I Humanities II Freshman English 3 Freshman English 4 Intro. 23 Foundations of Nursing I Introduces the student to concepts of client, nursing, health and environment through the Neuman Systems Model. This course and those that follow in the nursing sequence apply only to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and may not be used to fulfill the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree. The course focuses on gerontological nursing, and emphasizes health history and interview, physical assessment, psychosocial assessment, universal precautions, introduction to home visits, and selected perceptual-motor skills. The core classes examine stressors that threaten the normal line of defense.
Clinical practice is concurrent with the appropriate specialty area.
The core classes develop clinical and diagnostic reasoning skills and emphasize primary and secondary interventions for clients. Students will have classes and clinical practice in the specialty area not experienced in Dimensions of Nursing I. Twelve credits. The core classes address those nursing diagnoses which focus on collaborative problems and human responses to injury, trauma, violence, and psychosocial deficits. Clinical practice is concurrent with the appropriate specialty class. Students will have classes and clinical practice in the specialty areas not experienced in Advanced Nursing I. Twelve credits.