NUR 3020 - Chronic Health Challenges

3 lecture hours 6 lab hours 5 credits

• Prioritize the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate, culturally sensitive, and holistic nursing care to clients with emphasis on restoration to the highest level of health in clients with chronic health concerns (Person-Centered Care)
• Integrate clinical reasoning skills and reflective practice when applying the nursing process to care of clients experiencing multiple chronic health concerns (Clinical Judgment)
• Incorporate therapeutic communication and person-centered health education that is culturally and linguistically responsive as a method to address and manage chronic health challenges faced by clients and their families (Communication)
• Demonstrate professional and personal honesty, integrity, and accountability for life-long learning (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 as clients transition across care settings (Professional Role)
• Utilize health information and biomedical technologies as support tools for both healthcare providers and clients to enhance quality and safety, the nurse’s decision making, and the client self-efficacy regarding chronic health concerns (Informatics and Healthcare Technologies)
• Demonstrate skills in managing the delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team (Collaboration)
• Synthesize evidence from professional resources when discussing, planning, critiquing, and delivering nursing care to clients experiencing chronic health concerns (Evidence-Based Practice)

• None

• Living with Chronic Illness: Concepts of Quality of Life (QOL) and Well-Being; Hopelessness and Powerlessness
• Clients with Mobility Dysfunctions and Rehabilitation Needs
• Transition of Care, Case Management, Home Care
• Chronic pain across the life span
• Sensory and Perceptual alterations - hearing, and visual impairments

Chronic Conditions

• Clients (Adults and Children) with type 1 and 2 diabetes
• Obesity
• Clients with Dementia/Alzheimer’s
• Clients with chronic asthma, cystic fibrosis
• Clients with chronic lung conditions, diseases, infections (emphysema, chronic bronchitis, sleep apnea, tuberculosis)
• Children with musculoskeletal and articular dysfunction
• Children with neuro and neuromuscular dysfunction (cerebral palsy, spinal cord abnormalities, hydrocephalous)
• Clients (adults and children) with chronic gastrointestinal syndromes, obstructive and Inflammatory bowel diseases
• Clients with hepatic dysfunction (hepatitis, cirrhosis)
• Clients with chronic hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart failure
• Clients with chronic peripheral vascular disease (arterial and venous)
• Clients with chronic renal failure
• Children with chronic urinary and renal dysfunctions
• Clients with chronic degenerative neurological disorders
• Clients (adults and children) with cancer
• Clients (adults and children) with HIV/AIDS

• Clinical experiences