursing process. Psycho-social adaptation of family members, health promotion and normal as well as complex pregnancy and newborn care are addressed.

MATERNAL-INFANT NURSING (CLINICAL)
The emphasis of the clinic is the practice of nursing skills, planning, and implementing of nursing care plans, and critical judgments/thinking in an acute care maternal/child setting. Assigned 1:1 intrapartum care is presented by students as a case study. Antepartum care in the community and post-partum follow-up in the community are also assigned. This course is taught in a seven week block.

CORONARY CARE
Provides the beginning practitioner with a basic understanding of cardiac diseases, rhythm interpretation and current treatments for cardiac clients. Preventative, acute, and rehabilitative interventions are addressed.

CHILD AND FAMILY NURSING (THEORY)
This course focuses on the nursing care of children from infancy through adolescence and their family units. Growth and development, health promotion, family theories, disease prevention and care of the child with simple and complex health needs are examined.

CHILD AND FAMILY NURSING (CLINIC)
This course provides an opportunity for students to practice nursing skills and apply nursing theory with children and their families in community and in-patient settings. This course is taught in a seven week block.

TRANSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL NURSING: THEORY
The focus is to present an overview and synthesis of professional concepts basic to the development of professional nurses. The course explores historical influences, philosophical perspectives, factors that influence socialization into the profession, and the development of professional self-concept.

TRANSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL NURSING: CLINIC
Demonstration and practice of selected nursing and physical assessment skills in a laboratory setting. Provides opportunity to implement the theoretical foundations of NE 391.

ADVANCED NURSING APPRENTICESHIP
Application of clinical knowledge to a variety of settings.

HUMAN SEXUALITY FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
Uses a developmental view of human sexuality to apply health teaching to a variety of sexual problems. This course is designed to meet the needs of those students who will provide sexual health care to clients in various settings.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING AND CONTINUITY OF CARE (THEORY)
The focus is the synthesis of nursing science and practice concepts for the promotion and preservation of the health aggregates (e.g. sub-populations, vulnerable populations, communities) as well as on issues related to providing effective seamless care to individuals, families, and aggregates within the context of community resources and limitations. Content includes application of public health nursing principles, epidemiological investigation, knowledge of rural environments, health care economic influences, care management, as well as supervision and leadership in promoting desired health evaluation, outcomes in community and home environments.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING AND CONTINUITY OF CARE (CLINIC)
Clinical experience in community health and community based nursing and in provision of community based care to individuals, families, and aggregates in selected structured/unstructured environments. The focus is on application of NE 420 concepts to the provision of nursing care within the various role dimensions of community and home care nursing.

NURSING ISSUES SEMINAR
This course is designed to provide a forum to examine, analyze and develop positions on issues influencing current nursing practice. A variety of teaching/learning strategies will be utilized to explore topics pertinent to today's professional nurse.

MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS IN NURSING (THEORY)
The primary focus of this course is to provide the student with the requisite knowledge and skills for development of the leader/manager role. This involves leader/manager skills necessary as provider/case manager of clients with complex multidimensional health problems and communication and collaboration skills when functioning in the coordinator of health care role. As such the course focuses on the competencies needed in the delivery of health care services and those necessary to function within the organizational structure of various clinical and community settings.

MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS IN NURSING (CLINIC)
The primary focus of the course is to provide the student with opportunities to apply the knowledge and skills for the development of leader/manager role. This involves the leader/manager skills necessary as provider/case manager of clients with complex health problems. The clinical experience is also intended to give the student opportunities to develop communication and collaboration skills which are necessary to function in both a structured and community environment.

SENIOR NURSING SEMINAR (THEORY)
This course is designed to serve as a capstone experience wherein students synthesize theoretical and research-based knowledge from the physical and behavioral science, humanities and nursing for the purpose of making critical judgments and creating holistic plans of care that demonstrate proficiency in meeting the B.S.N. program terminal objectives and accreditation outcome criteria.

NURSING PRACTICUM/INTERNSHIP
Supervised practical experience in a specialized area of nursing.

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NURSING
Study of a particular topic reflecting special interest of students and instructor.

DIRECTED STUDY IN NURSING
Independent study by qualified undergraduates in an area to be defined by the student and instructor.

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