This course focuses on the functional, adaptation, ethnic and cultural patterns of young, middle-aged, and elderly adults with emphasis on alterations in nutrition, elimination, and metabolic processes. Students will use the nursing process in identifying interventions consistent with acute and chronic alterations in nutrition, elimination and metabolic processes. Alterations in Nutrition, Elimination, and Metabolic Function Students will focus on the nursing process in the delivery of nursing care for adults with alterations in nutrition, elimination, and metabolic processes.
Emphasis is placed on the developmental patterns of adults.
Course provides students with the opportunity to continue to develop critical thinking, communication and psychomotor skills consistent with the role of a competent care provider in a variety of care settings.