University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio (School of Nursing)

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing is one of the top schools in the country for innovative education programs leading to BSN, MSN, and PhD degrees. Our faculty and administration are committed to the recruitment and retention of students and faculty who represent the ethnicity and values of the people we serve. Our School is a federally designated Hispanic serving institution, and has a 1 million dollar endow ment for research on aging.

Our School is committed to the reduction of Health Disparities that are apparent among certain populations in this country and in this state. Our faculties' commitment to the reduction of health disparities is evidenced in the science they conduct: our faculty is examining the context of obesity in infants, children and families among Latinos; our faculty is testing the dose-response of exercise on the reduction of cardiovascular risk in minority women; our faculty is uncovering the clues in the cause of preterm labor in Latina women; our faculty are examining ways to collaborate in the reduction of family violence, and in the reduction of sexually risky behavior in adolescent girls. Our faculty examine the implications of spinal cord injury and diabetes on individuals and their families; and our faculty is examining the nature and development of health promoting organizations.

Our School has forged significant partnerships with our community colleagues. These partnerships not only have facilitated our increased enrollment, but have provided extended and creative clinical experiences for students. Each year, our faculty logs over 4000 hours in direct community service, and provides 2000 hours of direct patient care, in both primary and acute care settings. Our practices provide opportunity for the sustaining of faculty expertise, as well as providing clinical opportunities for students.

MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

The faculty believes that all people have inherent dignity and value. Each person is worthy of respect regardless of values, beliefs, experiences, goals and lifestyles. These beliefs about human beings guide the caring aspect of nursing that is reflected in both the science and the art of nursing.

The faculty believes that nursing education is based on the belief that learning is a life long, self-directed process encompassing the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. Learning is enhanced by the knowledgeable, caring, and supportive faculty and by students who assume active responsibility for their own learning.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, School of Nursing is one of five schools of the Health Science Center and shares the goal of assuring high quality health care for the people of Texas. The purpose of the School of Nursing is to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to function in a variety of professional nurse roles. The School of Nursing is committed to the highest standards of achievement in instruction, student performance research and scholarly accomplishment, *patient care, and service as well as the Health Science Center’s responsibilities to South Texas, the state, the nation, and the world.



Major philosophical commitments of the School of Nursing are organized to six concepts that are emphasized throughout its organization, characterize the conduct of faculty and students, and inspire its education programs. The concepts are: professionalism, scholarship, integrated learning, transition, customization, and partnership. The concepts are integrated within a Community Partnership Model.

The Community Partnership model is based on assumptions within the organizing framework and philosophy of the School of Nursing. Within the framework students actively seek educational experiences to learn the subject of nursing in settings where professional nurses have varied roles as providers of care, member/advocates for the profession and leader/managers for health care. In the Community-Partnership model, community is the context within which nursing partners to protect, promote, restore and maintain health. The model facilitates integration of community concepts throughout the curriculum rather than offering community content solely as a discrete course. In this integrated curriculum, students, as partners in education, have learning experiences across environments in varied settings and with varied *patient partners throughout the curriculum. Concepts are interwoven throughout the curriculum which promotes the philosophy of partnering with communities experiencing health transitions by customizing therapeutic professional practice through integrated learning, critical thinking, and scholarship.

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INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This course provides an introduction to professional nursing and the role of the nurse in customizing the promotion and maintenance of health. Course content includes the nature and history of professionalism and processes underlying professional nursing, basic concepts of health and illness transitions and legal considerations in nursing practice.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS
This course introduces basic concepts of pharmacotherapy and the scientific basis of pharmacotherapeutics with legal/ethical guidelines for the nursing profession. The role of drug therapy in health promotion and in the prevention and treatment of specific health transitions will be emphasized. In addition, the customization of drug therapy and the partnership role of the professional nurse in drug therapy will be introduced.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: THE NATURE OF HEALTH TRANSITIONS
This course provides an introduction to professional nursing care of adults with transitions in health status requiring basic nursing care. The effects of health transitions and the process of adaptation of individuals and their significant others are analyzed through integrated learning experiences. A clinical practicum based upon health assessment principles provides an opportunity to plan, implement, and evaluate customized care in partnership with individuals and their significant others in a variety of environments. Health assessment addresses multiple methods and tools including physical assessment principles and skills. Emphasis is on planning and providing appropriate nursing interventions and basic psychomotor nursing skills based on understanding the nature of health transitions and their effects on the individuals. The process and application of critical thinking is designed to promote beginning scholarship. Lab fee $30.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: RESEARCH
The role of research in the conduct of professional nursing is examined. Classroom discussions and learning experiences focus on the value of research-based knowledge as a means to promote quality patient care. The research process provides content for evaluating quality and/or usefulness of research utilization/evidence based practice in development of nursing intervention strategies.

INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This course provides an introduction to professional nursing and the role of the nurse in customizing the promotion and maintenance of health. Course content includes the nature and history of professionalism and processes underlying professional nursing, basic concepts of health and illness transitions and legal considerations in nursing practice.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS
This course introduces basic concepts of pharmacotherapy and the scientific basis of pharmacotherapeutics with legal/ethical guidelines for the nursing profession. The role of drug therapy in health promotion and in the prevention and treatment of specific health transitions will be emphasized. In addition, the customization of drug therapy and the partnership role of the professional nurse in drug therapy will be introduced.
STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: THE NATURE OF HEALTH TRANSITIONS
This course provides an introduction to professional nursing care of adults with transitions in health status requiring basic nursing care. The effects of health transitions and the process of adaptation of individuals and their significant others are analyzed through integrated learning experiences. A clinical practicum based upon health assessment principles provides an opportunity to plan, implement, and evaluate customized care in partnership with individuals and their significant others in a variety of environments. Health assessment addresses multiple methods and tools including physical assessment principles and skills. Emphasis is on planning and providing appropriate nursing interventions and basic psychomotor nursing skills based on understanding the nature of health transitions and their effects on the individuals. The process and application of critical thinking is designed to promote beginning scholarship. Lab fee $30.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: RESEARCH
The role of research in the conduct of professional nursing is examined. Classroom discussions and learning experiences focus on the value of research-based knowledge as a means to promote quality patient care. The research process provides content for evaluating quality and/or usefulness of research utilization/evidence based practice in development of nursing intervention strategies.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: MENTAL HEALTH TRANSITIONS
This course focuses on the therapeutic use of self in the care of patients experiencing mental health transitions. Mental health transitions and therapeutic modalities are analyzed and integrated to customize care. A clinical practicum provides an opportunity to implement therapeutic relationships and customize nursing process with individuals and families experiencing mental health transitions. Culturally sensitive assessment and intervention strategies with diverse patients are addressed.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: CHRONIC HEALTH TRANSITIONS
This course focuses on patients who are experiencing transitions in health status due to chronic illness. The effects of chronic health problems with individuals and their significant others are analyzed through integrated learning experiences. A clinical practicum provides an opportunity to demonstrate professional nursing and to apply the nursing process in a customized plan of care, developed in partnership with individuals and their significant others, to manage chronic illness. Scholarship will be developed through critical thinking and applications of theoretical concepts to clinical practice and scholarly writing.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: CHILDBEARING FAMILIES
This course focuses on the application of theories to the nursing care of childbearing families in transition. Emphasis is on the nurse’s partnership role with childbearing families and other health care professionals in the provision of care. In addition, the course examines issues related to women’s health during the childbearing years. Ethical and legal issues relating to reproduction and to newborn nursing practice are explored.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: CHILDREARING FAMILIES
This course focuses on the application of theories to the nursing care of children and their families in transition. Emphasis is on the nurse’s partnership role with children and their families and with other health care professionals in the provision of care. Ethical and legal issues relating to the nursing care of childrearing families are examined.

THE NURSE AS PROFESSIONAL: LEADER-MANAGER
This course focuses on the role of the professional nurse as a leader and as a manager in the collaborative design and delivery of customized health care for patients. Traditional management theories and practices are explored, including the organization, planning, staffing, directing and controlling of various resources in diverse health care systems. A strong emphasis is placed on the development of transformational leadership. The clinical practicum provides the student with the opportunity to partner with leaders and managers to explore and influence health care delivery system issues that effect quality of care.

THE NURSE AS A PROFESSIONAL
This course focuses on the nursing profession and its professional or¬ganizations. Ethical and professional issues and corresponding laws affecting the individual, the practice of professional nursing, and the nursing profession are explored. Laws that govern the role of the professional nurse are applied. Concepts of autonomy, accountability, and advocacy are integrated throughout the course.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: COMMUNITY AS PARTNER
This course focuses on the roles of nursing in establishing partnerships with communities in customizing therapeutic care in order to protect, promote, and restore optimal community health. The clinical practicum provides students with opportunities to deliver quality community health care across all levels of prevention and to explore the planning and implementation of customized community health programs. Students collaborate with agencies/institutions and health care delivery systems as leader/manager partners in community health.

STRATEGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSING: MAJOR HEALTH TRANSITIONS
This course focuses on nursing care of individuals across the life span who are experiencing transitions in health requiring complex nursing judgment and interventions. The clinical practicum provides an opportunity to integrate learning within varied environments, including acute-care settings and non-institutional settings in partnership with patients and other professionals.

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