5.00 Credits
Students must be admitted into the Nursing program before registering for this course. This course, the first of a series of four courses, introduces students toknowledge, processes, and skills needed to plan and give nursing care to patients. The concepts on which the nursing curriculum is developed are introduced and will be integrated throughout successive courses. These include stress-adaptation, basic needs, nursing process, growth and development, communication, history and trends, pharmacology, management, and legal and ethical issues. Course content focuses on basic human needs for elimination, circulation, oxygen, temperature control, comfort, sleep, stimulation, activity-exercise, salt-water balance, and biological safety. Alterations in basic needs or the patient's ability to satisfy basic needs, and assessments and interventions related to basic needs are included. (Formerly numbered NUR 111).