Welcome
Feel free to have a look around. To the right you can find links to my resume, some of my scholarly works and a little more information about me. Below you can find my nursing philosophy and goals, and my nursing course work.
Fall 2010 Courses
In the Fall of 2010, I will be taking the following nursing courses:
NURS 624 – Nursing in the Community
Credits: 2.00
Explores the role of community health nursing in health promotion, disease prevention, and long-term care. Analyzes contemporary community health problems with implications for community health nursing. Explores a variety of clinical and population-focused roles in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of health problems. This course is accompanied by a 2 credit clincial.
NURS 618 – Caring for People with Alterations in Mental Health
Credits: 2.00
Provides an understanding of the concepts of mental health and major factors affecting human behavior and interaction. Specific theoretical concepts guiding nurse-client interactions are used as a vehicle for supporting the person’s and family’s optimum state of well-being. This course is accompanied by a 2 credit clinical.
NURS 703 – Nursing Leadership/Management and the Organizational Context
Credits: 4.00
Focuses on understanding ways in which the nurse can affect the organizations in which practice occurs and ways in which the organizations affect the individual’s practice. Emphasizes issues of leadership; management; power; change; motivation; and interfacing of autonomous, dependent, and interdependent nursing functions in current and future health care delivery systems.
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