This course focuses on contemporary issues and advanced concepts of professional nursing care as they relate to older adult and adult patients with complex, multisystem alterations in health. Emphasis is placed on implementing time management, organizational, and delegation skills in the management of patients with multiple needs while collaborating with the interdisciplinary team. Students will demonstrate responsible and accountable behaviors while managing conflict. Complex clinical skills, as well as priority setting, clinical judgment, and tenets of legal and ethical practice, are integrated throughout the course. Clinical experiences provide the student an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts in the management of patient care and the leadership role in a variety of settings. Prerequisites: NS V30. Field trips may be required. Transfer credit: CSU. Formerly: NS V40A; NS V40B. Notes: The Board of Registered Nursing may deny licensure to those with criminal records.

This upper-division course will expose students to effective organizational structures and business practices to sustain high levels of quality control and accomplish organizational goals. Topics include business finance, organizational structures, functions of planning and controls, talent management, supply chain, government regulations. Notes: Enrollment in this course requires admission into a Community College baccalaureate degree program. Transfer credit: CSU.

This course presents an introduction to instrumentation and control devices and process automation approaches used in water and wastewater systems. Electrical power delivery and distribution around treatment plants are examined as a foundation for the course. Basic control theory of linear and dynamic systems is studied alongside control loop designs and PID tuning. Communication network media types and networked architectures are discussed. The final control action of variable frequency drives and motors, actuators, and chemical dosing equipment will be shown and connected with pumps, valves, and chlorinators. Finally, the appropriate instrumentation for different water quality needs will be studied. Field trips may be required.

In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. Notes: Prior to Common Course Numbering, this course was known as COMM V01. Field trips may be required. Recommended Prep: ENGL C1000. Transfer credit: CSU; UC.

This course is a survey of the physiological principles, function, integration, and homeostasis of the human body at the cellular, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism level. Lecture explores the physiology of the integumentary system, bone, muscle tissue, nervous system, sensory organs, cardiovascular system, lymphatic and immune systems, respiratory system, urinary system, digestive system, endocrine system, and reproductive system. Laboratory experiments emphasize an understanding of physiological principles and introduce students to common techniques and instruments used in the discipline. Prerequisites: ANAT V01 or concurrent enrollment; and CHEM V120 or CHEM V101 or CHEM V104 or 1 year of high school chemistry with a grade of "C" or better. Transfer credit: CSU; UC; credit limitations - see counselor. Notes: This course is intended for nursing, allied health, kinesiology, and other health science related majors.