NRS 443 Promoting Healthy Aging in the Older Adult

Credits: 3
This elective course offers nursing students advanced concepts and an evidence-based understanding of caring for older adults, emphasizing best practices, advocacy, and effective transitions of care. It explores the multifaceted role of nurses in delivering holistic, person-centered care to enhance healthy aging, preserve dignity, and optimize physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and functional well-being. A comprehensive examination of aging-related physiological changes, psychosocial dynamics, cognitive health, environmental influences, and the complexity of care transitions allows students to develop critical competencies in assessing, planning, and implementing interventions to support aging populations across diverse healthcare settings, communities, and societal frameworks. Integrating contemporary research, policy considerations, and interdisciplinary collaboration while fostering advocacy skills to empower older adults, address age-related disparities, and navigate transitions of care to ensure continuity, safety, and quality in geriatric healthcare.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit