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NURS 367 - Application of Evidence Based Practice
Credits: 3
This course provides Registered Nurses with knowledge and skills to translate current evidence into practice. Students learn the interrelationships among theory, practice, and research, the research process, and the protection of human subjects in the conduct of research. Students learn how to integrate clinical expertise with evidence to provide high quality patient centered care. Skill development to facilitate retrieval, appraisal, and synthesis of evidence will support student use of high quality evidence to guide nursing practice. Development writing and presentation skills will enable the student to better collaborate with the interprofessional healthcare team to improve patient outcomes.
USI Core 39: Completion of NURS 367 and NURS 492 satisfies one Embedded Experience-Writing requirement
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201
Prereq (may be taken concurrently): NURS 327 and either HP 302 or STAT 241
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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NURS 455 - Population-Focused Nursing Practice
Credits: 4
This course emphasizes population- focused nursing practice which promotes healthy environmental conditions, lifestyle, and behaviors that improve the health of a community or population. Students focus on community assessment, including use of epidemiologic data to determine lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that are major determinants of population health. Emphasis is placed on primary prevention, health promotion, disease and injury prevention across the lifespan. Students collaborate with other professionals and stakeholders to identify and reach out to populations who might benefit from service, and apply evidence-based practice, including immunization, screening, and counseling to prevent and manage health conditions, prevent disability, and mortality.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 368 (grade of C or better)
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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NURS 457 - Population-Focused Care for Registered Nurses
Credits: 4
This course emphasizes population-focused nursing practice which promotes healthy environmental conditions, lifestyle, and behaviors that improve the health of a community or population. Registered nurses build on previous clinical experience with a focus on community assessment, including use of epidemiologic data to determine lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that are major determinants of population health. Emphasis is placed on primary prevention, health promotion, disease and injury prevention across the lifespan. Students collaborate with other professionals and stakeholders to identify and reach out to populations who might benefit from service, and apply evidence-based practice, including immunization, screening, and counseling to prevent and manage health conditions, prevent disability, and mortality.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 327
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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NURS 461 - Care of Adults Through the Lifespan
Credits: 4
This course focuses on human responses to complex, multidimensional health problems of adults. The student will study care of adults across the continuum of acute illness, chronic illness, rehabilitation, and long term health care needs facilitating holistic wellness. The course integrates concepts of aging, chronicity, standards of practice, cultural influences, role of caregivers, and pertinent public policy into the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of adult patients.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 368 (grade of C or better)
Lecture-Lab (ex: 3-1 means 3 hrs lecture and 1 hr lab): 2-2 (clinical)
Term(s) Offered: Fall
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NUTR 205 - The Profession of Dietetics
Credits: 1
This course provides students with a general overview of the history, philosophy, and practice of dietetics and how dietitians collaborate with other disciplines. Students gain a beginning understanding of the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) standards, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) scope of practice, the code of ethics, and advocacy methods. Students will recognize state and national credentialing requirements and life-long learning needs. Current issues in dietetics and healthcare will be discussed, such as evidence-based practice, the nutrition care process, and informatics.
Prerequisite(s): NUTR 203 . Students must be admitted to the dietetics program to enroll in this course.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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NUTR 376 - Principles and Applications in Nutrition
Credits: 3
Principles and applications in nutrition emphasize the relationships among the nutrients and how homeostasis relationships are maintained in the healthy person. Students will learn more about themselves and their health in an effort to use this knowledge to improve their health. This knowledge of nutrition will allow students to personalize information to fit their lifestyle. Special attention to nutrition for the developing human and lectures focusing on nutrition counseling will address the needs of dental hygiene students and other health professionals seeking concepts in applied nutrition.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 108 and CHEM 107 recommended
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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NUTR 383 - Practical Applications and Evaluation of Food Preparation and Nutrition
Credits: 3
This course will focus on the study of practical applications of food science for food preparation and nutrition. Students will study the functions of specific ingredients in food, their sources in the food supply, and their effects on health. They will explore methods to maintain or improve the nutritional value of food while maintaining taste appeal. Students will apply information from food labels and modify recipes to address health concerns, prepare foods using various cooking methods, and discuss the influence of vegetarianism, culture, socio-economics, and psychological factors on food choices.
Prerequisite(s): NUTR 376 and NUTR 381 plus an introductory chemistry course (CHEM 103 , CHEM 107 , CHEM 141 , CHEM 175 , or CHEM 261 )
Lecture-Lab (ex: 3-1 means 3 hrs lecture and 1 hr lab): 2-2
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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NUTR 481 - Nutritional Education, Counseling and Theory
Credits: 3
This course focuses on the acquisition of nutrition counseling knowledge and the development of interpersonal skills that would enhance the translation of nutrition knowledge into healthy food choices. Employing a problem- solving model, the course covers counseling strategies and techniques, interviewing methods, psychological theories, life span and cross-cultural considerations for counseling, emotional factors of nutrition, eating disorders, ethics, and professional aspects of practice. Students will be challenged to apply and think critically about different counseling techniques and situations. Appropriate educational materials and documentation methods will be evaluated and developed as needed.
Prerequisite(s): PSY 201 , NUTR 396 and NUTR 397 , or consent of instructor. Students must be admitted to the dietetics program to enroll in this course.
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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NUTR 496 - Leadership and Professional Issues in Food and Nutrition
Credits: 3
This course will explore current political, regulatory, ethical, training, quality improvement, management, and other important related issues facing food and nutrition professionals. Students will use their educational foundation to investigate, identify, and suggest alternative methods of resolving these problems. The course will examine the leadership roles of food and nutrition professionals. Students will apply this knowledge by investigating current controversial issues in food and nutrition and will develop solutions to these problems.
USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , NUTR 285 and junior or senior standing
Term(s) Offered: Spring
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OTA 397 - Technical Fieldwork A
Credits: 3
While working with persons having various levels of psychosocial, sensorimotor, and cognitive performance components, students have opportunities for synthesis, the integration and application of knowledge gained throughout their educational experiences which include general education/liberal arts courses as well as the sequence of occupational therapy coursework. Students will examine the interplay among occupational performance areas, components, and contexts; develop and expand a repertoire of occupational therapy treatment interventions; and employ clinical reasoning and reflective practice skills. Fieldwork A, a Level II internship of at least eight weeks (full-time) in duration, must vary from Fieldwork B to reflect a difference in ages across the lifespan of persons requiring occupational therapy services, in the setting with regard to chronic conditions (long-term versus short-term), and in facility type (institutional versus community-based).
Prerequisite(s): Completion of OTA 297 & OTA 298
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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OTA 398 - Technical Fieldwork B
Credits: 3
While working with persons having various levels of psychosocial, sensorimotor, and cognitive performance components, students have opportunities for synthesis, the integration and application of knowledge gained throughout their educational experiences which include general education/liberal arts courses as well as the sequence of occupational therapy coursework. Students will examine the interplay among occupational performance areas, components, and contexts, develop and expand a repertoire of occupational therapy treatment interventions, and employ clinical reasoning and reflective practice skills. Fieldwork B, a Level II internship of at least eight weeks (full-time) in duration, must vary from Fieldwork A to reflect a difference in ages across the lifespan of persons requiring occupational therapy services, in the setting with regard to chronicity (long-term versus short-term disability/disease process), and in facility type (institutional versus community-based).
Prerequisite(s): Completion of OTA 397
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PHIL 366 - Environmental Ethics
Credits: 3
This course examines the history and nature of how human relationships to ecosystems create moral obligations to act responsibly with respect to future generations of humans, non-human animals, and the ecosystems of the planet itself. It analyzes the historical roots of current environmental problems as well as more recent theories of environmental ethics such as land ethics, ecofeminism, and deep ecology. Topics may include, but are not limited to: global warming, overpopulation, endangered species, sustainable agricultural practices, genetic engineering, and corporate accountability.
USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
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PHIL 376 - Philosophies and Religions of Asia
Credits: 3
An introduction to the major philosophical and religious traditions of South, Southeast, and East Asia, including thinkers in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, and Shinto traditions. Topics of discussion and analysis include the nature, problems, and methods of Eastern thought; conceptions of ultimate reality; the nature of the self; conceptions of the divine; the nature and limits of human knowledge; human nature and the human condition; the meaning and value of life and death; the nature of the good life; and the search for enlightenment
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
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PHYS 101 - Introduction to the Physical Sciences
Credits: 3
Lectures and demonstrations of physics at a primarily conceptual level. Basic problem solving and the scientific method are introduced. Topics covered include Newton’s Laws, energy, momentum, light, electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, fluids, and selected topics from modern physics.
USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Scientific and Mathematical Inquiry; Natural Science (BA and BS)
Lecture-Lab (ex: 3-1 means 3 hrs lecture and 1 hr lab): (3-0)
This course is part of the Core Transfer Library (CTL)
This course meets the Indiana College Core (ICC)
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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