NU 3200 - Nursing Care of Clients with Episodic Health Challenges II

• Use the nursing process to organize, prioritize, and deliver safe, effective, holistic, and individualized care for clients experiencing episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Prioritize the nutritional needs of clients requiring special dietary therapy to create an individualized teaching plan (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Use reflective analysis to develop critical thinking skills when applying the nursing process to clients experiencing episodic alteration in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Critical Thinking) 
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills while interacting with clients, families, and peers in a professional and respectful manner (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)
• Assume the role of a nurse as provider of care, educator, advocate, and care coordinator by reflecting on and taking responsibility for one’s action, practice, and learning (Level 3, Professional Role) 
• Use health information technology and biomedical technology to monitor, deliver, and support clinical decisions for safe client care (Level 3, Technology)
• Demonstrate increasing skills to effectively delegate the delivery of nursing care to other health team members in clinical, laboratory, and classroom settings (Level 3, Collaboration)
• Select and analyze evidence from nursing research and relevant professional literature to develop a plan of care for clients experiencing episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Evidence-based Practice)

• None 

• Care of patients with altered level of consciousness; (metabolic and structural)
• Care of the patient with acute confusion
• Care of client with acute neurological injury and spinal cord Injury 
• Care of patient at risk for and actively experiencing seizure activity
• Nursing care of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Care of patient with chest tubes
• Care of the patient undergoing abdominal and thoracic surgery
• Care of patients with Impaired oxygenation, gas exchange, and acid/base imbalances
• Care of patients receiving blood transfusion
• Care of patients with Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD)
• Care of child and adults with episodic and acute respiratory conditions (acute pulmonary embolus, tuberculous, epiglottitis, acute bronchitis, pneumothorax)
• Care of the patient with muscular-skeletal Injury and trauma: fractures; application of traction (skin and skeletal); hip and knee joint replacements; amputations
• Professional role - collaboration and delegation
• The impact of hospitalization on children, adults, and families
• Care of client with alteration in GI motility (constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel disease)
• Sexual dysfunction - men and women
• Care of the client with Impaired verbal communication

• Simulations: care of the child
• Clinical focus: medical/surgical