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Apr 28, 2024
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NURS 153 Nursing Skills in Chronic Illnesses Clinical/Simulation I (4 credits)
Prerequisite Acceptance into the nursing program.
Course Description
Health promotion and psychomotor skills needed to assist individuals in meeting basic human needs. Includes assessments, formulating nursing diagnoses, and documentation related to chronic illnesses in the clinical/SIM setting.
Course Content
Basic nursing skills for patients with chronic illnesses across the lifespan.
Compassionate care with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
Communication within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering positive patient outcomes, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.
Nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients across the lifespan within acceptable nursing standards.
Quality improvement in the patient care setting.
System effectiveness and individual performance that minimizes risk of harm to patients and families.
Information technology
Student Outcomes
Demonstrate patient-centered care for individuals experiencing chronic illnesses by applying the steps in the nursing process.
Demonstrate nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing, utilizing the nursing process.
Perform nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
Discuss a process that demonstrates improved patient outcomes.
Compare effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
Review technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.
Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Teamwork and collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Quality improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 80
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80
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