NSG-155: Nursing and Self-Care III

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
  1. Orem's Self-Care Deficit theory to clients with alterations in health.
  2. Nursing role in community disaster.
  3. Parenteral medications and rates of intravenous infusions.
  4. Homeostasis of fluids, electrolytes, acid, and base regulation.
  5. Therapeutic nursing interventions for the general medical/surgical patient.
  6. The surgical experience: perioperative nursing care.
  7. Care of the client with specific health deviations.
Core Course Learning Objectives (Separated)
  1. 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.
  2. Use the ANA standards of care and the nursing process in health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and illness management for the adult client.
  3. 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.
  4. Demonstrates proficiency and safety in medication dosage calculation and administration.
  5. Use principles of effective communication skills in the care of patient's.
  6. Determine the impact of economic, political forces, societal issues, and resource utilization on the delivery of quality patient care.
  7. Use the nursing process when providing care to the medical/surgical patient, taking the patient's sociocultural and religious practices into consideration.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  1. Theory grade of 80% or better
  2. Satisfactory clinical performance
  3. 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
Deactivation Date
ILT Approval Date
AALC Approval Date
Curriculum Committee Approval Date