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ADN 130 - Health Illness Concepts 1

Credits: 4
Contact Hours: 7
Prerequisites: ADN 120   (B- or Higher), BI 121  (C or Higher), and BI 122  (C or Higher)

Corequisites: ADN 135  

College Level Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is designed to further develop individual, health & illness, and professional nursing & health care concepts with emphasis on the geriatric population. Individual concepts include functional ability and culture. Health & illness concepts include fluid & electrolyte, nutrition, perfusion, gas exchange, inflammation, infection, pain, and stress & coping, addiction, and interpersonal violence. Professional nursing & health care concepts include professional identity, clinical judgment, health promotion, communication, collaboration, safety and health care policy. Upon completion, students should be able to provide safe nursing care to the geriatric client while incorporating the concepts identified in this course. This course contains a clinical component.

Department Consent: Department Consent
General Education Distribution Category Met: None



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