Overview
Description
The art and science nursing focused on professional values, critical thinking, care provider role, clinical management, communication and legal and ethical aspects.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to the nursing major.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing major.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO12
Restrictions
Admission to the nursing major.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- utilize evidence-based knowledge from the arts, humanities, and sciences in the care of individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- examine and clarify professional values and their ethical implications for the professional nurse and the health care team.
- discuss the roles of the interdisciplinary health care team and identify the nursing role and responsibilities in the creation of safe and caring environments for the individual.
- demonstrate critical thinking in assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of nursing care for individuals.
- discuss the nurse’s care provider role in health and illness of the individual.
- discuss the nurse’s role in the physical, cognitive, social and emotional functional ability of the individual, with particular attention to changes due to aging.
- explain the legal concepts of standards of care and scope of practice.