This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide care to culturally diverse individuals, families, and communities dealing with acute and chronic mental health and psychiatric conditions. Emphasis on clinical reasoning/judgments pertinent to health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management of acute and chronic mental health and psychiatric conditions. Factors influencing mental health will be identified and disparities in outcomes will be discussed. The nurse's role as a leader, patient advocate, change agent, educator, and member of the interprofessional health care team will be discussed. The course will include clinical experiences in simulation and a variety of health care and community settings. Prerequisites: 705:428, 412, 414. Corequisites: 705:418, 455.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L4 STUDENTS ONLY.

OPEN TO 2ND DEGREE L2 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course presents an integrative approach to pathophysiological concepts of disease and pharmacotherapy. A description of conditions and diseases of the organ systems, including etiology, signs and symptoms, and methods of diagnosis and treatment relevant to nursing care will be examined. Basic pathophysiologic and pharmacologic concepts will be presented including pharmacokinetics, drug actions and interactions across a wide spectrum of pharmacologic agents and in the context of the relevant disease process. Pathophysiologic principles and the pharmacotherapeutic aspects of nursing care as they apply to populations across the life span will be explored. Nursing assessment of the disease process and the global effects of pharmacotherapy are emphasized as well as patient and family education.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L1 STUDENTS ONLY.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide care to diverse childbearing families. Physical and behavioral factors influencing the reproductive health of families, communities, and populations will be identified and disparities in outcomes will be discussed. Evidence-based practice, professional standards of care, the nursing process, and knowledge from nursing and related disciplines will be presented as the foundation for providing comprehensive, safe, quality nursing care to childbearing families. The perinatal nurse's role as a leader, patient advocate, change agent, educator, and member of the interprofessional health care team will be discussed. This course will include clinical experiences in simulation and a variety of health care settings.Prerequisites: 705:205, 395, 335, 306, 330. Corequisites: 705:326, 336.

OPEN TO 2ND DEG L2 STUDENTS ONLY.