NUR206 Medical Surgical Nursing II
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: The focus of the course includes health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration. Students continue to build on previously acquired knowledge and skills. Opportunities for experience in caring for clients with perioperative needs, digestive and urinary alterations, hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic disorders, and cancer are provided to coordinate with classroom instruction. The student will be given practice in identifying best practices from provided sources of current nursing evidence. In addition, the student will continue to identify how the interdisciplinary team functions for individual clients with serious healthcare deviations and how the practical nurse communicates information that may be utilized by the interdisciplinary team. Students will utilize nursing informatics to organize client care. Application of the nursing process continues as well as theory and practice in documentation. Nutritional needs for these clients are addressed.
Credit Hours: 4.00
Prerequisites: NUR205
Corequisites: None
NUR203 Medical Surgical Nursing II
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course focuses on identifying best practices in caring for clients with digestive disorders, urinary alterations, hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic disorders and cancer. Students will practice using nursing informatics in organizing client information and care. Nutritional needs for these clients are addressed.
Credit Hours: 4.00
Prerequisites: NUR169
Corequisites: None
NUR357 Medical Surgical Nursing II
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course continues to develop student abilities in setting priorities, communicating, planning and providing care for medical-surgical patients with multiple physiological and psychosocial needs in diverse health care settings. Students continue implementing principles of health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Students engage in health teaching and counseling when caring for medical-surgical clients. Opportunities to identify best practices from selected sources of current nursing evidence are provided. Students communicate with the interdisciplinary team to initiate plan of care and participate in quality improvement processes. Learning opportunities are presented in the classroom, simulation, and in supervised clinical experiences.
Credit Hours: 5.00
Prerequisites: NUR356
Corequisites: None
NUR205 Medical Surgical Nursing I
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course introduces the student to health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration as it relates to client-centered care. Students continue to build on previously acquired knowledge and skills. Application of the nursing process continues as well as theory and practice in documentation. Students are beginning to explore the quality improvement process in the classroom and clinical setting. Concepts of mental health across the lifespan are introduced. Opportunities for experience in caring for selected clients mental health deviations are provided to coordinate with classroom instruction.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: NUR179
Corequisites: None
NUR356 Medical Surgical Nursing I
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course introduces the student to setting priorities, communicating, planning and providing care for medical-surgical patients with multiple physiological and psychosocial needs in diverse healthcare settings. Students learn health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Students engage in health teaching and counseling when caring for medical-surgical clients. Opportunities to identify best practices from selected sources of current nursing evidence are provided. Students communicate with the interdisciplinary team to initiate plan of care and participate in quality improvement processes. Learning opportunities are presented in the classroom, simulation, and in supervised clinical experiences.
Credit Hours: 5.00
Prerequisites: NUR221, NUR309, NUR310
Corequisites: None
NUR190 Medical Surgical Nursing I
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course allows students to apply foundational concepts and skills in caring for clients with mental health alterations in care settings across the lifespan. Students are introduced to the quality improvement process. Students will identify the functions of the interdisciplinary team and communicate and document healthcare information. Students will assist with the planning, provision and evaluation of care.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: NUR169
Corequisites: None
MED254 Medical Office Procedures II
College of Health Science Medical Assisting Department
Course Description: This course is designed to develop an awareness of the responsibilities of the office professional. Emphasis is on current operating functions, ethics and professional liability, basic bookkeeping and accounting aspects of a medical practice management, supervisory duties, and professionalism. Other topics include but not limited to: process payments and collect overdue payments, process payroll, develop and control revenues and expenses, conflict resolution, leadership and legal concepts and ethical responsibilities. “Hands-on” simulations and role-playing to promote development of competencies required in a medical setting are emphasized with the use of virtual medical office software.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MED160 Medical Office Procedures I
College of Health Science Medical Assisting Department
Course Description: This course focuses on the administrative duties in a medical office. Fundamental office procedures are reviewed. "Hands-on " simulations and role-playing promote development of competencies required in a medical setting using virtual medical office software such as scheduling, monitoring and coordinating appointments, telephone techniques and office procedures. Students will learn office procedures including: safety in the medical office, records management, mail processing, ergonomics in the office, maintenance of office equipment and policies and procedures of the medical office.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MED149 Medical Ethics
College of Health Science Medical Assisting Department
Course Description: This course is designed to provide an overview of the laws and ethics relevant to medical careers, and can help guide you through the legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to face as allied health professionals. An introduction to medical ethics which examines several approaches to ethics within the interrelated contexts of medicine, healthcare and law. Topics investigated may include but are not limited to: malpractice suits and how to avoid them, legal system, confidentiality and truth telling, abortion, critically ill neonates, death and dying, mental illness, human experimentation, justice, surrogate motherhood, stem cells and human cloning.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MED112 Medical Coding and Billing I
College of Health Science Medical Assisting Department
Course Description: This course introduces students to the major nationwide medical insurance programs and provides a basic knowledge and understanding of the national diagnostic and procedural coding systems. Students receive extensive practice in processing claims forms and insurance coding and apply their knowledge through several program databases utilized in medical office settings. Students will show how to maintain patient confidentiality and demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of managed care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CHAMPVA, Medicare, Medicaid and worker's compensation.
Credit Hours: 2.00
Prerequisites: MED104
Corequisites: None