RN 180 – Nursing Transition Advanced Placement Theory and Lab Course – 47 clock hours = 3 Semester Units Theory, 68 clock hours = 2 Semester Units Lab
Prerequisites: None
This Course Description: This course introduces students to the roles and responsibilities of the registered nurse and the Associate Degree Nursing Program framework. Emphasis is placed on the transition from LVN to RN, legal and ethical responsibilities, nursing process, critical thinking, evidence-based practice, registered nurse competencies, and management in primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare systems. The lab component of this course focuses on utilizing the nursing process, critical thinking, and applying theory to skills in various patient case scenarios. The following skills and competencies focused on in this course: dosage calculation, assessment, intravenous administrations, central venous access, medication administration, nasogastric feeding, foley catheter insertion, tracheostomy care, and suctioning.
RN 300 – Maternal Newborn Theory – 3.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
Comprehensive maternal and newborn care begins with preconception planning, including risks in pregnancy and postpartum, maternal and newborn complications, male and female
reproductive problems and needs, and family needs and problems during the maternity cycle. Concepts of nutrition, cultural variations, and the safety of mothers and newborns are integrated. Therapeutic use of drugs during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the immediate postpartum period are included.
RN 301 – Maternal Newborn Clinical – 1.5 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is taught at a clinical site. This course applies the theoretical content of patient-centered care for mothers and newborns. Emphasis is on assessment, teaching, and clinical interventions to promote healthy outcomes for families.
RN 302 – Care of Children Theory – 3.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
In-depth identification of various diseases affecting the child through young adult, including physical and developmental maturation, is addressed. Cultural variations and family interactions are explored. Disease prevention, health maintenance, and appropriate therapeutic interventions such as pharmacologic agents and nutrition are included.
RN 303 – Care of Children Clinical – 1.5 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is taught at a clinical site. This course applies theoretical content into practice with attention to patient-centered, quality care. Interaction with family members facilitates the student’s ability to recognize family dynamics and their effects on the developmental process. Advanced skills necessary to care for pediatric patients are achieved through simulation. The application of the nursing process to optimize patient and family outcomes is emphasized.
RN 304 – Medical/Surgical III Theory-Advanced Med/Surg – 3.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course provides basic medical/surgical theory related to respiratory, cardiac, neurologic, and musculoskeletal disorders. Disorders of the following systems are reviewed: integumentary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, endocrine, sensory, and hematology problems. Develop an understanding of the dynamic sequence of biological, psychological, and sociological changes in older adulthood. Expected growth and development patterns and disruption in critical periods of development are presented and help develop nursing insight, enabling safe, effective patient-centered care.
RN 305 – Medical/Surgical III Clinical-Advanced Med/Surg – 2.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is taught at a clinical site. Integration and practical application of the advanced medical/surgical theory course caring for selected patients with multiple health disruptions. Students apply the nursing process to optimize patient outcomes.
RN 400 – Mental Health Theory – 2.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course addresses theories and principles of psychiatric nursing. Biopsychosocial foundations of behavior, communication, and psychopharmacology are emphasized. Patient relationships and the use of effective and non-effective communication are addressed. The nurse’s role in preventing and early identifying psychiatric disorders in children, adolescents, adults, and older adults and the treatment modalities of mental illness and organic brain syndromes are studied.
RN 401 – Mental Health Clinical – 2.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is taught at clinical sites. This course facilitates applying theory into clinical practice in the care of selected patients who may experience psychological stress, neurobiological disorders, and high-risk situations such as homelessness, family violence, child abuse, HIV, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. Students apply the nursing process to optimize patient outcomes.
RN 402 – Medical/Surgical IV Theory-Complex/Critical Care – Med/Surg, & Leadership, 3.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course incorporates previous medical-surgical nursing theory, emphasizing the integration of pathophysiology, nutrition, pharmacology, and psychosocial components of safe and individualized care for patients with complex medical-surgical health disruptions. Focus on holistic care for burns, heart failure, acute respiratory distress, shock, multiple organ dysfunction, and traumatic brain injury. Leadership and management in nursing are explored as they relate to managing complex medical-surgical health alterations.
RN 403 – Medical/Surgical IV Clinical-Complex Med/Surg, & Leadership – 2.0 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is taught at a clinical site. Integration and practical application of the advanced medical/surgical theory course caring for selected patients with multiple health disruptions. Students apply the nursing process to optimize patient outcomes.
