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Students learn foundational nursing knowledge, attitudes, values, and health assessment skills to promote health and wellness across the lifespan. Students learn how nurses provide patient-centered care and maintain professional standards with complex and diverse healthcare delivery systems. Students integrate and apply principles developed in NRS 116 and NRS 216 in delivering basic nursing care.

Students learn foundational knowledge about health and wellness across the lifespan. Students acquire foundational nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide ethical, evidence-based care. Students begin to integrate nursing theory, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and integrative health principles in combined skills laboratory and simulation experiences. This course includes 45 hours of on-campus clinical experience.

Students new to the University of Portland School of Nursing & Health Innovations learn supportive knowledge and skills attained by four-year students in NRS 104, NRS 116, and NRS 216. Foundational cognitive and affective learning strategies will be incorporated to provide transfer students the necessary knowledge to enter upper division nursing. 

Students continue to explore health and wellness across the lifespan, beginning with self and expanding to clients, families, and populations. The focus is on interrelationships among culture, diversity, gender identity, sexuality, communication, and social determinants of health. Students learn to examine their own assumptions, approach human interactions with curiosity and humility, and work with others in a culturally sensitive manner.

Students in this course develop an understanding of the care of our nation’s Veterans through exploration of Veteran-centric topics focused on their unique culture and health and care delivery needs. For VANAP students only. Instructor permission required. Course is graded P/NP.