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Oct 23, 2026
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NURS 1162 - Health Promotion and Wellness and the Role of the Professional Nurse
Credits: 2
Catalog Description
This course introduces the role of the professional nurse in promoting health and wellness across the lifespan and includes learning about self-health and holistic client health practices. Concepts covered will provide a theoretical framework as a foundation for providing and directing nursing care. Previous humanities, liberal arts, and science and co-requisite coursework provides the basis for developing new knowledge related to early risk identification, illness prevention, and strategies to promote optimal health. Nutritional concepts, screening tools, health literacy resources, and the social determinants of health are explored.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better) or Corequisite(s): ENGL 1130 , BIOL 2113 , and CHEM 1050
Corequisite(s): NURS 1160 and NURS 1190
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: CPR, Certified Nursing Assistant Registry
Additional fee to student: Yes
Learner Outcomes
- Apply concepts of social and cultural factors to provide prevention-based nursing care.
- Determine appropriate evidence-based sources of information to guide safe, preventative care.
- Describe how health promotion is integrated into health care delivery.
- Describe behavioral change techniques to promote health and wellbeing.
- Assess factors which influence nutritional health.
- Evaluate the role of the professional nurse in promoting health and wellness across the lifespan.
- Discuss the professional nurse’s role in effective communication using various modalities.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Professional Integrity for the Foci of Care of Health Promotion
- Attributes and Responsibilities of a Professional Nurse
- Professional Behaviors
- Clinical Decision-Making
- Ethics
- Legal Issues
- Social Justice
- Care Competencies
- Holistic Nursing Process/Client-Centered Care
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Safety and Quality
- Teaching and Learning
- Health Care Delivery
- Managing Care
- Informatics
- Evidence-Based/Evidence Informed Practice
- Health Care Systems and Delivery
- Physiological Integrity for the Foci of Care of Health Promotion
- Homeostasis and Regulation
- Fluid & Electrolyte Balance
- Thermoregulation
- Cellular Regulation
- Intracranial & Neural Regulation
- Metabolism
- Elimination
- Sexuality
- Reproduction
- Oxygenation
- Perfusion
- Cognition
- Nutrition
- Mood & Affect
- Protection and Movement
- Immunity
- Inflammation
- Infection
- Tissue Integrity
- Sensory Perception
- Comfort
- Mobility
- Psychosocial Integrity for the Foci of Care of Health Promotion
- Homeostasis and Regulation
- Family Dynamics
- Self-Concept
- Behavioral Resiliency
- Lifespan Growth and Development for the Foci of Care of Health Promotion
- Determinants of Health
- Functional abilities
- Genetics
- Culture
- Diversity
- Human Growth & Development
- Violence
- Health Care Disparities
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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