Ethical and legal guidelines and an understanding of the inner spirit and humanity of the individual are discussed as the framework for providing holistic care. Laboratory experience provides students with opportunities to acquire fundamental technical skills, with an emphasis on the scientific principles that underlie the application of these skills. Emphasis is on the application of nursing process, health assessment skills, communication techniques, and technical skills learned in concurrent nursing courses. Enhances theoretical learning related to health restoration of adults in a variety of settings. Integration of principles from nutrition, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and nursing science provides a foundation for clinical judgement and decision making.
Nursing care is evaluated in the context of adherence to standards of professional performance.
Provides the returning nurse with an opportunity to explore nursing issues such as professional role development and empowerment strategies along with an examination of increasing trends to community bases health care. Delivery of care across the health care continuum is emphasized within a community context and partnership development. Historical, current and future trends in the discipline of nursing are examined, along with health care issues within a framework of social justice and ethical decision making. The interrelationship between psychological, social, biological, and spiritual subsystems is examined within the context of mental health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and psychiatric illness management of individuals and their families. This integrated clinical experience enhances the theoretical learning related to complex health restoration and mental health needs of adults and their families.