This course is designed as a bridge to baccalaureate nursing education to acquaint the returning professional with skills necessary for academic success while focusing on the unique role of nurses in the changing health care system.
Content includes role theory, change theory, and political advocacy.
Explores the efforts of nursing to help create a health care system that assures access, quality, and services at affordable costs. Introduces anthropological theories, concepts and methods used to examine health beliefs and practices of a variety of cultural groups in the United States and throughout the world. Designed to provide the practicing nurse with tools for effective delivery of health care to clients from different cultures. Initiation into classical and modern logic within the framework of the philosophy of being. Emphasis on use of the computer to determine validity.