This course introduces the student to concepts and procedures that are fundamental in caring of adult clients aiming at providing holistic nursing care through integrating concepts of nursing, physical, social and psychological sciences. The course is developed and applied within a framework of the nursing process to formulate nursing diagnoses and identify nursing interventions directed towards promoting, maintaining and restoring the health of adults and their families. Also, this course focuses on the bio-psycho-social responses of adult clients to actual and high risk conditions that affect their functional health patterns