Sophomore Level:

  • NURS20010 Interpersonal Communication for Healthcare Professionals
    • In this course I had the opportunity to:
      • Develop and enhance interpersonal, interdisciplinary, and public speaking skills.
      • Demonstrate knowledge and application of APA format.
      • Demonstrate refinement of basic writing skills for papers and outline.
      • Enhance study and test-taking skills.
      • Practice assertiveness skills and demonstrate the ability to manage scenarios using assertive styles of communication.
      • Practice teamwork, collaboration, and facilitation skills, and demonstrate comprehension of group process, content, and development theory.
      • Demonstrate evidence of critical thinking in communications (paper, seminar presentation, class discussion).
    • Competencies:
      • APA Formatting
      • Teamwork Skills
      • Practiced ATI modules to prepare for future nursing tests
      • Developed Presentations
    • Evidence Based Practice:
      • 90 Minute Presentation
      • Essay on the Roles of the Members of the Healthcare Team.
    • Personal Reflection:
      • I believe I will use everything I have learned from this course while caring for patients and working with other health care team members to provide better services and care to patients.
  • NURS20020 Foundations of Assessment and Communication In Nursing
    • In this course I had the opportunity to:
      •  Assess individuals as members of a community and a family unit by studying the holistic concept of a person, interrelationship between patient and family members, and influences of the community on individuals and family members.
      • Recognize spiritual/cultural aspects of a person by identifying religious, spiritual and cultural practices, and researching the roles of a nurse in recognizing uniqueness of the individual and health care implications.
      • Apply the interpersonal process in human relationships by studying interpersonal process skills, and analyzing interpersonal communication.
      • Gather health assessment data by using a variety of skills such as health history, physical assessment, and gathering subjective and objective data using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns.
      • Implement the nursing process within settings by studying how to use and integrate nursing diagnosis (NANDA) in the nursing process, nursing process in determining diagnosis of selected clients, identifying outcomes and interventions in conjunction with the individual and family to promote health, and basic care plans for identified nursing diagnoses.
    • Competencies:
      • Conducted a full head-to-toe assessment
      • Calculated medication dosages
      • Critically thought to create concept care maps and nursing diagnoses
    • Evidence Based Practice:
      • Concept Care Maps
      • IPR
      • Head-to-Toe Assessment
    • Personal Reflection:
      • I believe that I will use all that I have learned in this class with every patient I encounter because nuturing the patient's holistic and spiritual needs are just as important as providing their physical needs.
  • NURS20030 Foundations of Nursing Intervention
    • In this course I had the opportunity to:
      • Use physiological principles in promoting health by using basic medication administration principles in caring for adult clients, identifying physiological and cultural factors in promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health, identifying environmental factors impacting individual, family, and community health, and implementing interventions to maintain and promote individual and family health.
      • Apply the interpersonal process in the nurse-client relationship by using interpersonal skills in the client-nurse relationship and in promoting the comfort and identifying the clients needs, implementing culturally sensitive communication when working with clients and families, utilizing the interpersonal process in the nurse-family-community relationship assessment, implementing effective communication to identify individual and family goals, and identifying interventions to promote the interpersonal process in diverse settings.
      • Implement the nursing process within settings by using the nursing process in determining nursing diagnoses (NANDA) of clients, identifying outcomes and interventions in conjunction with the individual and family to promote health and maintain optimal functioning, describing nursing care of clients with actual and potential physiological and psychological alterations, using appropriate knowledge, theories, and principles to support nursing care, using the nursing process in determining appropriate nursing care for family and community, and using physical assessment skills when performing nursing care.
      • Practice aspects of the professional nurse's role by caring for the client and client's family, providing for client and personal safety, demonstrating professional responsibility and accountability, and contributing to the development of a professional portfolio.
    • Competencies:
      • Paper charting
      • Head-to-toe assessment
      • Interpersonal communication
    • Patient Teaching:
      • I was able to teach clients about the types and purpose of the medications they were receiving.
    • Evidence Based Practice:
    • Personal Reflection:
      • I believe I will use everything I have learned in this class because it helped me to understand the importance of therapeutic communication, as well as how the nursing process worked and how to implement it while caring for a patient.
  • NURS30050 Basic Nursing Informatics
    • In this course I had the opportunity to:
      • Describe and discuss legal, ethical, regulatory, and economic issues surrounding the management of clinical information.
      • Demonstrate use of information technology and terminology related to nursing informatics.
      • Apply nursing informatics competencies needed for nurses practicing in the current health care environment.
      • Discuss informatics applications for quality care and patient safety.
    • Competencies:
      • Scope and application of nursing informatics
    • Patient Teaching:
    • Evidence Based Practice:
    • Personal reflection:
      • This class helped me to see how technology could improve nursing and healthcare as a whole. It also showed me a possible interest that I could follow because I have a passion for technology.

  • NURS30060 Basic Pharmacology for Nursing Practice
    • In this course I had the opportunity to:
      • Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics.
      • Apply the principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics to clinical situations in diverse settings.
      • Demonstrate a knowledge of the actions, dosage ranges, therapeutic uses, adverse effects, and drug interactions of the common classes of drugs.
      • Utilize a knowledge base of drugs, including classification, mechanism of action, expected dosages and nursing implications for the safe administration of drugs and development of teaching and safety plans for patients.
      • Apply the nursing process, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation to the therapeutic use of drugs in patients across the lifespan.
      • Utilize a variety of resources to secure and communicate information concerning drugs.
    • Competencies:
      • Calculated medication dosages and safe administration
      • Drug classes
    • Personal Reflection:
      • I believe I will use everything I have learned in this class because it helped me to understand the classifications, mechanisms of action, expected dosages, and nursing implications of drugs, which I will use for the rest of my school years and nursing career.