Nursing Degrees Online

Practical Nursing from Brunswick Community College Tennessee

The Practical Nursing curriculum prepares individuals with the knowledge and skills to provide nursing care to children and adults.

Students will participate in assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.

Graduates are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN) which is required for practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse. Employment opportunities include hospitals, rehabilitation/long term care/home health facilities, clinics, and physicians’ offices.

SUMMER SEMESTER
*BIO 163
Basic Anatomy & Physiology
4-2-0-0-5

ENG 111
Expository Writing
3-0-0-0-3

*PSY 110
Life Span Development
3-0-0-0-3

11

FALL SEMESTER

NUR 101
Practical Nursing I
7-6-6-0-11

NUR 102AB Practical Nursing II
5-0-12-0-9

NUR 102BB Practical Nursing II
3-0-0-0-3

NUR 117
Pharmacology
1-3-0-0-2

25

SPRING SEMESTER

NUR 103 Practical Nursing III
6-0-12-0-10

NUR 118 Nutrition/Diet Therapy
2-0-0-0-2

12

TOTAL CREDITS
48

Associate Degree Nursing at Brunswick Community College Tennessee

The Associate Degree Nursing curriculum provides individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide nursing care to clients and groups of clients throughout the lifespan in a variety of settings.

Courses will include content related to the nurse’s role as provider of nursing care, as manager of care, as member of the discipline of nursing, and as a member of the interdisciplinary team.

Graduates of this program are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN) which is required for practice as a Registered Nurse. Employment opportunities include hospitals, long term care facilities, clinics, physicians’ offices, industry, and community agencies.

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING (INTEGRATED) (A45100) ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE DEGREE

FALL SEMESTER
*BIO 163
Basic Anatomy & Physiology
4-2-0-0-5

or

*BIO 168
Anatomy and Physiology I
3-3-0-0-4

NUR 110
Nursing I
5-3-6-0-8

PSY 150
General Psychology
3-0-0-0-3

15/16

SPRING SEMESTER

*BIO 169
Anatomy and Physiology II
3-3-0-0-4

or

*BIO 271
Pathophysiology
3-0-0-0-3

NUR 120AB Nursing II
2-3-0-0-3

NUR 120BB Nursing II
3-0-6-0-5

NUR 130AB Nursing III
1-3-0-0-2

NUR 130BB Nursing III
3-0-6-0-5

18/19

SUMMER SEMESTER
ENG 111
Expository Writing
3-0-0-0-3

*PSY 241
Developmental Psychology
3-0-0-0-3

6

FALL SEMESTER

*BIO 155
Nutrition
3-0-0-0-3

*CIS 110
Introduction to Computers
2-2-0-0-3

NUR 210
Nursing IV
5-3-12-0-10

16

SPRING SEMESTER

ENG 114
Prof Research & Reporting
3-0-0-0-3

NUR 220
Nursing V
4-3-15-0-10

Humanities/Fine Arts Elective
3-0-0-0-3

16

TOTAL CREDITS
72

NURS 131 First Aid and Personal Safety (Cr. 3)

Designed to provide the student with the principles and skills necessary to help victims of accidents, emergencies, and disaster situations. It includes measures to be taken to ensure personal safety, thus leading to accident prevention in the home and community. This is a practical course, part of which will be devoted to mastering first-aid skills.

NURS 200 Introduction to Nursing (Cr. 3)

This course is designed to provide the student with various health and nursing concepts. It also provides the student with a wide body of knowledge of the principles governing health maintenance and promotion, as well as illness prevention.

NURS 205 Pathophysiology (Cr. 2)

This course is designed to provide and reinforce the students with the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Furthermore, it will aid the student in identifying health and illness of the human body emphasizing with the pathophysiology of diseases and thus providing intervention.

NURS 251 Fundamentals of Nursing I (Cr. 5)

The course is designed to provide concepts basic to the practice of clinical nursing. The nursing process is presented as a frame of reference in meeting the human needs of people and in the delivery of health care in a variety of settings. Prerequisite: NURS 200, BIOL 251

NURS 252* Fundamentals of Nursing II (Cr. 5)

Continued emphasis on nursing concepts, procedures and their applications in lab and clinical setting make up this course. Prerequisite: NURS 251

NURS 332* Maternity Nursing (Cr. 5)

The course includes the study of obstetrics and the nursing care of women during the various phases of child-bearing. The course also includes care of the well infant and presents specific measures in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health. Prerequisite: NURS 334, NURS 335

NURS 333* Pediatric Nursing (Cr. 5)

The course helps the students to develop an awareness of the importance of current child and infant care. It will stress the health problems of the infant and child and the nursing care necessary in restoring health to the child. The course will include the study of process in children family problems, and the tools that will be effective in helping the child and family attain realistic goals. Clinical experience will complement the theories that are presented. Prerequisite: PSYC 231, NURS 334, NURS 335

NURS 334*, 335*, 336* Medical Surgical Nursing I,II III (Cr. 5, 5, 5)

These courses present an integrated approach to the study of health and illness. Examination is made of all that occurs when various disease-causing processes exert their effect on physiological functions. It is designed to give a broad general background in the care of adults who have medical and surgical problems. Emphasis is placed upon the nursing intervention involved in the maintenance and restoration of physiological equilibrium. Prerequisite: NURS 252

NURS 337* Advanced Medical Surgical (Cr. 5)

Nursing concepts current to clinical practice in critical care nursing are included. Emergency, coronary care, intensive care and operating room nursing will be especially emphasized. Clinical experience will complement the theories that are presented. Prerequisite: NURS 334, NURS 335, NURS 336

NURS 338* Community Health Nursing (Cr. 5)

This course helps the students to address the community as client and focuses on the facilitation of the health of families and groups in the community through health promotion, restoration and support processes. The role of community agencies in meeting health needs will be also introduced.

NURS 341* Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Cr. 5)

This course emphasizes mental health and psychiatric nursing concepts, constructs, and skills pertinent to nursing practice in selected psychiatric and community mental health settings.

NURS 350 Nursing Management (Cr. 3)

Professional nursing practice within the organizational framework is presented. Leadership, organizational behavior, knowledge and skills required for management of common professional nursing activities in a health care setting are also covered.

NURS 351, 352 Pharmacology I, II (Cr. 2,2)

The course is designed to enable nurses to assist more proficiently patients and physicians in health services. It includes generic and trade names for the common drugs in use, administration, actions, interactions, doses, uses, side effects, contraindications and special focus on nursing considerations.

NURS 354 Nursing Research (Cr. 2)

The course explores skills essential to the research process through critical analysis of research studies, and the application of principles of research methodology to selected projects.Prerequisite: MATH 352

NURS 355 Professional Foundations (Cr. 2)

The course is a study of relationships and responsibilities of professional nursing with emphasis on current issues and professional organizations, as well as the planning and the discussing of career development. The course is required and is restricted to the last semester senior nursing students.

Case Management Nursing graduate programs prepare students research and analyze data, while coordinating patient care from clinical aspects to insurance issues. Graduates with a masters or PhD degree in case management nursing can become independent consultants, nursing care managers, researchers and more.

Neumann College’s Master of Science and Graduate Certificate Programs in Nursing are consistent with the College’s Mission Statement and Vision Statement and the goals of Catholic education in the Franciscan tradition. The purpose of the graduate program in Nursing is to enhance professional nursing practice, based upon the Betty Neuman Systems Model, through the liberal education of individuals who provide advanced nursing care to persons of a diverse population, in varying circumstances and settings. Neumann College’s library maintains the archives for the Neuman Systems Model. It is intended that graduates of the Master’s degree program have a sound educational foundation for advanced professional practice, for continuing

development of that practice, and for accepting both professional and civic responsibilities.

Graduates of the AAS Program are prepared to provide direct nursing care to individuals in inpatient settings and structured outpatient settings. The program provides students with a closely related mix of theory and clinical practice. Students gain clinical experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics. The program requires a minimum of two years of full-time study.

NRS 105 Professional Nurse Role I (1)
NRS 108 Pathophysiology - Altered Health Concepts (3)
NRS 110 Core Concepts I - Professional Nursing (2)
NRS 111 Core Concepts II - Professional Nursing (4)
NRS 207 Pharmacology for Nursing Care (2)
NRS 212 Adult Health Nursing II (2)
NRS 213 Adult Health Nursing I (2)
NRS 214 Family and Reproductive Health Nursing (2)
NRS 215 Child and Family Health Nursing (2)
NRS 217 Psychiatric Nursing (2)
NRS 218 Adult Health Nursing III (2)
NRS 222 Family and Reproductive Health Clinical (3)
NRS 224 Psychiatric Nursing Clinical (3)
NRS 225 Professional Nurse Role II (2)
NRS 232 Child and Family Health Clinical (3)
NRS 234 Adult Health Clinical I (3)
NRS 242 Adult Health Clinical II (3)
NRS 244 Adult Health Clinical III (3)
PNU 107 Basic Principles of Pharmacology for Nursing (1)

General Education Course Requirements:
BIO 185 Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology (5)
BIO 274 Microbiology (4)
PSY 170 General Psychology (3)
FWS 237 Nutrition for Optimum Living (3)
ENG 101 Composition I (3)
General Education Electives: (5)

THE COURSE
The course as a nurse generalist, able to develop actions in the promotion, prevention, protection and rehabilitation of health, individual and collective. This professional may work in hospitals, kindergartens, schools, services, surveillance and health, can act as autonomous, developing business activities, consulting and audits. With the course, you can understand the man in full size and the complexity of life, since it took the principles of the Unified Health System as a new model for guiding the production of health services, seeking to understand the role of nurses in the health of the country

WHAT YOU WILL STUDY
The course integrates theory and practice, using a learning experience focusing on solution of real problems, from the understanding of social reality, political and health of the country and the vision of man in its entirety. Enhances the formation of humanistic and social students. Besides supervised in various health institutions, the course provides for extension and research activities.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Students develop throughout the course, research activities in groups in interdisciplinary work, with the object of study identified problems in the social environment. Present at the end of the course, work on research papers, such intervention in the care of nursing practice, teaching-oriented individual, subject to the examination committee at the Seminar of Completion of Course. Research reports are produced and are sent and accepted by the scientific journals in the area of health for publication. In addition, the course develops research projects funded by the PUC Minas / FIP. It has two courses of specialization: the Course of Specialization in Systematization of nursing care in Primary Care and Management of Local and District Health, with emphasis on family health.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COURSE
The course is part of the Pole Permanent Education for SUS. PROSAÚDE also participates in the Project, the result of partnership between the Ministries of Health and Education, the UN and UNESCO, which
enables school health initiatives included the SUS.

Turn Period (s)
Afternoon 9 periods
Night 9 periods

The Associate Degree Nursing program is a concentrated two-year program that includes a combination of science, liberal arts,and focused nursing courses. The program prepares graduates for work in hospitals and long-term care facilities that focus on nursing care of individuals with common acute and chronic health problems.

After earning an associate degree, students are eligible to take the national examination for licensure NCLEX as registered nurses (RN). The licensing exam is administered by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.

Designed for working nurses who want to build on prior nursing education, this program will equip you with the theory-based knowledge and skills to work in many of the new expanding fields of nursing. You will be prepared to lead health-care teams, coordinate and plan nursing care for a variety of clients, collaborate with other health professionals, and make confident, independent decisions. As a BSN graduate, you will be prepared to assume leadership roles for coordinating and planning nursing care. Job opportunities are fast-growing and diverse. The baccalaureate nursing program also serves as the foundation for graduate nursing studies. Fully accredited by NLNAC.

Location: Online, Alma, Big Rapids, Flint, Grand Rapids, Holland, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Midland, Traverse City

Program Plan: Checksheet, Rotation Schedule

Transfer Plans: Grand Rapids Community College

Application Deadlines:
Fall Semester (August): Applications must be received by August 1. All application materials, including transcripts, must be received by Ferris no later than August 15.
Spring Semester (January): Applications must be received by December 1. All application materials, including transcripts, must be received by Ferris no later than December 15.

An applicant who submits their application after August/December 1 AND/OR the transcripts and required items are not received by August/December 15 will not be eligible for admission to the upcoming semester. In such cases the application will be processed for the next semester or cohort start as applicable.