Adults in Transitions

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This course focuses on facilitating health outcomes for adults experiencing health-illness transitions in primary, secondary, and tertiary health care settings. The course fosters skill in planning, implementing, and evaluating holistic nursing interventions essential to the care of adult clients with acute and chronic medical-surgical conditions. Risk factors, clinical assessment, nutrition, and pharmacology are emphasized throughout the course. The role of the nurse in caring for adults and providing health counseling and education to guide clients in making informed choices for health care is also discussed. Prerequisites: NURS230 and NURS231 and NURS364 Co-requisites: NURS361 College of Nursing Nursing