COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This course focuses upon the scope of nursing practice, the concepts of health and illness and essential nursing skills for assessment of wellness and the maintenance of a healthy state. essential nursing skills include, but are not limited to, therapeutic uses of the nursing process, nursing care plans, and basic/fundamental nursing assessments techniques and procedures.
By the completion of the course, the student will:

1. Administer safe, competent nursing care to individuals and their significant others who may demonstrate self care deficits while experiencing actual potential physiological and psychosocial disturbance,
2. Compute medication dosages for individuals throughout the life span with 100% accuracy;
3. Use the nursing process as the organizing framework for the delivery of nursing care to individuals and the their significant others;
4. Apply nursing, developmental, maturational, and needs theories when designing and implementing systems of nursing care for individuals and their significant others;
5. Demonstrate use of knowledge from the natural, behavioral, and social science when designing and implementing systems of nursing care for individuals and their significant others.