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 Department:    NURS

 Course #:    2111

 Credits:    6

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    6.25

 CIP:    n/a

 EPC:    n/a

 Course Description  

Focuses on the nursing care for individuals experiencing complex alterations in cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Includes alterations due to psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, and developmental factors. Integrates pharmacology, nutrition, health teaching, communication, and legal/ethical aspects; and provision and manage of nursing care in acute care and community settings. *(Section one of a two-part course)

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: NURS 165 with a minimum C grade.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 33

Lab: 11

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 55

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Required for ATA degree, Required for certificate  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Compare normal physiology of the child, adult and elderly individual to comlex alterations in the cardiovascular and respiratory system.
2. Recognize how culture and belief systems influence attitudes about adaptation to altered mental health and physical functioning and restoration of normal functioning.
3. Discuss how family and developmental concepts influence adaptation to altered mental health and restoration to optimal functioning.
4. Use developmental concepts in planning care and establishing goals for the individual with altered functioning within the acute care environment.
5. Analyze the anatomic, physiological, and psychological changes that occur during the pre- and post-partum period and promote/facilitate access to resources outside of acute care setting.
6. Explain the pathophysiology associated with complex alterations in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and psychopathology related to mental disorders.
7. Explain the impact cultural traditions exert on the client's acceptance of mental illness and its treatment.
8. Apply the nursing process to a client within the acute mental health setting.
9. Identify monitoring for pharmacology used in mental health disroders, myocardial infarctions and failure and acute and chronic respiratory disease.
10. Relate nutrition to the psychotropic medication or mental disorder of a mental health client.
11. Design a teaching plan, using theory and case studies, to include identification of risk factors and the use of pharmacological agents, and nutrition in preventing disease and promoting health in the mental health client.
12. Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary dealing with infusion therapy.
13. Apply nursing judgment to care plan evaluation to reflect interpretation of diagnostic studies and the individual's response to care.
14. In the nursing care plans, include appropriate nutrition, pharmacology, health teaching and analysis of interpersonal communication inteventions.
15. Communicates and demonstrates effective delegation and reporting of clinical findings to instructor and nurse team members.
16. Discuss accountability and the boundaries that define the nurse's collaborative as well as independent roles.
17. Describe the legal implications and professional responsibilities in nursing care within the mental health setting.
18. Analyze and apply evidence based treatment and individual responses of the cardiac, post partum and mentally ill client.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

2. Critical Thinking

Definition: The ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge within a discipline and about the ways in which that knowledge is constructed and validated and to be sensitive to the ways these processes often vary among disciplines.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
2.4 Evaluate decisions by analyzing outcomes and the impact of actions.

3. Communication

Definition: Understanding and producing effective written, spoken, visual, and non-verbal communication.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
3.2 Recognize, produce and demonstrate appropriate interpersonal, group, and public speaking skills.

4. Community & Cultural Diversity

Definition: Recognizing the value of human communities and cultures from multiple perspectives through a critical understanding of their similarities and differences.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
4.4 Demonstrate effective communication across differences in human communities and cultures.

8. Mathematical Reasoning

Definition: Understanding and applying concepts of mathematics and logical reasoning in a variety of contexts, both academic and non-academic.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
8.2 Correctly apply logical reasoning and mathematical principles to solve problems.

Course Contents

1. Nursing care of the individual of the individual with alterations in functioning of the cardiovascular system.
2. Nursing care of the individual with an acute alteration in functioning of the respiratory system.
3. Intravenous skills
4. Provision and management of nursing care for patients in acute care.
5. Management and leadership in nursing