The University of Scranton (Department of Nursing)

Welcome to nursing at The University of Scranton. As professionals dedicated to meeting the health care needs of a global society, we challenge students to excel in both academic and clinical settings.

The mission of the Department of Nursing at The University of Scranton is to provide excellence in the education of men and women desiring to become registered professional nurses and for nurses desiring to advance their education at the undergraduate and graduate level. The faculty is committed to enhancing the knowledge, clinical expertise and professional development of students and being responsive to the health care needs of society through the integration of service with learning and the provision of leadership in social justice through health care advocacy.

Our program prides itself on its strong clinical focus, taking advantage of the three hospitals located within blocks of the campus. Nursing majors get hands-on practice in specialized areas such as intensive care, operating room procedures, labor and delivery, and pediatrics as well as experience in case management and community health. The Faculty-Student Research Program offers opportunities to publish and to participate in ongoing research projects.

Students may further their nursing education at The University of Scranton by pursuing a master’s degree in family nurse practitioner, adult health and nurse anesthesia. We offer individual academic assessment and planning to satisfy the adult learner's needs in returning to school.

BACCALAUREATE NURSING PROGRAM

The department of nursing at The University of Scranton promotes academic excellence, clinical competency, and community responsibility within the Jesuit spirit.

The purpose of the baccalaureate program is the preparation of qualified persons for entry-level practice of professional nursing in hospitals and community health settings.

Our undergraduate programs emphasize clinical practice grounded in a strong theoretical component. The opportunity to combine a liberal arts education and biological & behavioral sciences prepares graduates to provide a holistic, compassionate nursing practice.

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Department of Nursing Courses

FAMILY HEALTH
Concepts and principles related to the promotion and maintenance of optimal family health. Considers factors pertinent to health needs and health practices throughout the life cycle.

WOMEN’S HEALTH
Course focuses on historic, physiological, social, cultural, emotional and economic issues affecting women's health. The course explores strategies to empower women's use of health-care services. Class members will be expected to participate actively in all discussions.

INTRODUCTION TO NURSING CONCEPTS
An exploration of the core concepts of the client, health, nursing and health patterns. Historical, philosophical, and social development of nursing and the role of the professional nurse are presented. Understanding of health and health continuum in the broader perspective of the human person, the physiological, psychological, developmental, and socio-cultural modes. Service learning: 20 hours. Three hours lecture.

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROMOTION
Focus on the professional's role as advocate, care-giver and/or teacher in the promotion of health for children and adolescents, directly through health maintenance and prevention and indirectly through health-care policy.

PERSPECTIVES IN PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Perspectives in professional nursing explores concepts incorporated in the philosophy, organizing framework and curriculum structures of the Nursing program. Integration of the health patterns and nursing process in the delivery of professional nursing care is introduced. Pertinent issues impacting on the nursing profession are addressed.

NURSING RELATED TO THE ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH PATTERNS
Focus on the professional nurse's role as caregiver in assessing, diagnosing and planning interventions of adaptive health patterns in individuals. Application of the nursing process to well persons and to individuals and families with alterations in health patterns. Exploration of concepts for planning holistic health care. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.

PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT RELATED TO HEALTH PATTERNS
Development of beginning skill in the basic physical-assessment techniques necessary for the promotion of optimal health as a care-giver. Focus on the professional nurse's role in assessing the physiological dimension of adaptive health patterns in individuals with a stable health status. Service learning: 10 hours. Two hours lecture and three hours campus laboratory.

NURSING RELATED TO HEALTH PATTERNS
Focus on the professional nurse's role in promoting the individual's health status, utilizing the developmental, physiological, psychological and sociocultural dimensions of functional health patterns. Development of beginning skills in therapeutic nursing interventions. Service learning: 10 hours. Two hours lecture, six hours campus/clinical laboratory.

PHARMACOLOGY I
Principles of pharmacology and specific drug groups. Emphasis is placed on drug actions, side effects, dosages and nursing responsibilities.

UNDERSTANDING TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH CARE
This course will focus on exploring values, beliefs and lifestyles of diverse cultural groups in order to broaden the student's perception and understanding of health and illness and the variety of meanings these terms carry for members of differing groups.

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN NURSING
Designed for Nursing majors or nurses who wish to learn computer capabilities for nursing applications in ways that do not involve programming. Emphasis is on interactive computer experience as an introduction to disk-operating systems, and word processing, computer-assisted instruction, file management, database management system, care-planning, software evaluation and research access.

NURSING THE OLDER ADULT
Focus on the professional nurse's role of care-giver, advocate and teacher in promoting and maintaining adaptive responses of the older adult experiencing alterations in health patterns. Emphasis placed on multidimensional teacher in promoting and restoring health.

PRINCIPLES OF NURSING ETHICS
Addresses ethical issues in the clinical nursing practice of the professional nurse as care-giver, advocate, teacher, leader/manager. The focus is on the decisions made regarding patient care.

FORENSIC HEALTH CARE OF VICTIMS
An overview of forensic health issues as they relate to victims of violent crimes, such as intrafamilial violence, sexual violence, stalking, workplace violence, homicide and terrorism. Content includes forensic roles, evidence collection and preservation, victim needs and rights, responses to trauma, victim's resources, and death investigation.

FORENSIC HEALTH CARE OF OFFENDERS
An overview of forensic health issues as they relate to perpetrators of violent crimes, including intrafamilial violence, sexual violence, stalking, workplace violence, homicide and terrorism. Content includes forensic roles, crime classifications, relationship between animal cruelty and human violence, offender needs and rights, and juvenile offenders.

NURSING CARE OF THE ADULT I
The first of three courses that focuses on physiological and psychological adaptation to dysfunctional health patterns. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Pathophysiology and nursing care related to alterations in oxygenation, perfusion and metabolism, and the perioperative experience are included.

MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
The focus is on psychological adaptation to dysfunctional health patterns. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Psychopathology and nursing care of individuals and families experiencing alterations in mental health are explored.

PHARMACOLOGY II
Principles of pharmacology and specific drug groups related to alterations in the sleep-rest, activity-exercise, self-perception/ self-concept health patterns. Emphasis is placed on drug actions, side effects, dosages, and nursing responsibilities.

PHARMACOLOGY III
Principles of pharmacology and specific drug groups related to alterations in the nutrition-metabolic, sexuality-reproduction, role-relationship, cognitive-perceptual, and elimination health patterns. Emphasis is placed on drug actions, side effects, dosages, and nursing responsibilities.

NURSING CARE OF THE ADULT II
The second of three courses that focus on physiological and psychological adaptation to dysfunctional health patterns. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Pathophysiology and nursing care related to alterations in metabolism, nutrition and immunity are included.

NURSING CARE OF THE CHILD BEARING FAMILY
Focus is on the physiological and psychological adaptation to functional and dysfunctional health patterns in the child-bearing family. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Pathophysiology and nursing care related to childbearing, childbirth and their complications are addressed. Pathophysiological processes related to alterations in sexual health are also included. Clinical experiences are designed to develop the professional nursing role of care giver, advocate and teacher in promoting and restoring health.

PERIOPERATIVE NURSING
This course presents concepts and information essential for perioperative nursing practice. Content includes essentials of perioperative procedures in relation to nurses’ planning and management of the patient’s surgical experience. Precepted clinical experiences are provided in various phases of the perioperative nursing: preoperative, operative and post-anesthesia care. Emphasis is placed on the development of beginning skills in the operative setting.

HEALTH WRITING FOR PUBLICATION
This course enables students to enhance their writing skills by utilizing principles of effective writing as they relate to health issues. Students select projects to develop from idea to polished manuscript for both a professional journal and a consumer newspaper/ magazine.

NURSING MANAGEMENT
Study of the management process in nursing settings with a focus on the planning, implementation and delivery of nursing care in complex organizations. Focus is on the collaborative role of nursing within the organization and the analysis and resolution of problems.

NURSING CARE OF THE ADULT III
This is the final course in a three-course sequence that focuses on physiological and psychological adaptation to dysfunctional health patterns. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Pathophysiology and nursing care related to alterations in mobility, elimination, cognition, and perception are included.

NURSING CARE OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
The focus is on the physiological adaptation to functional and dysfunctional health patterns in children and adolescents. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for nursing practice. Health promotion and the pathophysiology and nursing care related to the disorders of childhood are included.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
The focus is on the professional nursing roles of care giver, advocate, teacher and leader/manager in promoting adaptive responses to functional and dysfunctional health patterns in individuals, families, communities and groups. The student synthesizes prior knowledge of functional health patterns and all phases of the nursing process in meeting the health-care needs of community-based clients in diverse population settings.

SYNTHESIS OF LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS IN NURSING
The focus is on the professional nurse’s role as care giver, advocate, teacher and leader/manager in promoting, restoring, and maintaining adaptive responses in individuals experiencing complex alterations in functional health patterns. Continued use of the nursing process and the development of case management skills in implementing and evaluating nursing care in collaboration with the nursing and interdisciplinary health teams are emphasized.

CRITICAL CARE NURSING
The focus is on physiological and psychological adaptation to complex dysfunctional health patterns. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process and functional health patterns as a framework for practice. Pathophysiology and nursing care related to complex alterations in health patterns are included.

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURSING
An independent project of academic or professional nature in an area specific to professional nursing. Students develop and complete a specific project and work on a one-to-one basis with a faculty member in the Department of Nursing.

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NURSING: SENIOR SEMINAR
This course will serve as a synthesis of critical concepts necessary for professional nursing practice. The use of critical thinking as it is applied to solving problems in the delivery of nursing care to patients with complex illnesses is emphasized. Through case study analysis and content synthesis students will apply critical thinking skills to develop mastery of nursing concepts and principles of clinical nursing practice. Students will utilize computerized testing to gauge their knowledge of professional nursing content.

RESEARCH IN NURSING
Introduction to and application of the principles and process of research in professional nursing practice. Study of research design, data-collection techniques, interpretation and critique of nursing research, literature, and reports and the development of the ability to become a discriminating consumer of nursing research.

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