This course covers the principles and practices of psychosocial health and nursing care. Emphasis is placed on the development of therapeutic communication skills, fundamental to all nursing care. Prevention and treatment of psychopathology is explored. Clinical nursing experience will be in the acute care inpatient settings and in outpatient settings.
Growth and development of children from birth through adolescence. Nursing education for health maintenance, prevention, medical treatment, and nursing interventions for common disease condition or injuries that affect children. The nursing clinical experience will be at multicultural inpatient hospital units, outpatient areas, and schools in San Francisco.
This course covers the principles and practices of maternal newborn health and nursing care. Content focuses on the maternity cycle, women's health, and the development of the newborn from the embryonic stage to neonatal life. Clinical nursing experience will be in acute care inpatient settings and include skills/simulation days.
The intermediate nursing skills lab is designed to assist students in developing skills necessary to transition to practice in the medical-surgical and gerontological clinical areas. Laboratory instruction consists of various hands-on skills and their applications in a safe and supportive environment. Students actively participate in instructor-guided training, and demonstrate the proficiency of acquired skills, clinical reasoning, and application of theoretical concepts into practice.
Acquaints the student with adults/geriatric adults experiencing dysfunction of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, and male reproductive systems. Emphasis is placed on nursing process and integrating principles of nutrition, pharmacology, pathophysiology, psychosocial and biological sciences. Students are assigned to care for patients in acute or postacute care settings.
The nursing skill lab is designed to orient, assist, and enhance the development of psycho-motor and cognitive skills that are critical in the performance of selected fundamental nursing procedures. The skill lab provides a controlled and safe environment in which students can refine their skills prior to and while being in clinical and simulation settings.
This course provides a continuation of the study of pharmacology with emphasis placed on nursing implications of drugs, including administration, adverse effects, clinical indications, dosages and frequencies, drug interactions, pharmacologic effects, and precautions and contraindications to use.
This course provides an introduction to pharmacology with emphasis placed on nursing implications of drugs: including administration, adverse effects, clinical indications, dosages and frequencies, drug interactions, pharmacologic effects, and precautions and contraindications to use.
Introduction to nursing fundamentals, basic medical-surgical concepts, and principles of care common to adults/older adults. This course includes application of theory and practice of skills in the clinical area and will lay the foundation for successive nursing courses. The clinical experience is designed to be concurrent with theory.
The study of electronic music and its 20th-century acoustic counterparts through analysis of composers, styles, techniques, recordings, and technological developments.