Mar 19, 2024  
2020-2021 General Catalog 
    
2020-2021 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PRNU 110:Intro to Practical Nursing


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 3
Lab hours per week: 0

This course includes information regarding vocational adjustments and personal, family, and community health issues. It expounds on the role of the PN, practical nursing education and the Law Relating to the Practice of Practical Nursing as defined by the LSBPNE. In addition to the concepts of health maintenance with identification of local, state and national health resources available for maintenance of health, ethical, legal, cultural issues and trends, communication techniques, and personality development are addressed. Includes an introduction to the normal aging process, including biological, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and pharmacological factors, health maintenance throughout the life cycle, rehabilitative and restorative care and support of end-of-life issues utilizing therapeutic and preventive measures. 45 hours lecture

Enrollment in the program courses (PRNU) is limited to those students who have been selected and admitted to the Practical Nursing program. Program courses are sequenced by semester and must be taken as a group each semester per program requirements and policies.

 



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