NUR 2020 - Foundations of Safe, Person-Centered Nursing Care

3 lecture hours 9 lab hours 6 credits

• Use therapeutic communication skills to build a partnership based on an understanding of the client as a unique human being whose health and perspectives have been influenced by social and cultural factors and one’s lifetime experiences (Communication)
• Use core nursing knowledge, critical thinking, and the client’s input to develop a logical plan of care that incorporates and advocates for care priorities and reflects the client’s values, needs, and preferences (Clinical Judgment)
• Use the nursing process to provide safe, effective, equitable, compassionate person-centered care with a focus on interventions that promote self-care and protect, promote, maintain, or restore health (Person-Centered Care)
• Demonstrate the clinical and medication administration skills needed to practice safe, high quality nursing care (Person-Centered Care)
• Use patient education principles to plan, implement, and evaluate an individual teaching intervention that promotes or restores health, prevents complications, or advances the client’s or family’s self-care skills (Communication)
• Make effective use of health information systems and other technology in the provision of client care (Informatics and Healthcare Technologies)
• Further develop the use of best evidence to support clinical judgment and practice across the lifespan (Evidence-Based Practice)
• Develop professional communication to build collegiality and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to improve care (Collaboration)
• Reflect on one’s personal values and biases as part of developing a deeper insight into the core values of nursing; exhibit behaviors that align with those of an ethical, responsible professional and a leader of character (Professional Role)
• Exhibit an attitude of curiosity by using resources, feedback, and reflection to develop own practice and critical thinking skills (Clinical Judgment)

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• Nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, interventions, and evaluation
• Clinical judgment/critical thinking

Professional Practice

• Documentation and informatics
• Licensing and regulation, legal issues 
• Introduction to communication, collaboration, delegation, conflict resolution, and verbal de-escalation
• Application of evidence-based practice in clinical judgment through the nursing process

Family health promotion

• The experience of aging
• Deficient diversional activity, loneliness
• Health-seeking behavior: readiness for enhanced health management
• Health perception/health management, ineffective health management, poisoning, allergic responses, suffocation

Functional health patterns and risk reduction

• Risk for injury: safety initiatives, prevention
• Activity-exercise, mobility
• Readiness for enhanced knowledge, deficient knowledge
• Self-concept and ineffective individual coping
• Risk for injury, disabled family coping, domestic and intimate partner violence
• Anxiety - mild, moderate, anticipatory; self-perception; fear
• Risk for impaired skin integrity, pressure ulcers
• Imbalanced nutrition: swallowing, risk for aspiration
• Risk for infection transmission, chain of infection
• Anticipatory grief, dysfunctional grief, death across the lifespan
• Readiness for enhanced sleep and sleep pattern disturbance

• Pharmacology lab (medication calculations and medication administration skills)
• Restraint use
• Postmortem care
• Isolation principles and PPE
• Fire safety
• Personal hygiene, bed making, toileting
• Nutrition, feeding, aspiration prevention
• Hazards of immobility
• Safe patient handling, use of transferring systems and devices, bed position
• Electronic health record (orientation and use)

Clinical

• Clinical experiences
• Simulations