University of South Florida (College of Nursing)

PREPARING FOR THE NEW WORLD OF NURSING

Nursing graduates have career options that simply didn't exist just a few short years ago. That's exciting news! This dramatic change heralds the wealth of new opportunities opening up in the field of nursing. No longer are nurses limited to hospital-based inpatient care. Today's graduates are finding fulfillment in such fast-expanding areas as home care, community health, other outpatient sites, long-term care, schools, nursing management, as well as hospitals and ambulatory care settings.

THE CLINICAL COLLABORATIVES

Program was launched by the College of Nursing to:
* Streamline the process of providing nursing students with a wide range of clinical experience
* Limit the need to provide student supervision across a broad geographic area
* Provide area hospitals with the opportunity to fill vacancies with nursing graduates who are familiar with their procedures and require little or no post-graduate training.

Students choose a hospital to be their home-base. A cohort of USF students will be assigned to spend most of their clinical training in that hospital. They can become embedded in the life of the hospital instead of spending their time figuring out new hospitals on new rotations.

Students are assigned to preceptors--a nurse who volunteers to be a mentor. Preceptors help students adjust to the procedures of the hospital. They work closely with the college to help the student translate into clinical practice the theories and skills learned in class each week.

Patricia Burns, Ph.D. FAAN, dean of the college, explains, "Hospitals should not be seen as confusing, difficult places to work. The students in these cohorts will become valued members of the hospital community, and will likely feel very comfortable going to work at th hospital on graduation."
In the Tampa Bay area, nursing shortages are greater than the national average. The program provides an opportunity to fill nursing vacancies.

NURSING PROFESSIONALS OF THE FUTURE

Nursing Professionals of the Future addresses the critical shortage of nursing professionals and provides a program for 7th and 8th grade students from underserved areas that offer ongoing, innovative learning experiences. The goal of the program is to generate student interest in the nursing profession and encourage the students to achieve their full potential through education.

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College of Nursing Courses

HEALTH ASSESSMENT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
Focuses on history taking, physical appraisal skills basic to biopsychosocial assessment across the life span. Emphasizes assessment phase of the diagnostic reasoning process to identify alterations in functional health patterns.

CULTURE OF NURSING
Introduction to evolving role of the professional nurse. Examines historical context of nursing's development, nursing's theoretical progression, and wellness-focused practice as a culture.

INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL JUDGMENT
Focuses on the basic concepts of health, functional health patterns and communication. Critical thinking is use to analyze the effects of changes in health status and nursing implications.

INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Admission to nursing major. Includes laboratory, clinical experiences, and selected psychomotor skills. Beginning application of clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions for adults.

PHARMACOLOGY IN NURSING PRACTICE
Examines pharmacotherapeutics; pharmacodynamics; pharmacokinetics; adverse reactions and contraindications; therapeutic indications according to functional health patterns; and nursing implications.

ADULT HEALTH I
Examines adults with alternations in health maintenance, nutritional/metabolic, elimination, and sexuality/reproductive functional health care patterns. Critical thinking is used to analyze effects of changes in health status.

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN ADULT HEALTH I
Clinical intervention for adults with alternations in functional health patterns in a variety of settings. Emphasizes clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions.

GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
Focuses on theories of aging and human development; assessment of functional health patterns; and planning health promotion and disease prevention activities with older adults. Critical thinking is used to analyze the effects of interventions on individuals and groups.

ETHICAL LEGAL ASPECTS IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE MW
Introduction to contemporary bioethical and legal issues confronting health care providers in a variety of settings. Focuses on identification of legal and ethical principles underlying the decision-making process in nursing and health care.

CULTURE IN NURSING PRACTICE
Introduces knowledge and skills needed to give culturally congruent nursing care to people from diverse cultural groups. Compares and analyzes health-related practices, values, beliefs among major cultural groups.

NURSING INQUIRY
An exploration of the research process. Emphasis on identification of researchable nursing problems and evaluation of research that is applicable to nursing practice.

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE IN HIV DISEASE 6A MW LW
Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on HIV disease. Topics include the etiology, spectrum, and treatment of HIV disease; international perspectives; issues of race, gender, and ethnicity; values, ethics, and their influences on responses to HIV; and how the media has shaped the epidemic.

ADULT HEALTH II
Focuses on adults with health problems related to activity/exercise and cognitive/perceptual health patterns. Critical thinking is used to analyze the effects of changes in health status.

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN ADULT HEALTH II
Clinical intervention for adults with selected health problems in a variety of settings. Emphasizes clinical judgment in implementing therapeutic nursing interventions for adults with a variety of health problems related to alterations of functional health patterns.

WELLNESS: HEALTH PROMOTION AND MAINTENANCE IN NURSING
Open to non-nursing majors. Introduction to concepts of wellness and health promotion. Concepts of wellness include nutrition, exercise, rest, activity, spiritual factors and their relationship to wellness and health promotion and application to nursing practice.

SPECIALIZED TECHNIQUES IN CHILD HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Designed to teach the reliable administration and interpretation of the NCAST II and the HOME instruments. Inter-observer reliability will be achieved through observation of parent-child interaction.

PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH
Explores mind, body, spirit alterations in functional health patterns experienced by clients with acute an chronic mental health illnesses. Examines psychopathology, psychopharmacologic therapies and community resources.

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH
Focuses on clinical intervention using critical thinking and communication skills with clients who require complex psychiatric rehabilitative care. Opportunities are offered to apply knowledge of psychopathology and psychopharmacologic therapies.

FAMILY HEALTH
Focuses on health promotion, identification of risk factors, illness care, disease prevention, and health restoration and maintenance with childbearing and child rearing families.

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN FAMILY HEALTH
Includes therapeutic interventions for childbearing and childbearing families within a variety of settings.

COMMUNITY HEALTH
Focuses on theories/concepts essential to community health nursing, emphasizing illness prevention and health promotion of individuals, families, communities. Roles of community health nurses and environments that affect health are explored.

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY HEALTH
Provides opportunities to engage in community health nursing practice to promote health and prevent illness with individuals, families, and communities.

NURSING INTERVENTIONS INTO THE ACUTE EFFECTS OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE
Focuses on the assessment and treatment of individuals and families who are in the acute phases of addiction. Emphasis will be placed on treatment outcomes for designated populations with consideration for cultural, socioeconomic, political and ethical/legal factors.

NURSING INTERVENTIONS INTO THE REHABILITATION OF CLIENTS WHO ABUSE SUBSTANCE
Focuses on models of treatment and interventions for clients and families who are in the rehabilitation and relapse prevention phases of treatment for addictions. Emphasis will be placed on rehabilitation outcomes for designated populations with consideration for criminal socioeconomic, political and legal/ethical factors.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
This course introduces the student to concepts of substance abuse and theories of addiction. The applicability of theories and concepts to clinical assessment, diagnosis and intervention with the client populations across the lifespan is explored.

REHABILITATION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
Basic concepts of rehabilitation related to human responses. Analysis of the changes in health status and nursing implications.

CRITICAL CARE
Basic concepts of critical care nursing, focusing on selected health problems to analyze the affects of changes in health status.

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND HIV INFECTION
Open to students and caregivers in health related fields. Examines prevalent sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection from a nursing perspective. Emphasis is on epidemiological principles, immunology, treatment, prevention, and ethical/legal considerations.

LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT
Examines health care delivery systems and explores principles of leadership/management and ethical/legal issues within the systems. Skills of leaders and managers are implemented in nursing practice with individuals and groups.

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Individual or group investigation of problems relevant to the health of individuals or groups. Project requirements individually planned with faculty preceptor.

SELECTED TOPICS IN NURSING
PR: Junior or senior standing or permission of faculty. Content will depend upon student demand and faculty interest and may focus on any area relevant to nursing practice. May involve class, seminar, and/or clinical laboratory .

PRECEPTORSHIP
Individually contracted practicum collaboratively planned by students, faculty and agency personnel.

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