Adult Health.

Catalog description

Anticipated first class: Spring 2027 Beginning to integrate the fundamentals of care for the roles of the professional nurse as a provider of patient-centered care, member of the profession and healthcare team, and patient safety advocate with Marianist values, this course focuses on the patient-centered care clinical concepts and skills of adult health with common medical-surgical health care needs. Students consider the social determinants of health and their effect on the health and wellness of adults along with nursing implications for healthcare policy. Students begin to utilize the nursing process to plan for safe, evidence-based, strategies and demonstrate caring and compassionate behaviors to assist adults with common medical-surgical healthcare needs and their families to enhance, protect or preserve optimum health or end-of-life experience. The course imparts nursing knowledge, develops clinical judgment and reasoning skills, fosters situational awareness, effective communication, and assessment skills central to the nursing process. Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in simulation and various clinical settings. An additional fee is associated with this course. See the fee schedule for details at https://www.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/tuition/. Prerequisite: NU 3401 Mental Health; NU 3301 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Across the Lifespan.