Introduction to the nursing process and their role as caregiver. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is explored, along with nursing skills that meet basic physiologic and safety needs. Laboratory and clinical experience provide the student an opportunity to demonstrate initial application of the roles of caregivers and member of the discipline in a highly structured, supervised […]

Introduction to the purpose, use and action of medication in meeting basic human needs. Safety and legal implications discussed. Nursing process serves as the framework for understanding client needs during medication therapy.

(SAME AS MOA 141) This course is a body systems approach to the body structures and functions providing a foundation of understanding normal and abnormal body functions and disease processes.

Student will use the nursing process to implement the caregiver role with adult clients experiencing basic physiologic needs. How disease states of core systems alter clients’ needs and their ability to meet those needs is explored. Clinical experience provides students the opportunity to demonstrate the roles of caregiver and member of the discipline.

Student will use the nursing process to implement the caregiver role with adult clients experiencing more complex physiologic needs. How disease states and co-morbidities affect clients’ needs and their ability to meet those needs is explored. Clinical experience provides students the opportunity to demonstrate increasing organizational skills in their roles of caregiver and member of […]

This course will review the ethical/legal responsibilities of the LPN along with the scope of practice of the LPN as defined by the Michigan Public Health Code. Issues related to types of health care organizations, LPN organizations, continuing education, and licensure will e covered. NCLEX-PN and licensure forms will be received with instructions regarding completion […]

Use the nursing process to implement the caregiver role with adult clients experiencing oncology, immune, renal, sensory, reproductive and musculoskeletal health conditions. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is utilized as the framework for understanding client responses to disease states. Emphasis placed on the special needs of elderly clients. Clinical experiences are designed to reinforce theory and […]

Extend the use of the nursing process to the childbearing and childrearing clients. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is utilized as a framework to care for the client who has a well-defined health care problem in a structured setting.

(FORMERLY MTH 098) This course reviews the arithmetic of fractions, decimals and signed numbers with applications. Students will learn the mathematics of proportion and percent with applications, basic statistical graphs and charts, geometry and measurement (including the metric system), and introductory algebraic concepts. The mathematics department recommends that the prerequisite not be more than two […]

As an alternative pathway toward college-level mathematics, this course introduces fundamental algebra concepts within an underlying framework of statistics and mathematical modeling based on real-world data. Major concepts and themes include: problem solving and experimental design; unit analysis and error in measurement; dimensional analysis and scientific notation; representing data and coordinate graphing; introduction to basic […]