Adults in Transitions 2

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This course focuses on facilitating health outcomes for adults predominantly experiencing acute 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 a focus on acute medical-surgical alterations. Risk factors, clinical assessment, nutrition, pharmacology and prevention 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: NURS362 and NURS363 Co-requisites: NURS367 College of Nursing Nursing