Rep Hlth: Nsg Cncpts Int

1 or 3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course is designed to introduce the first-year student to professional nursing and to enable students to assess and reflect on their aptitude for professional practice. The primary focus of the course is to provide students with safe opportunities to develop interpersonal communication skills in preparation to developing professional relationships with people from different cultures, lifestyles, and backgrounds. Class topics will include an introduction to the history of nursing, and expanding contemporary nursing roles, and competencies related to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN). The course will also introduce Georgetown’s values-based health care initiative and model of professional nursing.