NUR 3010 - Episodic Health Challenges

• Use the nursing process to facilitate the decision-making process and guide the implementation of holistic, safe, effective, equitable, compassionate, and empathetic person-centered care (Person-Centered Care, Population Health)
• Apply nursing knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical judgment when integrating subjective and objective data to develop a logical plan of care (Clinical Judgment)
• Demonstrate clinical judgment when planning and implementing clinical and medication administration skills (Clinical Judgment)
• Use therapeutic communication skills which foster trusting relationships with clients/families (Communication)
• Plan, implement, and evaluate client education which advances the client’s and/or family’s self-care skills (Communication, Collaboration)
• Collaborate with clients/families when planning care to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of social and cultural factors, as well as life-experiences, and how they impact prioritization of need(s) and care preferences (Person-Centered Care, Collaboration, Population Health)
• Demonstrate professional communication, teamwork, and collaboration with other members of the healthcare team (Communication, Collaboration)
• Demonstrate ability to gather, organize, and use data from health information and biomedical technology to support clinical decision-making which promotes client safety and enhances quality patient care (Informatics and Healthcare Technologies, Clinical Judgment)
• Display a pattern of personal accountability for one’s own learning (Professional Role)
• Demonstrate intentional reflection in-practice and on-practice by evaluating one’s own development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes critical to the professional nursing role (Professional Role)
• Integrate best available evidence, clinician expertise, and client preference to support clinical judgment and practice in the care of clients to promote, maintain, or enhance health and/or address episodic health challenges across the lifespan (Evidence-Based Practice)

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• Critical concepts
  • Episodic care across settings
  • Providing individualized, holistic care
  • Actively partnering with clients/families/support system
  • Interprofessional collaboration, systems thinking, and delegation
  • Apply covered concepts across the lifespan
• Episodic health challenges
  • Acute pain and coping
  • Acute alterations in urinary function: urinary retention, urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection, urinary calculi, and pyelonephritis.
  • Acute alterations in tissue integrity: Surgical site concerns, traumatic integumentary injuries, burns, and pressure injuries from care interventions
  • Acute alterations in thermoregulation: hypothermia, hyperpyrexia, and hyperthermia
  • Acute alterations in gastrointestinal motility: constipation and diarrhea
  • Acute management of the client receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition
  • Acute episodes of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
  • Acute alterations in fluid and electrolyte balance
  • Acute alterations in oxygenation and gas exchange
  • Episodic and acute respiratory conditions: acute bronchitis, influenza, pneumonia, aspiration, epiglottitis, pulmonary embolus, pneumothorax
  • Acute alterations in acid/base balance
  • Management of the client receiving blood transfusion
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Altered level of consciousness and traumatic brain injury
  • Acute confusion/delirium
  • Client experiencing seizure activity
• Perioperative
  • Assessment and care of the perioperative client: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative
  • Musculoskeletal injury and trauma: fractures, joint replacements, amputations.
  • Care of clients undergoing abdominal and thoracic surgery: postsurgical tubes and drains
  • Care of clients undergoing gynecologic or genitourinary procedures
• Perinatal
  • Perinatal infections: maternal, fetal, and neonatal
  • Perinatal genetic testing
  • Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
  • Contraceptive counseling
  • Childbearing at risk: preconceptual, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal complications
  • Preconceptual care
  • Prenatal care
  • Assessment of fetal well-being and uterine activity
  • Assessment and care of women during the labor and birthing process
  • Assessment and care of the postpartum client
  • Assessment and care of the newborn
  • Postpartum/newborn discharge planning and education
  • Care of the client/family experiencing perinatal loss

• Clinical experiences