NURS 3100 - Health Promotion, Maintenance, and Restoration I (3)

This course focuses on expanding the student’s theoretical knowledge base by exploring the nurse’s role in health and illness within evolving practice environments and across the spectrum of health and illness. Basic concepts in the management of adult clients experiencing selected health illnesses and problems are presented. Students will continue to develop critical thinking and clinical reasoning as they apply the nursing process to provide culturally sensitive, holistic, evidenced-based care for clients. Diagnostic studies and pharmacological agents commonly prescribed in conjunction with the management of selected stressors are also included. Three lecture hours/ 3 contact hours each week. Prerequisite(s): NURS 3040, NURS 3040, NURS 3044, NURS 3250, NURS 3251, NURS 3260, NURS 3320; Corequisite(s): NURS 3101, NURS 3104, NURS 3340, NURS 3344 and NURS 3080.