This course focuses on holistic caring for basic human needs of individuals, families, and communities. Strategies to promote health and well-being are identified as well as care of persons with special needs including clients with immobility problems, skin integrity and wound problems, sensory alterations, the surgical client, elders and those requiring extended care. Components of professionalism (competency, legal, ethical, political and economic issues), communication, and critical thinking are incorporated throughout this course to enable students to integrate theory and practice.