LPN 194 - Women, Newborns, Mental Health and Integration of Concepts in Practical Nursing

9 credit hours - 90 hours of lecture, 30 hours of directed lab and 105 hours of clinical per term; one term.
Learn essential principles, concepts and skills for providing care for the childbearing family, the mentally ill, and adults with emergent needs. Explore the roles of leadership and delegation. Integrate the role of the Practical Nurse through opportunities to provide client care in acute, community, and/or long-term settings. Lab fee $350. Clinical fee $275.

Prerequisite(s): LPN 193 .

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 integrates the utilization of 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 women and newborn clients, mental health and medical-surgical clients.

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes for Care Provider:

Integrates to develop evidence-based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
Integrates and refines the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to adult medical-surgical clients and their families in various settings.
Utilizes the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to women and newborn clients and their families in various settings.
Utilizes and refines the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to adult mental health clients and their families in various settings.
Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence based, culturally sensitive and safe for adult medical-surgical clients, mental health clients, women and newborn clients and their families.

2. Investigator: The nursing student develops data analysis, question assumptions and approach all mental health clients, women and newborn clients and their families with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care.
The nursing student integrates the analysis of data, question assumptions and approaches all adult medical surgical clients with curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care.

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes Investigator:

Recognizes, questions, and investigates deviations from optimum health status and uses these to guide safe clinical decisions for the complex adult medical-surgical client.
Analyzes variations along the developmental continuum in the individual adult medical-surgical client.
Skillfully utilizes multiple 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.
Recognizes and begins to question deviations from optimum health status and uses these to guide safe clinical decisions for mental health, women, and newborn clients.
Recognizes variations along the developmental continuum in the individual mental health, women, and newborn clients.
Utilizes health care technologies to promote research, analysis, interpretation, and integration of data that aids in developing individualized nursing care plans for mental health, women, and newborn clients in a variety of settings.

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

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes for Professional

Articulates and demonstrates behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
Consistently demonstrates accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with health problems within the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks of nursing practice.
Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing self-improvement and self-analysis of professional performance.
Analyzes practice situations which involve legal and ethical principles in the development of professional roles.
Demonstrates strategies and identify credible resources to promote positive self-care through health behavior choices.
Utilizes technology to research and develop a professional development plan.

4. Collaborator: The nursing student continues to develop collaboration with mental health client, women and newborn clients, families, and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe, and individualized.
The nursing student integrates collaboration with adult clients, families, and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe, and individualized

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes for Collaborator:

Collaborates with peers, faculty, and increases collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary health care team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
Recognizes the need to advocate for women and newborn clients and their families in various settings with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide safe, organized, and prioritized care.
Recognizes the need to advocate mental health clients and their families in various settings with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide safe, organized, and prioritized care.
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.
Evaluates workplace, economic and political issues as it relates to providing holistic, safe, and quality health care.
Examines integrative and complementary therapies as they promote holistic safe health care.
Analyzes wellness dimensions and resources necessary to promote optimal self-care and wellness.

5. Educator: The nursing student continues to develop utilization of teaching and learning strategies to reinforce knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for mental health, women and newborn clients, families, peers, and the community.
The nursing student integrates utilization of teaching and learning strategies to reinforce knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for adult clients, families, peers, and the community.

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes for Educator

Assesses the educational needs, plans, and implements appropriate educational strategies that reinforce positive health and wellness outcomes for adult medical-surgical, mental health clients, women and newborn clients and their families.
Utilizes technology resources to develop and implement client education.
Evaluates the effectiveness of client teaching and in collaboration with the healthcare team modifies the client teaching as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes adult medical-surgical, mental health clients, women and newborn clients and their families.
Begins to evaluate the learning strategies and in collaboration with the healthcare team modifies the strategies as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for adult medical-surgical, mental health clients, women and newborn clients and their families.

6. Communicator: The nursing student integrates utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with medical-surgical clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.
The nursing student continues to develop utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with mental health clients, women and newborn clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.

LPN 194 Sub Outcomes for Communicator:

Integrates therapeutic communication strategies for adult medical-surgical and mental health clients of various developmental levels.
Integrates professional communication strategies for adult medical-surgical clients of various developmental levels.
Utilizes technology to communicate and document adult medical-surgical, women and newborn and mental health client related data.
Identifies and adopts therapeutic communication strategies for women and newborn clients and mental health clients of various developmental levels.
Identifies and adopts professional communication strategies for women and newborn clients and mental health clients of various developmental levels.