NURS 282 - Nursing Complx M/S & Geriatric Patient (clinical)

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 110
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: This clinical course advances competence in managing increasingly complex patients and increased number of assigned patients. Building on prior clinical experiences, enhance critical assessment skills, person centered, culturally congruent care, and time management in high-acuity clinical and simulation settings.

Prerequisite: NURS 271 and NURS 272 and NURS 273 with a B- or higher.
General Education Requirements:

Fulfills Communicate General Education Requirement

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Use the nursing process to provide holistic care for diverse patients experiencing complex alterations in health function. i.e. neurological, respiratory, cardiac, hematological, renal, trauma, disaster, and burns.
Develop methods of health teaching for complex patients.
Use principles of advocacy to promote equitable healthcare.
Demonstrate the use of principles of advocacy to promote health adaptation.
Implement nursing care that reflects principles of professional nursing practice.
Utilize appropriate patient-specific communication techniques to promote adaption in complex patients.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Human Flourishing: Advocate for patients and families in ways that promote their self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Nursing Judgment: Make judgments in practice, substantiated with evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality care and promote the health of patients within a family and community context.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Professional Identity: Implement one’s role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse committed to evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care f
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Spirit of Inquiry: Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo, question underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and communities.

Course Contents

Care of the Patient with Complex Cardiac Alterations. Complex cardiac dysrhythmias. End-stage heart failure. End-stage heart failure. Acute myocardial infarction. Coronary artery bypass graft. Hemodynamic monitoring.
Care of the Patient with Complex Respiratory Alterations. Respiratory Failure. ARDS. Endotracheal intubation/Ventilation. Conscious sedation.
Care of the Patient with Complex Neurological Alterations. Traumatic Brain Injury. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring. Brain Death.
Care of the patient experiencing complex alterations in the Renal System. Acute vs. Chronic renal failure. Pyelonephritis. Renal replacement therapy. Renal Cancer.
Care of the client experiencing complex Hematological/Oncological Alterations. ITP, TTP, HITT. DIC.
Care of the Acute Geriatric Patient.
Care of the Trauma/Critically Ill Patient. SIRS/MODS. Shock. Burns
Disaster Preparedness. Disaster Nursing; Mass Casualty; Poisoning.

Instructional Units: 5