NURS 104Nursing Care of Adult Clients

Catalog

This course focuses on the nurse's role in providing person-centered nursing care to adult patients to promote health and mental well-being, prevent disease, and restore/regenerate health following acute or chronic exacerbations. Nursing care concepts will be addressed within physiologic, pathophysiologic, psychological, and psychosocial context. Opportunities are provided for students to advance their communication skills, critical thinking, reasoning, clinical judgment, self-reflection, and identity as a nurse. Students will demonstrate evidenced-based knowledge and skills related to alterations in elimination, sensory, cardiac, gastrointestinal, cancer, respiratory, immunity, technology, quality, and safety. Clinical, laboratory and simulation experiences provide opportunities for students to learn and demonstrate psychomotor skills including medication administration and implementation of the nursing process in the delivery of nursing care.