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NURS 3005 - Perioperative Nursing
This course serves to introduce students to the role of the professional nurse in the perioperative specialty area. The course begins with an overview of the history of perioperative nursing and the role of the professional nurse on the interdisciplinary team. The course explores the challenges of perioperative nursing, including safety issues, advocacy, and legal and ethical issues. The importance of continuity of care throughout the perioperative experience is a major theme in both the classroom and clinical content. The clinical focus is on understanding basic principles of asepsis, safety, and applying pathophysiology and pharmacology to specific patient care experiences. Prerequisite: Completion of Pharmacology and pathophysiology courses.
Credits: 1.00 to 2.00
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NURS 3006 - Oncology Nursing and End-of-Life Care
This elective in Oncology Nursing gives undergraduate students an opportunity to experience the related specialties of oncology nursing, palliative care, and hospice care. They will be able to apply basic knowledge about cancer pathophysiology and nursing management and develop basic nursing skills as they visit selected clinical settings. The course will emphasize current concepts and practices in oncology nursing and issues related to palliative and hospice care. Prerequisite: Third-year and fourth-year traditional students or RN to BSN and MSN-CNL students; permission of instructor.
Credits: 1.00 to 2.00
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NURS 4005 - Sleep Across the Lifespan
Focuses on conceptual and methodological issues related to sleep and sleep research. Directions for nursing practice and research will be explored through critical analysis of physiological foundations of sleep and health sequalle of sleep disruptions and critique of relevant research. Healthcare perspectives and issues related to sleep will be examined for the advancement of sleep promotion through nursing practice and research.
Credits: 3
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NURS 4006 - Practicum in Leadership Development
The Independent Practicum in Clinical Leadership Development gives an opportunity to apply leadership theory and practices in the clinical setting through mentoring and coaching third year traditional and first-year second degree students during their assigned clinical rotations. Specific emphasis is given to developing basic teaching and precepting skills, serving as a clinical resource, demonstrating performance of basic skills, and providing others with peer review and performance feedback.
Credits: 2
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NURS 4007 - Ethics in Nursing Practice
This undergraduate ethics seminar focuses on strengthening the nurse’s role as a moral agent in clinical practice. Exploration of ethical issues in practice, ethical decision-making skills, and features of the wider moral environment will be emphasized. Barriers to ethical practice will be identified and strategies to effectively overcome the barriers will be identified. Prerequisite: Completion of third-year courses or clinical practice experience as a RN.
Credits: 3
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NURS 4009 - Summer Practicum in Clinical Nursing
Learning experiences in the practicum include observational experiences & seminars but the focus of the course is on clinical practice. Experiences will take place on a variety of acute & chronic care units within the UVA Health Sciences Ctr. Students function under the guidance and supervision of experienced staff nurse preceptors & will have the opportunity to explore the potential & constraints inherent in nursing practice in tertiary care.
Credits: 2
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NURS 4010 - Nurse Residency Program - Part I
This course is designed to assist new graduate nurses successfully transition from academic status into professional nursing practice in areas of leadership, professional role, and patient outcomes. Integration and application of topics related to clinical decision making, prioritization of tasks, problem recognition, and clinical implementation will serve to enhance observational and critical thinking skills.
Credits: 0
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NURS 4011 - Nurse Residency Program - Part II
This course is designed to assist new graduate nurses successfully transition from academic status into professional nursing practice in areas of leadership, professional role, and patient outcomes. Integration and application of topics related to clinical decision making, prioritization of tasks, problem recognition, and clinical implementation will serve to enhance observational and critical thinking skills. Part II of a three-part course.
Credits: 0
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NURS 4012 - Nurse Residency Program - Part III
This course is designed to assist new graduate nurses successfully transition from academic status into professional nursing practice in areas of leadership, professional role, and patient outcomes. Integration and application of topics related to clinical decision making, prioritization of tasks, problem recognition, and clinical implementation will serve to enhance observational and critical thinking skills. Part III of a three-part course.
Credits: 3
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NURS 4501 - Building Health in the Caribbean
This course will introduce learners to concepts of health and healthcare and to strategies for measuring these both quantitatively and qualitatively. Following that introduction and training, we will explore, using a biosocial analysis, the diseases and conditions addressed by the MDGs.
Credits: 3
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NURS 4950 - Distinguished Majors Seminar I
Designed to provide information and guidance about the process of initiating a research project, to explore issues related to the research process, and encourage communication among Distinguished Majors Program participants. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Nursing DMP.
Credits: 3
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NURS 4951 - Distinguished Majors Seminar II
Designed to assist students in the process of preparing their thesis to present to their peers and the faculty. Also assists in preparing the thesis for publication. Prerequisite: NURS 4950.
Credits: 2
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NURS 4993 - Independent Study
Independent study in Nursing
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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NURS 4994 - Practicum in Nursing
Learning experiences in the practicum include observational experiences and seminars but the focus of the course is on clinical practice. Experiences will take place on a variety of acute and chronic care units within the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. Students function under the guidance and supervision of experienced staff nurse preceptors and will have the opportunity to explore the potential and constraints inherent in nursing.
Credits: 0.50 to 3.00
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NUCO 2130 - Therapeutic Principles of Nursing Care
Therapeutic Principles provides the theoretical principles and psychomotor skills associated with nursing interventions across health care delivery settings and populations. The course includes a classroom portion to enhance student comprehension of essential therapeutic principles and simulated learning opportunities to synthesize, apply, and refine clinical skills with the ultimate goal of providing quality and safe care to patients.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 2210 - Foundations of Nursing CARE
CARE includes a focus on Compassion, Awareness of self and cultural variance, Resilience, and Effective communication for interprofessional teams. This learner-centered seminar course facilitates student exploration of professional concepts foundational to safe, high quality, patient- & family-centered nursing care across all settings and populations and to enhance student awareness of self within the nurse-patient clinical encounter.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 2220 - Cells to Society for Nursing Practice
Using a common chronic disease, this seminar connects the patient to critical elements in the BSN Essentials and IOM Competencies. Real life, interactive opportunities connect the values and core professional concepts to patient experiences across the continuum of health care delivery. Students learn how care of the patient raises questions across multiple domains, such as basic science, culture & society, public policy, and healthcare costs.
Credits: 2
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NUCO 2330 - Health Assessment
Patient Centered Health Assessment focuses on obtaining a holistic health history and physical examination of the individual patient. The patient’s developmental level and cultural, spiritual, and social dimensions provide the basis for developing a patient centered health assessment. Best practices are emphasized through the correct demonstration of physical examination techniques and the use of appropriate screening tools for clinical risks.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 2440 - Principles and Application of Case-Based Learning for Nursing Practice
Using patient cases, this learner-centered seminar facilitates student exploration of patient- & family-centered care across the continuum of health care delivery and provides clinical experiences to apply critical elements of the BSN Essentials and IOM Competencies. Thinking critically, students synthesize prior and concurrent knowledge in their clinical reasoning and incorporate evidence-based practice across the lifespan.
Credits: 2
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NUCO 3110 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Adult-Gero Nursing in Acute Care
This required course covers the nursing care of adult patients with common illnesses and conditions requiring medical and/or surgical treatment in acute health care settings.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 3300 - Nursing Care of Children and Families
Utilizes the concept of family-centered nursing care to teach basic nursing strategies that enable children and their families to prevent illness and disability and to promote, protect, and restore health. Addresses the unique biopsychosocial and health educational needs of the growing child from infancy to adolescence. Also studies the family in community, ambulatory care, and hospital settings. Clinical placement occurs in a variety of settings. Prerequisite: NUCO 21101/2130, 2120, 2310, NUIP 2240.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 3310 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Pediatric Nursing
This course addresses nursing care of pediatric patients, up to 21 years old. Students will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients requiring medical and/or surgical treatment, with particular focus on the impact of developmental level on the patient’s adaptation to medical illness, surgical events and psychological influences. The child as an integral member of the family is emphasized throughout all content areas.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 3610 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Maternal/Child Nursing
This course introduces students to the nursing process as it applies to the care of obstetric, gynecologic, and newborn clients. Health and wellness strategies are emphasized along with disease states specific to the reproductive period as students care for women and families in the hospital and the community.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 4009 - Summer Practicum in Clinical Nursing
Learning experiences in the practicum include observational experiences & seminars but the focus of the course is on clinical practice. Experiences will take place on a variety of acute & chronic care units within the UVA Health Sciences Ctr. Students function under the guidance and supervision of experienced staff nurse preceptors & will have the opportunity to explore the potential & constraints inherent in nursing practice in tertiary care.
Credits: 2
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NUCO 4056 - Introduction to Health Policy
Intro. health policy & its impact on organizational, local, national, & global issues of access, equity, quality, safety, & social justice in the practice environ. Social, ethical, economic, & political issues that affect the delivery of health & nursing services are analyzed. The role of RNs in advocating & influencing change thru the devel. & imprv. of healthcare policies for patients, the nursing profession, & healthcare systems are explored.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 4110 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Complex and Transitional Care
This course builds on previous Adult Health courses and prepares students to plan and deliver care in a wider variety of settings and on a more complex level. Half the semester will be spent studying critical care nursing concepts while gaining clinical experience in intensive care. The other half will be devoted to nursing care in transitional care settings, with a goal of facilitating patient transition from one setting to the next.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 4210 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
This course emphasizes the application of public health and population health theories. Students are introduced to a range of public health nursing roles and are able to integrate knowledge from previous clinical courses into this course. Students apply new skills and knowledge in a variety of community based and public health settings.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 4310 - Patient-Family Centered Care: Mental Health Nursing
This course builds on acquired health assessment skills and introduces psychosocial research and theory needed to provide holistic care to clients across the lifespan. The course will explore mental health disorders and addictions experienced globally, evaluate research evidence to determine optimal interventions, master mental health nursing competencies, and learn resiliency principles needed to provide compassionate care for self and others.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 4420 - Foundations of Professional Nursing
First course for RN to BSN students. Validates prior learning & fosters growth in professionalism. Content includes standardized taxonomies, interprofessional collaboration, career exploration, & development of skills in information technology, professional writing & presentation. Emphasis is on identifying & analyzing scholarly literature, critical thinking & analysis, & refining communication skills through written & oral presentations.
Credits: 4
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NUCO 4440 - Trends and Issues in Clinical Nursing Practice
This course expands the student’s understanding of baccalaureate generalist practice, societal and health care trends, and emerging clinical nursing practice issues. Students propose solutions within the scope of nursing practice to address these issues. Students complete experiential learning projects focused on current trends and issues in health care, building upon their own nursing practice and previous learning experiences.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 4450 - Population and Public Health Nursing
This course enhances the student’s application of concepts used in population-focused nursing practice to promote and protect health in communities and populations and respond to public health threats. Students analyze relationships between determinants of health as they relate to the health of populations local to global, especially vulnerable populations. Students complete an experiential learning project focused on one community/population.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 4710 - Team-Based Care Synthesis
Using case studies and/or simulation activities, students synthesize knowledge and problem-solving strategies from all previous course work to cultivate critical and reflective thinking, clinical reasoning, decision-making, and a greater understanding of health promotion, specific disease-based processes and/or population health challenges. Students interact with experts as they complete each problem-based team learning activity.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 4720 - Transition to Practice: Synthesis Practicum
Synthesis Practicum provides students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired from all previous courses. Students work directly with clinical preceptors in an intensive 224-hour clinical, refining their skills and exploring the professional nurse’s role. They assume leadership roles and begin to transition to independent professional practice.
Credits: 3
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NUCO 4730 - Professional Nursing Practice Synthesis
Analyze & synthesize content & experience from previous nursing courses. Students will prepare for professional nursing practice through comprehensive national pre-licensure examination testing as well as engage in the initial process for RN licensure. As a culminant experience, students will complete their professional portfolio & undertake a clinical initiative that will deepen their understanding of a patient-centered clinical issue.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2060 - Human Physiology and Anatomy I
Includes basic information regarding the chemistry and organization of living matter needed to understand cellular, tissue, and organ function. The morphology and physiological functions of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and neurosensory organ systems will also be covered. Designed as a basic course for students in the allied health sciences.
Credits: 4
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NUIP 2070 - Human Physiology and Anatomy II
Covers the morphology and physiology for the cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, endocrine, digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive organ systems. Designed as a basic course for students in the allied health sciences.
Credits: 4
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NUIP 2080 - Microbiology for Health Sciences
The course is designed to convey general concepts, methods, and applications of microbiology for health sciences.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2090 - Chemistry for Health Sciences
Emphasizes the practical aspects of general, organic, and biological chemistry with numerous applications to clinical and health-related cases and issue. Provides health professionals with the chemical background necessary to understand the diagnostic tests and procedures needed for healthcare delivery. Relationships between inorganic chemistry and the life processes that occur during normal and abnormal metabolism.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2210 - Foundations of Mindfulness Practice
This course introduces mindfulness practices to facilitate coping with stress and greater engagement with life. Mindfulness involves bringing intentional non-judgmental awareness to what is happening in the present moment. This course is highly experiential, using a lab/seminar format designed for college students to explore applications of mindfulness in mind-body awareness, mindful eating, communication skills and stress management.
Credits: 1
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NUIP 2240 - Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
This course is designed to provide a holistic approach to the study of growth and development and to explore the typical progression of growth and development from pre-conception to older adulthood. Students will be introduced to developmental theories and the developmental tasks and challenges unique to each stage of development.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2250 - Principles of Nutrition
Covers basic nutrition, nutrition for clients of various age groups and therapeutic diets, and nutrition of the critically ill, hospitalized patient.
Prerequisite: Must have completed or currently taking one of the following: BIOL 1210, 2060, 2070, NUIP 2060, 2070
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2310 - REAL I (Research, Ethics, Advocacy, & Leadership)
REAL I seminar provides foundational and theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, and leadership. Students use historical inquiry, primary source materials, literature search, critical thinking and reflective writing to meet SWR; explore ethics, morals, religion and law and the complex interplay of the nursing caregiver/advocate roles. Students develop self-awareness to support ownership of learning trajectory.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 2311 - Research, Ethics, Advocacy, and Leadership: Intro to Professional Practice
REAL I seminar provides foundational & theoretical principles of research, ethics, advocacy, & leadership. Students use historical inquiry, primary source materials, literature search, critical thinking, & reflective writing to explore ethical & accountable nursing practice’s relationship to ethics, morals, religion, & law & the complex interplay of the advocate roles. Students develop self-awareness to support ownership of learning trajectory.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 2420 - Pathophysiology and Clinical Management I
The focus of the course is presentation of information necessary for an understanding of the mechanisms of disease and the body’s ability to respond to such challenges throughout the life span. The course is intended to provide basic pathologic mechanisms and present a general survey of disease in conjunction with Pathophysiology and Clinical Management II.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 2430 - Pharmacology and Clinical Management I
Principles of Pharmacology I provides the student with foundational concepts of pharmacology with emphasis on application to nursing practice. General principles of pharmacology, interprofessional practice, and therapeutic implications of major drug categories are presented and applied across the lifespan and with cultural/global context.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3001 - HIV/AIDS: A Personal and Social Perspective
An overview of the medical, psychosocial, legal, and ethical issues generated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Introduces topics encountered throughout the spectrum of HIV infection. Explores physiological and psychological responses of, and societal responses to, HIV infected or affected persons.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3004 - Practicing Wisdom and Resilience
This course explores the science of the brain/body connection offering experiential opportunities through direct meditative practices. Class time includes didactic learning, interactive dialogue, and engagement in mindfulness practices. We will develop self-assessment, self-care strategies and resilience practices, within the larger context of wisdom.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 3010 - Mindfulness 2.0: Deepening Your Practice
This course provides students who have an established mindfulness practice an opportunity to explore mindfulness in greater depth. The course is experiential and uses a lab format. Fundamental mindfulness practices will be strengthened, and new practices will be introduced. Class discussions and weekly assignments will facilitate deeper understanding of the relationship between mindfulness and thinking, and the role of mindfulness in daily life.
Credits: 1
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NUIP 3020 - Principles of Pharmacology
Provides a theoretical foundation in pharmacology and its place in nursing practice. Includes general principles of pharmacology, the therapeutic implications of major drug categories, mechanisms of drug action, side effects of drugs, and the implications for nursing management. Prerequisite: Anatomy and physiology.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3030 - Mindfulness and Compassion: Living Fully Personally and Professionally
This course provides an in-depth experience in contemplative practices to prepare students to live more fully, be more engaged & compassionate citizens & professionals, & navigate life’s stressors with greater clarity, peace of mind, & healthy behaviors. Besides mindfulness training, this course will also foster the cultivation of compassion and prosocial qualities. For more info: http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Mindfulness__Compassion/.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3210 - Pathology and Clinical Management I
Focuses on the mechanisms of disease and the body’s ability to respond to such challenges throughout the life span. Prerequisite: Anatomy and Physiology.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3220 - Pathology and Clinical Management II
Focuses on psychopathological and pathophysiological conditions throughout the life span. Prerequisite: Anatomy and Physiology.
Credits: 4
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NUIP 3230 - Spanish for Health Care Providers
This introductory seminar facilitates the student’s mastery of their Spanish language ability as applied to health care settings and encounters. It provides an introduction to the vocabulary and cultural relevancy of terms that are relevant to students planning to work in the healthcare professions to better serve Spanish-speaking patients and their families. Prereqs: SPAN 1010 & 1020 or equivalent.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 3311 - Research, Ethics, Advocacy, and Leadership: Quality, Safety, and EBP
REAL II seminar provides foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, and leadership. Nursing students will integrate quality and safety principles with leadership while using evidence-based practice (EBP) to inform practice change, support an ethical climate and optimal care environment, and foster a culture of innovation, high performing care delivery and continuous learning environment.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3320 - REAL II (Health Policy and Regulation; SBON, Delegation, Informatics
REAL II seminar provides foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, and leadership. Nursing students use processes of improvement, standardization and change to promote safe high quality care while demonstrating ethical conduct, delegation, monitoring, supervision, change management and just culture principles within simulated high performing teams.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 3330 - REAL III (Evidence-Based Practice, Research Utilization)
REAL III seminar provides foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, and leadership. Nursing students use evidence-based practice (EBP) to inform practice change, support an ethical climate and healthy work and optimal care environment (HWE), and foster a culture of innovation, high performing care delivery and continuous learning environment.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3410 - Foundations of Nursing Research
Surveys the spectrum of research methodologies. Students gain an understanding of an evidence-based approach that is applicable to nursing practice and begin to explore ways to incorporate research findings into professional nursing practice. Basic human rights and ethical issues in the conduct of evidence-based research will be emphasized.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3420 - Pathophysiology and Clinical Management II
Pathophysiology and Clinical Management II is the second of two interprofessional courses that focus on information necessary for an understanding of the mechanisms of disease and the body’s ability to respond to such challenges throughout the life span. The course provides basic pathologic mechanisms and presents a general survey of disease in conjunction with Pathophysiology and Clinical Management I.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 3430 - Pharmacology and Clinical Management II
Pharmacology and Clinical Management II builds upon the foundational concepts presented in Pharmacology and Clinical Management I with emphasis on mechanisms of action and application to nursing practice. General principles of pharmacology, interprofessional practice, and therapeutic implications of major drug categories are presented and applied across the lifespan and with cultural/global context.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4003 - Exploring Culture and Health Care Access Issues
This course will explore the various aspects of culture and the impact of culture on health, access and delivery. The course will also help students apply knowledge of culture to healthcare situations.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4004 - Strategies for Prehospital Emergency Care I
The content of the course will focus on prehospital emergency care. Students will learn to assess the sick or injured individual as well as develop & implement a plan of care to stabilize & transport the individual to an emergency facility. Upon successful completion of NUIP 4004, 4006, & state req., the student will be eligible to test for cert. as an EMT by the Commonwealth of VA, Dept of Health, Office of EMS. Part I of a two-part-course.
Prerequisite: Current CPR Certification
Credits: 0
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NUIP 4005 - Conscious Social Change
Course integrates personal leadership, global citizenship, social entrepreneurship, and contemplation. It provides future leaders with the skills to invest in their own self-understanding and initiate social change or engage in community service mindfully, sustainably and with impact. The program incorporates four components: conscious leadership practices, social entrepreneurship tools, conscious social change methodologies, and contemplatio
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4006 - Strategies for Prehospital Emergency Care II
The content of the course will focus on pre-hospital emergency care. Students will learn to assess the sick or injured individual as well as develop & implement a plan of care to stabilize & transport the individual to an emergency facility. Upon successful completion of NUIP 4004, 4006, & state req., the student will be eligible to test for cert. as an EMT by the Commonwealth of VA, Dept of Health, Office of EMS. Part II of a two-part-course.
Prerequisite: Current CPR Certification & NUIP 4004
Credits: 5
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NUIP 4008 - Strategies for Prehospital Emergency Care for RNs
The content of the course will focus on prehospital emergency care. Students will learn to assess the sick or injured individual as well as develop & implement a plan of care to stabilize & transport the individual to an emergency facility. Upon successful completion of this course & state requirements, the student will be eligible to test for cert. as an EMT by the Commonwealth of VA, Department of Health, Office of EMS.
Prerequisite: Current CPR Certification
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4200 - Pathophysiology
Pathophysiology is a four credit interprofessional course which provides a foundation of basic knowledge of common pathophysiologic conditions affecting adults and children and their clinical management.
Credits: 4
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NUIP 4311 - Research, Ethics, Advocacy, and Leadership
REAL III seminar is the 3rd of a series of three-core course that provides the foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, & leadership. Nursing students will examine the structural, functional, financial & effectiveness of selected professional practice & health care delivery models in relationship to health outcomes while developing a philosophy of professionalism, career planning, & educational prog.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 4340 - REAL IV
REAL IV seminar is the fourth of a series of four core courses that provides foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, & leadership. Nursing students will use research & scholarship skills to evaluate & disseminate knowledge & integrate social sensibilities into policy. Through self-awareness, students will develop a philosophy of professionalism, a plan for educational progression, & career planning.
Credits: 2
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NUIP 4420 - Basic Research Concepts in the Health Disciplines
The emphasis of this course is to understand the EBP process and its application to professional practice and research. Students will critique current literature specific to design, methodology and ethical standards; frame a research question relevant to their area of practice, search for evidence, and appraise the evidence using a defined template; and explore a variety of methods to disseminate evidence-based practice in their practice setting.
Credits: 4
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NUIP 4430 - Introduction to Statistics in Health Care Research
This course is an introduction to data analysis for nursing and healthcare-related research. Course emphasis is on practical application and understanding how the research question drives the choice of particular statistical procedures. Descriptive and univariate inferential statistics will be covered. Students will learn how to create and manage simple databases in SPSS, interpret SPSS outputs, and draw statistical conclusions.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4610 - Leadership and Management in Health Care Systems
This course integrates management knowledge, concepts, and theory with practical experience within health care situations to prepare students for beginning leadership roles in existing/emerging delivery systems. This class explores the professional nurse’s role in creating the envisioned patient centered, effective health care delivery organization of the future. Students complete an experiential learning project focused on quality improvement.
Credits: 3
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NUIP 4993 - Independent Study
Independent Study in Interprofessional Nursing
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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PASH 1010 - Elementary Pashto I
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 1010 and PASH 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours per week. Followed by PASH 1020.
Credits: 4
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PASH 1020 - Elementary Pashto II
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 1010 and PASH 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours per week. Followed by PASH 2010. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 1010, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PASH 2010 - Intermediate Pashto I
Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 2010 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Pashto speakers. Four class hours. Followed by PASH 2020. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 1020, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PASH 2020 - Intermediate Pashto II
Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Pashto. PASH 2020 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Pashto speakers. Four class hours. Prerequisites: C or better in PASH 2010, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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PAVS 4500 - Pavilion Seminar
The Pavilion Seminars are open, by instructor permission, to 3rd and 4th year students. They are 3-credit, multidisciplinary seminars, focused on big topics and limited to max. 15 students each. For detailed descriptions of current offerings, see http://college.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/PAVS.
Credits: 3
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PERS 1010 - Elementary Persian
Introductory language sequence focusing on reading, writing, comprehending, and speaking modern Persian through audio-lingual methods. Persian grammar is introduced through sentence patterns in the form of dialogues and monologues.
Credits: 4
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PERS 1020 - Elementary Persian
Introductory language sequence focusing on reading, writing, comprehending, and speaking modern Persian through audio-lingual methods. Persian grammar is introduced through sentence patterns in the form of dialogues and monologues. Prerequisite: PERS 1010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 1060 - Accelerated Persian
This course is designed for Persian heritage students who many know spoken language to some extent, but they have not been exposed to formal or written language. It covers two semesters of Elementary Persian; emphasizing reading and writing skills, and the grammar of the language.
Credits: 4
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PERS 2010 - Intermediate Persian
Each course focuses on the development of reading, writing, and speaking skills. Special attention is paid to reading comprehension using selections from classical and modern Persian prose and poetry, preparing students for advanced studies in Indo-Persian language and literature. Prerequisite: PERS 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 2020 - Intermediate Persian
Each course focuses on the development of reading, writing, and speaking skills. Special attention is paid to reading comprehension using selections from classical and modern Persian prose and poetry, preparing students for advanced studies in Indo-Persian language and literature. Prerequisite: PERS 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PERS 3010 - Advanced Persian I
This course is designed to introduce the students to the world of Persian prose literature. We will read a variety of prose genre. We will look at the semantics, morphology, and syntax and analyze the topic vis-à-vis these aspects. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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PERS 3019 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Persian group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PERS 3020 - Advanced Persian
The goal of this course is to increase student’s efficiency in reading modern texts; ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts, to poetry. although the students will be expected to learn grammatical structures emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context. Prerequisites: Persian 3010 or instructor’s permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 3029 - Language House Conversation
For students residing in the Persian group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PERS 3230 - Introduction to Classical Persian Literature
A comprehensive, historical introduction to Persian poetry and prose from the 10th to the 18th centuries. Emphasizing the history and development of Persian poetry and prose, this advanced-level language course introduces various formal elements of Persian literary tradition. It analyzes literary texts and explores the linguistic structure, fine grammatical points, and syntactic intricacies of classical Persian. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 3240 - Introduction to Modern Persian Literature
This course addresses the development of modern(ist) trends in Persian literature, emphasizing historical and socio-political factors. Exemplar modern poems, stories, and essays are read in the original, then explained and critically evaluated. Defines and discusses significant ideas, ideologies, movements, trends, milieus, social backgrounds, etc., out of which modern Persian literature emerged. Prerequisite: PERS 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PERS 4240 - Advanced Readings in Sufi Texts
A course designed to help advanced Persian language students develop skills in reading and understanding texts (both prose and poetry) on Persian Islamic mysticism (Sufism).
Credits: 3
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PERS 4991 - Independent Study in Persian
Independent Study in Persian
Credits: 1 to 3
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PERS 4993 - Independent Study in Persian
Independent study for advanced students of Persian. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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PETR 3210 - Persian Literature in Translation
Reading from the works of major figures in classical Persian literature, especially Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Attar, Mowlavi, Sa’adi, and Hafez, as well as the most important minor writers of each period. Emphasizes the role of the Ma’shuq (the beloved), Mamduh (the praised one), and Ma’bud (the worshiped one) in classical verse, as well as the use of allegory and similar devices in both prose and verse. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3220 - Twentieth-Century Persian Literature in Translation
Introduces modern Persian literature in the context of Iranian society and civilization. Lectures and discussions follow the development of modern Persian poetry and prose, and trace the influence of Western and other literature, as well as Iranian literary and cultural heritage, on the works of contemporary Iranian writers. Facilitates understanding of contemporary Iran, especially its people, both individually and collectively, with their particular problems and aspirations in the twentieth-century world. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3320 - Life Narratives & Iranian Women Writers
This seminar examines life narratives and other forms of literary output by Iranian women writers. We will examine the ways these writers have desegregated a predominantly all-male literary tradition, as well as their arrival at the forefront of a bloodless social movement. Some of the genres to be investigated include novels, short stories, poetry, autobiographies, memoirs, and films.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3322 - The Life and Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad
This course focuses on the life and art of Forugh Farrokhzad in a spectrum of genres that includes poetry, travel narratives, literary criticism, essays, and films by and about her. Although from the beginning of her literary career, Farrokhzad was a daring, often irreverent explorer of taboo topics, she was also deeply rooted in the Iranian culture. We study the body of her work to better understand Iran in the 1950-60s
Credits: 3
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PETR 3340 - Poetics of Existentialist Persian Literature
The existentialist literature of the Persian-speaking world has been a source of inspiration of poetics for the entire Middle East region. The objective of this course is the study of cognitive nuances embedded in the thematic and linguistic structure of Persian existentialist literature.
Credits: 3
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PETR 3342 - Life Narrative & Iranian Women Writers
While women’s autobiography has attracted growing scholarly attention as an evolving literary form, sustained scholarly study of the genre has largely focused on women’s autobiography in Europe and North America, with only a small group of isolated scholars addressing women’s autobiography in Islamic societies in general and Iran in particular. This course studies the genealogy and evolution of the genre.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy
Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and approaches. Topics include basic questions concerning morality, skepticism and the foundations of knowledge, the mind and its relation to the body, and the existence of God. Readings are drawn from classics in the history of philosophy and/or contemporary sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1410 - Forms of Reasoning
Analyzes the structure of informal arguments and fallacies that are commonly committed in everyday reasoning. The course will not cover symbolic logic in any detail. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1510 - Introductory Philosophy Seminars
Discussion groups devoted to some philosophical writing or topic. Information on the specific topic can be obtained from the philosophy department at course enrollment time. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
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PHIL 1600 - Medieval Philosophy of the Mediterranean
A study of four of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages were Avicenna (980-1037), Averroes (1126-1198), Maimonides (1135-1204), and Aquinas (1225-1274).
Credits: 3
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