Ohio University (School of Nursing)

Ohio University offers a variety of successful programs. Associate Degree Nursing programs are offered at Chillicothe, Ironton and Zanesville. The RN-BSN program uses the interactive web approach to facilitate to Registered Nurses the completion of the required courses. The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program offers the nurse administrator and the nurse educator concentrations.

The thrust of all OU nursing programs is to enhance nurses’ cognitive abilities that will result in better clinical decision making skills. Skill in decision making often differentiates high quality patient care from mediocre or poor patient care. Today’s health care system is complex and nurses use a broad knowledge base and mastery of intervention skills to be able to deliver high quality, and fiscally responsible patient care. A nursing education translates to opportunities for rendering services to patients who are treated in multiple inpatient and community settings. In addition, the satisfaction of being able to provide care for patients translates to nurses’self-fulfillment.

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School of Nursing Courses

TRANSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Students will study the discipline of nursing and influential factors in its development. Content will encourage students to explore the transition from technical to professional nursing. Concepts and theories relevant to the discipline of nursing will be emphasized.

HEALTH APPRAISAL
The focus of the course is on developing the skills to perform a cephalocaudal nursing assessment including a client history. Students will work to develop the ability to draw valid inferences from the data collected through the nursing assessment. Students will spend three hours per week in lecture/discussion and three additional hours in clinical activities.

HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Teaching and counseling skills are the focus interventions as these are the skills that are most frequently used in health promotion activities.

FAMILY NURSING
Theories that focus on the family and its functioning provide the basis for the students’ clinical activities with families. There is a clinical component to this course.

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING
Close attention is given to the issues and decisions that impact professional nursing.

NURSING: COMMUNITY HEALTH
The focus of the course is on the nursing care of aggregate systems within a community with attention given to basic community health concepts and community health nursing roles. The clinical portion of the course focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in aggregates.

RESEARCH: CRITIQUE AND METHODOLOGY
An examination of the interrelationships among theory, practice, and research in nursing occurs while examining nursing models. Learners will be guided in their efforts to increase skills in basic research methodology, critiquing of current research, and the development of a research topic.

MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN NURSING
Nursing management through use of a systems approach. Leadership models and behavior at various organizational levels discussed. Critical management strategies introduced.

STRATEGIC PLANNING IN NURSING
Application of strategic planning concepts to professional nursing practice. Topics addressed are assessment of organizational system and implications for change; accountability and quality assurance; power and influence. Active involvement as change agent and implementation of planned change project. Clinical experience in a variety of settings.

EXCELLENCE IN NURSING
Synthesis course designed to enhance student's knowledge of professional nursing. Past and present issues and trends in nursing examined. Emerging trends and futuristic nursing studied. Content will vary depending upon student needs and interests as well as events occurring in discipline of nursing.

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