The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Congratulations on your decision to explore the opportunities offered by The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences; doing so could be your first step toward a rewarding, professional career in nursing. For some, this may be an introduction to higher education; for others, it represents ongoing learning or a desired life change. Whatever the case, I guarantee you will be embarking upon a truly exciting and productive journey.
Interestingly, The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences is journeying as well.
Since 1902, our predecessor, The Christ Hospital School of Nursing, has developed a rich heritage, earned a reputation for academic excellence, and graduated over 5,800 clinically competent nurses. In the process of transitioning to a collegiate institution of higher learning, The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences built upon that sturdy foundation and pro-actively redesigned its curriculum to anticipate ongoing changes in education, healthcare, and society. As we continually adapt to change, our vision and commitment to excellence will guide us and benefit you, our student.
The Christ College of Nursing and Health Science provides a newly developed, well-rounded, holistic curriculum offered through its unique general education and nursing education divisions. We thoughtfully designed this dual educational approach to:
* create the foundation for a comprehensive nursing educative process,
* prepare you for a changing, complex and diverse work world; and
* encourage you to view learning as a life-long process.
In addition, the administration, faculty, and staff at The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences are committed to providing a supportive, interactive learning environment and the individualized attention needed to help ensure your ultimate success.

MISSION AND PURPOSE
The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences is a private, not-for-profit, non-denominational, institution of higher learning. The college is dedicated to providing quality healthcare education at the associate degree level to qualified men and women primarily from the tri-state area.
The purpose of the college is to prepare graduates capable of providing effective healthcare services to diverse populations in a dynamic healthcare environment.

GOALS
To make its vision a reality and to accomplish its mission, The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences will:
* provide a collaborative learning environment that addresses the individual needs of a diverse student population,
* integrate knowledge from general education and discipline-specific studies to establish a foundation for further learning,
* employ faculty who demonstrate excellence in education through quality instruction, community service, and scholarly endeavors;
* provide a value-based education experience that prepares graduates to participate responsibly in a dynamic, diverse society;
* provide curricular offerings relevant to current market demands and health care needs, and
* ensure academic excellence through on-going evaluation.

VISION AND CORE VALUES
The mission, purpose, and goals of the college reflect the core values to which it is committed. These are:
Caring: to have respect for life and concern for the preservation of human dignity; to accept the diversity of cultures and origins characterizing the global community.
Collaboration: to work cooperatively; to function as a multidisciplinary team to achieve common goals.
Integrity: to be honest, fair, trustworthy, and genuine; to adhere to ethical, legal and professional standards.
Excellence: to function at the highest level of performance; to demonstrate commitment to quality outcomes and continuous improvement, predominantly in the areas of teaching and learning.
Personification of these core values will enable the college and its students to fulfill the vision of the institution: to excel in healthcare education in order to promote the health of society.

DIVISION OF NURSING EDUCATION
Mission and Purpose
The nursing education program at The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences is an integrated course of study that emphasizes academic excellence and clinical competence, while simultaneously fostering attributes of caring and societal awareness. It provides a quality contemporary curriculum leading to an Associate Degree of Applied Science in nursing.
The purpose of the program is to prepare students to become nurse generalists, at the associate degree level, capable of beginning practice in a variety of health-care settings.

Vision and Core Values
The nursing education program shares the vision and values of the college, which are: caring, collaboration, integrity, and excellence. These core values will enable the college and its students to fulfill the vision of the institution: to excel in healthcare education in order to promote the overall health of society.

Purpose and Goals
To make its vision a reality and accomplish its mission, the nursing program will:
* provide a learning environment that facilitates ongoing intellectual and professional growth in nursing,
* graduate a generalist who demonstrates the beginning competencies requisite for professional nursing practice.

Program Outcomes
A graduate of the nursing program at The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences will be able to:
* implement caring interventions in response to the diverse needs and inherent value of a person;
* utilize ongoing assessment to identify a person's adaptation to internal and external environment change;
* implement prevention strategies in response to individuals' positions on the health continuum;
* implement the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy to provide and manage collaborative care;
* utilize communications, including information technologies, effectively and appropriately;
* demonstrate professional behaviors related to nursing practice;
* utilize effective teaching strategies to provide accurate, relevant health instruction designed to achieve identified learning outcomes.

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The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences Courses

CONCEPTS FOR NURSING PRACTICE
It introduces the student to the basic concepts appropriate to nursing practice. Critical competencies include caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, the teaching-learning process and the roles and behavior of the professional nurse. The nursing process is introduced as a comprehensive clinical decision-making strategy, as well as a framework for providing and managing competent best practices and evidence-based care to promote, maintain, or restore the client’s optimal level of health. The nursing metaparadigm and the biological, psychosocial, and spiritual dimensions of human needs are defined and analyzed.

NURSING HEALTH ASSESSMENT
It provides the student with knowledge of the concepts necessary to perform a comprehensive health history and health assessment of individual clients across the lifespan. To facilitate acquisition of knowledge and concepts, the course incorporates biophysical, psychosocial and spiritual growth and development into the dimensions of health assessment. Emphasis is placed on the normal age-related findings of assessment as well as appropriate developmental tasks. Human needs are used as an organizing framework.

FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE
It provides the student with the fundamental competencies, skills, and techniques of nursing practice. Caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, the teaching learning process, best practices, and evidenced-based care, as well as scientific rationale, provide the basis for applying clinical nursing therapeutics and prevention strategies to meet the unique biological and psychosocial needs of the client. The roles of the nurse and application of the nursing process as the framework for clinical decision-making are expanded. A skills laboratory practicum and clinical experiences focus on assisting the adult client to meet acute and long-term healthcare needs and reinforce the application of theory content to practice settings.
BASIC PHARMACOLOGICAL CONCEPTS FOR SAFE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION
It is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge and basic skills requisite to the safe administration of medications. Specific application of the nursing process provides the student with an underlying framework for the nurse’s role and responsibilities in the management of medication administration. Students learn how to correctly prepare and administer oral and parenteral medications. Students are taught systems of measurement with an emphasis on the metric system. Students learn and practice mathematical dosage and solution calculations required to safely administer medications.

NURSING MANAGEMENT OF CLIENT NEEDS I
It is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing care for adult clients in medical-surgical settings. Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client’s position on the health continuum. Content focuses on the nursing management of clients with needs related to fluid and electrolyte imbalances, sensation, comfort and safety, regulation, oxygenation, circulation, cognition, nutrition, elimination, activity, skin integrity, and safety and protection needs. Emphasis is also placed on the care of the client with needs related to the surgical experience. Clinical experiences focus on the acute care health needs of adult clients and emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the client in meeting or adapting to changing healthcare needs.

NURSING MANAGEMENT OF CLIENT NEEDS II
It is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing and managing the family-centered care of the childbearing family, child rearing family, and women’s health. Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client and family’s position on the health continuum. Content focuses on the nursing management of clients and families with needs related to social/cultural issues, biophysical development, sexuality, safety protection, development tasks, comfort/sensation, and nutrition. Emphasis is placed on the care of the newborn, pediatric, and women’s health client. Both inpatient and community-based clinical experiences emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the childbearing, pediatric, or women’s health client and family in meeting or adapting to changing healthcare needs.

NURSING MANAGEMENT OF CLIENT NEEDS III
It is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing and managing the care of adult clients with complex bio-psycho-social-spiritual health care needs. Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client’s position on the health continuum. Content focuses on the nursing management of complex health needs related to bio-psycho-social-spiritual functioning. Crisis management, coping, and adaptation strategies are incorporated as they apply to the adult with mental health, complex medical- surgical, and rehabilitative needs. Emphasis is placed on the nursing care required to achieve optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health. Both inpatient and community-based clinical experiences emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the client, family, and caregiver in meeting or adapting to complex, changing mental health, acute care, and rehabilitative needs.

TRANSITION TO NURSING PRACTICE
It facilitates the students’ transition to the role of the associate degree nurse in the clinical practice setting. The course assists the student in synthesizing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors learned in previous courses with current health care issues and management strategies that affect nursing practice. Students are also provided the opportunity to identify and develop strategies to cope with the symptoms and stressors resulting from reality shock. Students implement all levels of prevention (health promotion, maintenance, restoration) during this course to help clients meet or adapt to changing health care needs. The nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy and the clinical competencies of the associate degree nurse continue to be emphasized and expanded. The theory component of the course utilizes the roles of the nurse for associate degree nursing programs: member within the discipline of nursing, provider of care and manager of care. This is actualized through the concepts of professionalism, political and communication issues, self-management, and priority-setting. These topics are incorporated with resource management, management styles, assignment making and delegation. Increased independence is achieved through application of the nursing process providing caring interventions and managing care for groups of clients. Critical thinking skills and the professional nurse’s commitment to life-long learning to ensure professional growth and clinical competence are integrated into the course concepts. Preceptor-based clinical experiences across the lifespan occur in a variety of clinical settings and emphasize the management of groups of clients and the application of the theoretical concepts in the practice setting. Collaboration and the exchange of ideas between the preceptor, student, other healthcare team members, and clients enhances clinical decision-making. NUR 300 is taught in an accelerated summer session; class, lab, and credit hours are calculated according to the conventional semester formula.

LPN TO RN TRANSITION COURSE
The Ohio Nursing Collaborative for Educational Mobility (ONCEM) LPN to RN Transitions Course is designed to enable the student to explore integrative concepts in nursing and to assist the student in the transition from licensed practical nurse to registered nurse. Students refine and update previous learning in addition to identifying goals for successful transition in to the registered nurse program. Combined with classroom and nursing laboratory experiences, the student learns through the application of concepts. The student will demonstrate the ability to solve problems through the use of the nursing process with a focus on client assessment and to communicate more effectively. A mandatory course prerequisite is acceptance into an individual nursing program having completed required coursework and an active LPN state license. Students not continuing in the college’s nursing program are admitted as a non-degree seeking transient student and must provide written proof from the receiving college that they have been admitted to a state accredited RN nursing program. Students taking the course and admitted to the college’s nursing program must also take the one-day bridge session at no charge prior to commencing the start of the second year of the nursing program.

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