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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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
- 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
- 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
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