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NURS 220 - Foundations of Nursing (4)

Prerequisites: ENGL 144 , NURS 215 , NURS 225 , NURS 230 , NURS 235  
Corequisite: NURS 240 , NURS 265 , RELP 103  
This course focuses on the application of the nursing process in the provision of primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to strengthen, and/or reconstitute the adult client/patient’s lines of defense and resistance to internal, external, and created stressors. The student will identify stressors affecting the physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual variables of the client/patient system. The student will provide care to patients/clients in the acute care and community environments. This course includes two credit hours of theory (30 clock hours) and two credit hours of clinical (90 clock hours).