Nursing I

Students begin learning the roles of the Associate Degree Nurse as a provider and manager of care and a member within the discipline of nursing. Students develop introductory knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal and psychomotor skills to provide care to patients with actual or possible health problems who are in a state of wellness. The organizing curricular concepts of Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing and their interrelationships are introduced. Students learn to respect the patient and family as central members of the health care team and develop commitment to advocacy, and provision of safe, high quality, holistic, and evidenced-based practice. Nursing care content includes the nursing process, health promotion, safe medication administration, communication/documentation, teamwork/interdisciplinary collaboration, effective utilization of resources, and patient/family education. Students learn to apply a systematic approach to health assessment. Additional nursing concepts that are integral to the nursing role such as professionalism, leadership, systems-based practice, informatics and technology, and quality improvement are presented. Students are introduced to nursing research and conduct an article critique. Students participate in a Learning Lab group project and poster presentation. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice nursing skills in simulated activities. Clinical Learning provides experiences to practice nursing by caring for well patients or patients with common basic health problems in protected favorable environments such as nursing homes, rehabilitation and transitional care.
Co-requisites: BIOL110G and PSYC110G. Fall semester