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NUR212 Health Differences Across the Life Span 2

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

Description

This course focuses on the application of the nursing process to support judgement and the provision of patient-centered care. A wide variety of health problems are presented. These include mental health disorders, cognitive impairment, diabetes mellitus, and dysfunction of endocrine, hepatic, biliary, renal, and pancreatic systems. Evidence-based, culturally sensitive nursing care, standards of professional nursing practice, as well as ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements are addressed. The application of anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and social science concepts is essential for the provision of safe quality patient care. The laboratory component is a practice experience using virtual simulation patients included in the required resource for the course. All the laboratory requirements 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).

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Prerequisites

All Nursing Phase I requirements, NUR 209 Reproductive Health, NUR 211 Health Differences Across the Life Span 1, ENG 101 English Composition or ENG 101A Advanced Composition, PSY 235 Lifespan Developmental Psychology, SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology, BIO 115 Anatomy and Physiology I (NonLab), BIO 116 Anatomy and Physiology II (NonLab), BIO 212 Microbiology, MAT 101 Mathematics for Everyday Life or MAT 114 Intermediate Algebra.

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