Nursing Healthcare Concepts I

Catalog description

This course introduces the fundamental concepts necessary to provide safe, patient-centered nursing care to a diverse patient population. This course is designed to introduce foundational concepts within the three domains of the individual, health and illness, and professional and healthcare concepts. Concepts introduced in this course include stress/anxiety, clotting, comfort/rest, communication, culture/diversity, elimination, fluid & electrolytes, gas exchange, immunity, mobility, patient education/health promotion, perfusion, safety, sensory perception, thermoregulation and tissue integrity. The student will be introduced to nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide evidence-based, safe, effective quality care to facilitate physiologic and psychosocial integrity.