University of Detroit Mercy (McAuley School of Nursing)

McAuley School of Nursing has a valued tradition of clinical excellence and is committed to graduating nurse practitioners who have the ability to meet society's evolving health care needs.

UDM's undergraduate curriculum in nursing is built upon a foundation comprised of the liberal arts and sciences, and strives to encourage critical thinking.

Our unique Cooperative Education component provides a structured educational experience. All pre-licensure nursing students complete two coop assignments in addition to clinical placements. These paid assignments provide valuable hands-on experience and contribute significantly to graduates' high job placement ratio.

MISSION

The mission of the McAuley School of Nursing (MSON) program is to prepare skilled baccalaureate and master's level nurses who are committed to lead, provide high quality, cost-effective and culturally competent health care services to individuals, families, and communities. Congruent with the University's mission, the program focuses on providing nursing care to the underserved in an urban context.

PHILOSOPHY

In accordance with the mission and the core values of the University of Detroit Mercy, the faculty of the McAuley School of Nursing (MSON) promotes a values-based education that fosters the spiritual, intellectual, social, and psychological growth of the learner. The faculty is committed to the service of faith and social justice and compassionate, competent nursing care especially for vulnerable populations. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is the foundation for professional nursing practice and for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program.

The nursing faculty believes that education is a dynamic, interactional process that involves changes in perception, thinking, feeling, and action. Education is the process of acquiring new knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to meet the challenges of the contemporary world and the communities we serve. Building on the Mercy and Jesuit tradition, the faculty is committed to creating a learning community of discourse and service. Utilizing pedagogy that encourages ongoing reflection on our human experience, faculty and students work together to further the social, political, economic and spiritual well being of the human community. In that regard, the faculty believes that learners are characterized by a diversity of cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, and socioeconomic status. The MSON actively recruits and values faculty and students who reflect this diversity. Likewise, partnerships in the community are developed and utilized to provide students with experiences of diversity in clinical settings.

The MSON faculty strives to promote a sense of altruism, confidence and autonomy with accountability and a commitment to lifelong learning and professional competency. To meet the complex, multifaceted role of the professional nurse, undergraduate-nursing education must integrate a strong liberal arts foundation with core competencies of nursing science. Such integration establishes a broad-base learning foundation that promotes critical thinking, clinical judgment, and ethical decision-making. The graduate program provides experiences for students to develop the necessary knowledge for advanced nursing practice. This includes developing knowledge and expertise in specialty roles, evidence-based practice and leadership. Both professional and advanced practice nursing education require respect for the unique traditions, missions, and strengths and needs of our community's partners.

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McAuley School of Nursing Courses

SELF-AWARENESS FOR NURSES PRACTICING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTS
Focuses on the development of self-awareness and relationship-centered care skills for the beginning professional practitioner within a changing, interdisciplinary-based health care system. The student is provided with an underlying framework of ideas to build on throughout the nursing curriculum at UDM. Critical thinking, values clarification, cultural diversity, interpersonal communication, group dynamics, and team building are addressed. Development of a philosophy of caring in a professional nursing role is approached from a perspective of historical tradition, social justice and a values-centered professional education. An introduction to servant leadership with service to the community is included.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Focuses on the process of health assessment of adults. Utilizes interviewing techniques to obtain a basic health history that incorporates spiritual, sociocultural, psychological, and physical dimensions. Issues of privacy, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are discussed. Laboratory experience provides students with opportunities to perform specific physical assessments.

FUNDAMENTALS OF ADULT HEALTH NURSING
Focuses on introducing the nursing process as a strategy for making clinical judgments and implementing care. Ethical and legal guidelines and an understanding of the inner spirit and humanity of the individual care of an adult client with altered health status are discussed as the framework for providing holistic care.

SKILLS IN ADULT HEALTH NURSING
This course focuses on introducing the beginning student to planning and implementing safe and effective interventions for adult clients with altered health status. This course emphasizes documentation and development of psychomotor skills associated with various nursing interventions. Additional focus will be placed on scientific principles that underlie the application of these skills. This course incorporates critical thinking, interactive learning, supervised return demonstration, and hypothetical clinical situations.

PRACTICUM OF ADULT HEALTH NURSING
Focuses on socializing students to nursing in the community/ hospital setting through health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention activities of adults with altered health status. Emphasis is on the application of the nursing process, health assessments skills communication techniques, and technical skills learned in concurrent nursing courses.

HEALTH RESTORATION IN ADULTS
Focuses on health restoration of adults. Emphasis is placed upon: assessment and management of physical and psychological symptoms related to common disease and treatment, anticipation and management of health-related complications; and restoration of optimal level of function of individuals.

ADULT HEALTH PRACTICUM
Enhances theoretical learning related to health restoration of adults in a variety of settings. Integration of principles from nutrition, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and nursing science provides a foundation for clinical judgment and decision making. Emphasis is placed upon application of the nursing process to individuals with common/recurring acute and/or chronic illnesses. Nursing care is evaluated in the context of adherence to standards of professional performance.

HEALTH RESTORATION OF ADULTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Focuses on health restoration of adults and their families. Emphasis is placed upon: assessment and management of physical and psychological symptoms related to complex/multisystem disease and treatment; anticipation and management of life-threatening complications; and restoration of optimal level of function of individuals and their families.

MENTAL HEALTH OF ADULTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Provides the theoretical base for meeting the mental health and psychiatric needs of individuals, families and small groups in their communities. The interrelationship between psychological, social, biological, and spiritual subsystems is examined within the context of mental health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and psychiatric illness management of individuals and their families.

INTEGRATED PRACTICUM WITH ADULTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
This integrated clinical experience enhances the theoretical learning related to complex health restoration and mental health needs of adults and their families. Synthesis of principles from psychiatric nursing, adult health nursing, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and the social sciences provides a foundation for clinical judgment and decision making in a variety of settings.

NURSING RESEARCH AND ITS UTILIZATION IN HEALTH CARE
Explores nursing research and its utilization in health care within the context of scientific merit and clinical relevance. Following an overview of the research process, emphasis is placed on its use in solving clinical problems, enhancing clinical judgments, and/or measuring phenomena in clinical practice.

HEALTHY FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY
Focuses on expanding the student's awareness of the influence and impact of the community on the individual and family as client. Nursing care strategies of referral and advocacy as components of collaborative and interdisciplinary care will be addressed within the context of an urban setting, with an introduction to transcultural nursing care.

CHILDBEARING AND CHILDREARING FAMILIES IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Provides the theoretical base for nursing care of families in childbearing and childrearing across both health and illness dimensions. Focuses on the biophysical, sociocultural, and spiritual subsystems of the family within the context of community. Emphasis is placed on ethical and social justice concerns related to pregnancy, fetal, newborn, and childhood health issues.

INTEGRATED PRACTICUM WITH CHILDBEARING & CHILDREARING FAMILIES
This integrated clinical experience enhances the theoretical learning related to the childbearing and childrearing families within the framework of the urban community. This clinical encompasses not only extensive use of multiple community agencies but also takes the students into the hospital for select acute care experiences.

INTERVENING WITH FAMILIES AND AGGREGATES AT RISK
Focuses on crisis intervention and management in the health promotion, illness prevention, and mental health nursing care of families and aggregates at risk and in crisis in the community. A family ecosystems approach is taken to explore family dynamics within a sociocultural and community context. Major public health and social justice issues, such as domestic violence, child/adolescent/sexual/elder abuse, substance abuse, and homelessness are explored, along with health illness crisis facing families across the age continuum.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN HEALTH
Focuses on the urban impact of global health concerns in identified aggregates with special emphasis on environmental issues. Examines epidemiological principles and public health policy in relation to health problems within a specific community. Provides students an opportunity to explore the development of partnerships from an assets-based approach as a means to deliver health care in a constantly changing environment.

LEADERSHIP & AGEMENT IN NURSING IN A CHANGING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Focuses on leadership and management knowledge and skills needed by entry-level practitioners in a changing, integrated health care system. Organizational leadership/management theories are presented, along with concepts such as strategic planning, change, managed care, quality management, fiscal management and human relations skills.

INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY PRACTICUM
Integrated clinical experience which enhances and integrates the theoretical learning related to nursing leadership and management and caring for population-based health problems within a specified community. A comprehensive community assessment, including planning, implementation and evaluation of community interventions is included. The final cumulative experience is collaborative planning and implementation of a health-based project with community organizational/partners.

SPIRITUAL CARE: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Theories and concepts related to spirituality are explored. A clinical practicum provides opportunities for students to impact the value-belief system of individuals, families, and the community utilizing research and the nursing process.

QUALITY MONITORING WITHIN THE CLIENT CARE SYSTEM
Focuses on the Joint Commissions Accreditation of Health Care Organizations Agenda for change, namely improving organizational performance. Emphasis is placed on quality monitoring in the nurse/client and organizational systems as well as collaboration among and between systems. Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research are evaluated.

THE POWER OF NURSING
Focuses on the historical background, growth, and future development of nursing. Examines nursing and the health care system from a feminist perspective. Emphasis is placed on the development of the nurse as a sociopolitical advocate.

NURSING: HISTORY AND IMAGE
Traces the historical development of nursing profession from ancient times to the present including the cultural and societal changes that have shaped the image and practice of nursing. The roots of nursing are explored as they are found in mythology, ancient culture, and religion. Contemporary images of nursing are examined.

GERONTOLOGIC NURSING
Describes the aging experience and its implication for nursing practice. Examines aging policies and programs, problems affecting the aged population and develops approaches to gerontic care based on recent multidisciplinary research.

WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES
Examines current trends, issues, and research in women's health care across the lifespan from a multifactorial perspective including social, political, cultural, legal, economic and technological trends. The role of the professional nurse in effecting and improving women's health care is emphasized. The history of women's health is explored to understand the traditional medical model of care to women. Feminist theories and research is discussed to challenge this traditional model.

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