Academics
Practical Nursing Program Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Utilize nursing processes to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care and health services for individual patients and/or groups
- Use appropriate communication skills to interact effectively with client, families, and other health care providers
- Demonstrate acceptable nursing practice by providing care consistent with existing standards and established procedures
- Assume responsibility for safe nursing practices by maintaining your physical and mental well-being
- Participate in enrichment and continuing education activities to maintain and enhance professional competence
- Fulfill the legal and ethical duties inherent in ensuring clients’ rights. Adhere to prevailing laws, rules and regulations governing nursing practice
Course: Introduction to Nursing
Course #: CPNP – 0050
Hours: Theory – 24
Course Description: This course focuses on concepts related to the origins of nursing, holistic care, healthcare delivery using a multi disciplinary approach. Additionally, roles and responsibilities of the nurse, health care finance, legal and ethical aspects of nursing, cultural and religious factors related to healthcare and its delivery.
Course: Fundamentals of Nursing
Course #: CPNP - 0100
Hours: Theory-100 Clinical-144
Course Description: This course focuses on the development of concepts of nursing and health. Identification of threats to a person’s universal self-care requisites are explored through utilization of the nursing process. Appropriate scientific principles and basic nursing technologies are taught. Clinically, the student focuses on the assessment of the gerontological resident and performance of basic nursing skills. Integration and interrelationships of communication, cultural, ethical, legal, and nutritional concepts are explored in a variety of learning experiences.
Course: Anatomy & Physiology
Course #: CPNP - 0101
Hours: Theory-60
Course Description: This course is deigned to familiarize students with human anatomy, physiology and associated medical terminology. Emphasis is placed on practical applications in nursing. Topics include, but are not limited to: body organization, structure and function of body systems, and importance in regards to malfunctions and maintaining homeostasis.
Course: Nutrition
Course #: CPNP - 0102
Hours: Theory - 45
Course Description: This course provides the foundation of basic nutrition required to maintain health. The course also provides information on the role of nutrients and body metabolism.
Course: Pharmacology
Course #: CPNP - 0200
Hours: Theory - 48 hours
Course Description: This basic nursing pharmacology course was designed to present concepts in the pharmacotherapeutics of drugs and their relation to the care of clients with selected pathology. The scope of pharmacology, dosage calculation, drug administration and the interaction of drugs on body tissue will be discussed.
Course: Adult Health Nursing
Course #: CPNP - 0201
Hours: Clinical - 144 hours Theory - 198hours
Course Description: This course provides the theory necessary to provide comprehensive nursing care to adult clients with acute health deviations. The course presents content required for practical nurses to care for clients who have self-care deficits which results from acute health deviations.
Course: Mental Health and Community Health Nursing
Course #: CPNP - 0300
Hours: Theory - 84 hours
Clinical - 80 hours
Course Description: This course is designed to focus on the use of the nursing process with clients, demonstrating various types of psychopathology. Emphasis will be placed on the nurse’s responsibility to use these concepts and principles to identify, mobilize and align him/herself with the client’s adaptive resources that will promote maximum mental health. Community resources will be identified that are designed to assist the client in resolving some of their mental health issues.
Course: Gerontological Nursing
Course #: CPNP - 0303
Hours: Theory - 72 hours
Clinical - 92 hours
Course Description: This course will provide theoretical foundation needed to assist the elderly in meeting the self-care deficits that arise relative to selective physical health deviations. The physiology, pathology, diagnosis and management of disorders will be discussed. However, emphasis will be placed on promoting, maintaining and restoring health and independence to the older client to the extent possible. Integrated in the course are resources in the community that can provide assistance to the client.
Course: Maternal/ Newborn Health
Course #: CPNP - 0400
Hours: Theory - 84 hours Clinical - 80 hours
Course Description: This course is designed to assist the student in developing and understanding in the care of normal maternity patients throughout the stages of pregnancy, labor and delivery, Emphasis is placed on complications and antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum phases including the care of the normal newborn and their complications.
Course: Nursing Care of Children
Course #: CPNP - 0401
Hours: Theory - 84 hours Clinical - 80 hours
Course Description: This course has been designed to provide the pediatric nursing students with sufficient information to enable them to provide children and their families with safe and competent nursing care. The nursing process is utilized to assess, plan and evaluate the required care of the child.
Clinical Facilities
The Practical Nursing program does not have a specific identification with a medical center. Instead, the program takes advantage of the magnificent array of hospitals, research institutions, and other health care facilities in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. After consultation with preceptors and students, faculty assign students to facilities, services, and patients based on students’ program goals and learning needs. Contractual agreements are maintained with agencies providing clinical learning sites.
This course is divided into three parts – classroom, laboratory practice and nursing home clinical experience. Students have specific duties and responsibilities for each area and must successfully complete specific tasks for each.
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