Xavier University (Department of Nursing)

The department of nursing at Xavier University has as its goal the preparation of professional nurses educated to meet the health care needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing highly technical health care environment.

Graduates of Xavier nursing are prepared to practice nursing today and be leaders of tomorrow. The philosophy of the department has always been to prepare nurses to be holistic leaders in healthcare delivery with an educational foundation grounded in Jesuit values.

Xavier University's department of nursing is proud of the innovative programs developed over the years that creatively address changes in the current health care arena.

In 1995, Xavier admitted the first group of students to a newly designed Bachelor of Science in nursing program. This community-based program is focused on a health and wellness model and educates future nurses in the skills of communication, coordination and cooperation with other health care professionals so as to give a holistic approach to health care delivery with multiple community settings.

In addition to the prelicensure B.S.N. program, Xavier University continues to offer an option for registered nurses with Assiciate Degree, diplomas, or baccalaureates in Nursing to earn a Master of Science in Nursing in which students may specialize thier study in one of the following areas: administration, education, forensics, healthcare law, and school health nursing. New in 2005 individuals with baccalaureates degrees in fields other than nursing can earn a Masters of Science in Nursing and direct entry into Nursing as a new career, the MIDAS program. More than 700 people have graduated from our nursing programs, many of whom continue to live and practice nursing in the tri-state area and the remainder practice throughout the United States of America.

MISSION

Following the precepts put forth in the Xavier University mission statement and definition of Jesuit education, the faculty of the Nursing Department believe their mission is to educate professional nurses in the art and science of nursing. Graduates of Xavier nursing programs have mastery over a body of knowledge and skills essential to nursing practice and are prepared to take their place in a rapidly changing global community.

Nurses educated in the Jesuit tradition commit themselves as facilitators to clients experiencing transitions which may impact their health. The professional nurse accomplishes this through scholarship, leadership, service, and personal and professional growth.

Scholarship refers to inquiry and critical thinking which are requisite components of professional judgement, problem solving and decision making. The professional nurse searches for knowledge, and ethical alternatives for solving health and nursing care problems.

Service is an inherent component of professional nursing. Within a cultural and social context, graduates respect the dignity and worth of each person. They are committed to balancing physical, psychological, social and spiritual care in an ever changing technological environment.

Leadership is an essential characteristic of professional nurses. Jesuit inspired values guide the graduates in their communication and collaboration with others to advocate client needs and rights and to function as an integral part of the health care team.

Personal and professional growth, encompassing development and refinement of philosophies of life and nursing, is fostered through nursing education at Xavier University. Jesuit inspired nursing beliefs, values and traditions influence personal growth within the profession.

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Department of Nursing Courses

WAYS OF KNOWING
Introduces the student to nursing as a profession and discipline. Content includes discussion of the roles of the professional nurse, the scope of practice, nursing history, professional organizations, and ethical/legal rights and responsibilities. Curricular concepts introduced include transition, critical thinking, and communication.

HEALTH AND CULTURE I
Focus on culture as it relates to the universal properties of transition and health. Exploration of the impact of culture on health will begin to develop self awareness and sensitivity. Issues related to diversity will be discussed. Fulfills the Culture Diversity elective requirement.

NURS THERAPEUTICS I: ASSESSMENT
Introduction of theoretical framework for assessment of clients experiencing developmental transitions. Major components for holistic assessment including physical and psychological growth and development across the life span are discussed. Components of the therapeutic relationship as they relate to the holistic assessmeent process are introduced.

NURS THERAPEUTICS I: PRACTICUM
Introduction of methods of health assessment for clients across the life span. Empahsis will be on physical assessment and communication skills. Laboratory and beginning field experiences will be provided. Six hours of clinical Practicum weekly.

NURS THERAPEUTICS II
An analysis of nursing therapeutics used with individuals experiencing transitions. Promotive, preventive, and intervenience strategies including pharmacology and nutrition are introduced. The research and theoretical basis for the selection of therapeutics is emphasized. The importance of decision making in selecting appropriate therapeutics to achieve and manage outcomes is discussed.

NURS THERAPEUTICS II PRACTICUM
Application of promotive, preventative, and intervenience nursing therapeutics to be used with individuals experiencing transitions in primary, secondary, and tertiary health care settings. Laboratory and field experiences will be provided. Six hours of clinical practicum weekly.

PHYSICAL ASMNT/HISPANIC PATIENTS
The student will gain experience in the appropriate Spanish, health care-related language in assessing and implementing nursing care for Hispanic patients. Assignments are parallel to the 200 level Nursing courses and designed to promote Hispanic cultural skill as students continue their journey to acquiring cultural competence with Hispanic patients.

LOWER DIVISION KNOWLEDGE & SKILL
Throughout the upper division nursing courses, students' skills and competencies are evaluated for lower division nursing course work. Upon successful demonstration of selected nursing practice behaviors students who are graduates of diploma programs are granted 33 semester credit hours for lower division nursing course work.
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURSING
Opportunity to pursue a topic or project of individual interest. Subject to approval of department chair.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT I
The study of professional nursing and its education and practice as related to the individual nurse.

HEALTH & CULTURE II
Focuses on identified cultural groups and how culture influences the values, attitudes, and practices of an individual, family, and group as related to health and caring. Fulfills the Cultural Diversity Elective requirement.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Health assessment skills are presented and practiced. Variations for age and culture are included. Family and mental health status assessment tools are used. Six contact hours. Course is open to non-matriculated students.

NURS PROCESS & HISPANIC PATIENTS
This one credit hour course is the second component of a three hour nursing elective which may be applied to the Hispanic Concentration in Nursing. The student will gain experience in using appropriate Spanish, health care-related language when applying the nursing process in caring for Hispanic patients.

ADULT TRANSITIONS
Focus on facilitating health outcomes in adults experiencing health-illness transitions in primary, secondary, and tertiary health care settings. Focus on fostering skill in planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing therapeutics used to facilitate health outcomes for adults. Twelve hours of clinical practicum weekly.

ADULT TRANSITIONS PRACTICUM
Application of promotive, preventive, and intervenience nursing therapeutics in adults experiencing health-illness transitions in primary, secondary, and tertiary health care settings. Focus on fostering skill in planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing therapeutics used to facilitate healthy outcomes for adults.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
The relationship of normal body functioning to physiological changes associated with dysfunction of an organ or organ system is discussed. General concepts of disease processes are addressed in order to provide rationale for diagnosis and health illness transitions.

INTRO TO NURSING RESEARCH
Focus is on the analysis and utilization of nursing research literature to facilitate nursing care of individuals, families, and communities. The use of the principles and methods of research as a means for developing critical reasoning vital to professional judgement is emphasized.

FAMILIES IN TRANSITIONS
Focus on facilitating healthy outcomes for families experiencing transitions. Family transitions, developmental and situational, through the life-cycle are explored. Issues surrounding health-illness transitions in the family are also discussed. Diversity of family life related to ethnicity/culture is emphasized. Tweleve hours of clinical practicum weekly.

FAMILIES IN TRANSITIONS PRACT
Application of promotive, preventive, and intervenience nursing therapeutics to be used with families experiencing transitions. Experiences are provided with families in various stages of development. Skills in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing therapeutics for individuals and families are emphasized.

RECLAIM YOUR JOY:HOLISTIC HEALTH
This workshop guides participants to reclaim their joy by experiencing their own creativity. Participants examine ways to deal with life in a more effective, inventive, and fulfilling manner. Exploration of the four directions of the medicine wheel, guided meditation, shamanic journeying, nature mandalas, and other areas are covered.

OPTIMIZE YOUR HEALTH & VITALITY
This workshop guides participants in ways to take charge of their health. This course combines eastern and western healing practices and principles to assist participants in maintaining their highest level of wellness. They learn to integrate mind, body, and spirit healing modalities of energy therapy, transformational breath work, guided imagery, shamanic journeying, and herbal and nutritional supplementation to balance and energize their life.

LEADERSHIP & MANAGING CARE
Relates the concepts of management to the management of nursing care. Leadership roles of the nurse in health care delivery system are explored.

STUDENT NURSE INTERNSHIP
The student nurse summer internship program is a collaborative agreement between Xavier University and cooperating hospitals. The program is designed to provide students with additional socialization into nursing opportunities and clinical practice in either medical-surgical, critical care, obstetrics, emergency care, perioperative care or pediatrics. Following an orientation period, the student will work along with a preceptor for a 36 - 40 hour week commitment for ten weeks. The student works the preceptor's schedule.

NURSING & COMMUNITY HEALTH
Focus on nursing care within the context of community macro systems. Examples of major concepts included are health policy making; aggregated, vulnerable populations; resource accessibility; epidemiology; vital statistics; and world wide concerns.

NSG PRACTICE & APPLICATION II
Health care management and various nursing roles within communities of increasing complexities. Nursing strategies aimed at disease prevention, promotion and restoration of health will be applied to the management of identified community health problems. Six hours of practicum weekly.

WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES
A discussion of the health issues affecting women as individuals and as a group. The influence of the existing heath care and social structures on women's treatment and perception of illness will be examined.

CARE OF THE OLDER ADULT
Emphasis placed on the normal aging process and the continuing development of care of the older adult. Health promotion, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, maintenance, and restoration of individuals in their later years.

EXPRESSIONS OF HOPE
Examines expressions of hope and suffering through art, music, history, and the religious values, beliefs and mysteries that surround the needs of the human spirit. Examination of the relevance of issues of faith, hope and the ethical aspects of personal responsibility in sharing in the needs of others.

FROM ACUPUNCTURE-ZINC: PAIN MGMT
Explores traditional methods of pain management and comfort measures as well as complementary modalities that can be applied to bring about a sense of wellness and calm.

DEATH: THE UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE
Examine current and past issues related to death and dying. Explore pertinent theories on death and dying, and bereavement care provided to clients and families. Applicable, historical and current perceptions and rituals will be discussed, as well as ethical and spiritual issues.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Focuses on communities experiencing common transitions. the community as a client is emphasized. Assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of nursing therapeutics appropriate to community outcomes are discussed. Prerequisite: NURS 300-all courses within level.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACT
Application of promotive, preventive, and intervenience nursing therapeutics to be used with communities experiencing transitions. Practicum experience within community based organizations is provided. Community assessment skills, accessing community resources and evaluation of policy are emphasized. Twelve hourse of practicum per week.

CARE OF THE COMPLEX CLIENT
This course prepares the student to integrate knowledge from all previous courses in order to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care of the complex client. The various roles of the nurse as a participant within the health care system will be examined. Introduction to health care delivery systems, resource management, and quality improvement will be explored.

CARE OF COMPLEX CLIENT PRACTICUM
This course provides experiences enabling the student to participate in the care of the complex client. Management and coordination of care in various health care settings is emphasized. Twelve hours of practicum weekly.

HEALTHCARE RESEARCH STATISTICS
This course is intended to provide the student with a basic knowledge of statistical methods utilized in health care research. The content of this course will assist the student to utilize statistical methods and to interpret pertinent health care research. The content includes scales of measurement, presentation of data, measures of central tendency, measures of variability, probability, and descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Testing of hypothesis and strength of relationship will also be explored.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT II
The profession of nursing is examined from a framework of history and social and political change. Standards for professional behavior and the role of prefessional organizations are included. Career deelopment is discussed.

SENIOR SEMINAR
Taken in the final semester, this course focuses on the student's transition to entry-level practice. An inspection of personal transitions within the practice of nursing is examined. This capstone course allows the student to explore the educational transition of the program and to anticipate the professional transition into practice. Professional responsibilities and duties are emphasized. Students will write a scholarly paper. A seminar course to be taken in the last semester.

HEALTH CARE ETHICS-NURSE LEADERS
This foundational course examines ethical frameworks and their significance to the delivery of health care. Ethical dilemmas are analyzed and application made using personal and professional processes of valuing and discernment. Prerequisite: Graduate standing

THEORETICAL BASES FOR NURS PRACT
Introduction to the role of theory in knowledge development and its relationship to nursing research, practice, and administration. Critical analysis of selected theoretical models wthin the discipline of nursing and of theories and concepts from other disciplines as used in nursing. Examination of the application of models, theories and concepts in nursing practice, administration, and research.

NURSING RESEARCH
Exploration of modes of inquiry for systematic study of the application, use, and evaluation of nursing innovations in clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on the identification and solution of clinical problems through scientific inquiry.

EPIDEMIOLOGY
Principles and statistical methods used in the study of the distribution and determinants of injury and disease in human populations are presented for use in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of health services. Resources for epidemiological and biostatistical methods of reasoning for determining predictions about the distribution and determinants of injury and disease found in selected studies related to student's concentration. Open to non-nursing majors.

HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS
An introduction to the attitudes, knowledge, strategies, and processes needed to incorporate information technology within a successful career as a clinician, administrator, educator and researcher.

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