520 Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions NRSG 3100 - Pharmacology for Nurses 2 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Full Sem, Online] Advanced pharmacological treatments used by the nurse to promote health across the lifespan. Included in the course will be administering medications safely though intravenous and other routes along with specific agents that affect health and well-being. Credit hours (3): 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: NRSG 2300,NRSG 2350, and NRSG 2400 or admission to the PN to RN Program. Co-Requisite: NRSG 2500 and NRSG 2550. NRSG 3200 - Complex Patient Centered Nursing Care 1 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Full Sem, Online] Theory focuses on nursing care of patients with complex changes in health status requiring extensive multifaceted resources. Credit hours (3): 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: NRSG 2500, NRSG 2550, and NRSG 3100. Co- Requisite: NRSG 3300 and NRSG 3350. NRSG 3300 - Entry Into Nursing Professional Practice Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Full Sem, Online] Theory focuses on synthesis of nursing knowledge and skills necessary for entrance into registered nursing practice and includes preparation for licensing exams and synthesis of previous concepts. Credit hours (3): 3 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: NRSG 2500, NRSG 2550, and NRSG 3100. Co- Requisite: NRSG 3200 and NRSG 3350. NRSG 3350 - Entry Into Nursing Professional Practice Preceptorship Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Full Sem, Online] Clinical preceptorship focuses on synthesis of nursing knowledge, skills, and conduct necessary for entrance into registered nursing practice. Credit hours (3): 9 clinical hours per week. Prerequisite: NRSG 2500, NRSG 2550, and NRSG 3100. Co-Requisite: NRSG 3200 and NRSG 3300. NRSG 4000 - Culture and Health Care Credits: (2) This course is an exploration of culture, health care issues and experiences at the local, regional, national, or international levels. The learner will study and compare the health care of a selected country/community from the cultural, political and educational perspective. Credit hours (2), 2 lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: Admission to Weber State University; recommended for nursing students, Licensed Nurses, and other healthcare providers. NRSG 4001 - Clinical Experience Related to Culture and Health Care of Nurses Credits: (1-3) This course is a Study Abroad Experience for Health Care Workers to explore the relationship between culture, health care and nursing issues at local, regional, national, and/ or international levels. Information gained during NRSG 4000 will assist the student to put into practice the concepts learned. Credit hours (1-3). Lab hours depend on the country visited. Co-requisite or prerequisite: NRSG 4000 related to area being visited. NRSG 4010 - Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams Credits: (3) This course provides an interdisciplinary experience with the team concept as apriority. The students learn the role of the health care team members, each with their different skills and objectives. The course teaches students to practice an interdisciplinary approach as they research, interact and learn in the interdisciplinary environment of a health care setting. Cross-listed with DENT 4010 & HTHS 4010. May be repeated once up to 6 credit hours. NRSG 4045 - ELNEC: End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This course is designed from the nationally recognized guidelines of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project. These guidelines are revised regularly to reflect current advances in the field. The purpose of the ELNEC project is to support the knowledge and skills of nurses in providing palliative care to patients who are experiencing serious illness or end of life. ELNEC content focuses on nursing care at the end of life; pain management; symptom management; ethical/legal issues; cultural considerations in end-of-life care; communication; loss, grief, bereavement; and preparation for and care at time of death. Prerequisite: Admission to a nursing program or current registered nurse. NRSG 4050 - Nursing Assessment Across the Life Span Credits: (3) This course provides the theory requisite for the systematic examination and analysis of subjective and objective health assessment data obtained during the health assessment process. The health status of a client will be determined through the process of differential analysis of both the anecdotal evidence provided by the client and empirical evidence gathered during the physical examination. With this evidence, students will learn to apply the scientific process of formulating and testing hypothetical diagnoses. The overall purpose will be focused upon developing strategies and skills to assess the health care needs of people across the life span. Students are challenged to identify normal assessment findings and critically analyze variations from normal. Weber State University 2015-2016 Catalog