NU 3400 - Nursing Care of Clients with Chronic Health Challenges

• Prioritize the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate, and holistic nursing care to clients with emphasis on restoration of health and/or wellness in clients with chronic health concerns (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Use reflective analysis to develop critical thinking skills that individualize the nursing care for clients experiencing chronic health concerns (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills when providing health education for clients experiencing chronic health concerns and their families (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)
• Integrate selected components of the professional role into the delivery of nursing care inclusive of the role of educator, advocate, and coordinator of care (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop and analyze personal and professional goals for current and future nursing practice (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Analyze data from health information technology and biomedical technology and use findings to support clinical decisions for clients experiencing chronic health concerns (Level 3, Technology)
• Demonstrate collaborative skills in delegating and supervising the delivery of nursing care to other health team members in clinical, laboratory, and classroom settings (Level 3, Collaboration)
• Select, discriminate, and apply evidence from professional literature when discussing, planning, and delivering nursing care to clients experiencing chronic health concerns (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