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

3 lecture hours 12 lab hours 7 credits
Course Description
This course expands on students’ abilities to integrate the nursing process with clients across the life span with episodic health challenges. Students continue to explore all dimensions of health with an emphasis on developing collaborative skills. (prereq: NU 3300 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Use the nursing process to organize, prioritize, and deliver safe, effective, holistic, and individualized care for clients experiencing episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nursing Care)
  • Prioritize the nutritional needs of clients requiring special dietary therapy to create an individualized teaching plan (Level 3, Nursing Care)
  • Use reflective analysis to develop critical thinking skills when applying the nursing process to clients experiencing episodic alteration in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Critical Thinking) 
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills while interacting with clients, families, and peers in a professional and respectful manner (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 a 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) 
  • Use health information technology and biomedical technology to monitor, deliver, and support clinical decisions for safe client care (Level 3, Technology)
  • Demonstrate increasing skills to effectively delegate the delivery of nursing care to other health team members in clinical, laboratory, and classroom settings (Level 3, Collaboration)
  • Select and analyze evidence from nursing research and relevant professional literature to develop a plan of care for clients experiencing episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None 

Course Topics
  • 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-Based Imbalance: Care of clients with acid-base imbalance
  • Role-Relationship Pattern: Risk for Altered Parenting
  • Coping Stress Pattern: 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 Physiology Disorders
  • Sexuality- Reproductively Pattern: Women’s and Men’s Sexuality Dysfunction

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

Coordinator
Dr. Aruna Lal



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