This is a theoretical course for the beginning nursing student. Nursing Process I provides the student with the fundamentals of nursing, including such basic skills as health assessment, legal aspects of nursing practice, communication and documentation technique, asepsis, the nursing process, caring for patients having special procedures or specimen collection, and the role of the nurse as a member of the health care team. This course also includes explanation of specific physiological and psychological human needs as hygiene, safety, sleep and rest, sensory, grief and loss, self-concept and the nurse's role in assisting a person to meet these needs, while sensitive to cultural diversity, human dignity, and development progression.