RN Course Descriptions

ADN 433 ~ Advanced Maternal-Child Health I ~ 4 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

This course builds upon the student's previous knowledge and experience with basic maternal and child health. The student will apply the nursing process in clinical settings while performing the skills/procedures registered nurses do in selected obstetrical settings. Complications of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the newborn will be presented. Within the scope of the registered nurses' role with obstetrical consumers, nursing process and health teaching will be explored and practiced.

ADN 443 ~ Advanced Maternal-Child Health II ~ 3 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

A continuation of ADN 433 Advanced Maternal-Child Health I, focusing upon the family unit and disease processes affecting children.

ADN 476 ~ Mental Health Nursing ~ 6.5 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

This course will provide a study of and interaction with individuals with dysfunctional behaviors. As a valuable member of the professional health team, the student will learn modalities of psychotherapies. Clinical treatment units will include alcoholic and drug abuse, adult psychiatric, and outpatient. An educational approach will be made to develop psychiatric nursing to be therapeutic, personalized, comprehensive, rehabilitative, and preventive.

When possible, the student will assist the therapist in treating the patient within the home and community environment, using the nursing process. Psychotropic drugs and their effects upon the behavioral and physical systems will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on learning basic counseling techniques and therapeutic communications. Although this course content is primarily upon psychiatric patients, the same principles will generally apply in all realms of human interrelationships.

ADN 561 ~ Medical-Surgical Nursing ~ 7 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

This course will build upon the student's previous knowledge of and experience with basic medical surgical care. The student will be required to apply the nursing process in classroom and clinical settings as it applies to the registered nurse's role with medical surgical consumers. Physical assessment, disease information, and nursing interventions will be presented and applied. The physical effects of therapeutic medications will be included. Wellness issues and communication skills, including teaching techniques, will be presented.

ADN 563 ~ Comprehensive Nursing ~ 10.5 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

A continuation of ADN 561 Medical-Surgical Nursing. This course provides the student with the opportunity for expanding the advanced student nurse’s role within hospitals and within the community health setting. The student will become an integral part of the nursing team as he/she provides nursing care using nursing principles with increasing independence.

ADN 831 ~ Trends and Issues ~ 3 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

The Level II student will explore the historical perspective of nursing, current issues in nursing, and the health care delivery system. Problem solving related to nursing practice will be discussed and role played. An understanding of legal aspects and responsibility for continued growth and professionalism will help prepare the student for transition from student to licensed registered nurse.

ADN 850 ~ Employment Empowerment ~ 1 Sem. Hrs. Cr.

This course will reinforce prior knowledge acquired as part of the nursing curriculum. The purpose of this course is to empower students as they prepare for the NCLEX exam by applying previously acquired science and nursing content to the patient care process. By facilitating successful completion of the NCLEX exam, graduates will become employed in the role of a registered nurse as soon as possible.