PNU 191 Syllabus
Adult Health I
Course Description

In this course, the student will continue to use the nursing process, within the self-care framework, to assist adult clients in meeting their physiological and psychosocial self-care requisites in the long term and acute care setting. Emphasis will be placed on client assessment and an understanding of the common, chronic conditions that alter an individual’s state of wellness. Care of clients pre- and postoperatively, and those experiencing fluid and electrolyte imbalances, infectious diseases, and selected cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and endocrine deviations will be discussed. Principles of critical thinking and therapeutic communication will be integrated throughout the course. Content that is presented in the classroom will be reinforced with clinical experiences in the skills laboratory and client care settings where students will apply basic nursing principles and techniques. 10 credit hours, 7 theory, 3 clinical

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Apply the nursing process and critical thinking approach to experiences with adult clients from diverse multicultural backgrounds who have commonly occurring/chronic health deviations.

2. Demonstrate the ability to safely perform specified nursing techniques in the simulated and/or actual client care setting.

3. Describe the assessment, medical treatments, and nursing interventions for commonly occurring/chronic health deviations.

4. Incorporate legal standards and ethical guidelines into nursing practice in the acute care, subacute, and/or long term care setting.

5. Use beginning therapeutic communication skills with clients and families from diverse multicultural backgrounds.

6. Share client information appropriately with other members of the health care team.

7. Use members of the health care team appropriately as resources of information for the delivery of client care.

8. Incorporate the client’s psychosocial/spiritual (holistic health) needs into the plan of care.

9. Prepare basic teaching plans to assist clients to meet their universal, developmental, and/or health deviation requisites.

10. Obtain library and internet resources and access nursing information to use in classroom and clinical experiences.


Calendar

Care plan

Fluids & Electrolytes