NURS 0201 - Fundamentals of Professional Nursing Practice

This course examines the underlying theoretical concepts and expands on prior knowledge and skills from sciences and the humanities. The core focus is on utilizing the nursing process, health assessment techniques and evidence based practice to provide quality, individualized, compassionate and safe care to the adult/older adult populations and their families. Competency in the application of basic nursing skills and safety are key elements integrated into the clinical and simulation/laboratory settings.  3 hour lecture, 6 hour clinical, 3 hour lab.

Prerequisites: NURS 0100  , BIOL 0209  , BIOL 0237  
Corequisite: BIOL 0239