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. Beginning in Fall 2023,
BIO 228 will be a prerequisite for admission to all nursing programs.
Corequisites
HAH 100C,
HNR 101,
HNR 106General 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.
