This course emphasizes the beginning skills of a systematic health assessment. Introduction to the basic techniques of client interview and physical assessment of the individual are practiced in a laboratory setting. The study of nursing interventions designed to assist clients in meeting their human needs. 317 Students are introduced to therapeutic verbal and non-verbal communication skills as the basis for building interpersonal relationships with their patients. Students learn concepts of boundaries, transference and counter transference and how these affect all relationships.
Group process is covered as well as working in teams.
This course also provides a basis for learning about various psychiatric disorders and the subsequent nursing care needed to care for this population. This course includes the study of nursing care as it relates to families experiencing stressors associated with family planning, pregnancy, childbirth and caring for the newborn. The content also focuses on specific pathophysiologic disorders of childbearing women, including menarche, menopause and aging. This course focuses on major pathophysiologic concepts explored using a body systems approach. The relationships among etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and interventions are used to study common disease processes.