Focuses on a conceptual approach in exploring dimensions of practice and client care issues, reflecting nursing's strategic position and ability to influence decisions and policies relative to social, ethical, political, legal, and economic environments. An introduction to the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment of disease. Begins with fundamental pathophysiologic concepts followed by an examination of specific disease mechanisms in the various body systems.
Clinical application relates the processes of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Focuses on theories, concepts, and practices of primary and tertiary prevention among aging adults living in community settings. Physiological, psychosocial, and cultural factors related to aging, as well as chronic illnesses that affect people in later maturity, are explored. The nursing process with the aging adult is emphasized, and resources that assist the elderly in health care are examined. The interdisciplinary nature of gerontological theory and practice is explored. Potential and actual ethical issues and dilemmas arising from practice are analyzed using the intellectual standards of critical thinking.