This course is INACTIVE
School
Health and Human Services
Division
Nursing
Department
Nursing
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Nursing
Course Number
155
Course Title
Nursing and Self-Care III
Credit Hours
5.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
137.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
137.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Pre-requisites
AH-120; BIO-233; ENG-131, 132; NSG-120, 126; PSY-131
Catalog Course Description
Emphasizes principles, concepts, and factors related to the client’s health state. Focuses on the principles of pain management, concepts of fluid-electrolyte and acid base balance, peri-operative care, management of endocrine disorders, cancer, inflammation, and immunity. Integrates ethical principles of practice within the ADN role and standards of care.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Core Course Topics
- Orem's Self-Care Deficit theory to clients with alterations in health.
- Nursing role in community disaster.
- Parenteral medications and rates of intravenous infusions.
- Homeostasis of fluids, electrolytes, acid, and base regulation.
- Therapeutic nursing interventions for the general medical/surgical patient.
- The surgical experience: perioperative nursing care.
- Care of the client with specific health deviations.
Core Course Learning Objectives (Separated)
- Demonstrate the use of Orem's Self-Care Deficit theory, scientific principles and research findings as the foundation for critical thinking and decision making in nursing practice.
- Use the ANA standards of care and the nursing process in health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and illness management for the adult client.
- Develop additional techniques and methods for information retrieval related to the patient's biopsychosociocultural, development, and ecological principles impacting the adult patient as a self care agent.
- Demonstrates proficiency and safety in medication dosage calculation and administration.
- Use principles of effective communication skills in the care of patient's.
- Determine the impact of economic, political forces, societal issues, and resource utilization on the delivery of quality patient care.
- Use the nursing process when providing care to the medical/surgical patient, taking the patient's sociocultural and religious practices into consideration.
- Demonstrate legal accountability, ethical behavior, and decision making when providing nursing care within the framework of the ANA standards of professional nursing practice when delivering patient care.
- Use therapeutic interventions which will achieve identified patient outcomes for the adult medical/surgical patient.
General Information
From old nursing curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
- Theory grade of 80% or better
- Satisfactory clinical performance
- 90% or better on Math competency exam
Course Grading Scale:
A= 92 – 100%
B= 85 – 91.999%
C = 80 – 84.999%
D = 73 – 79.999%
E = Below 73%
Course Clinical Grade: S= Satisfactory and U = Unsatisfactory
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Fall 2019