Nursing II

Catalog description

This course provides students with both didactic and clinical learning experiences designed to provide physiological and psychosocial nursing care to adult clients. Emphasis is placed on functioning as a client advocate and a member of the multidisciplinary team with appropriate prioritization and delegation of care. This course builds on the development of clinical reasoning presented in NUR 1109 to provide supervised learning experiences to prepare the student to provide compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate, safe and effective nursing care to adult medical-surgical clients. Supervised learning experiences in the college nursing laboratory and selected clinical agencies are provided. A grade of “C” or above is required for the theory component before advancing to the clinical component. If this does not occur, both the theory and clinical components must be retaken. Clock hours: 90 theory/135 clinical. Prerequisite: NUR 1109 , Grade of “C” or higher in BIO 2523 , BIO 2521 within 7 years of admission to program. Lecture Hours: Six theory hours. Clinical Hours: Nine clinical hours per week