Students will be given the opportunity to explore present and potential impact of informatics on the discipline and practice of nursing, the health care delivery system, and the client. In laboratory settings, students will explore various methods of electronic communication, information retrieval and analysis, and presentation using technologies such as word processing, data management options, CD-ROM, Internet, and other applications. Health information systems for the management of health care data will be examined. I 3 hrs. I introduces holistic caring strategies through integration of concepts of communication, client assessment, and nursing therapeutics.
Emphasis is placed on transpersonal interactions between the nurse and client.
Students will utilize the nursing process and the Science of Human Care Nursing to apply didactic material through clinical simulation. Nursing Therapeutics II 3 hrs. The focus is on increasingly complex therapeutic strategies utilizing experiental learning opportunities through clinical simulation. Pharmacotherapeutics 2 hrs. Students are introduced to physiological and biochemical principles concerned with the actions of pharmacological agents.