Nursing

This courses focuses on the health attitudes,ybeliefs, and practices of culturally diverseypopulations in the United States. Students willylearn the cultural, ethnic, sociological,yeconomic, and political factors that influenceybeliefs, values, and practices in relation toyhealth, illness, wellness management, and healthyseeking behaviors. Upon completion of the course,ystudents will have a heightened awareness of theyrange of cultural behaviors and the need toyunderstand people's actions from their ownycultural perspective in health and illness.

This course focuses on the management of energy,ynot time, as the key to high performance andypersonal renewal. Strategies to fully engage youryphysical energy, emotional energy, mental energyyand spiritual energy will be discussed and putyinto action. Students will develop a personalydevelopment plan based on their individual needs.yThe student will then utilize and fully engage theyskills and tools they have learned to followythrough on their personal development planythroughout all coursework in the program.

This course provides a review of nursing theoriesyupon which practice is built and prepares the RNyto become a consumer of research as it applies toythe practice of nursing. Students develop anyunderstanding of both qualitative and quantitativeyresearch and how to determine appropriateymethodology for a chosen study. Students developyskills for evaluating and critiquing existingyresearch and learn how to apply ethicalyconsiderations to the practice of research. Uponycompletion of the course, students will understandythe role of research in continuously improvingyhealth care. Prerequisite: NRS-215

This course emphasizes the health of communitiesyand populations and the professional nursing roleyin health promotion and disease prevention. Topicsyinclude population-based health issues such asyenvironmental health, epidemiology, andycommunicable disease. In a clinical setting,ystudents will work with persons in a variety ofycommunity settings and learn how to assess andyscreen individuals and families withinycommunities, address identified needs, educateypeople across the lifespan, collaborate with otheryhealth care professionals, make referrals, andyparticipate in health promotion clinics. Studentsywill gain an understanding of theyinterdisciplinary nature of public health and theyoverall effects on health in the U.S. and abroad.

This course explores the impact of economic,ycultural, demographic, and technological forces onyhealth care delivery, and the concerns relating toyethical, legal, and social issues that influenceycurrent nursing practice. Students will buildyknowledge of current and emerging issues thatyaffect health care delivery and an awareness ofythe need for the nursing profession's readinessyand flexibility to adapt to a changing society andyscientific innovations.

All nurses in today's health care environment areyfaced with multiple ethical challenges which areyrelated either directly or indirectly toycost-conscious hospitals, managed care paymentyplans, nursing staffing problems, the loomingynursing shortage, and complex medical conditionsythat affect not just individuals, but wholeycommunities. This course focuses on the legal andyethical rights, responsibilities, and obligationsyof the practicing nurse in a rapidly changingyhealth care environment. The Nebraska Health andyHuman Services Accountability for ProfessionalyConduct of Nurses and the American NursesyAssociation's Code of Ethics are used as guides toyexamine implications for legal and ethicalydecision-making. Students learn the specificyresponsibilities and obligations they have toythose they serve and develop a professionalyself-definition as a practitioner of the art andyscience of nursing.

An introduction to the basic concepts ofypathophysiology. Students examine the phenomenaythat produce alterations in human physiologicyfunction and the resulting human response. Uponycompletion of this course students will understandypathophysiological changes, including howypathological processes are manifested, progress inythe body, and primary and secondary effects.yPrerequisite: Anatomy and Physiology II.

A focus upon the nature and influence ofycommunicative behavior in close, personalyrelationships. Interpersonal communicationystructure and processes are explored as theyyrelate to the development and maintenance ofyidentities, friendships, romance, and familyyrelationships.

The U.S. health care system continues toyexperience problems in the financing,yorganization, and delivery of health careyservices. Costs are increasing at unsustainableyrates while fewer employers are offering healthyinsurance to their employees. While the U.S.yleads the world in money spent on health care, ityranks low on most measures of health status. Thisycourse will examine how economic analysis can beyapplied to health care. Students successfullyycompleting this course will be able to: 1)yunderstand economic theory and terminology as theyyrelate to health care; 2) apply economic theory toyhealth care problems and issues; 3) comprehend theyinteractions between both the private and publicysectors in the struggle to find workable solutionsyto health care problems and issues; and 4) analyzeyand evaluate various health care policy proposalsyto determine feasible solutions. Prerequisite:yECO-203. Offered alternate spring terms.