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Apr 28, 2024
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NURS 141 Foundations of Nursing (3 credits)
Prerequisite Acceptance into the nursing program
Course Description
Concepts and theories basic to the art and science of the nursing role with an emphasis on health promotion across the lifespan. Includes program’s philosophy of nursing, nursing history, client needs, safety, communication, teaching/learning, and critical thinking.
Course Content
A. Nursing theory and nursing process
B. Delegation and health care roles
C. Differences in nursing roles
D. Use of data to monitor outcomes of care processes; common quality indicators in healthcare
E. Guidelines of safe nursing practice Current technological advances in health care
F. Optimal health across the lifespan: immunizations, well checks and safety
Student Outcomes
Define nursing theory and processes used to identify optimal health in individuals across the lifespan.
Describe the differences in nursing roles caring for individuals across health care environments.
Describe nursing concepts in accordance with acceptable nursing standards.
Identify data leading to positive patient outcomes of individuals across healthcare environments.
Explain nursing principles of safe practice.
Discuss the advances of modern technology, such as electronic health records, and their impact on the healthcare environment.
Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Teamwork and collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Quality improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
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