This course will help students develop a theoretical foundation for nursing practice, and introduce nursing process as a framework for professional nursing practice. Concepts from the humanities, social, behavioral and natural sciences are examined for their applicability to nursing. Nursing process is applied to the care of clients who are either at risk for or are experiencing common disruptions of health. Selected alterations in health experienced by adult client (i.e., perioperative management of surgical patient; fluid ? electrolyte and Acid-Base imbalances; cardiovascular; circulatory; hematology; oncology; respiratory; and gastrointestinal). Critical thinking and problem solving approaches are utilized to be frameworks for nursing management of patients with these alterations.