NURSE 4015: Professional Nursing Adult and Elder Care II

Course Description

This course covers nursing care of adult and elder patients including healthy aging and maintenance of functional capacity. Content addresses common physiologic, psychological, and social changes, challenges, and adaptations affecting adult and elder populations. Strategies for health promotion and disease management are addressed in the care of adult and elder patients experiencing genitourinary, gastrointestinal, neurological, endocrine, musculoskeletal, health restoration, and/or sensory-perceptual alterations. Pathophysiologic processes of organ systems are explored. Didactic and clinical components are included.