This is the first course of a two-semester sequence focusing on advanced practice in Nursing of Older Adults. Emphasis is on the interaction between clients and caregivers in their social environment. NUR 720, HEA 600, NUR 721. This is the second course of a two-semester sequence focusing on advanced practice in Nursing of Older Adults. Nursing process is used to assess health changes and to design, implement, and evaluate interventions.
Emphasis is on the management of elderly clients experiencing acute and chronic health conditions.
This course is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to develop and implement a research study with faculty guidance. Introduction to anthropological concepts related to health and disease, including culturally diverse beliefs about disease etiology and treatment modalities. The ideology of natality includes perceptions and values about sexuality, childbirth, contraception, and abortion. Natality can be used as a prism through which to view the social and economic history of women in modern America. Changing ideas about childhood, about the home and domesticity, about women's place in education and in the world of work have all influenced and been influenced by concepts of natality.