Nursing Therapeutic Skills Lab

Catalog description

Offered in the first semester of the nursing sequence, this course introduces the student to the foundations of nursing practice at the baccalaureate level. Through the didactic portion of the course, students are introduced to the nursing process, theoretical bases for nursing practice, and selected nursing skills essential to the practice of nursing including therapeutic communication, psychomotor skills and an intensive skills lab aimed at preparing the beginning nursing student to focus on the basic human needs hypothesized in Maslow's Human Needs Theory. The theoretical and evidence based underpinnings of selected basic nursing skills are taught. Focus is on the individual as a biopsychosocial, cultural and spiritual being. Laboratory and observational experiences provide students with opportunities to practice basic nursing skills in order to prepare them for performance in the clinical setting.