Course Description
NSG 101 - Dimensions of Professional Nursing
Credit Hours: 2
This course introduces the student to the diverse nature of professional nursing. Nursing and its evolution from lay healing to the present status of an emerging profession are explored. The Whole Person Nursing Framework is introduced as an organizing framework for nursing practice. (offered every Fall)
Prerequisite(s): Nursing Major or consent of instructor
NSG 102 - Whole Person Nursing
Credit Hours: 1
This course focuses on Whole Person Nursing as a framework for clinical practice. Core concepts relating to the individual, health promotion, critical thinking, and the nurse-patient relationship, with emphasis on communication, are explored. (offered every Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Nursing Major or consent of instructor
NSG 201 - Science of Nutrition
Credit Hours: 2
This course focuses on the use of nutrition as an intervention to promote, maintain, or restore health. Nutrition assessment, diet analysis, meal planning, and basic nutritional support during health alterations are studied. (offered every Fall)
Prerequisite(s): BIO 283, Nursing Major or consent of instructor
NSG 202 - Basic Nursing Principles I
Credit Hours: 4
This course focuses on care of the adult in non-acute settings, using the Whole Person Nursing
Framework. Students are guided in use of therapeutic communication and development of basic nursing skills derived from theoretical principles and concepts. An emphasis is placed on health assessment. Competencies related to integration of cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills are practiced and tested in laboratory and clinical settings. Clinical settings occur in Quincy, Illinois, and surrounding areas. (offered every Fall.)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 111, PSY 100, BIO 282
Prerequisite or concurrent: NSG 101, BIO 283
NSG 203 - Basic Nursing Principles II
Credit Hours: 4
This course focuses on whole person assessment and expands communication and nursing process skills learned in Basic Nursing Principles I. The focus is on development of health promotion and care of adults experiencing uncomplicated health alterations. Scientific knowledge from nursing, physiological and psychological theories are the basis for planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of nursing actions. Clinical settings occur in Quincy, Illinois, and surrounding areas. (Offered every Spring.)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 111; BIO 283; NSG 101, 201, 202. Prerequisite or concurrent NSG 102, BIO 159.
NSG 204 - Science of Pharmacology
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the use of pharmacology agents and parenteral therapies as interventions to promote, maintain, or restore health. Pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and principles of drug administration are studied. Nursing assessment and intervention related to pharmacologic and parenteral therapies are emphasized. (offered every Spring)
Prerequisite(s): BIO 282, BIO 283, Nursing Major or instructor consent
Prerequisites or concurrent: BIO 159 or instructor consent
NSG 280 - Medical Terminology
Credit Hours: 2
This course is designed for anyone desiring a background in the language of medicine and health care. The course is presented utilizing a system of learning medical terms from root words, combining forms, prefixes and suffixes. At the completion of this course the student will be able to recognize, build, define, and correctly spell medical terms. (offered every Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Nursing Major or instructor consent
NSG 301 - Nursing from Adolescence through the Middle Years
Credit Hours: 5
This course focuses on the adolescent, young adult, and family experience with sexuality-reproductivity. How the growth and development, and health of these persons influence health behavior with fertility, childbearing-parenting, and sexuality are examined. Clinical experiences develop the nursing roles of general practitioner, educator, and patient advocate within settings providing care to the adolescent, young adult, and childbearing family. Nursing interventions that promote, maintain, or restore health with common, acute, and chronic health responses to sexuality-reproductivity are studied. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 101, 102, 201, 202, 203, 204; COM 110; PSY 236.
Prerequisite or concurrent: Ethics.
NSG 302 - Nursing from Middle through Older Adult Years
Credit Hours: 5
This course focuses on the growth and development, and health of middle-aged through older adults and their families. The experiences of these persons and families with acute and chronic responses to health are examined. Clinical experiences develop the nursing roles of general practitioner, educator, and patient advocate within settings providing care to the middle-aged through older adult patients and their families. Nursing interventions that promote, maintain, or restore health are studied. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 101, 102, 201, 202, 203, 204, 280; CHE 125, COM 101; PSY 236.
Prerequisite or concurrent: Ethics.
NSG 303 - Nursing from Infancy through Adolescence
Credit Hours: 5
The focus of this course is on providing Whole Person Nursing care that is caring and goal-directed to children ages infancy through adolescence, and their families. The objectives are met in a variety of settings which focus on the unique needs of children along the health and developmental continuum. Course structure includes lecture, discussion, and clinical application in acute care, home, and community settings. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 101, 102, 201, 202, 203, 204; CHE 125; COM 110; PSY 236.
Prerequisite or concurrent: Ethics.
NSG 304 - Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Credit Hours: 5
This course focuses on individuals and families throughout the lifespan who are experiencing varying states of mental health. The environmental influences affecting the mental health of the individual are examined within the context of the family and/or community. The use of self within the nurse/patient relationship is emphasized as the foundation for communication and therapeutic nursing interventions. Collaboration with other health team members and/or community resources is explored as a way to address the needs of the whole person/family using various treatment modalities. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 101, 102, 201, 202, 203, 204, 280; COM 101; PSY 236.
Prerequisite or concurrent: Ethics.
NSG 401 - Community Health Nursing
Credit Hours: 5
This course offers an introduction to principles and concepts of community health nursing throughout the lifespan. Coordination and use of community resources are stressed to ensure quality, accessibility, cost effectiveness and continuity of health care. Clinical experiences are provided in official and private agencies, school systems, and other health care delivery systems with emphasis on population focused care.(Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): Basic Track: NSG 404; Junior standing and completion of the Red Cross "Introduction to Disaster Service I."
NSG 402 - Advanced Nursing Concepts
Credit Hours: 5
This course focuses on applying Whole Person Nursing to persons experiencing complex multisystem health problems. Pathophysiological concepts and principles related to complex, multi-system health problems are analyzed. Nursing care principles and standards related to high acuity situations are emphasized. Clinical experience occurs in acute, subacute, home and community care settings. (Offered every fall.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112; BIO 354; successfully meet competency requirement. (See p. 147) Prerequisite or concurrent: NSG 404
NSG 403 - Professional Nursing Concepts
Credit Hours: 4
This course provides the student with the opportunity to explore professional concepts within the discipline of nursing. The internal and external environmental influences, including a culturally diverse society, that shaped the evolution of nursing are appraised. A plan for personal/professional development is formulated with consideration of individual career goals. A practicum provides the student the opportunity to synthesize knowledge and skills from the curriculum and to integrate them into an individualized clinical nursing experience. The student is challenged to expand his or her knowledge by managing health care in a particular area of nursing, participate in professional networks, influence health policy, and analyze the legal and ethical parameters of nursing practice. Contemporary nursing is placed within the context of a global and ever-changing health care environment. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112
Prerequisite or concurrent: NSG 402, 404.
NSG 404 - Scientific Methods in Nursing
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to the research process as a link between theory and practice. Legal, moral, and ethical questions relative to research and use of human subjects are explored. Scientific inquiry, synthesis of literature, and critical analysis of published nursing research are emphasized. (Offered every semester.)
Prerequisite(s): Basic Track: NSG 301, 302, 303, 304; ENG 112; Statistics; Ethics. Junior level students may enroll in the Spring Semester with permission from the instructor.
NSG 405 - Leadership in Nursing
Credit Hours: 5
The focus of this course is on the leadership role of the professional nurse as a change agent, educator, manager, and professional role model in an ever-changing society. Synthesis of leadership/management principles and concepts are incorporated into the professional practice role of the nurse to facilitate accomplishment of group goals and to assume beginning leadership roles in managed care health delivery systems. Professional values, teaching/learning, communication and collaboration, and leadership/management skills are emphasized and evaluated through group processes and clinical experiences. (Offered every Spring.)
Prerequisite(s): NSG 402, 404
NSG 491 - Reiki Natural Healing
This course will prepare the student to become a Reiki practitioner at the First and Second Degree Level, explore the ways in which the student uses the self as a therapeutic instrument, and explore the uses of Reiki in the clinical setting as well as for personal growth and self-healing.
Advanced Placement Track Required Courses:
NSG 214 Introduction of Professional Nursing
Credit Hours: 3
This online course introduces the student to the diverse nature of professional nursing. The rich evolutionary history of nursing to the present will be explored. The Whole Person Nursing framework will be introduced as a framework for organizing nursing care. The core concepts of nursing individual, family, community, and environment will be emphasized. The use of critical thinking and communication skills will also be stressed.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Nursing Advanced Placement Track.
NSG 215 - Health Assessment
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the assessment component of nursing care. The course integrates the elements/skills of health and physical assessment with the College's curriculum framework of Whole Person Nursing. Assignments focus on acquiring assessment skills, exploring the biological-psychosocial-spiritual basis of assessment, developing a systematic method for completing comprehensive assessments across the lifespan, and examining the role of clinical reasoning as part of the assessment process. Emphasis is placed on skill acquisition.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Nursing Advanced Placement Track.
NSG 216 - Fundamentals of Nursing Care
Credit Hours: 4
This clinical course will use the whole person nursing framework as well as the nursing process to guide their nursing practice. The health, function and wellness of the person will be the focus. The care of adults with uncomplicated health alterations will be examined. Students will use therapeutic communication, health assessment and knowledge from other support courses to provide nursing care.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Nursing Advanced Placement Track.
NSG 201, 204, 301, 302, 303, 304, 401, 402, 403, 404, and 405.
See course descriptions under "Basic Track Required Courses."
Nursing Electives:
A Nursing Elective is a study of specific courses not offered in other nursing courses, or subjects covered with more depth then in the general nursing curriculum. These courses are offered when a sufficient number of students request a course. An elective course is offered more than once, and some are offered every year.
NSG 380 - Health Assessment
Credit Hours: 2
This course offers RN and upper division students the opportunity to expand their skills in adult whole person health and physical assessment. Whole person health and physical assessment focuses on physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual data, and includes a health history, physical examination, and analysis of diagnostic data. Whole Person Nursing is used as the foundation framework for health assessment principles and skills. Emphasis is placed on incorporating principles and skills into current practice of clinical courses. Individualized practice provides student with the opportunity to focus their experiences in areas of greatest need as well as clinical preference.
Prerequisite(s): RN or upper division standing.
NSG 391 - Core Concepts in Nursing
Credit Hours: 3-5
This course emphasizes the core concepts of nursing practice. Students analyze previous personal performance and develop an individualized success and action plan. Students are expected to use critical thinking processes to apply core concept knowledge and principles to clinical situations. The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health experiences are emphasized. Students will incorporate diagnostic findings, pharmacological and nutritional interventions, as will as growth and development stages into patient plans of care.
Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor.
NSG 470 - Professional Nursing Internship
Credit Hours: 1-3
A Professional Nursing Internship is defined as: an authentic in-depth learning experience which takes place outside of the classroom and is characterized by exposure to situations not generally acquired in the classroom or regular clinical setting; supervision by a recognized authority in the field; academic guidance from a faculty member; and evaluation of the internship. The internship is an organized program that occurs in an appropriate health care agency such as a hospital, nursing home, clinic or other approved setting. The student works under the supervision of a registered professional nurse to gain knowledge and to refine and advance their skill level.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing GPA 2.5, employer acceptance, and advisor approval.
NSG 480 - Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-2
The purpose of the independent study is to allow students to increase knowledge in an area of particular interest and/or carry out a research project to receive academic credit. Students in good academic standing may earn academic credit through the completion of independent study. A maximum of two credits may be earned during the academic career at Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing. Independent studies are offered at the discretion of the student, faculty member, and administration. Each credit hour awarded requires a minimum of 15 hours of study.
Prerequisite(s): NSG 404 or consent of instructor.
NSG 481 - Critical Care Nursing
Credit Hours: 2-3
This course offers the senior student an opportunity for in-depth study of critical care nursing of clients with the more common medical/surgical crisis situations. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing the pathophysiology, assessment findings, and treatment of selected imbalances of critically ill clients.
Prerequisite(s): NSG 402 or consent of instructor.
NSG 482 - Parish Nursing
Credit Hours: 2-3
This course focuses on the nursing role, scope, and standards of practice of Parish Nursing. The past, present, and future of Parish Nursing are explored. Major concepts of holistic nursing care, spirituality and spiritual assessment, prayer and healing are analyzed in the parish nurse role. Community resources, team building, complementary methods of caring, and stress management are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): Upper division or consent from instructor.
NSG 483 - Patient Education
Credit Hours: 2
This course offers the student an opportunity for in-depth study and application of the teaching/learning process to promote, maintain, and/or restore health. Emphasis is placed on using learning theories and nursing literature to provide patient education when giving whole person nursing.
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
NSG 484 - Spirituality in Health Care
Credit Hours: 2-3
This course focuses on the person as a spiritual being; the concept of spirituality and its relationship to health care; the role culture and religious beliefs play in a person's spirituality, spiritual growth and support in health care; and ethical issues and research in providing spiritual support in health care. (Open to all majors.)
NSG 485 - Stress Management
Credit Hours: 2-3
This course will focus on nonpharmacological methods of stress management. The whole person approach to wellness will be emphasized and the class will be conducted in an interactive and experiential framework. The student will analyze the stresses in his or her own life and develop a plan to manage stress effectively.
NSG 486 - Complementary Therapies
Credit Hours: 2-3
This course will examine Eastern health practices and other alternative (complementary) practices seen in health care today. The topics and therapies selected for inclusion are those that are of particular interest to nurses. Knowing about therapies is not enough; for this approach to become successfully integrated into mainstream nursing practice, protocol development, managing change and research awareness are examined. With increasing interest in natural healing, self-care and responsibility for one's health, nurses need to be familiar with these approaches. (Open to all majors.)
NSG 487 - Research Practicum
Credit Hours: 1-3
This course provides hands on experience in the research process. Students will select a research study and become part of the research team participating in the design development, literature searches, data collection, date entry, data analysis, and presentation preparation.
Prerequisite(s): Computer requirement, NSG 404, or instructor's permission.
NSG 488 - Promoting a Health Lifestyle through Nutrition
Credit Hours: 2
This course explores contemporary nutritional trends, health-related research, and dietary recommendations for a healthy lifestyle. Health promotion strategies that focus on nutritional lifestyle changes for the individual and groups of patients/clients are addressed. (Open to all majors.)
NSG 489 Selected Topics
in Nursing
Credit Hours: 1-3
These courses, which are studies of selected issues
not covered in other nursing courses or
subjects covered with more depth than the general
nursing curriculum, are offered at the discretion
of the faculty and at the request of a
sufficient number of students to justify a course
offering. Selected topics courses may or may not
be offered more than once.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
NSG 490 - Genetics in Nursing
Credit Hours: 2
Scientific knowledge in human genetics has expanded significantly in the last decade largely due to the Human Genome Project. This course will increase the ability of a professional nurse to think genetically when approaching a clinical situation or problem that may not appear to be genetic in nature. The course will examine basic mechanisms of inheritance and transmission of chromosomes and genes, understanding of genetic contributions to human diversity, and information about common inherited genetic disorders and conditions. (Open to all majors.)
Prerequisite(s): Intro to Biology. |
