2023-24 Academic Courses
Nursing (NRSG)
This course covers concepts and practices in basic skills for CNA, including basic medical terminology, basic human anatomy and physiology, and the aging process. Students will gain understanding and application of the skills required to address the needs of the chronically ill residents in long-term care facilities. State of Montana CNA testing administered at the end of course. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Accurately describe the duties and responsibilities appropriate to the geriatric nurse aide within the healthcare team, either verbally or in writing, and safely perform these duties in the clinical setting.
- Care for each resident as a unique individual with specific personal rights.
- Describe behavior that is considered abusive and describe the particulars of reporting it in Montana including the agency/individual to report the abuse to and the current contact information for that particular agency/individual.
- Communicate the concept of rehabilitation as it applies to the LTC resident and assist residents in the rehabilitation process.
- Describe the process of infection and the need for current infection control measures, as well as demonstrate recommended infection control techniques in the skills lab area and clinical setting.
- Describe the normal aging process with specific reference to the several body systems.
- Describe and use appropriate comfort and care measures for residents.
- Explain where to find and how to use the policy and procedure manuals of the hosting facility.
- Discuss some ways to assist residents and their families as they go through the grieving process.
- Define some of the common terms and abbreviations used in charting and resident care.
- Demonstrate communication skills in interactions with instructor, peers, residents, and facility staff and demonstrate ability to follow instructions in the classroom, lab and clinical settings.
- Demonstrate to the course instructor the ability to safely perform all of the skills on the State skills list, either in the skills lab or clinical setting.
This course introduces learners to knowledge, basic clinical skills, and attitudes essential for the nursing role. The course approach presents concepts and behaviors of nursing roles within the context of the nursing process and multicultural, holistic health care. Emphasis is on theoretical and practical concepts of nursing skills required to meet the needs of patients in a variety of settings. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the LPN's role in providing safe and effective fundamental patient care related to specified nursing competencies.
- Describe the concepts of nutrition in relation to health, wellness, and illness.
- Utilizing the nursing process, apply the concepts of health, wellness, and illness in a variety of settings.
- Describe sound nursing judgement in the provision of safe nursing care to a culturally diverse patient.
- Identify thrapeutic patient-centered communication skills with patient, families and other care providers.
- Begin identification of an individual professional identity based on caring, patient-centered approach.
- Identify legal and ethical issues related to nursing.
This lab is an integration of clinical skills performance using health care scenarios which focus on implementation of the nursing process, clinical decision making, and caring interventions in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team in a variety of health care settings. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills essential to the practical nurse role with a safe, patient-centered, caring approach utilizing the nursing process and evidenced based interventions in a lab environment.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills to establish a therapeutic relationship in a variety patient scenarios in a lab environment.
- Utilize sound nursing judgement in the provision of culturally and ethnically sensitive nursing care for patient scenarios in a lab environment.
- Demonstrate concepts learned in NRSG 130 in a lab setting.
This course introduces the student to the knowledge needed to provide safe nursing care to clients across the life span in the administration of medications. Content covered includes the basic pathophysiology of common disease processes, as well as the basic principles of pharmacology such as pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, medication interactions, and potential adverse medication reactions. The emphasis is on client-centered care utilizing the nursing process and incorporating evidence-based practice within the licensed practical nurse scope of practice. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify major categories and classifications of medications in relation to drug effects on common diseases in the treatment of commonly occurring health challenges.
- Identify the roles of the LPN in relation to medication administration and patient education in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Describe appropriate nursing judgement at the PN level to safely administer medications and analyze response to medications in diverse patient populations.
- Identify effective methods of communications with patients, families, and other members of the health care team to assure quality and safe care of patients with regard to medicaiton administration.
This lab integrates the knowledge of safe medication administration into a laboratory environment. This includes dosage calculation, and safe administration of medications through a variety of appropriate routes, including intravenous therapy. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Utilize the nursing process to assess appropriate/inappropriate responses to therapy.
- Demonstrate concepts learned in NRSG 135 in a lab setting.
- Demonstrate appropriate nursing judgement at the PN level to safely admiinster medications and analyze response to medications with diverse patient populations in a lab environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the use of medicaitons to prevent and treat common diseases and health alterations in a lab environment.
The course is designed to build upon the knowledge acquired in NRSG 130. The focus is on safe, effective care environments, health promotion and maintenance, and psychosocial and physiological integrity of adults who are experiencing health interruptions in well-defined practice settings. Principles of pharmacology, cultural competency, gerontology, nutrition, end-of-life and palliative care are integrated throughout the course. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify sound nursing judgement in the provision of safe nursing care to adult patients who are medically stable or experiencing well-defined health alterations.
- Discuss a caring holistic approach to patient centered care that takes into consideration all aspects of the person: (physical, nutritional, psychosocial, emotional, cultural, and ethical/legal).
- Identify appropriate assessment data necessary in the management of patients with stable chronic health problems and well defined acute health alterations.
- Identify appropriate nursing interventions to successfully care for adult patients with common chronic and acute health conditions.
- Discuss nutrition and dietary considerations unique to the healthy adult patient as well as the adult patient experiencing health alterations.
This clinical is an integration of experiences in well-defined practice settings. The focus is on implementation of the nursing process, professional behaviors, communication, clinical decision making, caring interventions and collaboration in interdisciplinary practice to prevent, promote, maintain and restore basic health. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate a caring presence and sound nursing judgment in the provision of safe nursing care to culturally diverse adult patients experiencing stable chronic or common acute health alterations in a variety of settings.
- Utilize the nursing process, including critical thinking to prioritize the delivery of care to adult patients experiencing stable chronic or common acute health alterations in a variety of settings.
- Effectively communicate with culturally diverse adult patient experiencing stable chronic or common acute health alterations.
- Demonstrate the concepts learned in Nursing 140 in a variety of clinical settings.
This course introduces the student to the knowledge needed to provide safe nursing care for the female patient and family with regards to reproductive issues, including perinatal. Also included is the child patient and family with regards to normal growth and development as well as common and chronic disease processes. Psychosocial aspects of care, legal and ethical issues, and cultural beliefs will be incorporated throughout. The emphasis is on patient and family-centered care utilizing evidence-based practice, and effective interpersonal communication skills while functioning within an interdisciplinary team environment. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe sound nursing judgement in the provision of safe nursing care to culturally diverse women during pregnancy and postpartum.
- Describe sound nursing judgement in the provision of safe nursing care to culturally diverse families including children from birth through adolescence, including the hospitalized child.
- Describe sound nursing judgement in the provision of safe nursing care to culturally diverse women throughout the lifespan.
- Discuss nutrition and dietary considerations unique to the pregnant woman and growing child.
- Identify therapeutic and culturally sensitive patient centered communication skills with women, children, and families.
This clinical integrates the knowledge of care for women, children, and families into a variety of clinical settings. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate a caring presence and sound nursing judgment in the provision of safe nursing care to culturally diverse women, children, and families in a variety of clinical settings.
- Effectively communicate according to a developmental level with culturally diverse women, children and families in a variety of clinical settings.
- Correlate theoretical knowledge presented in NRSG 142 to clinical application in the care of women and children in a variety of settings.
This course explores the legal and ethical principles of Practical Nursing leadership in providing safe, relationship-centered care. The concepts of accountability, fiscal responsibility in relation to patient outcomes, collaboration, effective communication, conflict management skills, critical thinking, delegation, principles of human caring, and prioritization are emphasized throughout the course. Application of concepts in the rural environment are included. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify and describe the professional identity of the LPN in a management and leadership role.
- Describe nursing judgement to prioritize nursing care for patients for groups of medically stable patients from various culturally diverse backgrounds.
- Discuss current issues and future concerns for practical nursing and the nursing profession.
This clinical integrates theory with implementation of basic leadership skills. Preceptor experiences are based on selected nursing needs in the local and rural communities with a focus on knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nursing leadership needed to provide high quality, holistic, safe nursing care. (Summer Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Participate as a member of the health team utilizing sound nursing judgement to provide safe effective nursing care to groups of stable, culturally diverse adult patients under the supervision of a LPN or RN.
- Demonstrate beginning skills at establishing a professional identity that includes leadership and management skills under the direction of an experienced LPN or RN.
- Demonstrates effective communication, including the use of information management systems, in the delivery of safe, quality care nursing care in a precepted clinical environment.
- Demonstrate concepts learned in NRSG 148 in a variety of settings.
This course presents the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide high quality holistic nursing care for the geriatric patient as well as other vulnerable populations in the local and rural communities. The safe application of the nursing process in community based, patient-centered, interdisciplinary care environments is emphasized in order to promote patients well-being in regards to common acute and chronic health issues, including end-of-life and palliative care. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the physiological and psychosocial aspects of aging in regards to the safe, holistic care of the geriatric patient.
- Describe nutritional needs and diets for culturally diverse geriatric population that supports optimal health.
- Describe the application of sound nursing judgement for the LPN in a community based, patient-centered, interdisciplinary care environment.
- Describe the role of the LPN in providing safe,holistic, patient-centered care in rural environments.
This clinical integrates theory into the clinical setting. The emphasis is on promoting the highest level of health and wellness for common acute and chronic health issues for the geriatric and other vulnerable populations in local and rural communities. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in providing interventions necessary for health promotion, managing common health conditions, and working effectively with interdisciplinary teams to provide care and services for aged adults throughout their lifespan.
- Demonstrate beginning nursing judgement, knowledge, and skills necessary to provide safe care for culturally diverse geriatric patients in a clinical environment.
- Demonstrate beginning nursing judgement, knowledge, and skills necessary to provide safe care in a comunnity health and/or rural setting.
- Apply concepts learned in NRSG 152 in a clinical setting.
This course provides the student with an overview of pharmacology with an emphasis of the study of effects, interactions, and nursing considerations of pharmacologic agents on the patient population across the lifespan. The course also explores the ethical, legal, cultural and age implications of pharmacologic therapy across diverse populations and the lifespan. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify the classification of major medications in terms of specific actions, and nursing implications.
- Describe drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions based on physiologic responses to pharmacological agents and apply critical thinking and clinical judgment for appropriate intervention.
- Discuss the cultural diversity influences related to medication.
- Discuss unique pharmacologic issues that exist for various ages and stages of life.
This course is an integration of lab experiences focusing on the basic principles in providing safe medication administration, including intravenous therapy across diverse populations and the lifespan. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Utilize the nursing process in identifying accurate administration of medications, actions, uses, adverse reactions, drug interactions and patient teaching in relation to the role of the registered nurse.
- Apply the nursing process in demonstrating safe and effective assessment, administration, and evaluation of medications and influences on body systems.
- Demonstrate concepts learned in NRSG 230 in the lab setting.
This course provides opportunities to develop competencies necessary to meet the needs of individuals throughout the lifespan in a safe, legal, and ethical manner using the nursing process. Students learn concepts and skills necessary for maintaining standard precautions, physical, psychological and nutritional safety, along with skills needed in therapeutic interventions. Students are introduced to the concepts of professional nursing, patient needs, safety, communication, teaching/learning, critical thinking, ethical-legal, rural nursing, cultural and ethnic diversity, and interdisciplinary patient-centered care. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the RN role in the provision of safe and effective patient care through the application of the nursing process and utilization of sound nursing judgement to a culturally diverse patient population.
- Identify and describe the professional identity of a RN in regards to the communication and interpersonal skills necessary to function as a member of the health care team.
- Identify the RN's role in assessment, education, and support in health and wellness, and the promotion of optimal health and nutrition across the life span.
- Identify legal and ethical issues related to the role of the RN.
- Utilize available research to identify best evidence based practices for the RN
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
An integration of lab experiences focusing on psychomotor nursing skills needed to assist individuals in meeting basic human needs.Application of the nursing process hands-on learning experiences for nursing skills, patient assessments, nutritional safety, and basic therapeutic skills are practiced and demonstrated. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Function within the role of the RN nurse, incorporating professional, legal and ethical guidelines, to demonstrate collaborative, patient-centered, safe, culturally competent, and holistic patient care in the simulated healthcare setting.
- Apply nursing process, evidence-based practices and critical thinking techniques to develop the patient's plan of care.
- Demonstrate individual accountability, professionalism and safety for self and patient during the performance of nursing skills.
- Demonstrate concepts learned in the NRSG 232 lab setting.
This course builds upon the knowledge and skills acquired in NRSG 232, and places them in the context of patient-centered care. Social, cultural, ethical, rural and legal issues, end-of-life and palliative care across diverse adult populations are introduced. Health promotion and prevention throughout the adult lifespan, with specific focus on the geriatric patient, is emphasized. Normal aging, health alterations associated with aging, and their implications are addressed. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss common disease processes and chronic conditions related to the adult patient and identify sound nursing judgement in provision of nursing care.
- Identify common diagnostic measures and treatment modalities in the health conditions of adult patients with emphasis on safe quality care.
- Discuss a holistic approach and appropriate nursing interventions including physical, nutritional, psychosocial, cultural, and ethical/legal aspects of care for adult patients with stable and chronic conditions.
- Discuss the role of teaching and communications in the care of the patient with stable and chronic conditions.
- Discuss the unique needs and nursing considerations for patients requiring end-of-life and palliative care.
This clinical introduces the student to nursing practice in care of the stable adult patient. This includes care of the adult in a variety of health care settings. Students utilize the nursing process to develop individualized plans of care to prevent illness, promote wellness and maintain or restore health based on patient needs and evidence-based practice. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Develop and implement appropriate nursing interventions and coinciding rationale to adults with stable and chronic conditions.
- Apply concepts of basic nutrition in order to modify individual dietary patterns.
- Demonstrate collaborative interprofessional patient care planning.
- Document and report care given, maintaining client confidentiality, on agency forms, with instructor or staff approval.
In this course, the student applies holistic concepts to the professional nursing care of the childbearing family including conception, prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn care. Content addresses health and complex alterations, reproduction and menopause, nutrition, therapeutic communication, ethical, legal, cultural and evidenced-based practice. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Identify the role and scope of practice of the registered nurse in the care of childbearing families, including those at high risk for complications.
- Utilize critical thinking and the nursing process to define responsibilities of the registered nurse in the provisions of holistic, safe, competent nursing care for the child bearing family during the preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn periods.
- Relate the importance of good nutrition to different stages in pregnancy and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
This clinical introduces the student to the role of the registered nurse in the care of the childbearing family. Students will utilize the nursing process to assess and develop individualized plans of care for mother and infant. Emphasis will be placed on patient education to promote healthy mother, infant and childbearing family bonding. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Formulate nursing care plans in collaboration with members of the interprofessional health care team using critical thinking, problem solving, and the nursing process in a variety of settings through direct care, assignment, or delegation of care.
- Provide safe and effective individualized care to childrearing patient/families based on patient needs, values, and analysis of assessment data and the relationships of the biological, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs.
- Integrate principles of teaching-learning by providing information to patients and families regarding promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health in the childbearing/childrearing years.
- Demonstrate proficiency in complex dosage calculations and medication administration.
This course builds upon previous knowledge of the nursing process and care of the patient experiencing acute and chronic disease alterations. Pathophysiologic processes are discussed as related to evidence-based nursing interventions. Students apply the nursing process, nutritional therapy, and pharmacological therapy utilizing interdisciplinary practice to promote, maintain, and restore health across the adult lifespan. (Fall and Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the pathophysiological impact of disorders in the chronically and acutely ill adult patient.
- Apply the nursing process and sound nursing judgement in order to safely care for adults experiencing acute and chronic illnesses with consideration of developmental stage,age, nurtritional needs and cultural influences.
- Analyze the management of ill adult and differentiate how technology is incorporated into care, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Critique how optimal care of patients can be provided with awareness and sensitivity for demographically diverse characteristics.
- Discuss the nursing considerations related to various treatment modalities for acutely and chronically ill adults, including the utilization of nutritional and pharmacologic therapy and interdisciplinary contributions to care.
In this clinical experience the student will provide care for individuals and families experiencing acute health alterations, and those associated with chronic disease processes. Students use the nursing process to systematically analyze information to plan and implement nursing interventions which are individualized and founded on evidence-based practice. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate application of the nursing process in providing safe and effective care for the ill adult patient.
- Apply current nutrition principles to the treatment of disease.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to provide culturally competent patient centered care.
- Demonstrate appropriate skills of delegation in the planning and organizing and planning of nursing care for the ill adult.
- Develop teaching plans based on the assessment of the ill patient's health learning needs.
- Create discharge plans to meet the needs of patients recovering from illness.
In this course, the student applies holistic concepts to the professional nursing care of children and their families in health, illness, end-of-life and palliative care. Emphasis is placed on incorporating growth and developmental principles to facilitate positive health outcomes through health promotion, nutrition and disease prevention. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate accurate and current knowledge of human pathophysiology, pharmacology, and alternative/complementary therapies to provide nursing care of healthy and high-risk pediatric populations and their families experiencing disruptions in bio/psycho/social/cultural and spiritual needs.
- Relate the importance of good nutrition to different stages of a child's development and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
- Discuss problems related to weight control and appropriate nutritional and behavioral treatment methods for childhood obesity.
- Apply holistic concepts to the professional nursing care of children and their families in health, illness, end-of-life and palliative care. Identify safe and effective clinical approaches to pediatric patients appropriate for psychomotor skill level.
- Identify appropriate oral, written and technological communication methods to establish therapeutic/functional relationships with patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, and communities.
In this clinical, students will utilize the nursing process, to provide nursing care of healthy and high-risk pediatric populations and their families experiencing disruptions in bio/psycho/social/cultural and spiritual needs. Emphasis is also placed on health promotion, health maintenance, and therapeutic communication. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Apply the nursing process for safe and effective clinical approaches to pediatric patients appropriate for psychomotor skill level.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to provide culturally and community competent patient centered care to pediatric clients and family.
In this course, the student focuses on the nursing concepts utilizing basic human needs, developmental theory, nursing process, therapeutic communication, and nursing interventions to promote and maintain health for clients and families experiencing mental-health issues. The student will examine client responses to stressors across the life span. Tasks of biological-behavioral concepts in psychosocial nursing care, rural and cultural impacts will be addressed. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Identify actual and potential environmental mental health stressors, recognizing the complexity of individual, rural community, and cultural influences.
- Identify different types of treatment for mental health disorders including use of psychotherapy medications, psychotherapy and behavior therapy.
- Identify types of diet therapy and the diet used for patients with specific mental health conditions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the variety of mental health settings and practice areas available to assist clients in meeting their needs for psychosocial health.
- Identify the principles of therapeutic communication in order to establish a therapeutic interpersonal relationship with patients and families.
- Identify the importance of health-promotion activities in positively influencing the mental health of infants, adolescents, women, elders, vulnerable groups and families.
This clinical applies the knowledge of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Students will have mental health focused clinical experiences in a variety of settings. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Employ the principles of therapeutic communication in order to establish a therapeutic interpersonal relationship with patients and families.
- Apply knowledge of mental illnesses and best-practice nursing interventions in the provision of a physically and psychologically safe environment for patients and families.
- Demonstrate teaching methods appropriate to the diverse needs and culture of the patient, family and community.
- Demonstrate effective communication methods to ensure relevant, complete and accurate reporting methods to members of the interdisciplinary mental health team.
This course introduces the student to the basic principles and processes of pathophysiology including cellular communication, genes, and genetic disease; forms of cellular injury, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte/acid base balance; immunity, stress coping and illness, and tumor biology.Pathophysiology of the most common alterations according to body systems will be discussed, as well as the latest developments in research and patient-centered nursing interventions. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the basic principles of cellular communication, genes and genetic disease, forms of cellular injury, fluid and electrolyte/acid base balance, immunity, stress coping and illness, and tumor biology.
- Identify and explain the most common physiological alterations and integrate the knowledge to major body systems.
- Describe the general physiological principles of nutrition and the role of key nutrients in disease processes.
- Discuss the nursing ramifications of caring for people throughout the life span experiencing common physiological alterations.
- Incorporate recent research findings into the comprehensive understanding of disease processes.
This course expands on the nursing role in care of patients with complex health alterations. Students utilize evidence-based, interdisciplinary interventions to meet patient and family needs. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Assess, diagnose, and prioritize the physiological and psychological needs of adults with complex health alterations.
- Identify evidence-based, interdisciplinary interventions to meet the needs of adult patients and families with complex health alterations.
- Identify types of diet therapy and the diet used for specific acute conditions.
- Explore appropriate cultural, economic, and community resources to promote health of patients recovering from complex health alterations.
- Utilize information and technology to support decision making for care of the acutely ill patient experiencing complex health alterations in a variety of settings.
In this lab students are introduced to basic electrocardiogram interpretation, advanced concepts of perfusion, ventilation and complex pharmacologic regimens. (Spring and Summer Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding, knowledge and skills of current technology and treatments to support the care of the critically ill patient experiencing complex health alterations.
This clinical experience focuses on application of the nursing process and utilization of information to provide comprehensive nursing care to the acutely ill patient experiencing complex health alterations in a variety of settings. Emphasis is placed on prioritization of care and collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal client care. (Spring and Summer Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Integrate knowledge of the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, complications, and treatment modalities to collect and analyze available data when coordinating care for patients with complex health alterations. Coordinate, collaborate, and communicate with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to plan, implement, and evaluate patient-centered care while ensuring confidentiality.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate nursing care and teaching plans for patients and their families with complex health alterations.
- Utilize information and technology to support decision making for care of the acutely ill patient experiencing complex health alterations in a variety of settings.
In this course students examine concepts of leadership and management emphasizing prioritization, delegation, and supervision of nursing care for patients across the lifespan. Topics also include communication techniques, legal and ethical issues, care of the culturally diverse patient, and utilizing change theory. Health care policy, finance, and regulatory environment issues are explored and applied to planning, collaborating and coordinating care across the continuum. (Spring and Summer Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Identify the professional identity of the RN in regards to effective leadership and management skills to ensure safe quality patient-centered care in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Discuss and demonstrate the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse leader/manager.
- Identify and discuss factors that influence the health and healthcare of rural residents and those from culturally diverse backgrounds.
- Discuss current issues and future concerns for nursing including the impact of healthcare policy, finance, and the regulatory environment in the provision of care across the continuum.
- Discuss and apply nursing research and evidenced based practice principles in a practical setting.
- Collaborate with others in complicated, dynamic, and/or ambiguous situations.
This precepted clinical experience focuses on principles of nursing leadership and management in a variety of settings. Students apply knowledge to provide culturally competent, holistic interventions within the professional nursing role for individuals, communities, and families across the lifespan. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Apply principles of management leadership utilizing a systematic problem-solving process and critical thinking skills to plan care for patients and their families in a variety of settings.
- Apply knowledge to provide culturally competent, holistic interventions within the professional nursing role for individuals, communities, and families across the lifespan.
- Identify and implement material and human resources within the community in managing nursing care for patients.