Description: Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Requisites: courses 150A, 152A, 152B, 174. Continuation of course 150A. Expansion of student knowledge on practice of professional nursing as theory-based goal-directed method for assisting patients to meet basic human needs at various levels of health continua. Concepts of communication, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, interpersonal relationships, cultural competence, and nursing process with critical thinking skills as clinical decision-making strategies essential to practice of professional nursing. Characteristics and roles of professional nursing. Development of caregiver, teacher, and collaborator roles in learning experiences in nursing skills laboratory and clinical settings. Continued work on mathematical calculations and terminology with addition of intravenous (IV) drip medication calculations used in clinical setting. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0