Complex Health Alterations

This course focuses on the holistic nursing process of selected complex health problems and their impact on the patient, the family, and the adjustment to changes in patient and family lifestyles. The integration of conceptual models of nursing, nursing informatics, and evidence-based practice prepares students to communicate, collaborate, think critically, and make clinical judgments that focus on maintaining optimum safety, health promotion and maintenance, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity when caring for diverse patients with complex needs. Clinical experiences are in a wide variety of health-care settings.