LPN 180 - Fundamentals of Practical Nursing

8 credit hours - 75 hours of lecture and 90 hours of laboratory/clinical per term; one term.
Learn the role of the practical nurse as provider, manager and member within the discipline of nursing in a team relationship. Focus on the concepts, principles and skills used in assessing and providing basic care for patients. Opportunities to practice skills and demonstrate competencies are provided. Lab fee $400. Clinical fee $300.

Prerequisite(s): BIO 231 , BIO 232 or equivalent, PSY 111 and Math General Education with grades of C or better. Acceptance into the Practical Nursing (LPN) program.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC) and Off Campus (OF)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Care Provider: The nursing student begins to utilize the five (5) steps of the nursing process to facilitate 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.

The nursing student utilizes the health assessment process to assist in carrying out an individualized nursing plan of care.

LPN 180 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

Begins to develop evidence-based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
Begins to utilize the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings.
Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence based, culturally sensitive and safe for one (1) adult medical-surgical client and their families.
Identify components of the assessment process.
Demonstrate physical assessment skills.
Apply the nursing process using assessment techniques and review of the client systems.

2. Investigator: The nursing student utilizes acquired data to recognize normal patterns of health, begins to recognize abnormal alterations in functioning and question assumptions. All adult clients are approached with curiosity, resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care.

LPN 180 Sub Outcomes for Investigator

Recognizes normal patterns of health and begins to recognize deviations in functioning and question assumptions for the adult medical-surgical client.
Begins to recognize variations along the developmental continuum in the individual adult medical-surgical client.
Begins to utilize health care technologies to promote, analyze interpret and integrate data to improve adult medical-surgical client outcomes.
Acquires assessment data of a normal adult medical-surgical client.
Recognizes normal physical assessment findings and laboratory data.

3. Professional: The nursing student begins to implement the professional role in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse.

LPN 180 Sub Outcomes for Professional:

Begins to demonstrate behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
Begins to demonstrate behaviors that reflect confidentiality, and the integrity of obtained assessment information.
Begins to demonstrate accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with predictable health problems within the legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks of nursing practice.
Begins to demonstrate a commitment to ongoing self-improvement and self-analysis of professional performance.
Discuss the history of nursing and selected nursing theorist.
Begins to explore the legal and ethical influences on the profession of nursing to include the Nurse Practice Act, Standards of Practice and the political process.

4. Collaborator: The nursing student begins to collaborate with adult clients, families, and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe, and individualized.
The nursing student begins to explore concepts to better collaborate with peers about providing holistic, safe, and quality health care.

LPN 180 Sub Outcomes for Collaborator

Begins to collaborate with peers, faculty, and identify selected members of the interdisciplinary health care team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
Begins to explore the utilization of nursing research and evidence-based nursing.
Begins to explore the allocation of resources.

5. Educator: The nursing student begins to utilize teaching and learning strategies to reinforce knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for adult clients, families, peers, and the community.

LPN 180 Sub Outcomes for Educator

Begins to identify the teaching needs that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.
Identifies and begins to utilize technology resources used to reinforce and implement client education.
Begins to evaluate the effectiveness of client teaching and in collaboration with the healthcare team modifies as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for adult medical-surgical clients and their families.

6. Communicator: The nursing student begins to utilize and model professional and therapeutic communication strategies with adult clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes, enhance competence and entry into the healthcare role.

LPN 180 Sub Outcomes for Communicator:

Begins to identify therapeutic communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
Gains knowledge of and begins to demonstrate professional communication skills for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
Begins to utilize technology to communicate and document adult medical-surgical client related data.
Demonstrates documentation of assessment findings.
Begins to develop communication strategies to respond to situations involving legal and ethical issues.