Nurs 20010: Interpersonal and Communication Skills for Health Care Professionals
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EBP: Presentations
Personal Reflection: This class allowed me to express myself in a creative way, while learning to communicate better with my classmates. This class will help me better to communicate with my clients in the nursing environment.
Nurs 20020: Foundations of Assesment and Communication in Nursing
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Personal Reflection: This class taught me many of the nessesary beginner skills that I will need to continue with my nursing career.
Nurs 20030: Foundations of Nursing Interventions
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EBP: SCD's during bed rest, early ambulation, use of ice packs.
Patient Teaching: Importance of ambultation, incentive spirometry, and pain management.
Personal Reflection: This class furthered my knowledge in a hands on environment to continue on with my nursing career.
Nurs 30010: Parent Newborn Nursing
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EBP: Risks associated wit advanced maternal age, gestattional diabetes, and Rh factors.
Patient Teaching: Proper swaddling techniques, perineal care, importance of bonding, and breastfeeding diet requirements.
Personal Reflection: This course gave me the skills I need to asses families during the child-bearing process.
Nurs 30020: Healthcare of Children
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EBP: Adolescent diabetes mellitus management, Erickson's theory of psychological development, and ketoacidosis treatment.
Patient Teaching: Safety precautions and importance of hydration. Importance of procedures used, such as pulse ox, IV pumps, and medication administration to avoid traumatic experiences while being hospitalized.
Personal Reflection: In the clinical atmosphere I gained the knowledge to assess and communicate with children and their families.
Nurs 30030: Nursing of Adults
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EBP: Varices treatment, COPD treatment, and indicators of malnutrition.
Personal Reflection: This course taught me to implement the nursing process in an adult acute care setting. I learned that adults with acute illnesses need ample education about their illness and how they and their families are being impacted by this illness and how they are coping with it.
Patient Teaching: Medication compliance, effective deep breathing techniques, proper nutrition, and ambulation as tolerated by patient importance.
Nurs30040: Gerontology/Rehabilitation of Adults
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EBP: Parkinson's disease treatment, congestive heart failure treatment, and Gordon's health assesment.
Personal Reflection: In the extended care/long term facility, I learned how communicate with patients who had cognitive impairments or physical impairments that limited their ability to communicate verbally. I also learned that gerontological patients have special needs due to immobility impairments and medication administration.
Patient Teaching: Medication compliance, fall risks, and importance of ambulation.
Nurs 30050: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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Personal Reflection: This course helped me be able to implement informatics into my clinical environment by being able to recognize all sources available to me to provide safe care to my patients.
Nurs 30060: Basic Pharmacology for Nursing
Personal Reflection: This class taught me the basic principals of medications functions, reactions, action, and dosages to make myself more knowledgeable on proper medication distribution.
Nurs 40010: Nursing of the Critically Ill
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EBP: Oral care every two hours on trach pateints, urine monitoring on sedated patients, and isoltion precation on patients with MRSA.
Patient teaching: Coughing and deep breathing after surgery, importance of eating a good diet, and medicatin administration.
Personal Reflection: Throughout this course I acquired the skill and knowledge to care for the critically ill patient. Critically ill patients have special needs and equipment pertaining to thier condition, through this course I feel confident in using this equipment to accommodate their needs.
Nurs 40020: Community Health Nursing
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EBP: Community disparities, resource barriers, and community unemployment rates.
Patient teaching: Infection control, importance of immunization administration, and establishing a primary care provider.
Personal Reflection: This course taught me the roles and resposibiliteis of the community health nurse and thier vital resposibility to bring quality health care to those who can't acquire or afford it. They also play an important role in patient advocacy. Nurses in this field also practice under resticted funds and in adverse conditions to better their communities that they work in.
Nurs 4ooo5: Professional Nursing Development
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Personal Reflection: This class informed me of proper interview techniques, resume construction and how to conduct myself in a professional manner in front of large groups of people.
Nurs 40030: Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health Nursingcare
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See my EBP: Stress reduction interventions, therapeutic communication techniques, and Axis guidelines.
Patient Teaching: Proper stress managment, coping skills, relaxation techniques, and medication compliance.
Personal Reflection: This course taught me proper therapeutic communication with mentally ill populations. This course also taught me to analyze my own values andbeliefs through personal reflection.
Nurs 40045: Integration of Leadership and Management in Nursing
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EBP: Effective leadership techniques, universal precautions, and routine PAP guidelines.
Patient Teaching: STI prevention and treatment, proper diet, birth contol methods, and domestic violence resurces.
Personal Relection: This course taught me the needed skills to become a future leader in the health care profession. The course also taught me how to be prepared to begin my professional nursing carrear, by using the knowledge obtained in previous courses in coralation with a preceptor in real time application.
