PN 105 ISSUES AND TRENDS IN PRACTICAL NURSING

This course focuses on the common core of nursing knowledge and skills necessary to provide nursing care in simple situations across the life span. Using the framework of basic human needs, content is based on safety/sensory, nutrition/hydration, elimination, oxygenation, mobility, comfort/rest, and self-concept/self-esteem needs. These concepts assist the student in recognizing characteristics of individual patients whose ability to meet his/her own basic needs have been compromised. The nursing process is introduced as the method utilized to meet basic human needs. Nursing skills are presented in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical areas. Clinical experiences begin in long-term care facilities and progress to rehabilitation/sub-acute facilities. Lecture: 90 hours per semester. Clinical: 180 hours. Lab: 45 hours. 11 Credits Prerequisites: BI 215 and BI 217. Corequisites: HL 111, PN 107, and PN 109