In this course, students will learn basic nursing skills related to the foundations of nursing course, including assessment, data collection, safety and isolation, safe medication administration, pain and comfort. Students will learn to apply ethical and legal principles to the care of diverse populations of patients across the lifespan.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate clinical judgement using basic nursing skills such as data collection, wound care, medication administration, the principles of nutrition, oxygenation, elimination and hemodynamics.
- Apply principles of asepsis and isolation when providing care to diverse patients across the lifespan.
- Effectively communicate and document in order to provide consistent, equitable and culturally sensitive care to patients across the lifespan.
- Perform basic data collection as it applies to assessments in a variety of settings and across the lifespan.
- Identify legal and ethical principles and apply them to nursing care, documentation and communication.
Prerequisites
Admission into the nursing program following successful completion of all required prerequisites.
Distribution
Professional Education
Campus
Downtown
Area of Study
Career Education