NURS 0312 - Nursing Care of the Adult and Older Adult I

Credits: 5

This is the first of two courses that focuses on the care of the adult and older adult patient with acute and/or chronic illness. Content includes using critical thinking to make appropriate clinical decisions for developing and implementing evidence based professional nursing interventions to achieve appropriate patient outcomes. The integrating of theoretical and clinical knowledge in the care of adults/older adults with chronic illness, synthesizing laboratory data, and the setting of priorities will be incorporated. This course addresses relevant criteria of the AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education # I, III, IV and IX)   (see www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/bacessen.htm).  2 hours classroom; 6 hours clinical/week; 3 hour SimLab/week.

Prerequisites: NURS 0311   and NURS 0316  
Corequisite: NURS 0335  

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