NURS 265 - Complex Healthcare Concepts

Credit(s): 6
Contact Hours: 10

This course is designed to assimilate the concepts within the three domains of the individual, healthcare, and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of fluid/electrolytes, metabolism, perfusion, mobility, stress/coping, violence, health/wellness/illness, professional behaviors, caring interventions, managing care, healthcare systems, and quality improvement. This combined theory and clinic course allows for theoretical application of concepts within the lab and clinical settings in providing safe, effective and competent care while demonstrating the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to provide quality, individualized, entry level nursing care to patient populations experiencing complex health issues. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Registered Nursing Program 370 or 372, “C” or better in BIOL 276, NURS 144, and NURS 246 or “C” or better in BIOL 276, NURS 254, and NURS 256 . Concurrent: To complete the degree requirement for this course you must maintain a grade of “C” or better.