This course introduces nursing as an art and science. Students are acquainted with the role of the professional nurse and the values, ethics, laws, professional standards, rights, and responsibilities inherent to the nursing profession. This theory course presents content on the role of the nurse as educator in health promotion across the lifespan. This course traces the historical evolution of nursing and addresses stimuli which have shaped the profession.
Content includes an introduction to nursing models, concepts and nursing theories.
This is a two credit hour laboratory class with content directed toward the introduction and use of therapeutic nursing interventions in promoting adaptation of Person. This is a theory course which begins developing the role of the practitioner through use of the nursing process with adults experiencing ineffective responses. Content includes concepts and processes associated with each adaptive mode and a broad range of focal and contextual stimuli. Current research related to scientific principles is discussed. This practicum course provides opportunities for the application of concepts presented in NU 303 and NU 304.