This course is designed to provide classroom and clinical experiences to enable the student to provide continuity of nursing care for families during uncomplicated pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, and neonatal periods. Lecture 3 credits, clinical 2 credits (6 hours per week).
This clinical experience focuses on comprehensive patient assessment, diagnosis and management of health problems commonly seen in primary care. Emphasis will be placed on differentiating signs and symptoms to formulate possible diagnoses and determining the effect of the illness on the family. Students will demonstrate competence in assessing, diagnosing, managing and evaluating selected health problems based on appropriate standards of care. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies will be emphasized.
This course allows the Post-Master's Certificate or the practice- doctorate pediatric, primary care nursing student the opportunity to examine the impact of children and adolescents (birth through 21 years) with special health care needs and those with complex (stable), chronic health deviations on the pediatric client, their families, and the community.
The focus of this course is on concepts, theories and research underlying advanced practice psychiatric nursing (APPN). The scope and standards of psychiatric-mental health nursing practice frame study of APPN functions - psychotherapy, psychopharmacology interventions, community interventions, case management activities and consultation- liaison activities. Epidemiology, definitions, and classification models for mental health and mental illness are explored as a base for ethical, clinical decision making in advanced psychiatric nursing practice.
This systems level course provides opportunities for leadership development for nurses in varied leadership roles. The course focuses on theories of systems, leadership, motivation, politics, power, influence, justice, ethics, and organizational behavior to lead individuals and groups providing healthcare in organizations and in the community.
The objective of this course is to cultivate a student's curiosity in the field of human reproductive biology, modern technological advancements such as contraception, assisted reproduction and stem cell research, and the social, economic, and ethical challenges and issues they create.
Biology of cancer will be discussed at the molecular, cellular and organismic level. Emphasis will be placed on cellular signaling, apostosis and cell cycle unique to cancer cells, which affects tumor cell behavior and its interactions with the host immune system. The biology of hematopoitic cells will also be included. Clinicians active in treatment and research of various types of cancer will be invited to participate in the lectures.
An introduction to the philosophical study of religion, with attention to issues such as the nature of religious language, religious experience, concepts of God, science and religion, religious pluralism, miracles and revelation, death and the afterlife, and the problem of evil.
A systematic examination of selected conceptual and/or metaphysical problems in the natural sciences. Possible topics include: reductionism, teleology, causality and determinism, the structure of space-time, and the "anthropic principle" in cosmology.
This course is an introduction to the science of environmental pollution with an emphasis on fate and transport of contaminants and adverse effects on biological systems. Pollutants covered include metals, pesticides, organics, radionuclides, nanomaterials, and nutrients. The course covers physiological and toxicological effects of chemicals on natural biota, including considerations at cellular, organismal, population, community, and ecosystem levels.
