Health Professions Transitions

Catalog description

In this course, you can expect to explore the transition from health care professional to the professional registered nurse. You will learn to assimilate cognitive and affective learning with the legal and ethical principles necessary to provide safe, effective, and evidence-based care to a diverse, multicultural client population through the use of the nursing process and understanding clinical judgment. This course focuses on concepts of pathophysiology essential to understanding alterations in body systems. You will develop professional nursing clinical decision-making skills for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease management across the lifespan as well as basic principles of pharmacology including its relationship to the health of individuals and families. Emphasis is placed on nursing responsibilities and client education, understanding the fundamentals of professional nurse practice, as well as effective therapeutic communication and documenting patient care.