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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2019 through Summer 2022
- Course Number:
- NRS 110
- Course Title:
- Foundations of Nursing- Health Promotion
- Credit Hours:
- 9
- Lecture Hours:
- 50
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 120
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
This course introduces the learner to framework of the OCNE curriculum. The emphasis on health promotion across the life span includes learning about self-health as well as patient health practices. To support self and patient health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview patients in a culturally sensitive manner, work as members of a multidisciplinary team giving and receiving feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Populations studied in the course include children, adults, older adults and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. The clinical portion of the course includes practice with therapeutic communication skills and selected core nursing skills identified in the OCNE Core Nursing Skills document.This course introduces the learner to framework of the OCNE curriculum. The emphasis on health promotion across the life span includes learning about self-health as well as patient health practices. To support self and patient health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview patients in a culturally sensitive manner, work as members of a multidisciplinary team giving and receiving feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Populations studied in the course include children, adults, older adults and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy. Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. The clinical portion of the course includes practice with therapeutic communication skills and selected core nursing skills identified in the OCNE Core Nursing Skills document.
Intended Outcomes for the course
1. Conduct a culturally and age appropriate health assessment, and interpret health data, such as screening for biological and psychosocial health risks, evidence of safe and healthy habits, developmental tasks and vulnerabilities, and patterns family functioning.
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3. Use effective communication to establish a therapeutic client-centered relationship and advocate for a health behavior change based on assessment of health risks.
4. Design and evaluate a health behavior change for self and for a selected client using relevant evidence and family/cultural data.
5. Demonstrate beginning use of selected nursing frameworks, including the legal ethical base for practice, and their application to the practice of nursing.
6. Recognize the importance and relevance of reflection on clinical experiences and on competencies and its influence on personal and professional behavior.
7. Demonstrate use of effective learning strategies in a performance-based curriculum.
8. Demonstrate use of the importance of fulfilling commitments to the team in completing assignments.
Aspirational Goals
Intended Outcomes for the course:
1. Conduct a culturally and age appropriate health assessment, and interpret health data, such as screening for biological and psychosocial health risks, evidence of safe and healthy habits, developmental tasks and vulnerabilities, and patterns of family functioning.
2. 欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网 a plan of care that is family-centered, and developmentally and culturally appropriate using evidence such as clinical practice guidelines and integrative literature reviews, to help facilitate a patient’s health behavior change.
3. Use effective communication to establish a therapeutic patient-centered relationship and advocate for a health behavior change based on assessment of health risks.
4. Design and evaluate a health behavior change for self and for a selected patient using relevant evidence and family/cultural data.
5. Demonstrate beginning use of selected nursing frameworks, including the legal ethical base for practice, and their application to the practice of nursing.
6. Recognize the importance and relevance of reflection on clinical experiences and on competencies and its influence on personal and professional behavior.
7. Demonstrate use of effective learning strategies in a performance-based curriculum.
8. Demonstrate use of the importance of fulfilling commitments to the team in timely completion of assignments.
9. Demonstrate safe and competent practice of the fundamentals of nursing care, and adherence to patient dignity, safety of patient, self and others, asepsis, and infection prevention with each patient encounter.
Course Activities and Design
Classroom lecture
Skills Lab
Clinical
Projects
Written papers
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Multiple choice exams
Clinical performance evaluation
Lab skill performance evaluation
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes, Issues & Concepts:
Learning in OCNE
Fundamentals of Health Promotion and Assessment
Basic Skills/Caregiving Skills and Medication Administration
Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Children and Adolescents
Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Young and Middle Age Adult
Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Pregnancy
Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Older Adult
Skills:
Principles of Infection control & PPE
Hand washing
Isolation technique
Body mechanics
Client/environment safety, bed making
Basic ‘head to toe’ physical assessment
Vital signs & SpO2 (pulse oximetry)
Health History interviewing (across the lifespan)
Height & Weight
Client hygiene
Client Skin Care & Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Client range of motion
Client’s ADLs, mobility, fall risk
Safe patient handling: positioning, transfers & mobilizing
Nutrition and elimination procedures, I&O
Pain Assessment & Management: Acute & Chronic
Nursing Documentation
Diabetic Care (skin, foot, oral, illness, eyes)
Capillary Blood Glucose Measurement
Intramuscular Injection sites
Subcutaneous and Intradermal Injections sites
Insulin preparation/injection
Medication calculation