NUR 120 - Foundations for Nursing

7 credit hours - 4 hours lecture per week and 90 hours of directed laboratory per term; one term.
Gain acquired nursing concepts, principles, and skills to provide care that optimizes the health and wellness for one adult client with alterations in functioning of biopsychosocial systems that have predictable outcomes. Lab fee $425. Clinical fee $450.

Prerequisite(s): BIO 231  or BIO 233  or equivalent with grade of B or better.

Corequisite(s): NUR 121  and NUR 122  and BIO 232  or BIO 234  or equivalent.

Note: Typically offered at MC; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:
1. Care Provider:  The nursing student begins to utilize the 5 steps of the nursing process to determine and provide nursing care that is holistic, systematic, evidence-based, safe and grounded in understanding of the sciences, humanities, cultural diversity and nursing theory to adult clients. 

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Begins to develop evidenced-based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
2. Begins to utilize the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings.
3. Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidenced-based, culturally sensitive and safe for 1 adult medical-surgical client and their families.

2. Investigator:  The nursing student utilizes acquired data to recognize normal patterns of health, begins to recognize abnormal alterations in functioning and question assumptions.  All adult clients are approached with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improves the quality of care.

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

1. Recognizes normal patterns of health and begins to recognize deviations in functioning and question assumptions for the adult medical-surgical client.
2. Begins to recognize variations along the developmental continuum in the individual adult medical-surgical client.
3. Begins to utilize health care technologies to promote, analyze, interpret, and integrate data to improve adult medical-surgical client outcomes.

3. Professional:  The nursing student begins to implement the professional role in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices and an evolving identity as a nurse.

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Begins to demonstrate behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility and professional ethics.
2. Begins to demonstrate accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with predictable health problems within the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks of nursing practice.
3. Begins to demonstrate a commitment to ongoing self-improvement and self-analysis of professional performance.

4. Collaborator:  The nursing student begins to collaborate with adult clients, families and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe and individualized.

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Collaborator:

1. Begins to collaborate with peers, faculty, and identify selected members of the interdisciplinary health care team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.

5. Educator:  The nursing student begins to utilize teaching and learning strategies to promote knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for adult clients, families, peers and the community. 

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Educator:

1. Begins to identify the teaching needs that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
2. Identifies technology resources used to develop and implement client education.
3. Begins to evaluate the effectiveness of client teaching and modifies as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.

6. Communicator:  The nursing student begins to utilize professional and therapeutic communication strategies with adult clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes. 

NUR 120 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Begins to identify therapeutic communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
2. Begins to identify professional communication strategies for adult medical surgical clients of various developmental levels.
3. Begins to utilize technology communicate and document adult medical surgical client related data.