NSL: Nursing Lab

NSL 199. Nursing Lab Transfer Credits. 3-9 Credits.

Transfer Credits

Repeatable for credit.

NSL 212. Health Assessment and the Fundamentals of Nursing. 3 Credits.

This course provides the nursing student with skills in physical and psychosocial assessment of adult clients. The course also assists in the development and demonstration of the fundamental skills in nursing to include a checking of competence for all skills necessary to begin clinical practicums.

NSL 212 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 101 with minimum grade of C; and successful completion of BIO 100 or BIO 110, BIO 259, BIO 269, CHE 107, and CRL 107, with minimum grades of D- and a minimum composite GPA of 2.75. Corequisite: NSG 212 and NSL 212L.

Gen Ed Attribute: Speaking Emphasis

NSL 212L. Health Assessment and the Fundamentals of Nursing Lab. 0 Credits.

Laboratory studies that provide the nursing student with skills in physical and psychosocial assessment of adult clients. The course also assists in the development and demonstration of the fundamental skills in nursing to include a checking of competence for all skills necessary to begin clinical practicums.

NSL 212L Corequisite: NSL 212.

NSL 311. Laboratory. 5 Credits.

Clinical experiences are provided in agencies where relatively well populations have been identified, such as schools, day care centers, and childbirth settings.

NSL 311 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, and NSG 310, with minimum grades of C; successful completion of WRT 120 or WRT 123, a 200-level WRT course, BIO 204, NTD 303, and HEA 206 or PSY 210, with minimum grades of C-. Corequisite: NSG 311.

Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis (select both)

NSL 312. Laboratory. 5 Credits.

Clinical experience is provided in rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and acute care settings. These environments provide flexibility for students to implement changes for clients and acquire skills which will be utilized in other nursing courses.

NSL 312 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 101, NSG 212, NSL 212, and NSG 310, with minimum grades of C; and successful completion of WRT 120 or WRT 123, a 200-level WRT course, NTD 303, BIO 204, PSY 100, SOC 100 or SOC 240, and PSY 210 or HEA 206, all with minimum grades of C-. Corequisite: NSG 312.

Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis (select both)

NSL 381. Caring for Healthy, Acute and Chronic Populations - Nursing Foundations and Population Health/Gero. 3 Credits.

In this course the student will examine various nursing theories and concepts; conceptual frameworks; theories from other disciplines which apply to nursing; nursing history; nursing education; professionalism in nursing; nursing leadership; the nursing process; nursing diagnosis, nursing research; ethical, legal, economic, and political aspects of nursing and current issues in nursing. The student will also study and learn to practice psychosocial and physical assessment skills as well as learning how to do: vital sign assessment, provide bedside nursing care, hygiene and comfort; transfer and positioning techniques for clients, and understand and demonstrate competence in the utilization of standard precautions as a health care provider. The emphasis of this course will also be on the maintenance, and promotion and health of the older adult and introduction to the care of the inpatient. Clients with chronic health problems in both these populations are addressed. Content is organized around the concepts of wellness, chronicity and acuity. The nursing process is used to assist these clients to grow and or adapt through supportive, therapeutic, palliative, and preventive measures.

NSL 381 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 530, NSG 532, and NSG 533, with minimum grades of C. Corequisite: NSG 381.

NSL 383. Caring for Healthy, Acute and Chronic Populations - Pediatrics/Maternity/Medical-Surgical I. 3 Credits.

The emphasis of this course is the medical-surgical, childbearing family, and the pediatric patient. Content will focus on prevention of illness and promotion of health by assessment of the health status, appropriate intervention, and evaluation of the health promotion plan. Chronic states as well as acute health conditions will be addressed as well. Content is organized around the concepts of wellness, chronicity and acuity. The nursing process provides the framework for the care to be given in a variety of settings with clients.

NSL 383 Prerequisite: Successful completion NSG 381 and NSL 381, with minimum grades of C. Corequisite: NSG 383.

NSL 385. Caring for Acutely Ill Populations - Medical-Surgical II & Behavioral Health/Immersive Experience. 3 Credits.

The emphasis of this course is on the care of persons with acute medical-surgical and acute holistic health crises. Concepts of holistic care are highlighted throughout classroom and clinical experiences. The content will focus on the use of the nursing process to assist clients in crisis. The framework for the care to be given will reflect concepts including the use of leadership, management, and public /population health nursing concepts to manage and improve health. Students will collaborate, coordinate, and advocate as they use the nursing process independently and interdependently to focus on the complex problems of individuals, families, communities, populations, and systems. Students are expected to function as self-directed learners who correlate nursing/scientific theory and concepts with identifiable research problems in varied environments. Clinical experiences are provided in an immersion experience in acute care psychiatric inpatient and medical surgical settings.

NSL 385 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 381, NSG 383, NSL 381, NSL 383, with minimum grades of C. Corequisite: NSG 385.

NSL 411. Laboratory. 5 Credits.

Clinical experiences are provided in acute care psychiatric in-patient and in medical surgical settings.

NSL 411 Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSG 311, NSG 312, NSL 311, and NSL 312, with minimum grades of D-. Corequisite: NSG 412.

NSL 412. Laboratory. 5 Credits.

The clinical experience is provided in acute care medical surgical settings and in Community/Public Health settings. The student will have the opportunity to use leadership and systems level skills and to develop interdependency in their nursing practice.

NSL 412 Prerequisite: Successful completino of NSG 311, NSG 312, NSL 311, and NSL 312, with minimum grades of D-. Corequisite: NSG 412.

Distance education offering may be available.