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NU 3300 - Nursing Care of Clients with Episodic Health Challenges I4 lecture hours 12 lab hours 8 credits
Course Description
This course provides students the opportunity to expand their use of the nursing process in the care of patients and families experiencing episodic health care challenges. Students apply nursing concepts in providing care to patients and childbearing families. Students expand their role as members of the health care team and use effective communication to deliver a caring approach to diverse populations across the lifespan. Further development of critical thinking skills enables students to identify and act on opportunities to prevent complications and promote, maintain, and restore health. (prereq: NU 260 , NU 2520 , NU 391 (C grade), NU 3820 (C grade); coreq: HU 332 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Select relevant nursing literature to support nursing interventions (Level 3, Knowledge Development)
• Identify clinical situations that require negotiation and conflict resolution skills (Level 3, Leadership)
• Identify clinical opportunities to delegate and supervise nursing care (Level 3, Leadership)
• Demonstrate skillful and safe use of health care technology and information systems (Level 3, Technology)
• Demonstrate use of therapeutic communication skills with clients experiencing episodic health challenges (Level 3, Communication)
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills when caring for clients undergoing episodic, acute health challenges (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal written and verbal communication skills (Level 3, Communication)
• Demonstrate accountability and responsibility for self-directed learning (Level 3, Life-long Learning)
• Use the nursing process to provide safe, effective, client-centered holistic care across the lifespan for clients experiencing episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Apply principles of health promotion and maintenance when caring for clients across the lifespan (Level 3, Health Concepts)
• Integrate selected components of professional role into delivery of nursing care across the lifespan (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop personal goals for professional development (Level 3, Life-long Learning)
Prerequisites by Topic
None appended.
Course Topics
• 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
Laboratory Topics
• 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
Coordinator
Brian King
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