NU101A

This first nursing course is health promotion, restoration, and maintenance. The health promotion and maintenance focus address basic need satisfaction, e.g., safety, oxygenation, hygiene, food and fluid, rest, activity, and elimination.? The health restoration focus addresses the nursing actions precipitated by selected adult patients experiencing pain, inflammation, infection, surgery, alterations in oxygenation, and mobility status.? Communication, basic research skills, informatics and technology, a philosophy of caring, and ethical/legal standards of practice are presented as essential to professional role development.The course introduces the student to the major categories of patient needs Safe, Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity.? The concepts of adaptation, nursing process, communication, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice are included in the design, along with the Nurse of the Future Concepts, Skills, and ACEN Core Values.The concurrent clinical component of the course provides the students the opportunity to participate in collaboration with the interprofessional team, appreciate the micro/macro system of the care environment, and begin to contribute to quality improvement.Evaluation of course/outcome achievement by the student and faculty provides mutual feedback.? The process of self-evaluation promotes self-understanding and professional development.? Credits: 9 credits course, which consists of 6 credits for classroom and 3 credits for clinical

Undergraduate

Young School of Nursing

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