Students integrate nursing skills, roles, and activities at increasingly higher levels of practice. The focus is on enhancing student learning and autonomy. The student uses beginning management techniques to facilitate the delivery of care to clients. Students provide nursing care for adults primarily in community settings, for infants, children and adolescents primarily in hospital settings, for psychiatric patients in inpatient settings, and for pregnant clients in hospital and community settings. Community settings include home health, community based clinics, health departments, and support groups.
Students integrate nursing skills, roles, and activities at increasingly higher levels of practice.
The focus is on enhancing student learning and autonomy. The student uses beginning management techniques to facilitate the delivery of care to clients. This course focuses on socialization to professional nursing practice. Content includes, but is not limited to, the history of professional nursing, standards of practice, and professional nursing roles as they relate to client needs in diverse settings. Theories and frameworks of use to professional nursing practice are introduced.