NSG 491 Special Topics in Nursing II - Vulnerable Populations

This course presents knowledge, skills, and values necessary for providing safe, competent, and humanistic care in a variety of settings including corrections, hospice and palliative care, forensics, and parish nursing. Students will analyze demographic trends and health disparities and how they impact health promotion, prevention of illness and disability, political policy, and the health care delivery system.  Students will apply critical thinking skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to nursing situations in the provision of holistic care to these patients in primary, acute, and long-term care settings.

Credits

4.5

Notes

*Note: Nursing majors only.