NURS 393 - Nursing Care of Patients with Complex Health Problems

5 credits
This course focuses on the care of patients who are experiencing complex health problems. The course integrates knowledge from pathophysiology, pharmacology and disease management into a comprehensive plan for culturally sensitive care that incorporates current evidence based practice. The course emphasizes the role of direct and indirect care provider and expands the student’s focus to include issues related to coordination of care, interprofessional collaboration, quality and safety. The student will apply the nursing process to provide safe, high quality patient care to adults in simulated and various acute care clinical settings. Three credits lecture, one credit lab, and one credit clinical.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 315, NURS 320, and NURS 341
Corequisite(s): None