NURS 361

I.    Course Title: Nursing Process Applications for ABSN II

II.    Course Prefix/Number: NURS 361   

III.    Credit Hours: 3 credits

IV.    Prerequisites: NURS 354, NURS 358C

        Co-requisites: NURS 369C

V.    Course Description:

Students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide acute, ambulatory, and home care for selected health problems. Students apply the nursing process in increasingly complex situations, integrating concepts of illness, disease management, and health promotion. Emphasis is on the roles of designer/manager/coordinator of care and interprofessional collaborator.

VI.    Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Analyze current knowledge from nursing science, humanities, genetics and genomics, social and natural sciences to develop the role of the nurse as provider of care.
2. Apply the nursing process to provide safe and competent care for individuals and families with selected conditions of increasing complexity.    
3. Examine selected health problems to include pathophysiology, growth and development, signs and symptoms, treatment, pharmacology, complications, and prognosis.)
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of genetics and genomics to the care and treatment of adults.
5. Use evidence-based practice in the planning of client care.
6. Demonstrate ethical, caring, culturally competent behaviors in the delivery of patient-centered nursing care of individuals and families.
7. Develop plans of care that incorporate an interprofessional approach.

VII.       Date of Syllabus Approval:  10-8-10
             Revised: 12-7-12, 10-17-14