9.00 Credits
This Professional Nursing Care in Health Promotion course introduces the learner to the concepts of health promotion, safety, clinical judgment,leadership, patient centeredness, and professionalism. Health promotion includes learning about self-health and health in children, adults, older adults, and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy. Learners will value evidence about health lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease and illness, apply growth and development theory, develop therapeutic relationships, conduct age appropriate and culturally sensitivehealth assessment, and promote health using the nursing process and standards of professional nursing. 6 hours lecture, 9 hours lab.