NUR 130 - Nursing of Adult Clients in Health and Illness 1

5 credit hours - 45 hours of lecture and 90 hours of directed laboratory per term.
Develop nursing concepts, principles, and skills to provide care that optimizes the health and wellness of one to two adult clients with alterations in functioning of biopsychosocial systems in medical-surgical settings that have predictable outcomes.  Lab fee $250. Clinical fee $250.

Prerequisite(s): NUR 120 , NUR 121,  and NUR 122  with a C or better.

Note: Typically offered at MC; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:
 

1. Care Provider: The nursing students develop the utilization of the 5 steps of the nursing process to determine and provide nursing care that is holistic, systematic, evidence-based, safe and grounded in understanding of the sciences, humanities, cultural diversity, and nursing theory to adult clients.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Develops evidence-based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
2. Utilizes the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings.
3. Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence-based, culturally sensitive, and safe for up to 2 adult medical-surgical clients and their families.

2. Investigator: The nursing student begins to develop data analysis, question assumptions, and approach all adult clients with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

1. Recognizes and begins to question deviations from optimum health status and uses these to guide safe clinical decisions for the adult medical-surgical client.
2. Recognizes variations along the developmental continuum in the individual adult medical-surgical client.
3. Utilizes health care technologies to promote research, analysis, interpretation, and integration of data that aids in developing individualized nursing care plans for the adult medical-surgical client in a variety of settings.

3. Professional: The nursing student develops the implementation of the professional role in ways the reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Demonstrates behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
2. Demonstrates accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with predictable health problems within the legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks of nursing practice.
3. Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing self-improvement and self-analysis of professional performance.

4. Collaborator: The nursing student develops collaboration with adult clients, families, and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe, and individualized.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Collaborator:

1. Collaborates with peers, faculty, and begins to collaborate with selected members of the interdisciplinary health care team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
2. Recognizes the need to advocate for adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide safe, organized, and prioritized care.

5. Educator: The nursing student develops the utilization of teaching and learning strategies to promote knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for adult clients, families, peers, and the community.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Educator:

1. Assesses the educational need, begins to plan and implement educational strategies that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
2. Begins to utilize technology resources used to develop and implement client education.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of client teaching and modifies as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.

6. Communicator: The nursing student develops the utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with adult clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.

NUR130 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Identifies therapeutic communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various development levels.
2. Identifies professional communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
3. Utilizes technology to communicate and document adult medical-surgical client related data.