Restriction(s): Admission to Pre-licensure MSN degree track. This didactic and simulation laboratory course is designed to introduce professional nursing which is focused on caring, being whole, and being healed in specific contexts and relationships (Watson & Hills, 2011). Students are exposed to the conceptual model which describes nurses engagement in healing using the nursing process to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential physical, emotional, and spiritual health problems, through case finding, health teaching, health counseling, and provision of care that supports or restores life and well-being. The nurse's scope of practice, including independent and collaborative functions is examined. Students apply beginning nursing care skills for efficient, safe, compassionate, and person-centered care using simulation based experiences. Special fee.