NURS 260 - Foundations

Credit(s): 2.5
2.5 hours lecture, 2.5 hours contact
This course introduces students to the concepts of professional nursing practice using a patient centered, caring-healing focus. Students will utilize the knowledge, attitudes, and therapeutic intervention skills necessary for the delivery of professional nursing care for health promotion and disease prevention of individual patients in selected health care environments and the community. Students will gain an understanding of the concepts of holism and caring within an evidence-based ethical framework. Laboratory and clinical experiences will facilitate the development of therapeutic communication and beginning critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.