NU 3300 - Nursing Care of Clients with Episodic Health Challenges I

• Use the nursing process to organize, prioritize, and deliver safe, effective, holistic, individualized care to clients experiencing acute episodic health challenge in a way that promotes health and prevents complications (Level 3, Nursing Care) 
• Act on opportunities to apply aspects of caring by comforting and supporting clients and families in conjunction with reflection on one’s approach to caring (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Use critical thinking and thoughtful, reflective analysis to make accurate clinical decisions that individualize the delivery of nursing care (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Employ effective interpersonal communication skills and knowledge of health education principles to educate, support, and partner with diverse clients and families to promote achieving higher levels of health (Level 3, Communication)
• Display a pattern of personal accountability for one’s own learning while assuming a professional role through acts of integrity and mutual respect (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Assume the role of the nurse as provider of care, educator, advocate, and care coordinator by reflecting on and taking responsibility for one’s action, practice, and learning (Level 3, Professional Role)  
• Gather and organize data from health information technology and biomedical technology and use findings to support clinical decisions to promote patient safety and improve patient care (Level 3, Technology)
• Demonstrate effective teamwork, while developing skills in delegation and coordination of client care with other members of the healthcare team (Level 3, Collaboration)  
• Select and apply evidence from reliable sources to support the plan of care (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)  

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• Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Pain: adult and child
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Alteration in Thermoregulation, Fluid volume deficit and excess, Electrolyte Imbalance, Impaired Tissue Integrity, Hypo/hyperglycemia, Impaired Oral Mucus Membranes, Perinatal Infection, Neonatal Infection, Ineffective Infant Feeding Pattern
• Activity-Exercise Pattern: Ineffective Airway Clearance, Ineffective Breathing pattern
• Elimination Pattern: Altered Urinary Elimination
• Professional Issues: Conflict Resolution, Critical Pathways, Evidence based Practice, Caring
• Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern: Nursing care related to birthing process, Nursing care of the normal newborn, Infant feeding, Care of the PP woman, Care of women undergoing Cesarean section, Care of the childbearing family at risk
• Role-Relationship Pattern; Parental attachment
• Self-perception-Self-concept Pattern: Perinatal Depression
• Health- perception/Health Maintenance Pattern: Preconception Care, Prenatal care, Genetics related to childbearing families, Postpartum Care, Infant safety Issues, Perioperative nursing care

• Psychomotor Skills: Birthing process, Postpartum Lab and Postoperative care, Newborn assessment, urinary drainage, perioperative care-medical asepsis, pulmonary hygiene, oxygen therapy, application and implication, IV therapy, Patient Controlled Analgesic, incision and wound care
• Simulations: Care of Laboring Mom, Care of patient post-cesarean section, Care of patient with post-part-partum hemorrhage
• Clinical Focus: Maternal/Newborn and acute medical/surgical