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 Department:    NURS

 Course #:    272

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    513801

 EPC:    RND

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

This clinical course focuses on advancing acute care nursing skills to care for patients with increasingly complex needs in simulation and the acute care setting. Further refine assessment techniques, develop proficiency in managing person centered care, and enhance critical thinking abilities in acute care settings. Through hands-on experiences and guided mentorship, develop proficiency in recognizing and responding to complex health issues, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered, culturally congruent care in challenging acute care environments.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: NURS 191, NURS 192 and SOC 191 with a "B-" or higher.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 0

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 110

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Required for ATA degree  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Use the nursing process to provide holistic care for patients experiencing alterations in health function, i.e. endocrine, gastrointestinal, hepatic, pancreatic systems, high-risk newborns, high-risk pregnant patients, and pediatric patients with complex alterations.
2. Demonstrate health teaching strategies for patients across the lifespan experiencing selected alterations in wellness.
3. Modify communication techniques to promote adaptation in patients across the lifespan.
4. Advocate for diverse patients and families using appropriate strategies.
5. Evaluate the role of therapies related to promoting adaptation for alterations in health, i.e. pharmacological agents and alternative therapies.
6. Critique how alterations in adaptation may impact developmental task accomplishment of patients throughout the lifespan.
7. Implement appropriate delegation of nursing care to other members of the healthcare team.
8. Promote and maintain safety by adhering to established standards, policies, and evidence-based practice, i.e. mandatory reporting, dosage calculations, medication administration.
9. Describe rationale/indication for identified skill implementation.
10. Demonstrate care in the implementation of patient-centric interventions.
11. Demonstrate safe performance of identified skills.
12. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Professional Identity: Implement one's role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse committed to evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care f
13. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Spirit of Inquiry: Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo, question underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and communities.
14. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Human Flourishing: Advocate for patients and families in ways that promote their self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings.
15. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Nursing Judgment: Make judgments in practice, substantiated with evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality care and promote the health of patients within a family and community context.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2018 and affects outlines for 2019 and later.

Communicate

Definition: Produce and exchange ideas and information through written, spoken, and visual forms.

Course Contents

1. Care of the client experiencing a High-Risk Pregnancy.
2. Care of the High-Risk Newborn.
3. Care of the Pediatric client with Complex Alterations.
   • Alterations in Cardiovascular Function. Alterations in Respiratory Function.
   • Alterations in Gastrointestinal Function. Alterations in Neurologic Function.
   • Alterations in Neurologic Function. Alterations in Musculoskeletal Function.
   • Alterations in Musculoskeletal Function. Alterations in Hematologic Function.
   • Alterations in Immunologic Function. Alterations in Genitourinary Function.
4. Care of the client experiencing complex alterations in the Endocrine System.
   • Alterations in Thyroid Function. Alterations in Pituitary and Adrenal Gland Function.
   • Alterations in Pituitary and Adrenal Gland Function. Alterations in Parathyroid Function.
   • Complication of Diabetes.
5. Care of the client experiencing complex alterations in the Gastrointestinal System.
   • GI cancers and Obesity.
6. Care of the client experiencing alterations of the Biliary, Hepatic, and Pancreatic Systems.
   • Alterations in Biliary Function, Hepatic Function, and Pancreatic Function.