University of Michigan School of Nursing

Health Maintenance and Restoration I

Course Number: Nursing 254
Credit(s): 5
Type: (1) Lecture, (4) Clinical
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore level; Concurrent with N245 and N252

This is the first of two sequential courses to introduce students to the role of critical and reflective thinking as a process to synthesize knowledge and master basic nursing skills needed to promote, maintain and restore health in clients. The course will integrate nursing process, principles of therapeutic communication, decision-making, and basic nursing skills necessary for applying research to the experience of health and illness of individuals, families and groups from diverse ethnic, cultural and geographic backgrounds.