INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS FOR NURSING PRACTICE
General
Course Number
116
Course Title
INTRO TO CONCEPT FOR NURSING
Description/Long Course Title
2.0 HR. (OC) Prerequisite: Concurrently enrolled in RNRS 117. This course introduces the concepts for nursing practice by utilizing concept diagrams to organize the concepts, influencing concepts, and exemplars within the three domains: health care recipient (individual) concepts, health and illness concepts, and professional nursing and health care concepts to develop each student in the role of the professional nurse. Emphasis will be placed on nursing attributes and roles: professional identity, clinical judgment, leadership, ethics, patient education, and health promotion; including care competencies: communication, collaboration, safety, technology and informatics, evidence, and health care quality. Students will be introduced to health care delivery, health disparities, health care organizations, health care economics, and health care law. Students will explore and apply concepts for nursing practice to specific exemplars creating opportunity to begin to develop the student in the role of the professional nurse. Two lecture hours per week.