University of North Carolina - Pembroke (Department of Nursing)

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” We are moving forward in preparing outstanding professional nurses. The UNCP Department of Nursing is “On a Journey to Achieve Excellence.”

The Department of Nursing builds on a rich heritage that began with the establishing of the Southeastern North Carolina Nursing Consortium in 1992, a joint RN-BSN completion program between UNCP and Fayetteville State University. The Consortium was the first BSN program in North Carolina to receive Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accreditation for 10 years with no recommendations. With the separation of the Consortium August 1, 2004, the UNCP RN-BSN nursing program transitioned to a Department of Nursing within the University structure. The Department of Nursing is committed to continued national, specialized nursing accreditation that notes we are offering a program of quality, professional nursing education.

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Department of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

The mission of the UNCP Department of Nursing program reflects the tripartite roles of teaching, research, and community service articulated in the mission of UNCP. Students are provided the opportunity to obtain a multicultural education that is grounded in the arts, sciences and humanities; congruent with standards for professional nursing practice; and that prepares them for lifelong learning, professional development, and service to others. The primary purposes of the Department of Nursing program are to:

1. Promote and advance the accessibility, availability, and quality of professional nursing education and practice for nurses of southeastern North Carolina.

2. Prepare graduates to provide quality professional nursing services, across the life span, for individuals, families, groups, and communities.

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Department of Nursing Courses

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
This course provides students interested in nursing and other human science professions with an opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge and skills from information and computer science to the healthcare field. The course introduces students to applications of information systems in healthcare practice, education, and research. Hardware, software, databases, communications applications, computer developments and associated legal and ethical issues are addressed. Students learn how healthcare providers can assess, develop and use information systems to work more efficiently, allocate resources more effectively, and improve consumer health care.

TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This course focuses on the role of the professional nurse. An overview of the delivery of professional nursing practice and role transition. Advanced theoretical concepts will be examined using the nursing process as a framework.

INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This course introduces students to the values and concepts appropriate to professional nursing practice included in the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, ANA Social Policy Statement, ANA Clinical Standards, and Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements and to the professional nursing roles of advocate, clinician, coordinator/collaborator, educator, leader, and researcher. Included in the course will be an introduction to the profession of nursing and health care delivery in the United States from historical and contemporary perspectives and to the UNCP Department of Nursing mission, purposes, and educational program objectives.

FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE
This course introduces, from a theoretical, research base, nursing skills and principles basic to beginning professional nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process to guide the recipient of nursing care toward an optimal level of functioning. The dimensions of Gordon’s functional health patterns will be explored. Learning experiences will provide the opportunity for students to begin to develop proficiency in six interrelated nursing roles, with an emphasis on developing the clinician, educator, and researcher roles. Utilization of the nursing process, critical thinking and decision making in simulated and actual clinical situations will be emphasized. During laboratory sessions students will have opportunity to practice basic nursing skills through simulated clinical situations. The clinical component of the course provides an opportunity for students to apply theory to nursing practice and to develop beginning proficiency in basic nursing skills with recipients of nursing care in community and long term care settings. Pre-Requisite: Admission to professional program.

NORMAL AND THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION
This course introduces the principles of nutrition and ways in which these principles are applied to promote an optimal level of functioning for all individuals. Topics include nutritional requirements for maintaining health and development throughout the life span as well as factors affecting food choices of individuals and society. Emphasis is placed on nutrition assessment and interventions in relation to the nutrition goals of Healthy People 2010 and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

PHARMACOLOGY FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
This course examines the major categories of pharmacologic agents and application of pharmacologic concepts to clinical nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on understanding the physiologic actions of the drugs, expected patient responses, major side effects, and implications for nursing. Drug dosage computation is included.

TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
This course is designed to assist students in expanding their view of man. Man is defined as a functioning, whole unit who with integrity and uniqueness who uses symbols to communicate with the environment. Emphasis will be placed on the concepts of cultural belief systems, health, and caring, and how these concepts affect the nursing care delivery system.

ADULT HEALTH NURSING I
This course focuses on the nursing care needs of adults experiencing acute and chronic alterations in health and the use of the nursing process as a framework for providing and managing nursing care for these clients. Students will examine theoretical and research findings as well as issues and trends influencing the planning and delivery of nursing care for adults experiencing acute and chronic alterations in health. Learning experiences will provide the opportunity for students to continue to develop proficiency in six interrelated nursing roles, with an emphasis on the clinician, coordinator/collaborator, educator, leader, and researcher roles. Emphasis is placed on enhancing critical thinking skills and the roles of the professional nurse in health promotion and maintenance, illness care, and rehabilitation of clients with acute and chronic alterations in health in a variety of health care settings.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
This course prepares students to conduct comprehensive health assessments. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data collected from clients of all ages. A physical, psychological, and sociocultural, approach is used to assess the client and to incorporate consideration of the client's needs, state of wellness, developmental level, and response to life experiences. The campus laboratory experiences consist of practice with recipients of nursing care.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
This course prepares the student to systematically approach complex clinical situations. Emphasis will be on the integration and application of pathophysiological concepts to the holistic human in time of physical stress. The course utilizes the nursing process as the basis for examining persons with pathologies requiring multiple dimensions of nursing care.

GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
This course examines the process of aging. Physical, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual aspects of aging are examined within the context of the family and society. Advanced theoretical concepts will be examined using the nursing process.

FAMILY NURSING I
This course focuses on nursing care and health promotion for the childbearing family. The course provides an introduction to the process of normal childbirth and dynamics of the childbearing family as well as the identification and care of high-risk recipients of nursing care. Nursing process provides direction to promote, restore and maintain health of women and newborns within a family context and including cultural diversity. Learning experiences will provide the opportunity for students to continue to develop proficiency in the six interrelated nursing roles.

FAMILY NURSING II
This course focuses on nursing care of the child-rearing family, includes viewing the child and family as recipients of nursing care. Course content includes care of the child from infancy through adolescence, both hospitalized and within the community, acutely ill and chronically ill; common stressors for the child and family throughout the growing years; and strategies for health promotion for the child and family. Learning experiences will provide the opportunity for students to continue to develop proficiency in the six interrelated nursing roles.

NURSING RESEARCH AND THEORY
This course provides students with an overview of the role of theory and research in the development of nursing as a profession. Students are introduced to the principles and concepts in both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. With a focus on the role of the professional nurse as a consumer of research, students develop skill in the ability to critically read and evaluate research findings based on nursing theory and practice needs.

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
The course focuses on the professional nurse's role as a leader in the profession and health care delivery. The focus will be on the evolution of nursing, nursing leaders as vanguards of the profession, contemporary health care delivery, the professional role of the nurse leader in health care delivery. Leadership and management principles will be examined.

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
This course focuses on the nursing care needs of persons experiencing alterations in social and psychological functioning. Students will examine theoretical and research findings as well as issues and trends influencing the planning and delivery of nursing care for persons with common psychiatric disorders or mental health needs. Emphasis is placed on the role of the professional nurse in psychiatric-mental health nursing, the application of the nursing process as a framework for providing and managing nursing care, and the enhancement of critical thinking skills, therapeutic nursing interventions, effective communication and interpersonal skills as they relate to care of persons experiencing alterations in social and psychological functioning. Learning experiences will provide the opportunity for students to continue to develop proficiency in the six interrelated nursing roles.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
This course focuses on care of the culturally diverse populations and aggregates within the community. Emphasis is on the use of evidence-based knowledge and six interrelated roles of the professional nurse in addressing the preventative health needs of populations and aggregate groups in the community setting. Current public health problems, epidemiology, trends in health care delivery, and community resources are examined. Students analyze the sociocultural, political, economic, ethical, and environmental factors that influence community and global health. Clinical experiences will allow students to understand, alter and enhance the political and/or socioeconomic forces that impact health and health care delivery.

ADULT HEALTH NURSING II
This course focuses on nursing care needs of adults with acute and complex health problems related to major body systems. Students will have an opportunity to examine pathophysiological, psychological, and sociocultural implications as well as current research and trends in care of adults experiencing complex health problems. The emphasis is on enhancing critical thinking skills in the planning and delivery of nursing care for adults with complex health problems. Learning experiences provide the opportunity for students to continue to develop proficiency in the six interrelated nursing roles and self-direction in providing nursing care for clients with complex health problems in a variety of clinical settings.

TRANSITION INTO PROFESSIONAL NURSING: A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE
This course facilitates the transition of students into professional practice through preceptorships with professional nurses in a variety of clinical settings. Through this culminating experience, students will synthesize knowledge of nursing cognates and general education to increase their responsibility and accountability for providing quality nursing care. Faculty selects, with input from individual students, a clinical agency for the clinical experience. Students will apply all nursing roles (advocate, clinician, collaborator/coordinator, educator, leader, and researcher) with an emphasis on the clinician and leader roles. The experience allows faculty to assess each student for minimal competencies of the terminal educational objectives.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING ISSUES IN PRACTICE
This course is the capstone experience that includes synthesis of nursing cognates and general education. The experience allows the students to assess their knowledge of the program objectives. The course will incorporate essential knowledge, psychomotor, and affective domains of BSN education.

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