NURS 4603 - Professional Nursing Concepts & Applied Critical Thinking

3 credits

Guides the development of investigating, analyzing, and evaluating scholarly works that define the essence of nursing and the professional nurse’s role in health care management and practice. Uses concepts of critical thinking, reasoning, and judging and scientific inquiry to improve care with all client populations. Learner establishes a Contract of Study, and portfolio to document progression in the RN-BSN Program. (This is the required first course in the program of studies).