NU 2520X - Primary Dynamics of Nursing Care X

• Use the nursing process to provide holistic care across the lifespan to individuals, families, and communities with a focus on health promotion, health maintenance, and illness prevention (Level 2, Nursing Care)
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills in application of the nursing process (Level 2, Communication)
• Demonstrate professional roles of caregiver, educator, and self-directed learner in the delivery of nursing care (Level 2, Professional Role)
• Collaborate with clients and other health care providers in the planning and implementation of nursing care (Level 2, Professional and Leadership)
• Demonstrate accountability and responsibility for self-directed learning (Level 2, Life-long Learning).
• Access and employ computerized information systems and other technology in the application and documentation of nursing care (Level 2, Technology)
• Describe the organization of patient care in the healthcare environment (Level 2, Leadership)
• Communicate a plan of nursing care that reflects logical thinking (Level 2, Critical Thinking)
• Identify nursing literature that describes principles of health promotion and health maintenance when planning nursing care (Level 2, Knowledge Development)

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• Growth and Development; the experience of aging
• Nutrition-Metabolic pattern; Risk for injury -Impaired swallowing/risk for aspiration, Risk for impaired skin integrity/pressure ulcers, More than body requirements, Less than body requirements, Risk for Infection, Alteration in thermoregulation Hypo/Hyperthermia
• Health Perception-Health Maintenance; Risk for Suffocation; Health seeking behavior/ Readiness for enhanced well-being, Risk for poisoning, allergic response, latex allergy
• Professional Practice: Nursing Process, Documentation, Licensing, legal issues, Patient rights, ethics, Health Care Teams, Delegation, Collaboration and Communication, Conflict Resolution, Prevention through Patient Safety Initiatives
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Cognitive-perceptual: Critical thinking, Knowledge Deficit
• Activity-Exercise Pattern: Impaired Physical Mobility, Impaired Ambulation. Risk for Falls, Deficit Diversional Activity
• Sleep-Rest pattern: Sleep pattern disturbance/ Readiness for enhanced sleep/Sleep deprivation
• Sexuality-Reproductive: Altered Sexuality Pattern
• Values-Belief: Readiness for Enhanced Spiritual Well-being,
• Coping-stress tolerance: Ineffective individual coping, ineffective denial - substance abuse; Anxiety: Mild, Moderate, Anticipatory
• Risk for Injury
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Anticipatory Grief, Dysfunctional Grief, Death across the Lifespan, Risk for Loneliness/Loneliness
• Disabled family coping, Domestic violence
• Readiness for enhanced self-concept, Disturbed self-concept: Fear

• Psychomotor Skills: Nutrition Lab, Post-Mortem Care, Personal Hygiene and Oral Care, Isolation Principles, Safe Patient Handling, Safe Restraint Use, Fire Safety, Nursing Process Lab:, Hazards of Immobility
• Simulations: Pediatric simulation: Teaching and med administration to a 6-year-old; Domestic violence; Patient with Swallowing Impairment