NUR 106 Fundamentals of Nursing

Lecture Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 12
Credits: 9

Presents concepts and skills that lay a foundation for socialization into the nursing profession. Provides opportunities to attain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are necessary to promote health, prevent disease, and deliver basic nursing care to individual patients across the lifespan.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing Program; and completion of BI 231 and MTH 095 (or higher), each with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite: BI 232 (may be completed prior to enrollment).
Student Learning Outcomes:

Patient centered care: Identify patient centered care that promotes patients’ personal preferences, beliefs, and values.
Quality and Safety: Identify nursing care that minimizes risk of harm to patients and self.
Clinical decision making: Use the nursing process based on patient preferences and needs.
Professionalism: Describe nursing care that reflects integrity, accountability, legal and ethical practice.
Informatics and technology: Use current technology and patient information to maximize safety.
Teamwork and collaboration: Communicate effectively with student peers, faculty and patients.

Content Outline
Health And Illness Concepts

Comfort and Pain
Elimination
Fluid and Electrolytes
Immunity
Metabolism (Thermoregulation)
Mobility
Nutrition
Oxygenation
Perfusion
Reproduction and Sexuality
Rest and Sleep
Sensory Perception
Stress and Coping
Tissue Integrity

Professional Nursing Concepts

Clinical Decision Making
- Nursing judgment and nursing process
- Introduction to laboratory and diagnostic tests
Communication
Evidence-based Practice
Teamwork and Collaboration
Informatics and Technology (Documentation)
Legal Aspects
Patient Centered Care / Diversity
Professionalism
- Philosophy and Conceptual Framework
- Image and Values
Scope of Practice
Quality and Safety