All junior level nursing courses. This course explore the role of the nursing manager. The student will examine the management processes of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. This course applies the nursing process to families and aggregate populations in the community and serves as a departmental W course with formal written work. Knowledge from previous nursing and support courses is integrated with principles of public health science.
Students visit a variety of families with health problems in the home setting.
In addition, an aggregate population in a circumscribed community is visited to promote and protect the populations health through screening, health maintenance and health promotion activities. The course is presented concurrently with NUR 400, NUR 460 or NUR 490 the senior year, presenting the dimensions, current dilemmas, professional responsibilities and privileges of nursing from the perspective of the past, present and future. Students participate in activities which assist them in making the transition from the status of student to that of the professional nurse. The students define their nursing care problems according to the diagnosis of their assigned client working with assessment data. The students are responsible for developing and implementing a plan of care appropriate to the identified nursing diagnosis.