Clinical experience focuses on direct client nursing care in selected long-term care and acute care facilities. The student will be expected to apply foundations of nursing practice, theory, concepts and skills, demonstrate legal and ethical behavior, safety practices, interpersonal and teamwork skills, and utilize appropriate communication with clients, families, staff, and peers. Clinical experience focusing on direct client care of adult and pediatric populations in selected acute care facilities. The student will be expected to apply the concepts and skills of the licensed vocational nurse and demonstrate LVN level legal and ethical behavior, safety practices, interpersonal and teamwork skills, and utilize appropriate communication with clients, families, staff and peers. This course focuses on the general principles of medication administration including determination of dosage, preparation, safe administration, and documentation of multiple forms of drugs.
Instruction includes various systems of measurement.
This course focuses on utilization of the nursing process in the assessment and management of the childbearing family. This course focuses on the fundamentals of medications and their diagnostic, therapeutic, and curative effects. It includes nursing interventions utilizing the nursing process. This course is a study of childhood diseases and childcare from infancy through adolescence. Focus is placed on the care of the well and the ill child utilizing the nursing process.