Schedule
Tue, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM (8/20/2025 - 12/11/2025) Location: MAIN USC 327
Tue-Thu, 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM (8/20/2025 - 12/11/2025) Location: MAIN USC 327
Description
This course is designed to develop beginning levels of professional nursing competencies of clinical judgment, communication, person-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration, safety, quality improvement, and informatics necessary to provide quality health care for the adult population. Students will gain knowledge of foundational nursing concepts and interventions. The student will focus on developing safe, thorough, and accurate nursing assessment skills in the lab and clinical settings. Skills developed in this course will be used as the basis to formulate nursing diagnoses and identify interventions to improve the health status of patients for all clinical nursing courses. Pre-requisite: Admission to the Nursing major.
Total credits: 5
Theory: 2 hrs. per week
Lab: 90 contact hrs. per semester
Practicum: 45 contact hrs. per semester