NUR236 — Transition Course for Advanced Placement Students
Credits: This course allows the LPN with prior nursing credits to consolidate and refine previously learned theory and skills while emphasizing the underlying rationale and principles. It may also be to transfer nursing students upon faculty approval. Under the instructor’s guidance in a nursing skills lab setting, the principles of the nursing process are applied. Opportunities are provided for the returning student to reduce the stress of re-entering school, to positively reinforce gained knowledge, and to form support groups by focusing on the skills needed for interpersonal relationships. Appropriate clinical placement will be determined at the end of this experience. Students will spend 56 hours in introductory nursing activities; in addition, students will be expected to spend substantial time preparing for each session.