The role of the health care provider in influencing public policy related to health care is included. Students analyze the economic, human, and physical resources necessary and available for health care. Nursing concepts and process related to adult clients and families who are experiencing complex acute or chronic disruptions of selected body systems. Concepts of chronicity and quality of life issues will be examined. Students use the nursing process, nursing concepts and research-based nursing interventions in caring for adult clients with complex acute or chronic disruptions of selected body systems and their families.
Students work with interdisciplinary teams in providing acute and chronic care.
Students will have experiences in intensive care, chronic care, and at a hospice or home health care agency. Roles in community health nursing are explored. Nursing's role in meeting the health care needs of a total population is examined. Systems theory, epidemiology, levels of prevention, and the nation's objectives for health are analyzed. Systems theory, epidemiology, levels of prevention, and the nation's objectives for health are discussed.