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NUR104 Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Safety

• Department Nursing
• Level Lower
• Format Online
• Credits 3

Description

This content focuses on the use of nursing process to provide and manage patient-centered care for persons across the lifespan. Patient teaching is discussed. Documenting and reporting nursing care and the use of informatics in health care are presented. The concepts of health promotion, maintenance, obtaining a health history, and the techniques of physical assessment are presented. Attention to safe and effective care with respect to environmental safety needs, emergency preparedness, use of restraints, infection control, and the prevention and management of pressure injury is explored. Pharmacology, safe medication administration and related nursing care are also addressed. Safe use of the nursing process is fundamental in this course. All the skills labs in this course must be successfully completed with a satisfactory grade of Complete to pass this course, regardless of the course numeric grade. Skills labs are graded as Satisfactory (Complete) or Unsatisfactory (Incomplete). Students must purchase one skills kit (available in the bookstore) for use in the NUR 104 and NUR 105 course. Items within them are necessary for students to use during their application of nursing clinical skills assignments for evaluation and feedback by the course instructor.

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Prerequisites

ENG101 English Composition or ENG101A Advanced Composition, PSY235 Lifespan Developmental Psychology, SOC101 Introduction to Sociology, BIO115 Anatomy and Physiology I (NonLab), BIO116 Anatomy and Physiology II NonLab), BIO212 Microbiology, MAT101 Mathematics for Everyday Life or MAT114 Intermediate Algebra.

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