The nurse's role in health promotion, disease prevention and facilitating adaptive health processes to fulfill human needs in childbearing and child-rearing families is emphasized. Credit, twelve hours. An introduction to the fundamentals of nursing research and their application in nursing. Emphasis is placed on developing proficiency in critiquing and evaluating nursing research findings as they relate to the practice of nursing. Credit, three hours.
Students analyze self as a therapeutic instrument in the nurse-client relationship.
Development of therapeutic communication skills and the communicator role of the nurse are emphasized. Normal psychological adaptive mechanisms are introduced. Nursing 300 and 301. Credit, three hours. This course provides students with didactic and clinical learning experiences utilizing the nursing process as a means of providing health care to individuals, families and groups experiencing maladaptative alterations in mental health.