An optional problem-solving seminar designed to assist students in developing their critical thinking skills in relationship to the nursing process. Emphasis will be on case studies. Includes identification of problems in human relationships and techniques for working successfully with both clients and co-workers. Mandatory decimal grading. The first course in the nursing sequence presenting the concepts of the nursing process, the total person, homeostasis and the environment.
Human needs are explored.
Lifespan content focuses on the older adult. Mandatory decimal grading. The second course in the nursing sequence with emphasis on nutrition, communication, health teaching, pharmacology and common health disturbances. Includes concepts related to the young and middle-adult years. Mandatory decimal grading.