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 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 sorrow
• 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 1 and 2 diabetes (2 hours)
• Activity/exercise pattern: care of 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

• Psychomotor skills list: sensory perceptual lab 
• Simulations: care of pediatric patient with respiratory/neurological disorders
• Clinical focus: inpatient chronic health