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Topics may include Choral Writing; Composition of a Major Work; Music of a Major Composer; Advanced Music Theory; Advanced Gregorian Chant; Orchestration. If enough students are interested in the same topic in a given semester, the course may become MUSC 415. Prerequisites: MUSC 204, MUSC 312, permission of instructor. (1-2 credits) Music (B.A.) - Typical Plan Freshman Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1* MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1* MUSC 200, 101M/W Ensemble 1* MUSC 200, 101M/W Ensemble 1* RETP 101 Rhetoric and Poetics I 4 RETP 102 Rhetoric and Poetics II 4 HIST 101 Western Civilization I 4 HIST 102 Western Civilization II 4 Elementary Foreign Language 4 Intermediate Foreign Language 4 or Science with Lab Total 14 Total 14 Sophomore Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 or 2* MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 or 2* MUSC 200, 101M/W Ensemble 1 or 2* MUSC 200, 101M/W Ensemble 1 or 2* MUSC 104 Theory I 3 MUSC 105 Theory II 3 MUSC 106 Aural Skills I 1 MUSC 107 Aural Skills II 1 MUSC 108 Class Piano I 0.5 MUSC 109 Class Piano II 0.5 POLT 203 American Civilization 4 MATH 110/150/151 4 THEO 105 Sacred Scripture 4 THEO 205 Sacred Doctrine 4 PHIL 205 Nature and Person 4 PHIL 206 Ethics 4 Total 18.5 Total 18.5 Junior Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 MUSC 200, 101M/W, 410 Ensemble 1 MUSC 200, 101M/W, 410 Ensemble 1 MUSC 204 Music Theory III 3 MUSC 312 Survey Western Mus Hist 4 MUSC 206 Aural Skills III 1 General Elective 4 MUSC 208 Class Piano III 0.5 General Elective 4 Science with Lab 4 General Elective 4 General Elective 4 Total 14.5 Total 18 Senior Year Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 MUSC 111-115 Applied Lessons 1 MUSC 200, 101M/W, 410 Ensemble 1 MUSC 200, 101M/W, 410 Ensemble 1 MUSC 430 Conducting I 1 MUSC 431 Conducting II 1 MUSC 410/411 1 MUSC 410/411 1 Music Elective 2 MUSC 440/MUSC 441/MUSC 443 1 General Elective 4 THEO 400 Living in Christ 4 General Elective 4 PHIL 300 Metaphysics 4 General Elective 4 Total 14 Total 17 *Students who begin major in sophomore year will be able to register for two-credit versions of ensembles. Majors are required to have at least six ensemble credits for degree completion. Required courses for Music Minor include Applied Lessons (4), Ensemble (2), Music Electives (2), Music Theory/Aural Skills I and II/Class Piano I and II, (9). Nursing Chair: Dr. DiAnn Ecret, Associate Professor of Nursing The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) degree is designed as a four -year nursing program. In the first two years, students in the pre-nursing track complete the Core Curriculum and pre-nursing science requirements and then apply to the Nursing Major. Upon successful admission to the nursing program, students spend years three and four taking almost exclusively nursing courses. Ave Maria University is approved by the Florida Board of Nursing to offer the B.S.N. degree and is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) ®. Student Learning Goals and Outcomes for the B.S.N. in Nursing Goal 1: To instill in students professional values and standards. Outcome 1: Students will practice based on professional values and standards learned through the arts and sciences of nursing and related disciplines. Goal 2: To develop quality improvement skills. Outcome 2: Students will participate in quality improvement (QI) and safety plans integral to care of patients, families and communities. Goal 3: To develop students’ evidence-based nursing practice skills. Outcome 3: Students will implement evidence-based nursing practice (EBP) in the delivery and management of health care. Goal 4: To develop students’ knowledge of technology and informatics. Outcome 4: Students will evaluate the impact of current and emerging technology on the delivery of safe and quality health care. Goal 5: To develop students’ leadership skills. Outcome 5: Students will utilize nursing leadership skills to promote a commitment to quality care, and advocacy for patients, families, and communities. Goal 6: To develop students’ communication and collaboration skills in healthcare settings. Outcome 6: Students will communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team to promote health across the lifespan and to facilitate safe patient, family, and community-centered transitions of care. Goal 7: To develop students’ health promotion and disease prevention skills. Outcome 7: Students will participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities to improve community and population health. Goal 8: To develop students’ awareness of patient, family, group, community, and population - centered care. Outcome 8: Students will assume responsibility for personal and professional behavior, ethical practice, and patient advocacy especially for vulnerable populations. Goal 9: To develop students’ critical thinking skills. Outcome 9: Students will employ critical thinking behaviors and clinical judgment to optimize patient , family, and community-centered care outcomes. Limited Access Program Nursing (B.S.N.) is a degree program that requires a supplemental application due to limited access. A Limited Access Program is one where both program admission and registration in program classes are restricted to students meeting pre - determined criteria and maximum capacity is based on available resources. Not all applicants may be accepted. The University offers alternate, related degrees including Biology, Health Science, and Exercise Physiology, which are not Limited Access Programs. Please refer to t he Nursing Program website for program prerequisites and application procedures. Additional nursing program fees applies per student, per year. Admission To be considered for acceptance into the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, the following is required: • Prior admission to Ave Maria University • Application for admission due to the Department of Nursing by December 1 annually • A minimum overall GPA of 3.1 and completion of 48 credits (this is the minimum GPA, not a guarantee of admission - all applications will be reviewed and considered) • Students may only re-take prerequisite courses once if they did not earn a satisfactory grade on their first attempt. • All students, including transfer students, must complete AMU freshman and sophomore Core Curriculum courses and nursing prerequisite courses prior to entrance to the Nursing program • Grade of C (73%) or greater for science and nursing prerequisite courses (science courses must be completed before entrance to the program) • Submit an essay (300 -500 words) which includes an introduction of the applicant, why the applicant wishes to pursue a career in Nursing, any healthcare experiences, and any community service work, passions, and accomplishments • An admission examination for the TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) is required before the application deadline. • Completion of Nursing Application. • Completion of Health and Regulatory Requirements with submission prior to the start of classes. • Transfer students attempting to transfer in NURS courses must complete at least 32 credit hours at AMU to be eligible for graduation. In addition, transfer students may be required to pass a n AMU final exam for every nursing course equivalent from a previous school in order to earn credit for those courses. Curriculum Rationale The curriculum has been developed in a manner that addresses professional and content area competencies, that assessment methodologies that are in place for B.S.N. candidates, and that pedagogical principles are embedded in the appropriate courses. The B.S.N. program is a total of 130 credits as described below. The B.S.N. curriculum is based on Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Graduates of Ave Maria University’s B.S.N. program will be equipped with the knowledge and leader ship skills requisite to advance the profession and assist patients, families, and communities in the management of care. These concepts unify the curriculum and are the focus of each clinical course. Each course addresses the roles of the nurse, specifica lly the nurse as a member of the profession, provider of care and leader/manager of care. The curriculum incorporates professional standards such as the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics, the Institute of Medicine Recommendations, the Joint Commission on Accreditation Standards, and National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) to the extent that these are in conformity with Catholic biomedical principles and applications. The concepts of critical thinking, evidence -based practice, communication, collaboration, professional leadership, cultural humility, professional values, and information technology are introduced in the first nursing course and emphasized throughout the c urriculum. Nursing courses focus on enhancing the nursing students’ critical thought process. Evidence - based nursing practice is introduced in the first nursing course and emphasized throughout the curriculum. Students intending to major in Nursing will proceed through the full sequence of the Core Curriculum. The Nursing Program shares the ideals and aims of liberal education which permeate the entire University. The Core provides an indispensable foundation for the study of nursing. The Nursing Program values the Core especially for providing a broad orientation to the unity of truth, the understanding of the human person as expressed in the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the just ordering of society as d eveloped in Western Civilization. In addition, the collective coursework of the Core inculcates the skills and habits necessary for studies within the art and science of nursing, such as critical thinking, evidence -based practice, communication, mathematical and scientific analysis, and above all, prudence. Nursing and Catholic Mission The nursing program at Ave Maria University adheres to the Charter for Health Care Workers issued by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers (1995). The following excerpts express the mission of nursing within, first, the ecclesial mission of the care of the human person and, second, the requisite moral principles and applications: 1. The work of health care persons is a very valuable service to life. It expresses a profoundly human and Christian commitment, undertaken and carried out not only as a technical activity but also as one of dedication to and love of neighbor. It is “a form of Christian witness.” “Their profession calls for them to be guardians and servants of human life” (Evangelium Vitae 89). Life is a primary and fundamental good of the human person. Caring for life, then, expresses, first and foremost, a truly human activity in defense of physical life. It is to this that professional or voluntary health care workers devote their activity. These are doctors, nurses, hospital chaplains, men and women religious, administrators, voluntary care givers for those who suffer, those involved in the diagnosis, tre atment and recovery of human health. The principal and symbolic expression of “taking care” is their vigilant and caring presence at the sickbed. It is here that medical and nursing activity expresses its lofty human and Christian value… 3. …To speak of mission is to speak of vocation: the response to a transcendent call which takes shape in the suffering and appealing countenance of the patient in his care. To care lovingly for a sick person is to fulfill a divine mission, which alone can motivate and sustain the most disinterested, available and faithful commitment, and gives it a priestly value. “When he presents the heart of his redemptive mission, Jesus says: ‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly’ (Jn 10:10). It is pr ecisely in this ‘life’ that all the aspects and stages of human life achieve their full significance” (Evangelium Vitae 1). … 5. …the therapeutic ministry of health care workers is a sharing in the pastoral and evangelizing work of the Church. Service to life becomes a ministry of salvation, that is, a message that activates the redeeming love of Christ. “Doctors, nurses, other hea lth care workers, voluntary assistants, are called to be the living image of Christ and of his Church in loving the sick and the suffering:” witnesses of “the gospel of life.” Service to life is such only if it is faithful to the moral law, which expresses exigently its value and its tasks. Besides technico-professional competence, the health care worker has ethical responsibilities. “The ethical law, founded on respect for the dignity of the person and on the rights of the sick, should illuminate and govern both the research phase and the application of the findings.” In fidelity to the moral law, the health care worker actuates his fidelity to the human person whose worth is guaranteed by the law, and to God, whose wisdom is expressed by the law. 6. He draws his behavioral directives from that field of normative ethics which nowadays is called bioethics. Here, with vigilant and careful attention, the magisterium of the Church has intervened, with reference to questions and disputes arising from the b iomedical advances and from the changing cultural ethos. This bioethical magisterium is for the health care worker, Catholic or otherwise, a source of principles and norms of conduct which enlighten his conscience and direct him—especially in the complexity of modern bio-technical possibilities—in his choices, always respecting life and its dignity. 7. The continuous progress of medicine demands of the health care worker a thorough preparation and ongoing formation so as to ensure, also by personal studies, the required competence and fitting professional expertise. Side- by-side with this, they should be given a solid “ethico-religious formation,” which “promotes in them an appreciation of human and Christian values and refines their moral conscience.” There is need “to develop in them an authentic faith and a true sense of morality, in a sincere sear ch for a religious relationship with God, in whom all ideals of goodness and truth are based. All health care workers should be taught morality and bioethics. To achieve this, those responsible for their formation should endeavor to have chairs and courses in bioethics put in place.” 9. The sphere of action of health care workers consists, in general, of what is contained in the terms and concepts of health and medicine especially. The term and concept of health embraces all that pertains to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for greater equilibrium and the physical, psychic and spiritual well -being of the person. The term and concept of medicine, on the other hand, refers to all that concerns health policy, legislation, programming and structures. The meeting and the practical synthesis of the demands and duties arising from the concepts of health and medicine are the basis and way for humanizing medicine. This must be present both at the personal -professional level—the doctor-patient relationship —and at the socio -policy level so as to safeguard in institutional and technological structures the human -Christian interests in society and the institutional and technological infrastructures. The first but not without the second, since such humanization as well as being a love-charity task is “an obligation of justice.” “[This humanization strengthens] the bases of the ‘civilization of life and love,’ without which the life of individuals and of society itself loses its most genuinely human quality” (Evangelium Vitae 27). These excerpts from the Charter for Health Care Workers articulate the vision for nursing that is to inform the Program of Nursing at Ave Maria University. The Nursing Program should build upon the Christian understanding of the human person as taught in the Core Curriculum. It should highlight the care of the sick and suffering as a participation in the love of Christ. It should teach and reinforce principles and conclusions of Catholic biomedical ethics. It should promote the true health of the human person. It should foster dedication and excellence in the skills, knowledge, and habits necessary for the nursing profession. The nature of nursing as service to the life of the human person demands such dedication and excellence. Required Core Curriculum Courses BIOL 304 Anatomy and Physiology I BIOL 309 Anatomy and Physiology II Foreign Language I (Elementary) HIST 101 Western Civilization I HIST 102 Western Civilization II MATH 110 College Algebra or Higher PHIL 205 Nature and Person PHIL 206 Ethics (may be taken in junior year with nursing courses) POLT 203 American Civilization RETP 101 Rhetoric and Poetics I RETP 102 Rhetoric and Poetics II THEO 105 Sacred Scripture THEO 205 Sacred Doctrine THEO 390 Catholic Bioethics Required Prerequisite Courses BIOL 203 Introduction to Microbiology CHEM 105 Chemistry for Health Sciences or CHEM 125 General Chemistry I NURS 200 Clinical Nutrition PSYC 201 Principles and Methods of Psychology PSYC 301 Human Development and Learning Required Courses for the Major NURS 215 Introduction to Professional Nursing NURS 310 Fundamentals of Nursing NURS 310C Fundamentals in Nursing Lab NURS 315 Health Assessment NURS 315C Health Assessment Lab NURS 330 Pathophysiology for Nursing Practice NURS 335 Applied Pharmacology NURS 340 Adult Health and Illness I (Previously NURS 415) NURS 340C Adult Health and Illness I Clinical (Previously NURS 415 Clinical) NURS 350 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing NURS 350C Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Clinical NURS 360 Research for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice (Previously NURS 460) NURS 410 Community Health Nursing NURS 410C Community Health Nursing Clinical NURS 420 Nursing Care of Women NURS 420C Nursing Care of Women Clinical NURS 430 Nursing Care of Children NURS 430C Nursing Care of Children Clinical NURS 440 Adult Health and Illness II NURS 440C Adult Health and Illness II Clinical NURS 450 Leadership and Management NURS 450C Leadership and Management Clinical NURS 455 Professional Nursing Review Total credit hours: 130 B.S.N. Degree Sequence of Courses Students who are admitted to the B.S.N. program will enter with a cohort and remain with that cohort throughout the program. In order to begin taking nursing courses, the prerequisite courses and all required core courses listed in the AMU B .S.N. Program Admission Requirements in the AMU B.S.N. Student Handbook must be successfully completed. Course Descriptions NURS 200 CLINICAL NUTRITION This course introduces the student to basic nutritional science necessary for proper growth and development and overall health maintenance across the lifespan. Through application of clinical , dietary, and nutritional principles , dietary requirements related to changing individual and family needs, food choices, cultural variations, health behaviors and prevention of chronic disease , nutrition-related health will be explored. The relationship between diet and physical activity, the role of medical nutrition therapy and food safety will be addressed. Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing Program.