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Dec 26, 2024
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NU 331 - Nursing Care of Clients with Episodic Health Challenges II3 lecture hours 12 lab hours 7 credits
Course Description
This course expands on students’ abilities to integrate the nursing process with clients across the life span with episodic health challenges. Students continue to explore all dimensions of health with an emphasis on developing collaborative skills. (prereq: NU 3300 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Use the nursing process to provide holistic care across the lifespan for clients experiencing acute episodic alterations in health and/or wellness (Level 3, Nuring Care and Health Concepts)
• Evaluate therapeutic interpersonal communication skills across the lifespan (Level 3, Communication)
• Applies principles of health promotion, health maintenance and restoration when caring for clients across the lifespan (Level 3, Health Concepts)
• Utilize ethical principles in developing the advocacy role of the nurse (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop personal goals for professional development (Level 3, Life-long Learning)
• Demonstrate skillful and safe use of health care technology and information systems (Level 3, Technology)
• Use collaborative skills to work with health team members in the delivery of health care (Level 3, Professional Role and Leadership)
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills in decision-making and problem solving (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Use nursing research findings and relevant professional literature to support nursing practice (Level 3, Knowledge Development)
Prerequisites by Topic
None appended.
Course Topics
• Altered Respiratory Function: Chest Tubes: Introduction to Chest Tube Management;
• Altered Level of Consciousness: Head trauma; Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Acute Confusion
• Activity-Exercise Pattern: Care of the Client with Acute Neurological Injury
• Risk for Altered Respiratory Function: Impaired Gas Exchange : hypoxia, decreased cough reflex, pneumonia
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Nursing Care Management of Fluid Volume Deficit: Less than Body Requirements, and Altered Tissue Perfusion
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Malabsorption, Enteral Nutrition, tube feedings
• Acid-Base Imbalance: Care of clients with acid-base imbalance
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Risk for Altered Parenting
• Coping Stress Patterns: Impact of Hospitalization on Children and Families
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Impaired Verbal Communication
• Elimination Pattern: Constipation/Diarrhea in the Acute client
• Professional Collaboration
• Activity Exercise Pattern: Fatigue and Activity intolerance (Adult)
• Health Management/ Health Perception Pattern: Risk for infection, Nursing Management of Clients with infections.
• Psychological Illness Related to Specific Physiological Disorders
• Sexuality- Reproductively Pattern: Women’s Sexuality Dysfunction
• Sexuality- Reproductively Pattern: Men’s Sexuality Dysfunction
Laboratory Topics
• Psychomotor Skills: Chest tubes, blood transfusions, Central venous access devices, CVAD; Total Parenteral Nutrition, Orthopedic patient care, Enteral Nutrition, Bowel Management, Gastric Decompression.
• Simulations: Care of child with Kawasaki disease and cardiac catheterization
• Clinical Focus: Medical/Surgical
Coordinator
Mary Jo Noble
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