Diversity In Health Care Essay

NUR 2075 = Diversity in Health Care (3 credits): Focuses on variety of cultures, ethics and beliefs within the health care field. Students will learn the benefits of cultural sensitive and adapting to differences of others. Students will learn meaning of egocentricity and how it may affect one’s day to day operations. Rationale: Health care settings today tend to patients with various cultures, races and religions aspects. Students will benefit from recognizing differences and diversity that patient and peers demonstrate and allow understand everyone is entitle to best health care practices, regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion (Jutti-Johal, 2013)
NUR 3000 Community Health (4 credits, (3 T, 1C)): Focuses on community/public health in
regards to family, community needs. Nurses will learn to health promotion as it relates to the community and provide prevention education to help decrease health disparities within the community. Rationale: Community health is a major concern in all communities. It’s important for nurses to know what diseases affects the community, prevention and important risk factors associated with communities that may increase health care disparities.
Fourth Year
NUR 3050 = Adult Health I (5 credits, (3T, 2 C)): Focuses on Physiological and pathological concepts in order to address health care needs.
Students will learn to assess labs related to fluids and electrolyte imbalances, and the major organs and systems (cardiovascular, integumentary, renal, endocrine, musculoskeletal and respiratory). Rationale: Adult Health I is the foundation of adult and elderly care. Learning the basic nursing assessments increase critical thinking and helps to build patient specific care
plans.
NUR 3062 = Childbearing and Children (4 credits, (2T, 2 C)): Focuses on maternity and children across the lifespan. Studies norms and abnormal of pregnancy and health promotions for women, pediatrics and children. Rationale: Women and children care is a major part of health care. Understanding the basic needs of this population, can help prevent common health issues and increase healthy pregnancies.
NUR 3400 = Health Care Disparities (3 credits): Focuses on the primary disease that adults face today. Focus will be on diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and obesity). Students will learn how cultural, ethnicity, sex, age and sociological disparities may affects health care.
NUR 3450 = Mental Health (3 credits, (2T, 1 C)): This course focuses on psychiatric/mental health of clients. Students learn how to assess stressors of one’s life. Rationale: Having the ability to recognize a patient’s stressful situation and issues could help save someone’s life or decrease further progression through treatment and behavior modifications.
NUR 3500 = Adult Health II (5 credits, (3T, 2 C)): This course builds on to Adult Health I. Course focuses on more complex assessments and treatments. The course helps to expand critical thinking skills. Rational: Students learns having one health issue can effect multiple organs and systems
NUR 3600 = Geriatrics (3 credits, (2T, 1 C)): Focus on assessments, needs, common diagnosis of geriatric population and treatment process. Rationale: Geriatric population increases. Important for nurses to understand their needs to how this culture lifespan and changes in regards to body slowing down and myths regarding aging.
NUR 3650 = Leadership (3 credits): This class focuses on student ability to function in an appropriate and effective manner. The student will learn leadership styles and the how to communicate in decision-making, cultural and ethical issues and build high proficient teams through good leadership skills. Rationale: Good leaders will help improve positive outcomes for not only the patient, but organization as a whole.
NUR 3700 = Psychosocial Development (3 credits): Focuses on the eight stages of what’s being defined as healthy state by a theorist “Erickson”. Teaches the students the various stages one must pass through from infancy to late adulthood. Rationale: Nurses will learn how to assess, understand and compare stages verses where the patient may be or should be at this time in their life. Treatment plans can be productive and positive patient outcomes increase.
Total Credit Hours =122
Peer Collaboration
Peer collaboration for this assignment was welcoming. Changes made to my curriculum due to collaboration consisted of eliminating History 101 for University 101. University 101 focus on the guidelines, organization and operation of schools technology and computer system. This decision was great because students may feel overwhelmed, confused and lack understanding of the school’s expectations. A suggestion was made to spread the general education classes throughout the program, but save my last year for the core classes. This was a good idea, but based on my experiences and other nurses, we agreed completing all general education classes within the first two years would be better.
Conclusion
Pinkins’s University Curriculum is designed to provide a highest level of education that promotes leaders.
Our students overcome an educational obstacle that not only affects the students, but prepares them to provide excellent patient care in their future nursing roles. This schools framework allows the student to focus on the person as a whole. Focusing on the whole aspect enables the nurse to provide a holistic approach, which addresses the needs in order to improve better outcomes. As a BSN prepared nurse, student’s rewards are not just monetary, but allows so many more opportunities for jobs and leadership roles (Haverkamp & Ball, 2013) The University will forever strive to achieve top quality education and understands nurse educators play a major role in this
intervention.