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NUR 102 Professional Issues in Nursing Practice and Education (3)
This course is designed to assist the student in analysis of professional nursing issues. The significance and impact of these issues on nursing practice will be presented. Role transition will be explored with an emphasis on personal growth and the development of a career plan addressing both professional and educational aspects. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program and NUR 203 (may be taken concurrently)

NUR 103 Leadership Styles and Managing a Diverse Workforce (2)
This course is designed to prepare students for leadership and management roles in the professional setting. Health care policy and change theory are introduced. Emphasis is placed on critical decision-making, collaboration, leadership, and functioning as a team member using principles of leadership and management within diverse settings. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program, NUR 102, NUR 104 must be taken concurrently, NUR 201, and NUR 203

NUR 104 Leadership Practicum (1.5)
This course is designed to provide the student with practical application opportunities for leadership and management roles in the professional setting.  The student will utilize a change theory associated with an organization's health care policy.  The course will focus on practicing critical decision-making, collaboration, leadership, and team member skills within diverse leadership and management settings. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program, NUR 102, NUR 103 must be taken concurrently, NUR 201, and NUR 203

NUR 105 Community and Public Health Nursing (2.5)
This course introduces theories of public health nursing practice to prepare students to assess the health of a population and to apply nursing interventions to improve population health at the individual/family, community, and systems level of practice.  Application of the nursing process will be discussed related to the present and potential disease and illness that present themselves in populations.  The analysis of relevant morbidity and mortality data along with relevant socio-environmental factors will prepare students to practice evidence-based nursing care.  The standards of public health nursing practice and the operational standards of a local health department will be threaded throughout the course along with the framework of Healthy People 2010.  Reporting requirements related to communicable diseases will also be introduced. Child, Elder, and Intimate Partner/Domestic abuse topics will be covered, as well as prevention, early detection, and intervention techniques for abuse.  California reporting requirements for abuse will also be included in this course.  Students will learn to work in transdisciplinary public health teams to promote and protect the health of a population.  The goal of this course is to prepare students to understand the theories of public health nursing practice and be able to practice in a transdisciplinary public health team to promote and protect the health of a population. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program, NUR 102, NUR 106 must be taken concurrently, NUR 201, and NUR 203

NUR 106 Community and Public Health Nursing Practicum (2)
This clinical course is designed to provide a synthesis of community/population based nursing experiences that allow the student  to apply the knowledge and skills from professional nursing practice and public health concepts. The clinical venues will provide students with opportunities to expand their understanding of community health nursing practice and the activities that focus upon health care promotion and disease prevention in culturally/socially diverse populations at level of whole or aggregate communities both domestically and internationally. The Roy Adaptation Model will be used to frame the assessment of the community and serve as the cornerstone in the development of an evidence based community health intervention plan. An epidemiological approach will be utilized to identify and asses problems within aggregates in the community. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program, NUR 102, NUR 105 must be taken concurrently, NUR 201, and NUR 203

NUR 107A Healthcare Informatics & Technology (1.5)
This course provides an overview of nursing informatics for the advanced practice nurse.  Focus is on developing an understanding of concepts relevant to health care informatics. Current trends and issues in using, designing, and managing heath care information systems will be examined. Students, applying knowledge from assigned readings, will analyze the design and implementation of health care information systems. The course includes electronic discussion forums, computer applications, worldwide web, and internet assignments. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN or MSN program and NUR 203 (may be taken concurrently). Equivalent to NUR 144A and 207A.

NUR 107B Healthcare Informatics & Technology (1.5)
This course provides an overview of nursing informatics for the advanced practice nurse.  Focus is on developing an understanding of concepts relevant to health care informatics.  Current trends and issue in using, designing, and managing health care information systems will be examined.  Students, applying knowledge from assigned readings, will analyze the design  and implementation of health care information systems.  The course includes electronic discussion forums, computer applications, worldwide web, and internet assignments . Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN or MSN program and NUR 203 (may be taken concurrently). Equivalent to NUR 144B and 207B.

NUR 110 RN Externship Course (2)
This course is developed for a newly licensed RN to strengthen his/her skills acquisition, develop professional role competence, and facilitate the new RN's transition to practice.   In addition to practicum component, seminars will address communication and teamwork, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics, and ethics. The practicum is under the supervision of a one-to-one preceptor experiencing clinical analyses and judgments while engaged in patient care in a select nursing area. Prerequisites: Admissions into ADN to MSN program and NUR 203 (may be taken concurrently).  

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