Foundations of Nursing (NURS220)

(01/09/2023-04/21/2023)

Prerequisite Courses

Course Description Credits Course Type Code
ENGL144 Medical Terminology Credits: 2 Crs Type: UG
NURS225 Introduction to Health Assessment Credits: 4 Crs Type: UG
NURS225L Introduction to Health Assessment Lab Credits: 0 Crs Type: UG
NURS230 Health Promotion and Wellness Credits: 3 Crs Type: UG
NURS230C Health Promotion and Wellness Clinical Credits: 0 Crs Type: UG
NURS235 Principles of Pathophysiology Credits: 3 Crs Type: UG

Co-Requisite Courses

Course Description Credits Course Type Code
NURS240 Mental Health 4 UG
NURS240C Mental Health Nursing Clinical 0 UG
NURS265 Pharmacology 3 UG

Course Memo

This course focuses on the application of the nursing process in the provision of primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to strengthen, and/or reconstitute, the adult client/patient's lines of defense and resistance to internal, external, and created stressors. The student will identify stressors affecting the physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual variables of the client/patient system. The student will provide care to patients/clients in the acute care and community environments. This course includes two credit hours of theory (30 clock-hours) and two credit hours of clinical (90 clock-hours).
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