0 or 5 credits
Fall 2025 Clinic 1 Lecture Clinic 2 Clinic Lower Division
Focuses on the beginning concepts and principles for the professional nurse while developing fundamental skills in a nursing process framework. Through lecture and clinical learners begin to apply skills in communication and assessment. Emphasis is placed on developing physical examination skills, obtaining health histories and performing client centered safe nursing care to meet basic healthcare needs in diverse populations across the lifespan.
Learning Outcomes1Apply the nursing process to clients from the healthy to chronically ill populations.
2Develop critical thinking skills relating to the practice of nursing in a variety of healthcare settings.
3Discuss the impact of evidence based nursing research in guiding practice.
4Identify the effect of personal values and beliefs on professional practice.
5Develop basic physical and psychosocial clinical assessment skills for the client across the lifespan, including interviewing techniques, and comprehensive history and physical exam.
6Employ basic principles of documentation to describe clinical findings.
7Demonstrate ethical and legal accountability of professional nursing actions, including client confidentiality.
8Use informatics appropriately in simulation and in the clinical setting.
9Identify methods and resources for personal and professional growth.
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