4.00 Credits
4 semester hours (180 contact hours). This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and understanding of cardiac, nervous, respiratory, gastrointestinal and related systems, urinary, endocrine, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and immunological systems in the adult population in selected clinical nursing situations. This curse is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and understanding of the outcomes of public health and healthcare systems. Students will learn to apply components of pharmacology, therapeutic nurse-patient communication, patient care management and teaching, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety principles, and patient-centered care. Concepts of health promotion, disease prevention and risk reduction will be used along with a variety of frameworks that focus on both epidemiological and ecological models of health. Students will apply the frameworks and tools necessary to engage in evidence based practice focused on population health. The course emphasizes further development of complex nursing skills and the application of the nursing process in a variety of adult health clinical settings. Further, students will be engaged in a community-based service learning project. Prerequisite: Admission to the nursing program.