NURS 211 - Introduction To Professional Nursing

Credit(s): 4
This foundation course introduces the student to foundational concepts of nursing, health-illness continuum, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and basic concepts, principles, and skills necessary for building an effective nursing practice. The course includes historical perspectives, mathematics, and medical terminology basic to nursing, critical thinking, professional communication, roles of the professional nurse, planning nursing care using the nursing process, documentation, nursing interventions, pharmacology, legal and ethical issues, information technology, and patient quality indicators. Pharmacological theory, major drug classifications, common characteristics of drugs and drug administration are integrated into the course.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing program.
Corequisites: NURS 201, NURS 203, NURS 231 and NURS 242
Course Level: Undergraduate