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This course provides a venue for older adults to discover or strengthen their musical creativity, personal vocal skill, performance standards, and self-confidence. Vocal exercises and solo singing. Advanced memorization is stressed.

This course introduces older adults to gospel music, literature, and singing techniques with the goal of performing throughout the community. The course provides a venue for older adult students to express themselves through gospel music, gain knowledge of the history of gospel music, build or rebuild their self-confidence as soloists or group performers, and interact with a group of creative peers.

This course provides older adults (primarily those with a working knowledge of the Spanish language) with an opportunity to practice and perform music in Spanish from around the world. Older adult students are introduced to Spanish music, literature, and singing techniques from their own and other cultures, and encouraged to express themselves through Spanish folk songs.

This course helps older adults understand and appreciate opera as a music form and provides opportunities for socialization through shared interests. Older adults learn about the creative aspects, history, and development of opera. The course includes operatic experiences, live productions, and other opportunities for mental stimulation and peer group socialization.

This course stimulates older adults -- many of whom are in residential or convalescent homes -- to rediscover their life experiences, interact with peers, and renew their involvement with music in order to promote mental, emotional, and physical health. Older adult students will discuss and listen to music, focusing on different themes or exploring a particular composer or musical era each week.

This course helps older adults understand how music can enhance their life experiences by learning more about music styles, composition, performance, and historical periods. Older adults listen to and discuss musical selections and composers’ biographies; expand their musical knowledge and understanding of different types of music, including orchestral, jazz, indigenous, and film music; and explore different aspects of musical performance by comparing different performers’ recordings of the same piece.

This course provides older adults with a telescopic look at the development of music in western culture. Older adults learn how musical experiences can continue to enhance and stimulate their lives, and explore the origins and development of western music from major historical periods. Older adults listen to and discuss western music with their peers, learn about musical style, form, and composers, and share ways in which western music has influenced their lives.

This course provides older adults with a musical growth experience, opportunities to enhance their self-esteem and sense of belonging, and a way to express their creativity and interact with peers. Older adults rehearse and perform three-part arrangements of classics, Broadway hits, and ragtime music, and learn to be positive contributors to the sound, appearance, and artistic personality of a performing chorus while keeping their concentration and lung capacity at a peak.

This course is intended to enhance the enjoyment of creating music among older adults and enhance their ability to express themselves through music. Older adults learn to play piano music at their own level and pace, and participate in group discussions with peers. Older adults also learn musical skills and concepts and develop their ability to play piano music.

• Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing Program, Anatomy 1, English 1, Microbiology 1, Physiology 3.

This course provides a basic introduction to nursing and roles of the nurse, as well as professional concepts related to patient-centered care, safety, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe, quality care to the adult and older adult. The theoretical foundation for communication and nursing skills is presented. An introduction to the nursing process provides a framework to assist students in developing effective clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and clinical decision making.

• Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing Program: Anatomy 1, English 1, Microbiology 1, Physiology 3.

Nursing 10 and 10L must be taken concurrently.

The focus of this introductory nursing fundamental course is to provide the beginning student with a conceptual basis in meeting self-care deficits of older adults in a non-acute environment. Emphasis is placed on assisting the student in learning to use Orem’s Self Care Model and the nursing process as an underlying framework for the development of critical thinking while implementing basic nursing care.

• Prerequisite: None.

Nursing 10 and 10L must be taken concurrently.

The focus of this clinical course is to provide the opportunity for skill performance and transfer of theory to the clinical setting. The clinical setting will include the Health Sciences Learning Center laboratory and non-acute clinical environments with focus on the older adult.

• Prerequisite: Nursing 10, 10L and 36.

The focus of this nursing fundamentals course is to provide the continuing student with opportunities to develop competencies in providing nursing assistance to meet patient/client self-care deficits. Students will utilize the nursing process and the Orem’s Self-Care Model as the framework to apply critical thinking skills while implementing nursing care for adults. Medical-Surgical nursing content will be introduced with the focus on fluid volume imbalance, peri-operative care and genito-urinary health deviations. Nursing care will be provided to adults and older adults in acute and non-acute environments. The companion clinical course, Nursing 15L must be taken concurrently.

• Prerequisite: Nursing 10, 10L and 36.

Concurrent enrollment in Nursing 15 is required.

The focus of this nursing laboratory course is to provide the continuing student with the opportunity for application of theoretical knowledge to the provision of client care in the clinical setting. Students will begin to utilize critical thinking skills as they apply theoretical concepts to clinical practice while implementing nursing care for adults and older adults. Nursing care will be provided to adults and older adults in acute and non-acute environments.

• Prerequisite: Nursing 10, 10L or equivalent.

The focus of this course is to enable the student to further develop techniques of physical assessment. It includes a description of fundamental assessment techniques including measurement of vital signs, then details assessment procedures and findings for specific body systems. The examination techniques presented are related primarily to adult patients. Gerontological considerations are included for each body system, with a focus on identifying normal age-related variations.

• Prerequisite: Physiology 3.

This as an introductory course in pharmacology designed to enable the student to recognize the various classes of drugs used in modern medicine. It includes a brief review of anatomy and physiology, how drugs exert their effects, the major indication for drug use, routes of administration, expected and adverse drug effects, precautions and contraindications. Emphasis is on prescription drugs, but over the counter medications are also included.

• Prerequisite: Eligible for Advanced Placement.

The focus of this course is to orient the advanced placement nursing student, the foreign trained nurse, or equivalent, to the philosophy and expectations of the second year of the registered nursing program. Special emphasis is placed on having the student utilize the Orem’s Self-Care Model and the nursing process in planning, implementing, and evaluating the nursing care of patients through case studies.

• Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing Program.

This course provides the opportunity for students to apply foundational concepts related to patient-centered care, safety, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe, quality care. Students will begin to utilize communication and nursing skills in the laboratory and long-term care settings. The nursing process provides a framework to assist students in developing effective clinical decision making.

• Prerequisite: Nursing 1 and 36.

This course expands the discussion of the roles of the nurse, as well as profession-related and patient care concepts. Emphasis is placed on leadership, spirituality, sexuality, nutrition, medication administration, and patient education. An exploration of basic human needs and nursing skills is presented in providing care for the adult and older adult.

• Prerequisite: Nursing 15, 15L.

This course must be taken concurrently with the laboratory component, Nursing 20L and Nursing 17.

The focus of this course is on the pathophysiology and required nursing assistance for adult patients, including the geriatric patient, with acid-base imbalances, electrolyte imbalances and related endocrine health deviations. Universal self-care requisites are applied to specific client groups requiring nursing care to manage hypertension and peripheral vascular disease. The pathophysiology and required nursing assistance for clients with health deviations affecting the musculoskeletal system, and the eye and ear are also explored. Special emphasis is placed on having the student utilize Orem’s Self-Care Model and the nursing process in planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care of selected patients. Strategies to promote critical thinking will serve as the foundation for making nursing care decisions.