Description
This course introduces the student to the application of basic concepts appropriate to professional nursing care. These concepts include the nursing process, critical thinking, role expectations, illness prevention, health restoration, health promotion, and health maintenance across the lifespan. The design of this course promotes the integrated use of the nursing process in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of care. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and nursing diagnostic categories based on the work of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) are used to organize assessment data and the plan of care for clients. (prereq: NU 2011, NU 290) (coreq: NU 2820, NU 391)