Focuses on nursing care and concepts related to the healthy adult client as well as the adult client with common, acute, or chronic illness exemplars. Emphasizes the use of critical thinking skills in a systematic, problem solving process, as a framework for providing safe and effective care to restore and promote health in adults. Discusses how to research best practices and integrate theory in the care of adult clients and their families in a variety of clinical settings. This course includes supervised clinical agency/laboratory practicums. Course comprised of four hours of theory and six hours of clinical/lab per week.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Caring
- Clinical Decision Making
- Communication
- Culture
- Diversity
- Evidence Based Practice
- Health
- Illness
- Safety
- Wellness
- Cellular Regulation
- Collaboration
- Elimination
- Fluid and Electrolytes
- Immunity
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Leadership and Management
- Oxygenation
- Perfusion
- Professionalism
- Time Management and Organization
- Apply evidence-based research to improve clients' outcomes.
- Use effective strategies to communicate, including computer-based charting, with clients and other members of the health care team.
- Apply the nursing process and standards of care to manage ill or injured adult clients and to promote health and wellness.
- Illustrate cultural diversity using the professional nursing values of legal, ethical and caring behaviors for the adult client.
- Categorize effective strategies to collaborate with other members of the health care team to provide quality care and maintain client safety while reducing the risk of harm to the client.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make sound clinical judgments.
- Explain advocacy for the adult client to facilitate the client's autonomy and full partnership in their care.
- Demonstrate competency in the learned technical skills used to care for clients in clinical, utilizing cognitive and psycho-motor skills.
The first ten topics are core concepts reinforced across the curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessments of academic achievement may include, but are not limited to skills demonstration, written assignments, research papers, case studies, multiple choice testing and hands-on clinical practice.
Outcomes
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Medical Surgical HESI exam with score 900 or higher. Maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also perform a medical surgical simulation demonstration.
Medical Surgical Simulation demonstration, given in department by department faculty. Faculty will assess demonstration based on evaluation rubric. Evaluation rubric and student checklist located in The School of Health and Human Services office. Student must pass the graded rubric with an 80% or higher with the maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also take an exam.