NURSING CONCEPTS I

Catalog description

This course introduces the core organizers of the ADN program framework which include: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, safety and quality, informatics, and professional identity. Selected core concepts are introduced and built upon during the semester: sensory/perception, elimination, oxygenation, mobility, perfusion, metabolism, nutrition, tissue integrity, stress/coping, comfort, communication, leadership, health care delivery, legal, reproduction/sexuality, cognition and immunity. These concepts with consideration of scope of practice and regulatory/financial implications in various health care settings will then be integrated throughout the nursing program of study. Basic health assessment and development of basic psychomotor skills to safely provide care in laboratory and clinical practice settings is a focus. The student will utilize the nursing process to identify nursing interventions for meeting basic human needs. Lab and clinical required. (A special fee will be assessed)(CTAG, ITAG)