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cellpadding="0"> <col width="121" /> <col width="75" /> <col width="145" /> <col width="481" /> <col width="127" /> <tr height="136"> <td rowspan="2" height="289" width="46">First Semester</td> <td width="81">NURS 2010</td> <td width="86">Dimensions of Professional Nursing</td> <td width="339">This course introduces the student to the scope of professional practice, which builds on personal strengths and prior nursing knowledge acquired in lower-division nursing courses. The course also focuses on self-awareness and the transformation experience, which socializes the returning RN into the role of the baccalaureate nurse. The course will focus on the quest for self-knowledge, personal planning and career advancement, and the unending issues in practice aiming to sharpen critical thinking skills and to strengthen conceptual and theoretical nursing knowledge. </td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="153"> <td height="153" width="81">NURS 2065</td> <td width="86">Knowledge and Skills for Professional Practice/Health Assessment</td> <td width="339">This course is designed to improve and build upon health assessment skills the RN-BSN students are already familiar with. Through didactic and practice sessions, the students will build upon their knowledge of history taking and physical assessment. The focus will be on the assessments of adults who are healthy or have commonly occurring deviations from health. Skills taught and practiced include interview techniques, the use of standard assessment instruments, data analysis, documentation, and interventions to promote and/or maintain health. Skills related to knowledge integration, communication, and decision-making for a culturally diverse population will be emphasized.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="17"> <td height="17" width="46"></td> <td width="81"></td> <td width="86"></td> <td width="339"></td> <td width="66"></td> </tr> <tr height="170"> <td rowspan="2" height="340" width="46">Second Semester</td> <td width="81">NURS 2150</td> <td width="86">Principles of Leadership and Management</td> <td width="339">This course provides registered nurse students with the opportunity to synthesize previous learning and experiences related to the role of professional nurse as leader and a manager in providing for the delivery of health care in the ever-changing health care market. RN-BSN students will investigate and further develop their own professional role as managers of patient care, as leaders in health care policy-making, as advocates for patient’s rights, as educators of patients, the public, and of other health care professionals, and as coordinators and collaborators of various aggregates of clients both trans-culturally and across the life-span. This course integrates change theory, organizational behavior and health and social policy in discussions and assignments.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="170"> <td height="170" width="81">NURS 2160</td> <td width="86">Nursing Ethics</td> <td width="339">In this course, students will examine nursing care at the end of life. Topics covered include: palliative care in the hospital and long term care setting, hospice care, pain management, symptom management, the meaning of illness, the meaning of hope in the dying, public policy dealing with end-of-life care issues, and an overview of the international perspective of end-of-life care. This course will require students to demonstrate a competency in caring for the body, mind, and spirit of the individual, family, and community. The process of exploring end-of-life nursing care will allow students to grapple with the ethical principles of freedom from exploitation, freedom from harm, the right to fair treatment, the right to privacy, and the right to self-determination.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="17"> <td height="17" width="46"></td> <td width="81"></td> <td width="86"></td> <td width="339"></td> <td width="66"></td> </tr> <tr height="102"> <td rowspan="2" height="238" width="46">Third Semester</td> <td width="81">NURS 3010</td> <td width="86">Spiritual and Cultural Considerations in Nursing</td> <td width="339">This course promotes the provision of nursing care within a spiritual and cultural framework. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of understanding human behavior and of promoting, maintaining and restoring the holistic health of individuals, families and communities within their cultural, socioeconomic and religious contexts. Emphasis will also be placed on how cultural and spiritual beliefs influence a person’s health care practices.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="136"> <td height="136" width="81">NURS 3110</td> <td width="86">Research Methods for Nurses</td> <td width="339">The focus of this course is on the research critique and the use of evidence-based findings in clinical practice. Qualitative and quantitative methods, sampling procedures including human subjects’ considerations, data collection methods and interpretation of results will be discussed in the context of research utilization. This course will also devote time to discuss the application of statistical methods to health care data in evaluating research reports. Additionally, students will design a clinical investigative study that will be carried out during their capstone experience.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="17"> <td height="17" width="46"></td> <td width="81"></td> <td width="86"></td> <td width="339"></td> <td width="66"></td> </tr> <tr height="119"> <td rowspan="2" height="255" width="46">Fourth Semester</td> <td width="81">NURS 4010</td> <td width="86">Community/Public Health Theory and Practice</td> <td width="339">In this course the student will learn about caring for the public’s community health problems, epidemiology, and the promotion of community preventive health programs with a focus on local, state, federal, and international health policy issues that impact individuals, families and groups. This course is both community-based and community-focused, reflecting today’s changing societal needs; the course addresses the assessment and care of communities and target populations.</td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> <tr height="136"> <td height="136" width="81">NURS 4210</td> <td width="86">Capstone for Registered Nurses</td> <td width="339">This course will require that students, working in small groups, locate a clinical setting of choice where they can carry out a clinical investigative study (research) or a change project incorporating evidenced-based findings aimed at improving quality of care, or where the findings have the likelihood of decreasing the length of stay, or may contain costs or improve patient satisfaction. The design of this study and/or change project will have begun in the research course and will require that students have a well thought out approach to avoid conceptual or methodological flaws. </td> <td width="66">4 hours</td> </tr> </table> <h3> </h3> </div> <div id="footer" > <div align="center" >© 2008 • King College • 1350 King College Road, Bristol TN 37620 • 800.362.0014 • 423.652.4861</div> </div>  </div> </body> </html>