Fund Nursing/Practical Nurse

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce the beginning practical nursing student to the profession of nursing with particular focus in the long-term care setting. Safe and effective care principles will be applied. The students will be expected to manage hygiene related needs, basic safety, and nutritional provision of oral fluids and foods. Concepts related to assessment, culture, values and ethics, legal aspects, and therapeutic interpersonal communication skills will be presented. The principles and practices of medication administration will be introduced. Alterations in bowel and urinary elimination, oxygenation, rest and sleep will be discussed. The concepts of pain, teaching and learning, death and dying, and spirituality will be addressed. The nursing process will be introduced and integrated throughout the course. Knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to perform competent nursing care will be applied to the care of the geriatric/adult patients. Clinical experience will focus on the basic care of the geriatric/adult resident in the long-term care settings and hospital settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the LPN program. Semester Hour(s): 14 hour(s) Lecture / Lab Hours: 9 lec/10 lab/week