• NUR 1118: Nursing I Clncl and Skill Lab

  2.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course, the first of a series of four clinical courses, introduces students to knowledge, processes and skills needed to plan and give nursing care to patients. All nursing skills except IV therapy are introduced. Campus laboratory experiences are designed to assist the student to develop assessment, cognitive and psychomotor skills related to basic needs and alterations in basic needs. Clinical experiences are designed to assist the student in applying the nursing process to the healthcare of adults in meeting altered basic needs in long term and acute care facilities.
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• NUR 1126: Basic Medical Surgical Nursing

  3.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  This course continues to focus on patients' basic needs with emphasis on the nursing process to establish and maintain a safe environment. Students are introduced to basic concepts of medical-surgical nursing including: fluid and electrolytes, nutritional support, and nursing care of patients with neoplasms. The course covers alterations in health related to special sensory disorders and men's reproductive health. All units contain physical, cultural and pyschological stressors which are considered as co-contributors to the development of various disease processes. Development stages, pharmacology, nutrition, communication, history, trends, community and legal/ethical are integrated throughout the course. Specific stressors interfering with regulation, nutrition, homeostasis, elimination and adaptive coping patterns are examined in terms of the nursing process. Specific patient problems and the influence on other basic needs, as described by Maslow, are identified. (NUR 1127 & NUR 1126 together replace NUR 1125).
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• NUR 1127: Health of Women & Infants

  2.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  This course continues to focus on pateints' basic needs with emphasis on the nursing process to establish and maintain a safe environment. Students are introduced to the the childbearing patient and family, and issues affecting women's and infant's health. All units contain physical and cultural factors that may contribute to the development and treatment of disease processes. Childbearing content will focus on basic needs of the childbearing patient and family, with the main focus on the nursing process throughtout the antepartal, intrapatral, post-partal and neonatal period. Common complications of all phases of the childbearing cycle are included. Coexisting conditions that influence pregnancy are introduced and considered in depth in succeeding courses. Pharmacology, nutrition, community resources, legal/ethical issues, communication and cultural factors are integrated throughout the course. (NUR 1127 & NUR 1126 together replace NUR 1125).
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• NUR 1128: Nursing II Clinical

  2.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This is the second clinical course that continues to focus on basic needs with emphasis on nursing interventions to establish and maintain a biologically and chemically safe environment. All IV therapy nursing skills are covered. Clinical laboratory provides experiences in applying the nursing process to meeting selected basic needs of patients in the general hospital setting and to childbearing families. The main focus of the childbearing clinical experiences will be on nursing interventions utilized during the normal antepartal, intrapartal, post-partal and neonatal period . Common complications of all phases of the childbearing cycle are included.
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• NUR 121: Math Applications for Nursing

  1.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course focuses on the arithmetic of dosages and solutions used by the practicing nurse. Topics include the metric, apothecary systems, dosages in units and milliequivalents, dry powdered drugs and calculations of IV flow rates.
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• NUR 122: Pharmacology

  2.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. Pharmacology introduces major classifications of drugs. The study of each classification will include general characteristics, mechanism(s) of action, expected results, side effects, and nursing implications. Application of the nursing process will be included throughout this course. Representative drugs for each category will be identified.
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• NUR 2116: Intermediate Med-Surg Nursing

  4.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course introduces the student to nursing care for patients of all ages. The course covers alterations in health related to immune disorders; hematopoietic disorders; endocrine disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; hepatic, pancreatic, and biliary disorders; and renal/urinary disorders. All units contain physical, cultural and psychological stressors which are considered as co-contributors to the development of various disease processes. Development stages, pharmacology, nutrition, communication, history, trends, community and legal/ethical threads are integrated throughout the course. Specific stressors interfering with regulation, nutrition, homeostasis, elimination and adaptive coping patterns are examined in terms of the nursing process. Specific patient problems and the influence on other basic needs, as described by Maslow, are identified.
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• NUR 2117: Psych/Mental Health Nursing

  2.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course introduces the students to psychiatric nursing care. Specific psychiatric disorders will be discussed in depth, as well as psychiatric disorders throughout the life span. General principles of psychiatric/mental health nursing will be presented. All units contain physical, cultural and psychological stressors which are considered as co-contributors to the development of various illnesses. Development stages, pharmacology, nutrition, communication, history, trends, community and legal/ethical are integrated throughout the course.
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• NUR 2118: Nursing III Clinical

  3.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  This clinical course introduces the students to nursing care for patients of allages with stressors affecting: alterations in mental health and behavior,autoimmune disorders, neoplasms, endocrine, hepatic, biliary, gastrointestinal,urinary/renal, hematopoietic and gynecological functioning. Specificalterations in health interfering with regulation, nutrition, homeostasis,elimination and adaptive coping patterns are examined in terms of the nursingprocess. Clinical experiences provide opportunities for the application ofthe nursing process to the care of the child and adult populations in medicalcenters, mental health facilities and other clinical agencies. The student isguided in the application of management principles in organization andproviding nursing care for greater numbers of patients and/or patients withhigher acuity needs. In addition, various outpatient clinical facilities are utilizedto augment clinical laboratory experiences. 9 hrs. clinical per week.
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• NUR 2125: Advanced Med-Surg Nursing

  6.00 Credits

  Columbia State Community College

  
  Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course is the final course in the program of study. It provides learning experiences in caring for patients of all ages with stressors of respiratory, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neurosensory and special sensory function.Concepts and principles of management, as well as various methods of delivery of nursing care, are included. The nursing process is the framework for theory and clinical practice. Specific alterations in health and their influence on basic needs, as described by Maslow, are identified. Attention is given to psychological, social, cultural and physical contributions to the development of these alterations in patterns, attention is given to crisis intervention, coping with chronic illness, body image changes, and altered family patterns in illness. Developmental stages, maternal-child concepts, pharmacology, nutrition, communication, history trends, legal/ethical aspects and community resources are integrated.
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