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a For accelerated students, credit by validation for LPN/LPTN or Certified Paramedic courses is
reflected on the official school transcript.

Course Descriptions

SPRN 0001
Spiritual Perspectives in Healthcare‡ 1 Credit Hour
The course provides a holistic, Christian-based approach in creating awareness and
understanding about: 1) one’s own belief system; 2) the spiritual needs of patients; 3)
methodologies of spiritual care for patients, and 4) world religions and religious practices
specifically as they relate to delivery of healthcare. The course includes the following number of
contact hours: Theory - 15 contact hours.

‡ Course required by BHCLR.

[The above course may be offered to a limited number of qualified students as a residential-
blended (hybrid) course which is described in the Academic section of this catalog.]

NSG 2308 Professional Nursing Transitions/Adult Nursing II 8 Credit Hours
This course introduces the LPN/LPTN and Paramedic to the different roles, concepts,
knowledge, and skills of the RN. Considering previously acquired knowledge and experience of
the LPN/LPTN and Paramedic, course content and clinical laboratory experiences are
abbreviated. Course content includes incorporation of professional role behavioral changes,
cultural concepts, legal/ethical issues, therapeutic communication, delegation, physical
assessment, nursing process, pathophysiology, medical management, and nursing care for
disorders experienced by the adult medical-surgical client. Clinical laboratory experiences are
correlated with classroom instruction by focusing on nursing process, physical assessment of the
adult medical-surgical client, selected nursing skills, intravenous catheter insertion, and safe
administration and calculation of medications and intravenous solutions. This twenty-two (22)
week course includes the following number of contact hours: Theory: 100 contact hours, Clinical
Laboratory: 70 contact hours, Nursing Skills Laboratory: 14 contact hours; for a total of 184
contact hours.

[The above course may be offered to a limited number of qualified students as a residential-
blended (hybrid) course which is described in the Academic section of this catalog.]

NSG 2307 Women’s and Children’s Health 7 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the continuum of care beginning with women’s health issues and
continuing through pediatric health care. The impact upon the family as a whole is incorporated
throughout the course. Considering previously acquired knowledge and experience of the
LPN/LPTN and Paramedic, course content and clinical laboratory experiences are abbreviated.
Course content includes gynecological issues; antepartal, intrapartal, and postpartal care;
genetics, pediatric growth and development; pediatric disease process; and age-specific health
teaching. The psychosocial and cultural aspects of caring for women, children, and childbearing
families are an important focus of study. Clinical laboratory experiences correlate with
classroom instruction through the utilization of critical thinking and the implementation of the

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