| |
Apr 23, 2024
|
|
|
|
|
2020-2021 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
|
PN 102 FOUNDATIONS OF 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. Nursing process is introduced as the method utilized to meet basic human needs. Nursing skills are presented in 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. 11 Credits Prerequisites: BI 215 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY I w/LAB and BI 217 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY II w/LAB Corequisites: HL 111 ESSENTIALS OF NUTRITION , PN 105 ISSUES & TRENDS IN PRACTICAL NURSING and PN 107 PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY I
|
|