NURS 321 – Adult Health I

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take NURS-301 NURS-309 NURS-317 NURS-320. (Required, Previous). | Take NURS-306 NURS-307 NURS-318. (Required, Concurrent).
Credit Hours: Min: 5; Max:

Description: This is the second of four sequential courses to introduce students to the role of critical thinking and the nursing process as a mechanism to synthesize knowledge needed to promote, maintain, and restore health in hospitalized patients with alterations in fluid/electrolytes, acid-base balance, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and sensorineural systems. This course will integrate the nursing process, principles of communication, decision-making, and basic assessment, and nutritional data to the experience of health and illness of patients across the life span with diverse ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds. Clinical experience includes but is not limited to acute inpatient settings and community-based healthcare centers. Learning activities are designed to facilitate transition into the role and responsibilities of the professional nurse.