Nursing Fundamentals – Adult Health & Patient Care I

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Nursing Fundamentals – Adult Health & Patient Care I is a lecture, lab, and clinical based course, that emphasis the basic nursing skills linked with the nursing process to ensure safe and competent nursing care to the adult patient. The students will lear n and apply the nursing process to adult patients. This course focuses on asepsis, infection control, body mechanics and patient mobility, hygiene, safety, and nursing intervention for individuals at the adult stage of their life cycle. In addition, students will also learn how to perform vital signs, complete first aid measures, oxygen therapy, skills and management related to elimination and gastric intubation, understand conditions related to fluids and electrolytes, pain management, c omfort, rest, sleep, nutritional needs, complementary and alternative therapies, and care to the post - surgical patients. Finally, students will also learn each of these basic nursing skills in the classroom, develop their skills in the lab, and later demonstrate their abilities in a clinical setting under the supervision of their instructor. Prerequisite: Student must have passed both NUR100 & NUR119 All programmatic requirements documentation must have been received by the college before the student may take this course.