NU 331 - Nursing Care of Clients with Episodic Health Challenges II

• Use the nursing process to provide holistic care across the lifespan for clients experiencing acute episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nuring Care)
• Evaluate therapeutic interpersonal communication skills across the lifespan (Level 3, Communication)
• Applies principles of health promotion, health maintenance and restoration when caring for clients across the lifespan (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Utilize ethical principles in developing the advocacy role of the nurse (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop personal goals for professional development (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Demonstrate skillful and safe use of health care technology and information systems (Level 3, Technology)
• Use collaborative skills to work with health team members in the delivery of health care (Level 3, Professional Role and Collaboration)
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills in decision-making and problem solving (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Use nursing research findings and relevant professional literature to support nursing practice (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)

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• Altered Respiratory Function: Chest Tubes: Introduction to Chest Tube Management;
• Altered Level of Consciousness: Head trauma; Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Acute Confusion
• Activity-Exercise Pattern: Care of the Client with Acute Neurological Injury
• Risk for Altered Respiratory Function: Impaired Gas Exchange : hypoxia, decreased cough reflex, pneumonia
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Nursing Care Management of Fluid Volume Deficit: Less than Body Requirements, and Altered Tissue Perfusion
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Malabsorption, Enteral Nutrition, tube feedings
• Acid-Base Imbalance: Care of clients with acid-base imbalance
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Risk for Altered Parenting
• Coping Stress Patterns: Impact of Hospitalization on Children and Families
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Impaired Verbal Communication
• Elimination Pattern: Constipation/Diarrhea in the Acute client
• Professional Collaboration
• Activity Exercise Pattern: Fatigue and Activity intolerance (Adult)
• Health Management/ Health Perception Pattern: Risk for infection, Nursing Management of Clients with infections.
• Psychological Illness Related to Specific Physiological Disorders
• Sexuality- Reproductively Pattern: Women’s and Men’s Sexuality Dysfunction
   

• Psychomotor Skills: Chest tubes, blood transfusions, Central venous access devices, CVAD; Total Parenteral Nutrition, Orthopedic patient care, Enteral Nutrition, Bowel Management, Gastric Decompression.
• Simulations: Care of child with Kawasaki disease and cardiac catheterization
• Clinical Focus: Medical/Surgical