Nursing IV

Catalog description

Within the curricular framework, the focus of this competency based course is utilization of the nursing process and the art of managing and providing culturally and ethnically sensitive care to groups of clients in a variety of settings. Caring, communication/documentation, and teaching/learning principles are utilized in the analysis of care provided to clients experiencing complex health alterations. The student transitions from dependent and interdependent roles to independent practice. Integration and synthesis of all precisely learned content occurs. The metaparadigm of nursing, person, society, and health are utilized in the provision of increasingly complex nursing. Role development is expanded to emphasize manager of care. Teaching/learning principles are applied and evaluated in a variety of settings. Culmination of all pharmacological principles occurs. The student is able to function in the roles of manager of care, provider or car, and member of a profession at the generalist level of proficiency. Semester Credit Hours: 9 semester credit hours allotted as follows: 5 hours theory, 4 hours Lab/Clinical