NUAD 241 - Professional Nursing Concepts & Health Assessment

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Initiates the process of professional nursing socialization for the baccalaureate student focusing on the major nursing concepts of caring, health, culture, holism, values, ethics, and legal implications for nursing practice. Additionally, students are introduced to beginning health assessment principles with a consideration for cultural and ethnic variations. Using the nursing process as a framework, students will acquire the skills to perform a systematic examination of a healthy adult and document the findings. Opportunities for individual and supervised practice enhance classroom learning. LEC 3, LAB 2. Prereqs/Co-reqs: BIOL 225, NURS 222/NUAD 222, and NURS 243.