Description: Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 254A. Expansion of student knowledge of practice of professional nursing as theory-based goal-directed method for assisting patients to meet basic human needs at various levels of health continuum, with emphasis on application of relevant theories to master's entry clinical nurse (MECN) practice roles in healthcare systems. Expansion of concepts of communication, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, interpersonal relationships, cultural competence, and nursing process as clinical decision-making strategy essential to practice of professional nursing. Learning experiences in nursing skills laboratory and in clinical settings. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0