NRSG 130 - Fundamentals Of Nursing

7 credits (Hrs: 4 Lec., 3 Lab)

The intent of this course will be to help the nursing student develop the necessary basic communication and interpretation skills to interact with the patient, family and health care team while providing clinical skills at a beginning level. This course introduces the learner to the clinical skills essential for the nursing role. This class includes complex concepts on behaviors of nursing roles within the context of the nursing process, holistic care and health care. The students will learn to creatively implement nursing strategies and to think critically when interacting with diverse cultural backgrounds and situations. The information given to the students will be based on recent clinical information and will provide evidence based nursing practices for their interventions and rationale within the nursing process. This course will broaden their teaching skills in a holistic manner which is necessary to treat and care for all clients. The settings for delivery of care are rapidly expanding requiring a broad base of knowledge which will help the student meet the needs of the client in a variety of settings such as health promotion, wellness, disease prevention, nursing theories, nursing informatics, nursing research, ethics, advocacy and home and community-based nursing care.

 

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the ASN Program.