Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse. This course is the introductory nursing course for Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses. The student integrates knowledge gained from the applied fields of humanities, the behavioral, natural and health sciences as well as their previous nursing courses. The purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for synthesis of the concept of health and the organizing threads and theories for subsequent nursing courses. The course provides an orientation to the philosophy and conceptual framework of the nursing division, including content on nursing process, research, physical assessment and the aging process.
Emphasis is placed on the baccalaureate approach to nursing education.
Sociology of the Family - 3 credit hours See description under Sociology. Basic human needs serve as the framework used to integrate health assessment and nursing principles in this course. Students are introduced to psychomotor, cognitive and affective nursing and health assessment principles, concepts and skills. Students learn to use health assessment and nursing skills and the nursing process while caring for adults in a variety of settings. Emphasis is placed on the collection of pertinent health assessment data, development of appropriate nursing diagnoses and implementation of the nursing process to help elderly adult clients meet their basic human needs.