Registered Nursing (LPN to RN)

This class is designed to develop students’ skills in critical reading and in a range of writing tasks. It allows students to go beyond matters of comprehension and summary to evaluate and extend everything they read. It will assist students in discovering something meaningful to say and to use writing as a way to actively participate in discussions about certain subjects; it will also enable students to approach a topic in a creative manner, gather and evaluate information, organize ideas, write coherent sentences, and learn to revise and edit drafts.

This course includes review techniques for correct mechanics, grammar, and sentence construction. It introduces students to professional and technical writing, and it assists students in developing strategies for collaborative writing.

Prerequisite: ENGL 098 or qualifying placement score.

This course is designed to develop students’ problem-solving skills and quantitative reasoning through topics including: problem-solving processes, logic, percentages, measurement, ratios and proportions, statistics, linear equations, geometry and trigonometry, and personal finance.

Designed to relate psychology to everyday life. Students will gain a basic understanding of how we develop throughout our life span and how we learn throughout our lives. Special emphasis is placed on understanding causes, symptoms and treatment of the most prevalent psychological disorders in our society. An empathetic perspective for those who suffer from these disorders and how the disorders affect their families is stressed.

This course focuses on nursing care, clinical judgment, and pharmacological therapies of various health and illness concepts across the lifespan.  This course is designed to further develop the application of health and illness concepts through selected exemplars.

This clinical course is the first of three clinical courses in which the student will apply curricular concepts in the care and management of clients across the lifespan in various healthcare settings.  This course is a combination of lab, simulation, and clinical.

This course is designed to integrate previous healthcare knowledge and attributes into the role development of the professional registered nurse.  In addition, this course develops the students’ understanding of the principles of healthcare and how professional nursing impacts client health and well-being.  Emphasis will be placed upon the professional nursing and healthcare concepts. 

This course further focuses on nursing care, clinical judgment, and pharmacological therapies of increasingly complex health and illness concepts across the lifespan.  This course is designed to further develop the application of health and illness concepts through selected exemplars.

This clinical course is the second of three clinical courses in which the student will apply curricular concepts in the care and management of clients across the lifespan.  This course is a combination of lab, simulation, and clinical.

This course is designed to further integrate previous healthcare knowledge and attributes into the role development of the professional registered nurse.  Further development of the students’ understanding of the principles of healthcare and how professional nursing impacts client health and well-being will be explored.  

This is the final of three courses that develop nursing care, clinical judgment, and pharmacological therapies of complex health and illness concepts across the lifespan.  The course is designed to further develop the application of health and illness concepts through selected exemplars.

This clinical course is the final of three clinical courses in which the student will apply curricular concepts in the care and management of clients across the lifespan.  This course is a combination of lab, simulation, and clinical. 

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to integrate clinical and theoretical learning from previous nursing courses through an LPN to RN role-transition clinical experience. The purpose is for the student to function in the professional nursing role and further the transition from LPN to the RN role.

This comprehensive course provides an up­-to-­date presentation of the essentials of sociological study. Students will learn a wide range of classical and contemporary perspectives of diverse roles, interests, opportunities, contributions, and experiences in social life. The socialization process, including social structure, social interaction, and social groups is examined in the context of how human society developed. Topics include race, ethnicity, deviance, gender, class, age, marriage and family, politics, education, religion, population, and social change. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze how cultural differences evolve and objectively evaluate those differences, thus enabling them to appreciate diversity in their workplaces and communities.