fundamentals of nursing
Fundamental principles, concepts, and technology for the safe performance of basic nursing skills are provided through faculty guided campus laboratory and off-campus learning experiences in acute and long-term adult health care settings. This course emphasizes critical thinking, the teaching-learning process, and foundational practice concepts. Through modular laboratory opportunities, the student acquires the basic psychomotor skills necessary to provide safe and effective nursing care to clients experiencing common physiological alterations in health. This course includes classroom, laboratory, Nursing process is presented in depth, as well as other concepts that are needed to practice entry-level nursing and to promote critical thinking. Topics include confidentiality, infection control, medical and surgical asepsis, vital signs, mobility, documentation, physical assessment, pain, infection and inflammation, and comfort, rest, and sleep. This course also provides the nursing student the opportunity to practice and perfect basic nursing skills needed to care for patients. Skills include bed making, vital
signs, body mechanics, specimen collecting, personal care, dressings and wound care, Foley catheter insertion and removal, ostomy care, suctioning, oxygen administration, and positioning, transfer, and ambulation. The first part of the class meets on campus in the nursing lab, and the clinical site.
Computer Science(2)
The aim of this course is to explain the impact of computers on society, data processing concepts and related terms, computer hardware, software and operating systems, developing competencies in using various input/output devices and operating systems, practice on major applications, software packages