This course in the nursing sequence prepares students to utilize the nursing process to meet patients’ needs for preventive health maintenance, health promotion, and teaching and learning throughout the life span by providing nursing care to assist clients and their families in acute and long term care settings.

This course requires weekly eNOVA virtual meetings. Details will be provided by the Nursing Department.

Prerequisites: SDV elective, NAS 161, NAS 162, ENG 111.
Co-requisites: NUR 150, PSY 201, HLT 141.

If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• Review anatomy and physiology as it relates to specific content.
  
  
• Achieve the objectives that precede each assigned chapter.
  
  
• Describe nursing program themes as they relate to each area of content.
  
  
• Utilize Evolve web site (http://evolve.elsevier.com), course textbooks, and accompanying materials as it relates to each chapter.

The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes

NOTE: The assignments and HESI exam results will not be added unless the cumulative scores on the tests/final is 78%, in other words students need to pass the tests/exams in order to pass the course.

Your final grade may be based on the following scale. Please note that you must also pass at least several exams in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

There are 6 exams and 1 comprehensive final examin this course.

Last Updated: December 13, 2010