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Apr 23, 2024
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NURS 115 - Nursing Foundations
5.0 Credits
Introduction to fundamentals of nursing care. Provides theoretical background and introduces nursing process. Emphasis on cultural awareness and critical thinking in nursing care. Lab practice for basic skills. Permit code required.
Prerequisite Admission to the program.
Corequisite NURS 114 and NURS 118.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of members of the healthcare team, with an emphasis on nursing roles.
- Define the legal scope of practice for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.
- Explain how nurses obtain and manage health information and the related legal and ethical implications.
- Demonstrate competence in basic navigation of an electronic medical record.
- Describe the legal and ethical basis for nursing documentation.
- Describe critical thinking and the nursing process and discuss how they are used in data analysis and nursing care planning.
- Identify theoretical models of health and illness.
- Discuss the principles of basic nursing care for clients with alterations in functional health patterns.
- Review and correctly perform basic nursing procedures in a laboratory setting.
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