Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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PN 1012 - Nursing of the Geriatric Patient


Credits: 2
This course explains the role of the nurse in meeting the physiologic, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the elderly. Course content includes the normal aging process, effects of aging on the body, physiologic, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the elderly, effects of medications in the elderly, and leadership and management skills of the nurse. The concepts from Basic Nursing will be integrated in this course. Lecture 4 hours per week over 8 weeks. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1434  or BIOL 2214  and BIOL 2224 . Corequisite(s): PN 1006 , PN 1005  and PN 1105 .



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