NURS 2902 - Lifespan Health II
8 Credits
Focuses on the nursing care of clients experiencing acute disruptions of health across the lifespan. The emphasis is on exploring client and family responses to actual or potential health alterations in acute, urgent, and emergent settings utilizing critical thinking and analysis of disease processes. The pathophysiology and nursing care of each disease process is explored with increasing depth and complexity in this course for a comprehensive understanding of the disease process. Focus is placed on applying the empiric, ethical, aesthetic and self knowledges required to provide nursing care to clients with a complex and/or unstable condition. Evidence-informed practice is used to support appropriate focused assessments, and effective, efficient nursing interventions. Knowledge of lifespan developmental factors, cultural variables, and legal aspects of care guides ethical decision making in delivery of care.
Pre-Requisites NURS 2801 NURS 2812 NURS 2852
Major Content Areas
Acute and complex disease processes
Pathophysiology of clients with acute disruptions to psychosocial integrity
Nursing care of clients with acute disruptions to psychosocial and physiological integrity.
Lab modules for skills-based client interventions
Holistic nursing assessment of objective and subjective manifestations of common acute health problems
Learning Outcomes
Recognize emergency nursing principles and management. Use clinical judgement and decision-making skills during urgent and emergency situations.
Explain acute disorders in pathophysiology of the human body.
Analyze findings for patients with acute disorders.
Perform assessments and evidence-based interventions for the client during acute, urgent, and emergency situations.
Incorporate the knowledge and methods of a variety of disciplines to inform decision-making in the care if the client experiencing acute disruptions in health.
Apply data from all relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of high-quality client care.
Demonstrate team-building and collaborative strategies when working with inter-professional teams in the acute care setting.
|