Nursing

COLLEGE AIMS

The College of Nursing offers a community oriented competency-based nursing program that applies relevant, responsive and interdisciplinary approaches.

It seeks to produce full functional nurses who have acquired necessary skills, knowledge and attitude for the promotion, maintenance and restoration/rehabilitation of health through quality services.

In collaboration with nursing service, it aims to produce professionally competent, socially responsible and globally completive Technologians who have developed research attitude through the use of nursing process with the end view of utilizing the research findings in the care of clients.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The BSN is a four-year program consisting of general education and professional courses. Professional courses begin in the first year and threads through the development of competencies up the fourth year level. The BSN program provides an intensive nursing practicum that will refine clinical skills from the first year level to ensure basic clinical competencies required of a beginning nurse practitioner.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

TFN 111
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN NURSING
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: None

This course deals with the meta concepts of a person, health, environment and nursing as viewed by the different theorists. Likewise, it includes non-nursing theories such as systems, developmental and change theories. It presents how these concepts and theories serve as guide to nursing practice. It further deals with health as a multifactorial phenomenon and the necessary core competencies that the nurse need to develop.

AnaPhy 111/101
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: None

This course deals with the physiologic concepts, principles and basic anatomical structure.

NCM 115/RLE 105
FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING PRACTICE
Credit: 5 units
Prerequisite: Chem 111/101, TFN 111

This course provides the students with the overview of nursing as a science, an art and a profession. It deals with the concept of man as a holistic being comprised of bio- psycho- socio and spiritual dimensions. It includes a discussion on the different roles of a nurse emphasizing health promotion, maintenance of health as well as prevention of illness utilizing the nursing process. It includes the basic nursing skills needed in the care of individual clients.

HA 111/101
HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: TFN 111, Psych 011,
AnaPhy 111/101,
Chem 112N/102N

The course deals with concepts, principles & techniques of history taking using various tools, physical examination (head to toe), psychosocial assessment and interpretation of laboratory findings to arrive at a nursing diagnosis on the client across the lifespan in community and hospital settings.

HN 211/ RLE 201
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Credits: 3 units
Prerequisite: NCM 115/ RLE 105, TFN 111
HA 111/ HA 101

This course focuses on the care of population groups and community as clients utilizing concepts and principles in community health development. It also describes problems, trends and issues in the Philippine and global health care systems affecting community health nursing practice.

Micro 212/ 202
MICROBIOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY
Credit: 4 units
Prerequisite: Chem 111/101, AnaPhy 111/101

This course is designed to assist students in the study of important microorganisms and parasites. It explains the physiology and pathogenic properties of bacteria, fungi and viruses as an introduction to disease causation, their biology, the infections they cause, host response to these infections and their mode of transmission, prevention, treatment and nursing responsibilities. The laboratory experiences provide specimen collection, handling and processing of specimens for isolation and identification of microorganisms and parasites involved in the infectious processes.

NCM 215/RLE 205
CARE OF MOTHER, CHILD AND FAMILY
Credit: 8 units
Prerequisite: NCM 115/RLE 105,
AnaPhy 111/101
HA 111/ HA 101

Principles and techniques of caring for the normal mothers, infants, children and family and the application of principles and concepts on family and family health nursing process.

NCM 216/ RLE 206
CARE OF MOTHER, CHILD, FAMILY AND POPULATION GROUP AT-RISK OR WITH PROBLEMS
Credit: 11 units
Prerequisite: NCM 215/ RLE 105

This course deals with the concept of disturbances & pre-existing health problems of pregnant women and the pathologic changes during intrapartum and post partum periods. This course further deals with the common problems occurring during infancy to adolescence stage.

Nutri 213/ 203
NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY
Credit: 4 units
Prerequisite: Chem 111N/101N,
Chem 112N/102N,
AnaPhy 111/101,
Micro 212/ 202

This course deals with the study of food in relation to health. It covers nutrients and other substances and their action, and interaction and balance in relation to health and diseases and the process by which organism ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, utilizes and excretes food substances. It will also focus in the therapeutic and food service aspects of the delivery of nutritional services in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

Pharma 215
PHARMACOLOGY
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: Math 111A, Chem 111N/101N
AnaPhy 111/101, NCM 215/RLE 205

This course deals with pharmacodynamics, pharmakokinetics, clinical/therapeutic uses and toxicology of drugs. Emphasis is given on how a drug works to anticipate when giving a drug to a patient are of paramount importance since nursing responsibilities include administering drugs, assessing drug effects, intervening to make a drug more tolerable, and providing teaching about drugs and the drug regimen.

Health 214
HEALTH EDUCATION
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: None

The course includes discussions of health education concepts, principles, theories and strategies as they apply in the clinical and classroom situations.

NI 221 INFORMATICS
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: Math 111A

This course deals with the use of information technology system and data standards based on nursing informatics principles/theories. It further deals with the utilization of clinical information systems in the management and decision-making of patient care. A laboratory session shall be provided for practice application.

NCM 315/ RLE 305
CARE OF CLIENTS WITH PROBLEMS IN OXYGENATION, FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE BALANCE, NUTRITION AND METABOLISM AND ENDOCRINE
Credit: 14 units
Prerequisite: NCM 216/ RLE 206

This course deals with the principles and techniques of nursing care management of sick clients across lifespan with emphasis on the adult and the older person, population group in any setting with alterations/problems in oxygenation, fluid and electrolyte balance, nutrition and metabolism and endocrine function.

Stat 011
BIOSTATISTICS
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: Math 111A

This course is designed to meet the introductory statistical needs of students in the health related disciplines. The study includes topics on collection and presentation of the different statistical data used in health administration, frequency, distribution, measures of central tendencies, measures of variability, normal distribution and hypothesis testing.

NHE 311 ECONOMICS WITH TAXATION AND LAND REFORM
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: None

This course is an introduction to Economics, the basic concepts of microeconomics, money and banking, economic growth and development and international economics and its implication to nursing. Also discussed are the basic concepts of taxation and land reform.

NCM 316/ RLE 306
CARE OF CLIENTS WITH PROBLEMS IN INFLAMMATORY AND IMMUNOLOGIC RESPONSE AND PERCEPTION AND COORDINATION
Credit: 9 units
Prerequisite: NCM 315/RLE 305

This course deals with the concepts, principles and theories of human behavior and the care of the sick client across the lifespan with emphasis on the adult and the older person, population group experiencing alterations in Inflammatory and Immunologic Response and perception and coordination in varied settings.

NCM 317/ RLE 307
CARE OF CLIENTS WITH MALADAPTIVE PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR Credit: 6 units
Prerequisite: NCM 315/ RLE 306

The course is designed to focus on health and illness across the lifespan of clients, population group with acute and chronic psychosocial difficulties and psychiatric illnesses.

Ethics 216
BIOETHICS
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: Philo 011/Philo 012

This course deals with the application of ethico-moral and legal concepts and principles to issues that affect the practice of nursing. These provide the basis for appropriate decision making given varied situations, to prepare the learner to render effective, efficient and safe nursing care. Furthermore, related learning experiences provide opportunities to concretize commitment to nursing. The critical thinking process shall be used in the unit with the object to develop the intellectual capacity to conceptualize and contextualize what students know to particular ethico-moral and legal issues.

Nres 301 NURSING RESEARCH 1 (lec/rle)
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: Stat 011

This is an introductory course intended to equip the nursing students with concepts, principles in research starting from an overview of the major phases of the research process. The course will include discussion from formulation to dissemination of research findings, focus on the formulation of a research problem to the selection of the research design, planning and choosing the appropriate research tool for data gathering. This course will require the student/group to present a research proposal in a colloquium to apply knowledge and demonstrate skills and attitude in the conceptual, design and planning phases of the research process.

NCM 415/ RLE 405
CARE OF CLIENTS WITH PROBLEMS IN CELLULAR ABERRATIONS, ACUTE BIOLOGIC
CRISIS, EMERGENCY AND DISASTER NURSING
Credit: 11 units
Prerequisite: NCM 316/ RLE 306
NCM 317/ RLE 307

It deals with the principles and techniques of nursing care management of sick clients across the lifespan with emphasis on the adult and older persons with alterations/problems in cellular aberrations, acute biologic crisis, including emergency and disaster nursing and IV Therapy.

NCM 416/ RLE 406
NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Credit: 7 units
Prerequisite: NCM 316/ RLE 306
NCM 317/ RLE 307

This course deals with the application of the concepts, principles, theories and methods of developing nursing leaders and managers in the hospital and community-based settings. It also includes ethicomoral/ legal aspects of health care and nursing practice and the nurses’ responsibilities for personal and professional growth.

Nres 401
NURSING RESEARCH 2
Credit: 2 units
Prerequisite: Nres 301

This course is a continuation of Nursing Research 1 which includes collection of data, analysis, interpretation, summary and conclusion and recommendation. Advising is done throughout the practicum sessions. The course will provide the student/group an opportunity to undergo the final research defense process to appreciate data gathering, analyze and interpret study results disseminate the findings and make recommendations based on the results of their respective studies.

ComAp 413
COMPETENCY APPRAISAL 1
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: RLE 306, RLE 307
Nres 301

ComAp 415
COMPETENCY APPRAISAL 2
Credit: 3 units
Prerequisite: ComAp 413, NCM 415
NCM 416, Nres 401

This course deals with the application of the concepts, principles and processes basic to the practice of nursing with emphasis on health promotion, health maintenance, preventive, risk reduction, curative and rehabilitative aspects of care of sick individual with alterations in cellular aberrations, adjustment problems and maladaptive patterns of behavior, acute biologic crisis, disaster and emergency. It includes the utilization of the nursing process and the core competencies under the eleven (11) key areas of responsibility.

INP 416
INTENSIVE NURSING PRACTICUM
Credit: 8 units
Prerequisite: RLE 405, RLE 406

Actual application of the theories, principles and concepts of clinical nursing practice to groups of clients in varied settings to refine nursing skills in the different basic nursing services including community. Emphasis is placed on integrating the multiple roles of professional nursing as a vehicle to enhance critical thinking and communication skills.

Nsg Elect 1 Nursing Elective 1 Credit: 2 units
Prerequisite: Adviser’s Consent

PARENT CHILD NURSING
Nursing interventions/strategies for the prevention and/or management of behavioral problems of children arising from parent-child relationships.

SPIRITUAL CARE NURSING
The course deals with the history, philosophy, theories, principles, process, modes and interventions of spiritual care. Emphasis is made on the process of spiritual formation and the role of nurses in providing spiritual care.

HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE
This course includes the concepts, principles and theories of hospice palliative care.

Nsg Elect 2
Nursing Elective 2
Credit: 2 units
Prerequisite: Adviser’s Consent

ACUTE/CRITICAL CARE NURSING
This course is designed to introduce the student to care for critically ill patients. Emphasis is on rapid assessment, setting priorities, rapid decision-making and appropriate nursing interventions. The course may include cases with cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, neurologic, and multisystem alterations.

QUALITY HEALTH CARE AND NURSING
This course deals with the concepts, principles and dimensions of quality health care, quality standards for Health Provider Organizations is and implementing a Performance Improvement/management program in the health care system.

CARE OF THE CHRONICALLY ILL AND THE OLDER PERSON
It deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of nursing care management of those with chronic illness and the older persons.

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