University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (School of Nursing)

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Nursing (UMDNJ-SN), established as academic programs in 1990, and reorganized as UMDNJ's seventh school in 1992, offers a comprehensive program of research, education, and educational mobility. Nursing degree programs at the Baccalaureate (B.S.N.), Master's (M.S.N.), Post-Master's Certificate (P.M.C.) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) provide an articulated educational ladder for advanced education. The school also offers a joint Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Urban Systems (Urban Health specialization available). UMDNJ-SN also offers extensive continuing education opportunities for all healthcare professionals. The School's nursing programs are accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). UMDNJ is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (CHE-MSACS). The primary and affiliated teaching hospitals of the University are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

MISSION

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing promotes excellence in healthcare through quality, innovative education of nurses and other professionals. The School affirms its commitment to clinical practice, scholarship, and advocacy for underserved populations, and the diverse communities it serves.

VISION

The UMDNJ-School of Nursing is committed to being a recognized leader in innovative nursing education, evidence-based practice, scholarship, and an active force in promoting the health of the diverse communities it serves.

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FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING
This course provides the student with the foundations of basic nursing principles necessary to identify human-environmental interactions as they relate to nursing practice. Classroom lectures, seminars and symposium provide student with opportunities to explore the concepts of basic nursing including Roger’s theory of unitary humans, nursing process, normal nutrition, epidemiology, ethical and legal concepts and critical thinking. Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice provides the student with opportunities to develop cognitive and psychomotor skills related to nursing, physical assessment and medication administration skills. Faculty supervised clinical practicum experiences will enable the student to apply cognitive and psychomotor skills in acute, long-term and community settings.

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HEALTH PROMOTION
This course enables students to recognize how various lifestyle patterns influence health. Classroom lectures, web-based instruction and symposiums provide opportunities to explore measures that are designed to protect and promote health. Health promotion practices related to the psychosocial, protective, fluid/gas exchange, comfort/rest/activity/mobility, nutrition, elimination, and growth and development patterns would be introduced. The nursing process provides a framework for students to critically think when learning and teaching concepts of health promotion and maintenance in the community.

FAMILY HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
This course enables students to recognize patterns of human development from conception through older adulthood. Classroom lectures and seminars provide opportunities to explore the family as a unified whole and discuss its patterns through conception, childbearing, child-caring, middle adult and older adult years. Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice and clinical practicum experience provide students with opportunities to develop cognitive and psychomotor skills in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for individuals and families.

NURSING OF ADULTS I
Classroom lectures and critical thinking symposiums will provide students with opportunities to explore selected aspects of altered fluid/gas exchange, protection, nutrition, sensory perceptual elimination, and psychosocial patterns. The learning lab experience will enable students to gain proficiency in those psychomotor skills that are essential to holistic nursing practice. The faculty will guide the students in the utilization of the nursing process that will help clients mobilize their unique energy patterns in varied health care settings including the community.

NURSING OF ADULTS II
Through lectures, seminars, symposiums and faculty-supervised clinical lab/practicum, students will further develop their cognitive, psychomotor and management skills as they utilize the nursing process to develop plans of care for diverse groups of clients in multi-faceted settings. The varied teaching modalities will provide the students with opportunities to explore selected CRAM patterns as well as psychosocial, community and rehabilitative aspects of nursing care. The students will also explore current health care trends/issues as they relate to the ever-changing health care arena. A close relationship between the student and clinical site will foster growth in nursing practice and support the student as they prepare for their new role as a graduate nurse.

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT
This course helps the student develop and apply holistic health assessment, including assessing the patient at the various stages of the lifespan. The student will be able to apply the skills learned to perform a complete health history and physical examination. Differences between normal and abnormal assessment findings are explored. Students will also discuss the ethical, social and cultural differences of health. Accurate documentation of findings will be discussed in the laboratory setting.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
This course reviews and extends fundamental concepts of physiology and changes that produce signs and symptoms and the body’s remarkable ability to compensate for these illness-related changes. Findings will establish the database for formulating appropriate nursing strategies.

HEALTH PROMOTION IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
This course explores issues that impact health promotion and the role of the nurse in promoting health and preventing disease. Such factors as population changes, health policy, ethics, and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship are discussed. Assessment of health in individuals, families, and communities is examined. Interventions for health promotion are discussed along with their application across the lifespan. Finally, future trends in health promotion are reviewed.

NURSING INFORMATICS
In this course, nursing informatics is defined as computer applications for Nursing. Students will be exposed to both PC-based mainframe, and Internet computer system applications through computer laboratory and field experiences.

FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE
This course enables students to explore the historical and theoretical foundations of the profession of nursing. Students will focus on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in providing nursing care. Classroom experience and seminars provide students with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills to explore concepts basic to nursing. Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice and clinical experiences enable students to apply acquired knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY
This course builds upon students’ mathematical skills, enabling them to calculate drug dosages and administer medication by oral, parenteral, and topical routes. The use of classroom, computer, and learning laboratory experiences provides students with basic knowledge of different drug classifications and pharmacodynamics of the most frequently used drugs.

PATTERNS OF ADULT HEALTH
This course enables students to identify multicultural humanenvironmental interactions as they relate to nursing practice. Classroom experience and seminars provide students with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills to explore concepts basic to nursing care of adult humans (18 years to senescence). Faculty supervised learning laboratory practice and clinical experiences enable students to apply acquired knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.

GERONTOLOGY
This course reviews and analyzes issues of aging from a physiological, psychosocial, and cognitive perspective. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: (1) identify the impact of ethical, legal, political, economic and cultural issues on the aging population; (2) recognize functional, physiological, psychosocial and spiritual changes associated with pathophysiologic aging patterns; (3) formulate appropriate strategies in addressing the special needs of the older adult; (4) formulate appropriate strategies to manage end-of-life issues; and (5) describe current philosophies of aging based on research findings.

RESEARCH APPLICATIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE
Knowledge obtained from this course will prepare students to critically analyze nursing issues from an applied research perspective. Students are provided with the skills needed to manage and interpret nursing data.

PATTERNS OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILY
This course enables students to expand their understanding of human-environmental interactions and evolving family patterns. This course provides opportunities to explore the family as a unified whole, its patterns and organization, and the implications of common and complex health patterns from conception to birth with the use of classroom lectures, seminars, and clinical practicum.

PATTERNS OF THE CHILDREARING FAMILY
This course enables students to expand their understanding of human environmental interactions and evolving family patterns. This course provides opportunities to explore the family as a unified whole, its patterns and organization, and the implications of common and complex health patterns from birth to young adulthood with the use of classroom lectures, seminars, and clinical practicum.

PATTERNS OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
This course enables students to define and differentiate between mental health and alterations in mental health patterns. It provides students with opportunities to explore the implications of alterations in mental health patterns for humans — individuals, families, and communities — through classroom lectures, seminars, and a clinical practicum.

HEALTH CARE POLICY AND FINANCE
The focus of this course is the professional nurse's role in health care policy and finances within health care systems. The multifaceted aspects of health care policy making and financing within today's ever-changing health care environment are explored. Risk management and quality care are integrated into the course. This course gives the student a financial understanding of the health care delivery system. Students are exposed to the political and legislative process within health care agencies and health care policy development at the state and federal levels. Ethical and legal issues in nursing and health care are explored.

PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
This course will explore how community health nurses use concepts from nursing and public health to provide comprehensive, continuous, preventive healthcare thereby promoting health for communities, populations at risk, aggregates, families, and individuals. Students will use critical thinking skills to formulate healthcare strategies that consider the bio-psychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal and economic issues impacting the community as a client. The clinical practicum focuses on community as client with individuals, families, groups and populations with diverse needs in a variety of community-based and community-oriented settings.

NURSING CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
The focus of this course is the professional nurse’s leadership and management role within health care delivery systems. The multifaceted aspects of the role of the nurse as leader and manager are explored in depth, with emphasis on the role of the nurse as change agent. Organizational behavior, decision-making, the change process and the management of health care organizations are components of this course. The concepts of professionalism, leadership-management, research and teaching-learning are integrated with the professional nurse’s role as a manager. This course prepares students to function as change agents in the health care delivery system.

CLINICAL CAPSTONE
This course examines issues that must be addressed for the nursing student to successfully transition to the role of professional nurse. The emphasis is on the application of the professional role in the clinical setting.

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