NUR 1001C TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING 7 credits

Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing program and BSC 2086, BSC 2086L with grades of “C” or better. Corequisites: NUR 1060C. This course focuses on role transition from LPN to RN and concepts and principles of holistic nursing care related to the care of adult clients and childbearing families. Focus is on the continued development of the roles of the nurse through the assimilation and application of theoretical concepts and use of the nursing process in providing care to adult clients and childbearing families who are experiencing commonly recurring actual or potential threats to homeodynamics. Selected advanced nursing skills are introduced. Emphasis is placed on managing the care of clients who are experiencing alterations in the functional dimensions of health in hospital and/or community settings. The student is expected to be able to manage a select number of clients while continuing to develop other nursing roles. This course contains a number of critical behaviors, including medication administration that must be performed without error by the end of the course to successfully pass the course. This course meets for 199 hours (62 theory, 30 skills lab, and 107 on-campus lab/clinical).