Maintaining and Restoring Health

This course introduces students to the role of critical 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 the key aspects of the nursing process, therapeutic communication, decision-making, professional nursing behaviors, and basic nursing skills in the provision of nursing care to individuals, families and groups from diverse cultural and geographic health and illness backgrounds. Concepts drawn from basic, physical, physiological, pharmacologic, social, and nursing sciences will be used to organize a framework for students to recognize influences of social, cultural, and environmental factors on health maintenance and restoration. Lectures, seminars, clinical settings, and individual and group projects will provide experiences for gaining knowledge to assess, plan, implement and evaluate basic nursing interventions with increasing complexity.