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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Sep 01, 2026
 
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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NUR 1281 - FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE 1


Minimum Credits: 3.5
Maximum Credits: 3.5
This course focuses on theory acquisition and skills application in communication, therapeutic intervention, and clinical reasoning. Techniques of assessment, analysis, intervention, and planning of the physical, psychological, and developmental dimensions of the individual are explored through a variety of learning strategies. Variations of expected findings based on influences such as age, social condition, and culture are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the therapeutic interventions of safety, hygiene, comfort, health promotion, and safe performance of psychomotor skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: NUR 0082 and NUR 1282C


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