NU-101 Nursing Science II Flhcon

This course is administered and completed at FLHCON This 9-credit course builds on the nursing foundation as it relates to the principles, concepts, and skills introduced in the previous nursing course as well as the general education courses. Students deliver care with special emphasis on the core values of the curriculum through the essence of nursing. Critical thinking, the nursing process, and the integration of pharmacological and community health standards are evaluated through a methodological approach. The complex needs of the medical surgical population are explored with the deliberate focus on providing holistic and culturally sensitivity care to patients with altered status and health concerns of the neurological, gastrointestinal respiratory, cardiac, musculoskeletal and reproductive systems. In addition, Diabetes and fluid and electrolyte imbalance are also explored. Special needs of the aged and pediatric population are also included Evidence-based practice as it relates to disease processes is studied with respective interventions through disciplined inquiry.