30000

Introduces foundation concepts and essential components of the professional baccalaureate prepared nurse role. Examines nursing theory, quality practice, and ethical/legal issues.  Analyzes historical nursing advocates/issues as well as professional nursing topics/trends of today.

Examines effective communication skills needed in today's complex health care environment.  Introduces theoretical principles and applications to enhance productive interaction with internal and external customers, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team members, in a variety of diverse health care settings.

Focusing on health promotion concepts, theories, and tools, learners explore nursing care of individuals, families, and special populations from a cultural perspective. Promoting culturally relevant age-specific healthy lifestyles across the life span are addressed. Cultural perspective is expanded through health risk assessment screening, leveraging health educational resources, and the use of targeted strategies for promoting the health and well-being of diverse populations. Using the concepts of cultural awareness, sensitivity, and humility, learners explore the social determinants of health important to equitable care domestically and internationally.

Explores the impact of the vast amount of technology used in today's health care organizations.  Focuses on information technology as related to health care safety, quality improvement, resource utilization, and data management to improve outcomes.  Other topics include the ethical and legal issues impacting the use of technology in health care.

Course explores cellular functions and pathology and the changes that occur within the human body as a response to various disease processes.  Discusses the role of the professional nurse in the management of specific health problems across the lifespan.  Prerequisites:  Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, and NRSG 30000 Professional Nursing Theory, Roles, and Practice.

Students will focuses on expanding and refining knowledge and assessment skills needed in performing a complete nursing health assessment across the life span. Students will describe and analyze assessment findings. Techniques explored: Interviewing, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation utilizing selected volunteers, and virtual high fidelity simulation

experiences. Prerequisite: NRSG 32006 Human Pathophysiology