Master Resource Outline

Credits: 2 credit clinical 

Semesters Offered:F, Sp 

Prerequisites:NRSG 329 IL, NRSG 327, NRSG 328, NRSG 317

Course Description

This clinical course focuses on the care of patients across the adult lifespan with chronic illness and non-curable, life limiting diseases. Integration of knowledge from nursing theory, clinical practice, and research that supports a holistic perspective of the experience of aging and chronic illness. Emphasis is placed on patient-centered health promotion, disease and palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care, for patients and their families.

Catalog Course Description 

This course provides the clinical experiential application of care for adult patients care with chronic, non-curable diseases for patients and their families with an emphasis on patient-centered health promotion, disease and palliative care, hospice, and end-of life care.

Course Objectives:

1. Relate theoretical and empirical knowledge in design and implementation of nursing care with individuals across the life span and their families experiencing chronic health problems and life-limiting disease

2. Determine psychosocial issues and challenges for patients and families experiencing chronic illness and / or life limiting disease.

3. Explore legal, ethical, and moral issues facing chronic illness and end of life care.

Course Learning Outcomes: The student will:

1. Conduct holistic health assessments for adult patients through the lifespan experiencing chronic illness and / or life limiting disease.

2. Collaborate with other health care team members to design, implement, delegate, and evaluate care of adult patients through the lifespan experiencing chronic illness and / or life limiting disease.

3. Integrate evidence-based practice, information technology to communicate and manage care patients experiencing chronic illness and / or life limiting disease.

4. Demonstrate effective and therapeutic communication with patients, families, and other health care team members.

5. Incorporate health promotion / prevention interventions for themselves and for their clients

AACN Competencies

This course develops:

1.3 Demonstrate clinical judgement founded on a broad knowledge base.

2.3 Perform an assessment.

2.4 Diagnose actual or potential health problems and needs.

2.7 Evaluate outcomes of care.

2.9 Provide care coordination.

5.2 Contribute to a culture of patient safety.

5.3 Contribute to a culture of provider and workplace safety.

8.2 Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information, and generate knowledge.

8.3 Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.

8.4 Use information and communication technology to support chronicling of care and communication among providers, patients, and all system levels.

8.5 Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, and regulatory standards and workplace policies in the delivery of care.

This course advances:

2.1 Engage with the individual in establishing a care relationship.

2.2 Communicate effectively with patients (individuals, families, groups).

2.5 Develop a plan of care.

2.6 Demonstrate accountability for care delivery.

2.8 Promote self-management.

6.1 Communicate in a manner that supports a partnership approach to care delivery.

6.2 Perform effectively in different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics.

6.3 Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address the healthcare needs of patients and populations.

6.4 Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.

9.1 Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.

9.2 Employ nursing’s participatory approach to person-centered care.

9.3 Demonstrate accountability to the patient, society, and the profession.

9.4 Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.

9.5 Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.

9.6 Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity.

10.1 Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and wellbeing.

10.3 Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.

AACN Threads

Equity and Inclusion

Diversity

Cultural Sensitivity

Social Determinants of Health

Communication

Ethics

Clinical Judgement

Mental Health

 

Recommended Clinical Experiences/Sites:

1. Home Health & Hospice

2. Hospital

3. Community resources for aging and chronic illness-wellness

4. Dialysis centers

5. Palliative care team rounding

 

Included Threads

  • Equity, Inclusion, and
  • Diversity
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Communication
  • Ethics
  • Clinical Judgement
  • Mental Health

 

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