Provides a comprehensive overview of the discipline of nursing. Topics include nursing as a profession, principles and skills of nursing practice, health promotion, physical assessment, client education, documentation, and therapeutic communication. Focuses on health management and maintenance; prevention of illness and infection control. Includes an emphasis on the nursing process, evidence based nursing practice and acquisition of critical thinking skills. Introduces deviations from the normal state of health and evidence-based nursing interventions for the concepts of safety, mobility, tissue integrity, nutrition, glucose regulation, elimination, perfusion, and oxygenation for adults across the life span. (Letter grade only.)
Admission to the Practical Nursing Program.