University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh (College of Nursing)

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, College of Nursing (CON). For over 30 years, the CON has been dedicated to preparing caring and scholarly nurse leaders. The College graduates baccalaureate and masters prepared nurses to meet the healthcare needs of Wisconsin, the nation and the world. In 2000, the CON received full accreditation for ten years from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), our accrediting body.

The national and worldwide demand for well educated nurses has never been greater and employment opportunities are predicted to continue to grow. Whether you are considering nursing for the first time or you are a nurse seeking to advance your education, I hope you consider UW Oshkosh, CON as your first choice. Our innovative programs such as the 12-month Accelerated online BSN program, and the graduate level Clinical Nurse Leader program as well as our traditional programs help graduates keep pace with the changing demands of nursing and the health care industry. Our Center for Nursing innovation is a think tank producing new programs for nursing education and practice.

HISTORY

Since first opening its doors in 1966, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing has provided quality baccalaureate nursing education to more than 3,000 nurses employed throughout the United States and internationally.

Current trends in our state, nation and world indicate a continuing and growing need for baccalaureate-prepared nurses to provide for increasingly complex health needs. Rapidly changing healthcare delivery systems demand sophisticated, competent professionals with a background that enables them to work in varied settings. The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing, with a long tradition for excellence in nursing education, meets this challenge.

VISION

The College of Nursing will build upon its tradition of developing caring and scholarly leaders who positively impact contemporary and future health care.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing can enable you to meet your educational and career goals through its dynamic curriculum. Following three semesters of general education and science, students are eligible for admission into the College of Nursing program. Building on a strong science foundation, the College of Nursing prepares the student with theoretical knowledge and clinical practice in many areas including medical, surgical, pediatrics, obstetrics, mental health, and community health nursing. The curriculum prepares nurses to care for people with illnesses and injuries while focusing on wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention. The culminating experience for student nurses following the five-semester nursing program is a clinical internship. Student nurses select a clinical area of interest and are mentored by expert nurse preceptors in that area. This experience effectively prepares graduates to enter the work place. UW Oshkosh graduates work in many fascinating and challenging areas including neonatal nursing, flight nursing, military nursing, home health care, school nursing, and international nursing in developing countries. Join as and be among the most respected nurses in the state of Wisconsin!

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INTRO TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
This is a pre-nursing course designed to introduce students to the profession of nursing. Nursing’s historical development, health care delivery systems, and the nurse’s roles will be discussed. The concepts of professionalism and critical thinking will be introduced. The course will also emphasize the personal insight, capabilities and skills needed for successful baccalaureate education.

GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
This course examines growth and development from the prenatal period through late adulthood. This will include discussion of physical growth and changes including fine and gross motor skill development. Also included are concepts related to psychosocial development such as sensory, personality, language, gender identity and moral development. Factors such as nutrition, sleep, exercise; and environment and relationships which are integral to achieving healthy growth and development are included.

CARING AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE
This course introduces the student to the concepts of caring, the nursing process employing critical thinking, and human behavior as they relate to nursing practice. The importance of effective communication with individuals, families, and groups in order to develop caring relationships is emphasized. Health care challenges related to human behaviors are explored: stress, anxiety, grief, and crisis. Throughout the course, there is an emphasis on the personal development of caring as the basis for nursing practice.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT
This course focuses on the skills needed to complete a systematic health assessment of the child and adult client. Assessment of cultural differences and developmental stages of the individual is included. Therapeutic communication and interviewing skills are used to obtain a health history. Family assessment and nursing process are introduced.

CLINICAL APPLICATION OF ASSESSMENT AND FOUNDATION SKILLS
This course introduces professional nursing practice. Classroom and laboratory instruction will facilitate the safe performance of the communication and psychomotor skills necessary to complete a systematic health assessment along with providing basic nursing care. Emphasis is placed upon safe skill performance in a simulated and actual clinical setting. Cultural and developmental implications of health assessment and client care are assessed.

LEGAL AND ETHICAL NURSING CARE PRACTICE
This course introduces the legal and ethical foundations of nursing practice. It will provide an understanding of the underlying legal and ethical principles on which nursing practice is based and emphasize the nurse’s fiduciary role as a patient advocate. It focuses on both the rights and responsibilities of the professional nurse and the patient and examines use of the professional standards of practice.

THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION
This course focuses on the science of food and nutrients and the important part nutrition plays in the prevention and treatment of illness. The use of nutritional therapy will be explored as it related to physiological problems of various body systems. Students will apply principles of normal nutrition and basic assessment in planning nutritional care. Throughout the course emphasis will be placed on the role of the health professional in assisting the client toward optimal nutritional habits and the restoration and promotion of health.

LAB: ADULT HEALTH I
A clinical course focusing on selected psychomotor skills correlating with the Adult Health I theory and Adult I clinical courses. Laboratory experiences are designed to examine the theory and principles, as well as provide opportunities to develop and refine the neuromuscular coordination in skill performance.

NURSING: ADULT HEALTH I
The nursing process is applied in the care of adults who are experiencing non-complex acute illness episodes. The nursing interventions that utilize concepts of restorative care and health promotion are emphasized to promote health. Concepts of caring and client empowerment will be used. The environments that influence restorative care and health promotion will be explored and utilized. Systematic inquiry related to restorative care and health promotion will be emphasized.

CLINICAL: ADULT HEALTH I
This clinical course will use the theory presented in the Adult Health I as a basis for interacting with adult client systems in a variety of environments. Clinical experiences will provide opportunities for students to take part in the health restoration of adult client systems using various models of coordinated care to provide opportunities to help clients/patients recover. This may include home follow-up, coordinating care needs and referral to or arrangements for community resources. Clinical activities also provide a rich source of knowledge and skill development.

NURSING: ADULT HEALTH II
The focus of this course will be the utilization of the nursing process in the care of adult clients in various environments who have chronic conditions, complex conditions, or multisystem failure. The nursing interventions that utilize concepts of restorative care and health promotion are emphasized. Concepts of caring and client empowerment introduced in Adult Health I will be further expanded upon. The environments that influence restorative care and health promotion will be explored and utilized. Systematic inquiry related to restorative care and health promotion will be emphasized. The student will also be exposed to the concept of coordinated care.

CLINICAL: ADULT HEALTH II
This course will focus on the application of the nursing process to promote optimal health in clients with acute problems, chronic health problems or acute exacerbations of chronic impairments. While the focus is on the individual client, the influences of family and community systems are also appreciated in the provision of care. The tertiary level of prevention is emphasized, while primary and secondary prevention strategies are also implemented as appropriate. While the emphasis is on the unique contributions of nursing, the multidisciplinary approach to providing care to clients with long-term health needs is also recognized.

NURSING: THE AGING CLIENT SYSTEM
This course is an exploration of the role of the nurse in the health care of older adults from a family development perspective. The course is designed to build upon previous and concurrent content in adult development, adult health, and mental health. Theories of aging and nursing theories are analyzed as bases for nursing care. Issues common to the aging client system are addressed and nursing implications are derived.

LABORATORY: ADULT HEALTH II
A clinical course focusing on selected psychomotor skills correlating with the Adult Health II theory and Adult Health II clinical courses. Laboratory experiences are designed to examine the theory and principles, as well as provide opportunities to develop and refine the neuromuscular coordination in skill performance.

PHARMACOLOGY I
This course focuses on pharmacologic interventions in nursing including the related nursing responsibilities. This course provides an overview of the clinical application of classifications of drugs on human systems. The use, action, response, side effects and adverse reactions for selected major drug classifications will be presented to correlate with Adult I and Pathophysiology I.

PHARMACOLOGY II
This course focuses on pharmacologic interventions in nursing including the related nursing responsibilities. This course provides an overview of the clinical application of classifications of drugs on human systems. The use, action, response, side effects and adverse reactions for selected major drug classifications will be presented.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY I
The first of two courses focusing on the characteristics and manifestations of disease caused by alterations or injury to the body structure or functions. Conditions in which altered metabolism, inadequate supply and use of oxygen; altered blood and nutrient transport; fluid, electrolyte and acid-base imbalances and altered structures of bones and/or muscles are discussed. The body defenses, including the stress response and the interrelationship of the physical, emotional and psychological responses in actual disease or disease threat are included in the course.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY II
The second of two courses focusing on the characteristics and manifestations of disease caused by alterations or injury to the structure or function of the body. A section on the physiology of pain and its significance as a symptom is also included. Common disease conditions are discussed and serve as a prototype in understanding the pathophysiology which can occur in the body systems and includes neural dysfunction, abnormal cell growth or function, and impaired renal function. The discussion of endocrine and hormonal alterations and disorders of the gastrointestinal and hepatobilary systems, introduced in Pathophysiology I, continues in this second course.

NURSING: CHILDBEARING FAMILIES
The childbearing family and the nurse's role in the holistic health care and health promotion of the childbearing family are the focus of this course. Individuals and changing relationships within the family will be addressed from a family development perspective. Normal physiological changes as well as psychosocial, environmental, and cultural influences and pathophysiological processes occurring during the reproductive cycle are included.

CLINICAL: CHILDBEARING FAMILIES
This clinical course applies childbearing theory to nursing care of the childbearing family system. Clinical learning activities can take place in a variety of settings. Concepts of communication, family theory, nursing process and health promotion are integrated in the various learning activities. The roles of provider and coordinator of care are emphasized in all aspects of the course.

NURSING: COMMUNITIES
An overview of the nursing roles of provider and coordinator of care and member for client systems of aggregates, pluralities, and communities. Using relevant research, the diversity of these systems and their contexts is addressed as a basis for comprehensive community health services and primary health care. The nurse's responsibilities to these client systems as a member of the profession are highlighted.

CLINICAL: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY NURSING
This clinical course in which holistic care of family, aggregate, and community client systems. Students will have opportunities to use the nursing process and provide nursing care that reflects sensitivity to cultural, social, political, ethical, financial, and environmental factors affecting health. Multiple settings and diverse client systems will enable students to participate in nursing as a provider, designer, manager and coordinator of care. The Standards of Family and Community Nursing will be utilized to guide practice.

CLINICAL SYNTHESIS SEMINAR
This clinical course with a seminar component, is designed to facilitate the student in preparing for role transition to the practice of the entry-level professional nurse, through synthesis, application, and evaluation of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed in promoting quality nursing care. Students collaboratively plan the experience with a faculty advisor and professional registered nurse who has been approved to serve as a preceptor to the student. In this course, the student has the opportunity to apply and evaluate the professional roles of provider of care, coordinator of care, and member of the profession within a variety of experiences.

CHILDBEARING FAMILIES
A clinical course which utilizes the theory presented in Nursing 412 as a basis for clinical activity related to the holistic health care of the childbearing client system in its unique context. The course provides a variety of opportunities in which the student will apply concurrently and previously learned theory in providing and coordinating care and health promotion activities for the childbearing family. The nursing student will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge through communication with individuals, families and through implementation of nursing interventions and the nursing process in the acute care setting.

RESEARCH
This course builds on a firm grounding in and an appreciation for the use of literature and inquiry in learning. The course assumes a close interrelationship of practice, theory and research in which each is viewed as essential and supporting to the other. Selected processes of research will be used to help students assume responsibilities as a member of a professional discipline, i.e., remaining current in practice, evaluating care and practice, promoting quality and seeking ways to improve practice or gain insights into current care and treatment modalities.

NURSING: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Role of the nurse in the health care of the child and adolescent from a family development perspective will be explored. The study of common physiological, behavioral, and psychosocial conditions are addressed as well as treatments, nursing interventions, and health promotion activities related to children and adolescents in their unique contexts. Primary health care needs of children and adolescents are addressed.

NURSING: MENTAL HEALTH
The discussion of psychiatric/mental health nursing theory to clients with mental health needs. Theoretical explanations of mental health and mental illness, manifestations and classifications of mental illness, major treatment modalities, and psychosocial interventions are discussed within the context of the broad sociocultural environment. While considering ethical, legal, and economic aspects the nursing process in alterations in mental health functioning is emphasized.

CLINICAL: MENTAL HEALTH
This course focuses on the application of the nursing process to promote optimal health in clients and/or aggregates with acute or persistent impairments in mental health functioning. The attainment of therapeutic relationships to address mental health needs is stressed. The unique contributions of the nurse as a collaborating member of the interdisciplinary mental health treatment team are emphasized. Critical thinking is encouraged as the student considers the emotional and sociocultural contexts of care, including legal and ethical issues.

CLINICAL: PEDIATRICS
A clinical course applying health promotion and health maintenance theories and concepts to the pediatric population and their caregivers. Clinical learning activities can take place in a variety of settings. Concepts of communication, growth and development theories, nursing process and health promotion are integrated in the various learning activities. The roles of provider and coordinator of care are emphasized in all aspects of the course.

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
This theory course focuses on the leadership and management responsibilities of the professional nurse as designer, manager, coordinator of care, and member of the profession. Emphasis is on facilitating growth in enhancing the qualities of mind and character essential to act in the public interest locally and globally to improve healthcare outcomes. Theories of leadership, decision-making, change, delegation, conflict management, advocacy, and continuous quality improvement are included in this course.

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