NU 3400 - Nursing Care of Clients with Chronic Health Challenges

• Apply and analyze the nursing process with supervision to provide holistic care to clients across the lifespan with emphasis on restoration of health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Demonstrate use of therapeutic communication skills with clients experiencing chronic illness and their families (Level 3, Communication)
• Apply principles of health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration when caring for clients with chronic illness (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Integrate selected components of professional role into delivery of nursing care inclusive of case management and discharge planning (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop and analyze personal goals for professional development (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Demonstrate use of technology when planning and implementing nursing care (Level 3, Technology)
• Use collaborative skills with health team members when delegating and supervising nursing care and within the classroom setting (Level 3, Collaboration)
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills in assessment and selection of nursing care (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Apply relevant nursing research findings to nursing practice (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)

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• Health Perception/Health Management Pattern, Self-Perception/Self Concept/Health Seeking Behavior: Quality of Life
• Role/Relationship Pattern: Chronic Sorrow, Interrupted Family Process, Chronic Sorrow and Chronic Fatigue
• Activity-Exercise Pattern: Risk for Disproportional Growth, Developmental Delay, Self-Care Deficit, Growth and Development
• Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Risk of Noncompliance, Medical management and Regimen adherence
• Role/Relationship Pattern: Risk for/Caregiver Role Strain, Family Caregiving
• Coping/Stress/Tolerance Pattern: Compromised Family Coping, Readiness for Enhanced Family Coping, Family Response to Chronic Illness
• Nutrition/Metabolic Pattern: Imbalance Nutrition: Less than body requirements, Diabetes Mellitus: chronic care and home management
• Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Disturbed Energy Field, Readiness for Spiritual Well-being, Imbalanced Nutrition, Integrated Health Care Therapies
• Self-Perception/Self Concept Pattern: Risk for Low Self Esteem, Powerlessness and hopelessness
• Activity/Exercise Pattern: Disuse Syndrome, Impaired Physical Mobility, Risk for Joint Contractures, Ineffective Tissue Perfusion, Disuse Syndrome

• Psychomotor skills list: Sensory Perceptual Lab and Assistive Devices
• Simulations: Care of Pediatric patient with respiratory/neurological disorders
• Care of pediatric patient with pneumonia/asthma/cerebral palsy
• Clinical focus: Inpatient Chronic adult