NURS 3346 - Health Assessment, Pathology, and Nursing Interventions

6 credits

Introduces concepts that form the knowledge base of nursings core values, scientific and artful holistic health assessments (bio-psycho-social-developmental-cultural-spiritual dimensions), health and nursing diagnoses, planned interventions including pharmacological therapeutics, and evaluation processes. This course uses diagnostic reasoning and systematic analyses to differentiate between normal and pathological health parameters, and organizes nursing care based on clinical data. This course introduces information management technology and communication methods, and client rights, legal, and confidentiality issues. It also begins case studies of selected health concerns of adult populations. A one-time, non-refundable RN pre-testing package fee is required. See Tuition and Fees for required fee amount.

Prerequisite: Admission into Nursing Program.
Corequisite: Corequisites: NURS 3102 Promoting Health of Populations, NURS 3202 Social Issues in Health and Nursing, and NURS 3946 Therapeutic Nursing Interventions I.