NURS 320 - Patient Centered Nursing Care

This course provides nursing students with critical thinking skills necessary to begin engaging in the nursing process to safely assess patient needs and identify quality interventions to meet those needs. The nursing process as the critical thinking model of nursing care will be presented and applied to actions basic to nursing care, the promotion of healthy physiologic and psychosocial responses to actual and potential health issues. This course includes a laboratory component. Students will be expected to participate in both clinical laboratory and clinical patient settings.
Lecture
Credits: 8
Prerequisite or Co-requisite: NURS 301
Offered in the Fall Semester.