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NU 3400 - Nursing Care of Clients with Chronic Health Challenges

3 lecture hours 6 lab hours 5 credits
Course Description
The emphasis of this course is the application of the nursing process with individuals and families experiencing chronic health concerns. Students explore chronicity from a theoretical basis and apply the nursing process to clients and families across the life span. (prereq: NU 390 , NU 3200 , NU 3200L )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • 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)

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None 

Course Topics
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern; Self-perception/Self-Concept Pattern: Chronicity and Disability
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern; Role-Relationship Pattern: Quality of Life (QOL) 
  • Health Perception/ Health Management Pattern: Rehabilitation Nursing
  • Role/Relationship Pattern: Hardiness, Resilience, Hopelessness, Powerlessness, and Chronic
  • Cognitive/ Perceptual Pattern: Chronic Pain across the Lifespan
  • Activity/Exercise Pattern: Care Across the Lifespan for Clients with Disuse Syndrome and Hazards of Immobility
  • Sexual/Reproductive Pattern: Chronic Illness and Sexuality
  • Cognitive/Perceptual Pattern:  Care of Adults experiencing TIAs, CVA, and Unilateral Neglect
  • Activity/Exercise Pattern: Asthma Across the Lifespan
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Adherence/Health Management and Maintenance
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Complementary and Integrative Health (Alternative) Medicine (CAM)
  • Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Care of Client with Sensory and Perceptual Alterations (vision, hearing, tactile, etc.) (2 hours)
  • Cognitive/Perceptual Pattern: Care of Client with Alzheimer’s Dementia
  • Nutrition/Metabolic Pattern: Care and Chronicity of Children and Adults with Type 1and 2 Diabetes (2 hours)
  • Activity/Exercise Pattern: Care of the Children and adults with Musculoskeletal and Articular Dysfunction (2 hours)
  • Nutrition/Metabolic Pattern: Care of Child with Altered Growth and Development (G&D), Autism, ADDH, Pervasive Behavior Disorders
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Care of the client experiencing Self-Care Deficit (Self-Management) and Impaired Home Management
  •  Role/Relationship Pattern: Family Response and Family Caregiving related to Chronic Illness
  • Health Perception/Health Management Pattern: Discharge Planning, Case Management, Home Care

Laboratory Topics
  • Psychomotor skills list: Sensory Perceptual Lab 
  • Simulations: Care of Pediatric patient with respiratory/neurological disorders
  • Clinical focus: Inpatient Chronic health

Coordinator
Dr. Victoria Carlson-Oehlers



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