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Dec 17, 2025
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NURS 1110 - Foundations of Nursing and Assessment Across the Lifespan
Introduces the student to nursing practice through core concepts, principles, and clinical skills common to all areas and levels of nursing practice. The specific content include client needs, safe and effective care, physiological integrity, psychosocial integrity, health promotion and maintenance, nursing process, standards of professional practice, effective communication, clinical decision making, collaboration, and culturally sensitive care. Emphasizes the assessment of clients, families, and significant support persons regarding factors that impact health promotion and/or disease prevention for the purpose of meeting identified client needs in a culturally sensitive manner. Assessment includes evaluating environmental safety, the level of physiological and psychosocial integrity, and health promotion and maintenance activities along the continuum of life. Introduces nursing process as the cornerstone of professionalism in nursing practice. Additional skills include deomonstration as competent in Vital Signs,Cultural Care,Spiritual Care,Client Family Education, and Sensory alterations.
Requisites: Admission to AA2342
Credit Hours: 7
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 lecture, 1.5 clinical, 1.5 laboratory
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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