NUR 230 - Nursing Management of Clients with Complex Health Problems and Transition into Nursing

9 credit hours - 60 hours of lecture and 225 hours of directed laboratory per term.
Learn to integrate nursing concepts, principles, and skills to provide care that optimizes the health and wellness of three adult clients with alterations in functioning of biopsychosocial systems in medical-surgical settings that may have unpredictable outcomes. Lab fee $450. Clinical fee $450.

Prerequisite(s): NUR 220  and NUR 221  with a grade of C or better.

Corequisite(s): NUR 231 .

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

Course Outcomes:
 

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

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Integrates evidence based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
2. Integrates the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to complex adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings.
3. Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence based, culturally sensitive and safe for 3 adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
   
   2. Investigator:  The nursing student will integrate the analysis of data, question assumptions and approach all adult clients with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care.

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

1. Recognizes, questions and investigates deviations from optimum health status and uses these to guide safe clinical decisions for the complex adult medical-surgical client.
2. Analyzes variations along the developmental continuum in the individual adult medical-surgical client.
3. Utilizes various 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 will implement the professional role in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices and an evolving identity as a nurse.

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Articulates and demonstrates behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
2. Demonstrates accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with complex 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 will integrate collaboration with adult clients, families and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe and individualized.

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Collaborator:

1. Collaborates with peers, faculty, and/or members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
2. Advocates 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 will integrate 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.

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Educator:

1. Assesses the ed4ucational need, plan, implement, and refine appropriate educational strategies that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
2. Utilizes technology resources to develop and implement client education.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of client teaching and learning strategies to modify as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
   
   6. Communicator:  The nursing student will integrate utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with adult clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.

NUR 230 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Adapts therapeutic communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
2. Adapts 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.