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
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