Practical Nursing Course Descriptions

NPN 100 Personal and Vocational Concepts ... 1
Prerequisite: Acceptance into practical nursing program. Role of LPN in relationship to other members of health care team. Includes nursing history, professional ethics, and interpersonal relations in today's health care setting. Corequisites: NPN 101, NPN 111, NPN 121. Spring.

NPN 101 Fundamentals of Nursing ... 7
Prerequisite: Acceptance into practical nursing program. Emphasis on nursing process as students apply principles of physical, biological, and social sciences. Introduction of basic nutrition and pharmacology. Presents elements of health and disease. Introduces basic concepts of nursing. Corequisites: NPN 100, NPN 111, NPN 121, BIO 240, BIO 243, and ENG 096 or ENG 101. Spring.

NPN 102 Maternal-Child Nursing ... 6
Prerequisites: BIO 240, BIO 243, ENG 096 or ENG 101, NPN 100, NPN 101, NPN 111, NPN 121. Presents family centered approach to pregnancy, birth, and adaptation to extrauterine life. Examines stressors involved in labor and delivery and explores human sexuality and its role in growth and development. Present process of growth and development throughout the life span. Diseases common to the pediatric client. Explores impact on client of psychosocial, physical, and spiritual stressors. Common issues and problems encountered in individual, family, and community living. Environmental and social health factors as related to appropriate developmental stages. Corequisites: NPN 112, NPN 122. Summer.

NPN 111 Fundamentals of Nursing Laboratory ... 0
Laboratory experiences include vital signs, hand washing, environmental safety, making occupied and unoccupied beds, hygienic care, range of motion, body mechanics, patient transfer, positioning and ambulation, binders, bandaging, gloving, sterile dressing and sterile technique, measures to promote elimination from large intestines, measures to promote elimination from urinary bladder, administration of oral medications, administration of medication by injection. Corequisites: NPN 101, NPN 121. Spring.

NPN 112 Maternal-Child Nursing Laboratory ... 0
Laboratory experiences include but not limited to newborn and post partum assessment. Corequisites: NPN 102, NPN 122. Summer.

NPN 121 Fundamentals of Nursing Clinical ... 0
Students care for patients in nursing home, health care center, or hospital. Administration of medications is a part of clinical experience. Eight clinical laboratory hours per week. Included in clinical hours are two clinical post conference hours, one hour for each day of clinical experience. Corequisites: NPN 101, NPN 111. Spring.

NPN 151 Medical Surgical Nursing I ... 11
Prerequisites: BIO 240, BIO 243, ENG 096, NPN 100, NPN 101, NPN 102, NPN 111, NPN 112, NPN 121, NPN 122. Emphasis on human growth and development while studying human adaptive and maladaptive responses to disturbances in nutrition and fluid balance, gastrointestinal, and other body systems. Presents illnesses that interfere with these processes throughout life span with focuses on physiological, psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects during each stage of development. Corequisites: NPN 161, NPN 171, BIO 241, BIO 244, PSY 101. Fall.

NPN 152 Medical Surgical Nursing II ... 8
Prerequisites: BIO 241, BIO 244, PSY 101, NPN 151, NPN 161, NPN 171. Continuation of study of adaptive and maladaptive responses to internal and external stressors that interfere with wellness and require nursing care. Includes beginning management as well as disturbances in endocrine, reproductive, and other body systems. Presents illnesses that interface with these processes throughout the life span with focus on physiological, psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects during each stage of development. Corequisites: NPN 162, NPN 172. Spring.

NPN 161 Medical Surgical Nursing I Laboratory ... 0
Laboratory experiences include team medications, care of the patient receiving intravenous therapy, nasogastric intubation, gavage, gastric and GI decompression. Corequisites: NPN 151, NPN 171. Fall.

NPN 162 Medical Surgical Nursing II Laboratory ... 0
Laboratory experiences include oral-pharyngeal suctioning and others necessitated by specific medical/surgical unit. Corequisites: NPN 152, NPN 172. Spring.

NPN 171 Medical Surgical Nursing I Clinical ... 0
Students plan, administer, and evaluate nursing care to patients in both acute and extended care facilities. Observation of developmental stages provided in schools and various health care facilities. Observation experiences provided in operating room, recovery room, emergency room, and other hospital and community settings. Thirteen clinical laboratory hours per week. Included in clinical hours are two clinical post conference hours, one hour for each day of clinical experience. Corequisites: NPN 151, NPN 161. Fall.

NPN 172 Medical Surgical Nursing II Clinical ... 0
Beginning management skills to plan, administer, and evaluate nursing care to patients in medical surgical units in hospital/health care center. Sixteen clinical laboratory hours per week. Included in clinical hours are two clinical post conference hours, one hour for each day of clinical experience. Corequisites: NPN 152, NPN 162. Spring.