Prerequisite: None Corequisite: This course is paired with RN 100. Failure in one paired course equals failure in both paired courses. This course integrates concepts, theories, and skills fundamental to nursing practice. Students will use the nursing process to plan and provide for adult patients’ cultural, physiological, social, psychological, and spiritual needswithhealthdisruptions. RN102–HealthAssessmentTheory–30ClockHours/2SemesterCreditHours Prerequisite: None Corequisite: This course is paired with RN 103. Failure in one paired course equals failure in both paired courses. This course focuses on strategies to obtain health histories and physical assessment data for diverse populations across the lifespan. Students are instructed to identify normal and abnormal findings using inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Health risk prevention and the promotion of optimal health behaviors are also addressed. RN103–HealthAssessmentSkillsLab–67.5ClockHours/1.5SemesterCreditHours Prerequisite: None Corequisite: This course is paired with RN 102. Failure in one paired course equals failure in both paired courses. This course uses health assessment theory to develop the hands-on skills of inspection, palpation, percussion, andauscultation. Laboratory experience includes demonstration, practice, and critique of skill performance. RN104–Pharmacology–45ClockHours/3SemesterCreditHours Prerequisite: None In this course, the student is familiarized with a history of pharmacology, the classification of medications, their actions, application, and nursing considerations. Principles and procedures for the safe administration of medications are stressed. Basic math and computation of adult and pediatric dosages are included. Actions, interactions, applications, and nursing considerations are addressed. RN106–Pathophysiology–45ClockHours/3SemesterCreditHours Prerequisite: None In this course, pathophysiological changes in acutely ill and chronically ill patients across the lifespan using a systemandinter-systemsapproach.Thecoursecoversidentifyingpathologicalchangesinassessingpatients with major health disruptions, techniques appropriate to patients using a major systems approach, analysis of data, and description of intersystem relationships across the life span as a basis for problem-solving the nursing process. Basic EKG and arrhythmia determination and ABG analysis are included. RN180–NursingTransitionAdvancedPlacementTheory&LabCourse–120ClockHours/5SemesterCredit Hours Prerequisite: None This course introduces students to the roles and responsibilities of the registered nurse and the Associate DegreeNursingProgramframework.Emphasisisplacedonvariousrolesoftheregisterednurse,legaland ethical responsibilities, nursing process, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice, delivering competent care to diverse demographics of multicultural clients throughout the lifespan. Lecture contents include the role of the registered nurse and the care of adult, maternity, and pediatric clients. Thelabcomponentofthiscoursefocusesonutilizingthenursingprocess,criticalthinking,andapplyingtheory to skills in various patient case scenarios. The following skills competencies focused on in this course: dosage calculation, assessment, intravenous administrations, central venous access, medication administration, nasogastric feeding, foley catheter insertion, tracheostomy care, and suctioning. RN200–Medical/SurgicalITheory–IntroductiontoMed/Surg–45ClockHours/3SemesterCreditHours Prerequisite: None Corequisite: This course is paired with RN 201. Failure in one paired course equals failure in both paired courses. 297