2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 College Catalog

NUR 215 - Nursing Concepts III


Credits: 9
Lab/Lecture: Seven lecture. Six lab.

This course will concentrate on three focus areas to include mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families. The course will include utilization of the nursing process to provide safe client-centered care. Included in each focus area is pharmacology as is relates across the lifespan with emphasis on dosage calculations, nursing interventions, patient teaching, and therapeutic indications
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
 

  1. apply prioritizing frameworks to care for the mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families;
  2. demonstrate competence in performing nursing skills for mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families;
  3. apply evidence-based practices in care of mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families. utilize safe practices in the mental health, pediatric, and maternal-newborn settings;
  4. demonstrate safe practices in the mental health, pediatric, and maternal-newborn settings;
  5. demonstrate ethical and legal behaviors of a nurse with mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families;
  6. apply the nursing process to provide client-centered care with mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families;
  7. utilize appropriate technology while caring for mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families;
  8. demonstrate collegiality and teamwork with nursing and interprofessional teams for mental health, pediatric, newborn and childbearing families.


Prerequisite(s): NUR 124 .
Pre/Corequisite(s): PSY 240.