This acute care practicum builds on the concepts and intentional clinical learning from NS2210 and NS2250. The focus is on integrating prior learning to move towards providing comprehensive patient and family centered care and socialization to the role of the nurse in an acute care setting.

Requisites:

  • Complete the following:
    • NS2160 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology II 6
    • NS2240 Foundations in Nursing III 3
    • NS2250 Introductory Acute Care Nursing Practice II 6

This practicum in acute care settings further develops knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide safe ethical patient care for adults with episodic and chronic health challenges. Intentional clinical learning activities integrate evidence-informed knowledge from NS2240 and NS2160. The focus is on assessment, clinical reasoning, care planning, and documentation in paper and digital formats.

Requisites:

  • Complete the following:
    • NS2200 Foundations of Nursing II 3
    • NS2210 Introductory to Acute Care Nursing Practice I 6

  • Concurrently enrolled in:
    • NS2160 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology II 6
    • NS2240 Foundations in Nursing III 3

This practicum in acute care settings develops beginning knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide safe ethical patient care for adults with episodic and chronic health challenges. Intentional clinical learning activities integrate evidence-informed knowledge from NS2200 and NS2160. The focus is on assessment, clinical reasoning, care planning, and documentation in paper and digital formats.

Requisites:

  • Complete the following:
    • NS1160 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology I 3
    • NS1240 Foundations of Nursing I 3
    • NS1250 Nursing Practice - Health Assessment and Nursing Process 4

  • Concurrently enrolled in:
    • NS2160 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology II 6
    • NS2200 Foundations of Nursing II 3

Statistical inference for variance; statistical inference for the means; proportions and variances from two populations; analysis of variance; non-parametric statistics; joint probability distributions; marginal and conditional distributions; covariance; correlation and independence; contingency tables; simple linear regression; multiple linear regression; nonlinear regression; and time series analysis are topics covered in the course.

Requisites:

  • Complete 1 of the following:
    • BA2060 Statistics for Business 3
    • ST1510 Introduction to Applied Statistics I 3

In this introductory course, students will explore the fundamentals of business and gain knowledge and skills necessary to succeed at NWP and in the industry. Diverse topics will be covered in this course such as professionalism, personal branding, leadership, ethical decision-making, critical thinking, resource utilization, entrepreneurial thinking, and business careers. This course delves into contemporary business challenges affording students the chance to formulate informed recommendations.

This course covers measurement including surface area and volume, introduction to trigonometry, numbers, roots and exponents, polynomial multiplication and factoring, relations and functions, linear functions, and systems of equations.

Requisites:

  • Complete 1 of the following:
    • Complete the following:
      • MA0091 Basic Mathematics III 5
    • Equivalent math placement test score

This course explores children's expressive and receptive language development as well as their construction of knowledge about the reading and writing process. Students will examine ways in which preschool environments can support children in their attempts to understand and use the language system of their society. This course provides students with a solid foundation for facilitating preschool children's development in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

An introductory course to present the tools of set theory, logic and induction, and their use in the practice of reasoning about algorithms and programs. Basic set theory. The notion of a function. Counting. Propositional and predicate logic and their proof system will be studied. Inductive definitions and proofs by induction will be covered along with program specification and correctness.

Requisites:

  • Complete the following:
    • CS1140 Introduction to Computing Science 3

This course is an introduction to the technical and conceptual aspects of digital design. Utilizing lectures, technical exercises, and creative projects, students will employ digital programs to process ideas and generate professionally designed digital outputs.

This course provides exposure to the techniques, theories, and practices of video production. It is designed to improve and nurture students’ creative potential through video media. Students will learn how to direct with a camera, work with actors, story boarding, lighting, sound, and the production of a student video project.

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