NUR 206 Complex Health Problems

Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 15
Credits: 11

Provides the foundation for practice as an associate degree registered nurse. Builds on the curriculum of the first year of the Nursing Program and socializes students into the nursing roles at the registered nurse level of responsibility. Provides opportunities to learn and to apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are necessary to implement these roles in giving care to clients/patients. Theoretical concepts focus on the care of patients with complex physical and mental health problems.

Prerequisite: NUR 109 with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite: PSY 201 (may be completed prior to enrollment).
Student Learning Outcomes:

Patient centered care: Organize and prioritize care in a patient centered manner that advocates for patients and families based that promote their self-determination and integrity based on personal preferences, beliefs, and values.
Quality and Safety: Analyze nursing care that minimizes risk of harm to patients, self and others and uses data to monitor outcomes of patient centered care.
Clinical decision making: Examine clinical judgments in providing nursing care based on current evidence, clinical expertise, patient preferences, needs and values.
Professionalism: Identify nursing care that reflects integrity, accountability, legal and ethical practice while modeling the professional roles of coordinator of care, educator, advocate, and leader.
Informatics and technology: Support nursing care using current technology and patient information to maximize safety and optimize health.
Teamwork and collaboration: Communicate effectively and cooperatively
with patients, families, and members of the health-care team.

Content Outline

Health & Illness and Professional Nursing Concepts and Overview
Acid-Base balance
Clinical Decision Making
- Prioritizing patient care
Clinical Decision Making, Communication, Pharmacology
- Overview of Mental Health, Illness, Therapeutic Use of Self and Communication
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Nursing Process
- Biological and Psychopharmacology
- DSM 5
Cognition
- Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
- Substance Abuse Disorders
- Somatic and Dissociative Disorders
Comfort
- Acute pain - adults
- Acute pain - children
- Chronic nonmalignant pain (Neuropathic, Fibromyalgia and Arthritis)
Educator, Advocacy, Informatics and Technology
- Health Literacy
Elimination
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Chronic Kidney Disease
Ethics
Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Glucose Regulation
- Acute and Chronic Complications of diabetes mellitus
Hormonal Regulation (Pituitary and Adrenal Disorders)
Immunity, Quality and Safety, Clinical Decision Making
- Infectious Diseases
Legal aspects, Teamwork and Collaboration
Metabolism (Liver disorders)
Mood and Affect
- Depressive disorders
- Bipolar and related disorders
Nutrition
- Malnutrition and TPN
- Pancreatitis and Cholelithiasis
Pharmacology (Anticoagulation therapy)
Stress and Coping
- Anxiety disorders
- Personality disorders
- Trauma Related Diseases
- Crisis