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Mar 29, 2024
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NU 3400 - Nursing Care of Clients with Chronic Health Challenges3 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 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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