A variety of vignettes/case studies will be used to enable students to use decision-making processes to explore viable options to ethical dilemmas confronted in nursing practice. Delineation of facts and principles involved in each case will be prepared by the student in advance of each class in order for them to select a particular stance which they will then be prepared to defend.
This course is designed for the student to demonstrate management and leadership skills as they relate to human and material resource management and clinical decision-making. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, six hours per week.
integrate his previous year of didactic education and seven months of clinical course work into a functioning system. An assigned textbook and specified reading assignments will be required. In addition, students will be required to successfully pass practical as well as written examinations on course content.
opportunity to integrate his previous year of didactic education and seven months of clinical course work into a functioning system. This course is a continuation of Preceptorship I. An assigned textbook and specified reading assignments will be required. In addition, students will be required to successfully pass practical as well as written examinations on course content.
A comprehensive physiology course examining the systems, cellular and molecular basis of clinical physiology.
A discussion of the mechanism of action, dosing theory, toxicity and metabolism of drugs used as therapeutic agents in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
An historical introduction to the philosophical background of classical physics as the latter was developed by thinkers like Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Concentrating on metaphysics and the philosophy of scientific method, this course includes a study of scientists and philosophers like Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Leibniz, and Faraday.
An examination of various methodological issues and broader philosophical questions of special concern in the social sciences. Among the topics to be studied: the structure of theories and the roles of mathematics and experimentation in the social sciences, the possibility of an objective or value free social science, and the conceptions of human nature presupposed by different schools of social science.
An advanced treatment of the factors affecting drug availability from dosage forms and the influence of the route of administration and the dosage regimen on drug availability.
Reports and discussion on student research projects and research topics from the literature of physics and astronomy. May be repeated to a maximum of two credits.
