Nursing

This course explores the history of nursing. Theories of role development, professional behaviors and clinical judgment will be examined. Students will be introduced to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing, New Jersey Board of Nursing regulations, Healthy People 2020 Objectives, and Quality and Safety Education in Nursing and Patient Safety. The roles of designer of care, provider of care, manager of care, and member of the profession will be explored within the larger health care system.

Students will learn the importance of integrating technology in health care. Informatics, telehealth and simulation technology will be explored. Students will explore the importance and consideration of culture, diversity and linguistic issues for health providers. Patient, Family and Community Education introduces the principles and theories of teaching and learning with a health context. Through a variety of activities students learn how to assess the teaching-learning environment, develop a teaching plan, apply specific teaching strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. Students apply teaching and learning concepts, theories and principles through the completion of a teaching project. Critical assessment of teaching resources is also a component of this course. By the completion of this course students have a beginning understanding of the complexities and realities of health teaching from a personal and theoretical perspective.

This course examines complex issues of global health. Students discuss the worldwide impact of global health and social policy over the past two decades including U.S., Healthy People 2020, United Nations and International Council of Nurses initiatives; health disparities within the U.S. and globally.

The focus of this course is healthful aging. Active life styles, the importance of finding meaning and continued socialization are emphasized. Issues related to chronic illness, frailty, and mental health are explored. Psychosocial, economic and policy perspectives, advanced illness, palliative and end of life care, death and dying, loss, grief, and bereavement are discussed. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials, Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guideline for the Nursing Care of Older Adults, Healthy People 2020 Objectives, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses are discussed.

This course is designed for the beginning nursing students to learn the knowledge and skills in obtaining and recording a systematic health assessment on individuals throughout the life span. The focus of this course is on Primary Care and Healthy People 2020. Parameters of health; normal ranges, and variations are discussed. Healthy behaviors in relation to health promotion, health maintenance and disease prevention are emphasized.

The focus of this course is on the assessment of clients across the lifespan through the utilization of simulation technology. Clinical experiences will include; Community Based Settings, Schools, Clinics, underserved population settings, and federally funded Health Clinics.

This course provides the foundation for beginning nursing students to learn health care skills that are integral to providing safe and effective nursing care. Emphasis is placed on wellness, physiological, psychological, social cultural and spiritual factors which contribute to the well-being of the individual and family are integrated throughout the course

Clinical experiences occur in a variety of health care settings, and will include simulation, lab and clinical practice. Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals will be utilized.

The focus of this course is on individuals with mental health disorders across the life-span, and along the mental health-illness continuum. The role of the nurse as designer, provider, manager of care and member of the profession, will be explored. The nurse/patient relationship, therapeutic communication skills, and psychobiologic treatment strategies are emphasized as well as the nurse’s role in advocacy with this vulnerable population.

This clinical course provides students with experiences to design, provide, manage and advocate for the quality care of individuals with mental health disorders. The role of the nurse and the health care team in various treatment settings across the mental healthillness continuum will be the focus of practice. Populations will include children, adolescents, adults and older adults.

The course is an introduction to the nurse’s role in pharmacotherapeutics and the use of the nursing process in drug therapy. It will provide a basis for understanding pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of drug therapy. The course will focus on the major drug classifications and provide examples for each category to provide a theoretical framework for continued selfstudy and integration of new drug information. Emphasis is on the nurses role in drug therapy, the Importance of the IOM recommendations on reducing medication errors, electronic documentation, and technology for order/entry.

This course will assist the student in developing into the role of the professional nurse, as it applies to nursing care of the adult/geriatric client. Principles of health promotion, disease prevention, and genetics, as well as economic, and sociocultural influences, are integrated in the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based plans of care. Students will function as members of the interdisciplinary health care team with a focus on the provision of safe and competent nursing care.

In this course the nursing process is utilized in caring for the adult and elderly client in a variety of settings to ensure safe, evidence based, collaborative nursing care. Simulation and Clinical Practice experiences are required. Workplace, community ambulatory and acute care settings, churches, clinical, assisted living settings, and physicians’ offices will be used. All students will have a rotation in an urban underserved area.

This course explores the relationship between ethical and legal aspects of Nursing/Health care within the larger health care system. Students discuss cultural, social, ethical, psychosocial, and legal aspects of complex health issues and the effects on individuals, families, and society as well as interdisciplinary team members. Emphasis is on core nursing and health care values, ethical comportment and an objective approach to ethical decision making.

This course focuses the philosophical caring-healing framework for self and others. Selected integrative interventions, utilizing the caring-healing framework for healing and wellness are explored.  Experiential activities and exercises will give the student hands on experience with the healing modalities. Current standards and research will be explored in relation to practice.

This course focuses on the nursing care of childbearing clients and families during the preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods, as well as women’s gynecological health throughout the lifespan. Students identify physiological, psychological, developmental appropriate changes and deviations. Students discuss a wide range of political and bioethical dilemmas, and explore ethical-legal issues in women’s health, obstetrical, and neonatal nursing practice in this era of rapid technological advancement.

This clinical course utilizes the nursing process to plan and provide comprehensive care for the Childbearing family. Collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches are discussed in the provision of care with special considerations to the family’s sociocultural and developmental attributes Community resources are explored to provide continuity of care from the acute care setting to the home for the promotion of health and prevention of disease for the childbearing family. Students are exposed to various, simulations, and clinical observations in the following areas: antepartum, labor and delivery, postpartum, and nursery. Observational opportunities in perinatal clinics and community-based health education programs for childbearing families are accessed to enhance student learning experiences. All students will have a rotation in an urban underserved area.

This course focuses on the development and theoretical understanding of the family as a whole, its patterns, organizations, and common and complex health issues from newborn through adolescence. The course focus is on the management of health care of children, and their families in acute care and community environments. Concepts address prevention, health promotion, disease management and therapeutic interventions for children, and their families. General concepts focus on the family systems theory, introducing the family as a whole, from the healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill newborn, and child.

The nursing process is utilized in caring for children, and their families with health problems in a variety of settings to ensure safe, comprehensive and collaborative nursing care. Students develop the knowledge and skills to deliver evidence based, patient centered care for all ages. Application of strategies for high risk populations is emphasized. Simulation, lab, community and hospital clinical practice experiences with pediatric clients and families will be required. All students will have a rotation in an urban underserved area.

This course is designed to further develop the student’s acquisition of the professional nursing role as it applies to adult and geriatric clients. Utilizing a holistic perspective, students will refine the ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate collaborative evidencebased nursing care. Application of nursing intervention strategies and diagnostic reasoning skills will be emphasized Students will function as an active member of the interdisciplinary health care team with an emphasis on positive patient outcomes.

The nursing process is utilized in caring for the adult and elderly client with health issues in a variety of settings to ensure safe, comprehensive and team based care. Students continue to develop the knowledge and skills to deliver evidence based, patient centered care. Application of strategies for high risk populations is emphasized. Simulation and Clinical Practice experiences occur in a variety of settings. All students will have a rotation in an urban underserved area.

This is a hands-on, interactive interprofessional forensic lab including students studying nursing, criminal justice, and chemistry. The nursing student will fill the role of a forensic nurse, the criminal justice student will fill the role of law enforcement, and the chemistry student will fill the role of the forensic scientist. All students will participate in a simulated, experiential, unfolding crime case and will collect evidence at the crime scenes, provide care for the victim in the Barbara J. Toscano Nursing Simulation and Resource Center, analyze evidence in the chemistry lab and explore trial skills. 

This course focuses on the professional nurse as research consumer. Students are introduced to the research process with emphasis placed on the development of the critical appraisal skill used to evaluate nursing research findings for their validity and applicability to practice.

The Senior Clinical Immersion program consists of a series of structured learning and work experiences with nurse experts designed to assist senior level nursing students in their transition to their first professional nursing role. Nursing residents work in a structured health care setting and provide care to individuals and groups of patients as a fully integrated member of the health care team. Nursing residents work one-on-one with a variety of Registered Nurse Preceptors in executing the nursing regime. Seminars focus on topics such as prioritization, delegation, clinical emergencies, organization of work, documentation, physician-nurse communication, change theory, resume preparation and problem solving. Health care experts may be invited to participate in seminars to enhance the discussion of patient outcomes.

Public health concepts are studied in light of the core functions of public health: access to care, policy development, and assurance of quality. The course addresses environmental and epidemiological issues that impact health of the population. Students will consider cultural diversity and vulnerability of populations in addressing needs for policy development and/or change, disaster planning, and community health education. Emergency preparation and the role of the team will also be explored.

Students practicum provides hands-on and observational opportunities in organizations and institutions that focus on enhancing health of the population. Each student will engage in a quality improvement project in an agency for in-depth understanding of the impact of health policy on agency function. Students conduct community assessment to examine strengths and needs of local communities. Students participate in a simulated disaster scenario; including, assessment, coordination, and evaluation of performance role of the nurse in an emergency and/or disaster situation.