Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take NURS-301 NURS-306 NURS-307 NURS-309 NURS-317 NURS-318 NURS-320 NURS-321 NURS-407 NURS-416 NURS-417. (Required, Previous). | Take NURS-418 NURS-420. (Required, Previous or concurrent).
Credit Hours: Min: 6; Max:
Description: This is the fourth of four sequential courses to introduce students to the role of critical thinking and the nursing process as a mechanism to synthesize knowledge needed to promote, maintain and restore health in hospitalized patients with critical alterations in respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, neurological, and integumentary systems. This course provides the student opportunities to explore advanced concepts, bio terrorism, and disaster preparedness and experience the roles of the nurse as provider of care for multiple patients across the life span in acute care/critical care settings, as well as a coordinator of care; applying the nursing process, principles of communication, decision-making, nursing skills, and patho-physiology concepts, health assessment and nutritional data. Critical thinking skills are applied, with an emphasis on continuity of care, effective communication with diverse patients and disciplines, and collaboration with interdisciplinary team members to provide a comprehensive plan of care for optimal patient outcomes. Learning activities are designed to facilitate transition into the role and responsibilities of the professional nurse.