Nursing (NURS)

This course prepares students toward entry-level nurse aide competencies with the ability to provide care to the elderly, ill, and disabled. Topics include personal care, infection control, communication, resident rights, emotional support and care of special populations. After successful completion of NURS 100 and NURS 100L, students are eligible to take the State of Hawai‘i Nurse Aide certification exam.

This course prepares entry level nurse aides to provide care to the elderly, ill, and disabled. Course activities will take place in the clinical lab and in off-site clinical environments. Topics include personal care, infection control, communication, resident rights, emotional support and care of special populations. After successful completion of NURS 100 and NURS 100L, students are eligible to take the State of Hawai‘i Nurse Aide certification exam.

This course discusses drugs with an emphasis on sites and mechanisms of action, toxicity, fate, and uses of major therapeutic agents.

This course focuses on identifying needs of the total person across the lifespan in a wellness/health promotion model of care. It introduces the roles of the nurse, nursing code of ethics, and the nursing process with emphasis on learning self-health and client health practices. To support self-health and client health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview clients in a culturally sensitive manner, and work as members of a multidisciplinary team utilizing reflective thinking and self-analysis.

This first level course focuses on the history of nursing practice and education. Ethical and legal aspects as well as professional responsibilities in the practice of nursing are emphasized.  In addition, an introduction to the professional standards of nursing are presented.

This course will introduce students to pathophysiologic concepts which serve as a foundation to understanding the basis of illness and injury and their corresponding spectrum of human response. These concepts will serve as a foundation for the formulation of clinical decisions and care planning.

This course provides an opportunity for students to develop their assessment skills and utilize common nursing interventions for clients with illnesses common across the lifespan in communities in Hawai‘i. The client and family's understanding and acceptance of their illness coupled with clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based research are used to guide clinical judgment in nursing care. Roles of the interdisciplinary team and legal aspects of delegation are explored in the context of nursing care. The cultural, ethical health policy, and healthcare delivery system are explored.

This course focuses on monitoring a variety of subjective and objective data, identifying obvious patterns and deviations, and developing a prioritized intervention plan for specific populations. In this course, students will implement new nursing skills with supervision, develop their own beginning leadership abilities, and acknowledge delegation as a needed modality to improve client care.

This course develops nursing theory related to the accurate interpretation of cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias on the 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG). The focus is on the cardiac conduction system, electrophysiology, and a systematic approach to the interpretation and treatment of cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias.

This course focuses on the nursing care and health promotion for maternal-newborn and pediatric clients and families in the acute care and community settings. Students will learn to utilize family theories and assessment tools when providing culturally sensitive, client-centered care.

This course builds on Health and Illness I and II, focusing on more complex and/or unstable patient care situations some of which require strong recognition skills and rapid decision-making. The evidence base supporting appropriate focused assessment and effective, efficient nursing intervention are explored. Lifespan and developmental factors, cultural variables, and legal aspects of care frame the ethical decision-making employed in patient choices for treatment or palliative care within the acute care, psychiatric, and home health settings. Case scenarios incorporate prioritizing care needs, delegation and supervision, family and patient teaching for discharge planning, home health care, and/or end of life care.

The focus will be on nursing responsibility with regard to current issues in nursing and health care. Included will be the nurse's role as a contributing member of the profession and the community. The theoretical basis for designing and implementing systems of nursing at the beginning level of patient management in an institutional setting will be examined. Principles of organizational structure, leadership, decision-making, priority setting, and change will be discussed.