Foundational Concepts of Nursing

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Fall 6 Credit Hours Focuses on the introduction to the foundations of nursing practice and demonstration of proficiency in beginning nursing skills including medical asepsis, safe patient handling, vital signs, assessment, sterile technique, personal hygiene, care environment, mobility, oral nutrition, enteral nutrition, urinary elimination, bowel elimination, specimen collection, and blood glucose monitoring. Foundational aspects of clinical judgement involving noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting as well as the nursing process will be defined and discussed in the context of the caring situation as a professional nurse. Prerequisites: admittance to nursing program, minimum GPA of 2.8, Co-requisites of NURS 321 and NURS 314. Recommended electives: HS 111, HS 210, BIO 308