2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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PNUR 11212 - Nursing Care of Adults I
Credit Hours: 12
This course is an introduction to the nurse’s role in the delivery of patient centered care as a member of a multidisciplinary team with an emphasis on the growth and development in older adult/geriatric population. The content includes fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to give nursing care and prevent spread of disease. Common procedures used in the care of the sick and development of the ability to adapt them to various situations. Development of awareness to report and record observations of the client are part of the course theory. Introduction to cultural considerations, pharmacology, physical and environmental safety, evidence based practice, legal/ethical principles, quality improvement, and informatics is incorporated through exemplars of chronic health problems and physical changes requiring acute and long-term management.
Associated Fees: Special Course Fee
Course Code History: NURS 1112
Prerequisite(s):
Complete all of the following:
Co-requisite(s):
Co-Requisites: Anatomy and Physiology II (BIOL 24101 BIOL 24103 )
Course Typically Offered:
F
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