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Courses and Course Descriptions

The courses and course descriptions listed below provide students, faculty, and staff a comprehensive listing of courses provided at The Christ College. Due to institutional need and faculty workload, not all courses listed are offered in a given academic year. For a listing of courses provided for each semester, please review the Courses by Semester, located here.

• Nursing 100 introduces the student to the basic concepts appropriate to nursing practice. These concepts include caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, the teaching-learning process and the roles and behavior of the professional nurse.

  The nursing process is introduced as a comprehensive clinical decision-making strategy, as well as a framework for providing and managing competent best practices and evidence-based care to promote, maintain, or restore the client’s optimal level of health. Nursing’s metaparadigm and the biological, psychosocial, and spiritual/religious dimensions of human needs are defined and analyzed. 

Credits

1 Lecture Hours + 0 Lab (clinical) hours = 1 Semester Credit

Co-Requisites

• NUR 100 is also taken or paired with NUR 110 and NUR 120.

Course Description

• NUR 110 provides the student with knowledge of the concepts necessary to perform a comprehensive health history and health assessment of individual clients across the lifespan. To facilitate acquisition of knowledge and concepts, the course incorporates biophysical, psychosocial and spiritual growth and development into the dimensions of health assessment. Emphasis is placed on the normal age-related findings of assessment as well as appropriate developmental tasks. Human needs are used as an organizing framework.

Credits

• 2 Lecture hours + 0 Lab (clinical) hours = 2 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• None.

Co-Requisites

• NUR 110 is also taken or paired with NUR 100 and NUR 120.

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NUR 120: Foundations of Nursing Practice

Course Description

• NUR 120 provides the student with the fundamental competencies, skills, and techniques of nursing practice. Caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, the teaching learning process, best practices, and evidenced-based care, as well as scientific rationale, provide the basis for applying clinical nursing therapeutics and prevention strategies to meet the unique biological and psychosocial needs of the client. The roles of the nurse and application of the nursing process as the framework for clinical experiences focus on assisting the adult client to meet acute and long-term healthcare needs and reinforce the application of theory content to practice settings. A skills laboratory practicum, in conjunction with clinical experiences with adult medical-surgical clients in acute care settings, reinforces the application of theory content to practice settings.

Credits

• 3 Lecture hours + 6 Lab (clinical) hours = 5 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• None.

Co-Requisites

• NUR 120 is also taken or paired with NUR 110 and NUR 120.

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NUR 130: Basic Pharmacological Concepts for Safe Administration of Medication

Course Description

• NUR 130 is designed to facilitate the student's acquisition of the knowledge and basic skills requisite to the safe administration of medications. Specific application of the nursing process provides the student with an underlying framework for the nurse's role and responsibilities in the management of medication administration. Students learn how to correctly prepare and administer oral and parenteral medications. Students are taught systems of measurement with an emphasis on the metric system. Students learn and practice mathematical dosage and solution calculations required to safely administer medications.

Credits

• 1 Lecture hour + 0 Lab (clinical) hours = 1 Semester Credit

Pre-Requisites

• NUR 100, NUR 110, and NUR 120
• BIO 111, ENG 099 or ENG 101, GEN 101

Co-Requisites

• NUR 130 is also taken or paired with NUR 150.

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NUR 150: Nursing Management of Client Needs I

Course Description

• Nursing 150 is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing care for adult clients in medical-surgical settings. Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client’s position on the health continuum.

  Content focuses on the nursing management of clients with needs related to safety and protection, activity, nutrition, elimination, regulation, oxygenation, circulation, cognition, and sensation. Emphasis is also placed on the care of the client with needs related to the surgical experience.

  Clinical experiences focus on the acute care health needs of adult clients and emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the client in meeting or adapting to changing healthcare needs.

Credits

• 5 Lecture hours + 9 Lab (clinical) hours = 8 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• NUR 100, NUR 110, and NUR 120
• BIO 111, ENG 099 or ENG 101, GEN 101

Co-Requisites

• NUR 150 is also taken or paired with NUR 130.

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NUR 200: Nursing Management of Client Needs II

Course Description

• Nursing 200 is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing and managing the family-centered care of the childbearing family, child rearing family, and care of men and women across the lifespan.  Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client and family’s position on the health continuum.

  Content focuses on the nursing management of clients and families with needs related to psycho/social/cultural, biophysical development, sexuality, safety protection, development tasks, comfort/sensation, and nutrition. Emphasis is placed on the care of the newborn, pediatric, and female and male reproductive health client across the lifespan.

  Both inpatient and community-based clinical experiences emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the clients and families across the lifespan in meeting or adapting to changing healthcare needs.

Credits

• 5 Lecture hours + 15 Lab (clinical) hours = 10 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• NUR 100, NUR 110, NUR 120, NUR 130, and NUR 150
• BIO 111, BIO 112, and BIO 121
• COM 101
• ENG 101
• GEN 101
• NOTE: Students are urged to take or have taken FA 101 or HIS 101, PHI 103, PSY 101, and SOC 101 prior to taking NUR 300 during the summer session. Summer courses cannot be guaranteed for the semester in which the student chooses to graduate.

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NUR 201: Nursing Management of Client Needs III

Course Description

• Nursing 201 is designed to facilitate the student’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors requisite to providing and managing the care of adult clients with complex bio-psycho-social-spiritual health care needs. Utilizing the nursing process as a clinical decision-making framework, students apply primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies in response to the client’s position on the health continuum.

  Content focuses on the nursing management of complex health needs related to bio-psycho-social-spiritual functioning. Crisis management, coping and adaptation strategies are incorporated as they apply to the adult with mental health and complex medical-surgical needs. Emphasis is placed on the nursing care required to achieve optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health.

  Both inpatient and community-based clinical experiences emphasize the use of caring interventions, assessment, collaboration, managing care, communication, teaching/learning, and professional behaviors as the clinical competencies required to assist the client, family, and caregiver in meeting or adapting to complex, changing mental health and acute care needs.

Credits

• 5 Lecture hours + 15 Lab (clinical) hours = 10 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• NUR 100, NUR 110, NUR 120, NUR 130, and NUR 150
• BIO 111, BIO 112, and BIO 121
• COM 101
• ENG 101
• GEN 101
• NOTE: Students are urged to take or have taken FA 101 or HIS 101, PHI 103, PSY 101, and SOC 101 prior to taking NUR 300 during the summer session. Summer courses cannot be guaranteed for the semester in which the student chooses to graduate.

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NUR 300: Transition to Nursing Practice

Course Description

• NUR 300 facilitates the student's transition to the role of the associate degree nurse in the clinical practice setting. The course assists the student to synthesize the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors learned in previous courses with current health care issues and management strategies that affect nursing practice. Students are also provided the opportunity to identify and develop strategies to cope with the symptoms and stressors resulting from reality shock. Students implement all levels of prevention during this course to assist clients to meet or adapt to changing health care needs. The nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy and the clinical competencies of the associate degree nurse continue to be emphasized and expanded. The theory component of the course utilizes the roles of the nurse for associate degree nursing programs: member within the discipline of nursing, provider of care and manager of care. This is actualized through the concepts of professionalism, political and communication issues, self-management, and priority setting. These topics are incorporated with resource management, management styles, assignment making and delegation. Increased independence is achieved through application of the nursing process in providing caring interventions and managing care for groups of clients. Critical thinking skills and the professional nurse's commitment to life-long learning to ensure professional growth and clinical competence are integrated into the course concepts. Preceptor-based clinical experiences across the lifespan occur in a variety of clinical settings and emphasize the management of groups of clients and the application of the theoretical concepts in the practice setting. Collaboration and the exchange of ideas between the preceptor, student, other healthcare team members and clients enhance clinical decision-making. NUR 300 is taught in an accelerated summer session; class, lab, and credit hours are calculated according to the conventional semester formula.

Credits

• 1.5 Lecture hours + 7.5 Lab (clinical) hours = 4 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• NUR 100, NUR 110, NUR 120, NUR 130, NUR 150, NUR 200, and NUR 201
• BIO 111, BIO 112, and BIO 121
• COM 101
• ENG 101
• GEN 101
• NOTE: Students are urged to take or have taken FA 101, PHI 103, PSY 101, and SOC 101 prior to taking NUR 300 during the summer session. Summer courses cannot be guaranteed for the semester in which the student chooses to graduate.

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NUR 199: LPN to RN Transition Course

Course Description

• NUR 199 is a three credit course is designed to enable the student to explore integrative concepts in nursing and to assist the student in the transition from licensed practical nurse to registered nurse.  Students refine and update previous learning in addition to identifying goals for successful transition to the registered nursing program.  Combined with classroom, on line, and nursing laboratory experiences, the student learns through the application of concepts.  The student will demonstrate the ability to solve problems through the use of the nursing process with a focus on client assessment and to communicate more effectively.  

Credits

• 30 Lecture hours + 30 Lab (clinical) hours: 3 Semester Credits

Pre-Requisites

• BIO 111, BIO 112, and BIO 121
• COM 101
• ENG 101
• GEN 101

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