Course Description

Through laboratory and/or clinical experience students learn about the professional identity of the nurse while acquiring and applying basic nursing knowledge, judgment, and skills in order to provide safe patient-centered care. Group 2 course.

Credit Hours

4

Contact Hours

12

Lecture Hours

0

Lab Hours

12

Required Prerequisites

Admission to the nursing program; BIO 228 with a grade of 2.5 or higher, may be taken concurrently

Corequisites

HAH 100C, HNR 101, HNR 106, HPD 110

General Education Outcomes supported by this course

Critical Thinking - Direct, Quantitative Reasoning

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge:

• Recognizes the impact of professional communication skills in promoting knowledge, facilitating quality patient-centered care, and in promoting effective team functioning.

Application:

• Implements nursing actions based on decisions that are consistent with standards for nursing practice, established policies and procedures, and legal/ethical parameters with guidance.
• Uses various calculation methods to solve medical dosage calculations.

Integration:

• Implements holistic patient-centered care for one to two assigned patients with guidance.

Human Dimension:

• Demonstrates safe care practices that minimize the potential for harm to patients, self, and health care team members with guidance.

Caring - Civic Learning:

• Demonstrate integrity, honesty, accountability, maintain patient safety, and maintains patient confidentiality, privacy, respect, and dignity.

Learning How to Learn:

• Recognizes various types of thinking required to implement the nursing process.