Department: Health & Public Service

Discipline: Nursing

Subject Code: NURSCourse #: 151

Course Title: Holistic Health Concepts for Nursing Practice II

HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FORM 335

Course Form 335 must be updated at least every five years per AP 765 to include, at a minimum, the following elements. [§335.2]

  1. Digital Description (Insert new/revised digital description below):

Credit hours:4.5

Lecture hours: 3.0

Lab hours:4.5

Approved Online/Blended Face-to-Face Instruction Ratios:

[__] 25/75% [__] 33/67% [__] 50/50% [__] 67/33% [__] 75/25%

(Note: The first number indicates the percentage of online instruction. The second number indicates the percentage of in-class instruction.)

  1. Maximum Enrollment (Insert new/revised maximum enrollments below):

In-Class Instruction: 45

Lab Instruction:

(It is assumed that maximum enrollments for blended courses are the same as those identified for In-Class instruction. Maximum enrollments for Virtual Learning courses are to be 75% of In-Class instruction, as per the SGP on Maximum Class Size)

  1. Catalog Description(Insert new/revised description below):

Addresses safe nursing care for the adult patient and their families. This course is designed to develop the concepts of accountability, acid-base balance, advocacy, caring behaviors, clinical decision making, collaboration, communication, culture, diversity, elimination, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, fluid and electrolytes, grief and loss, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, immunity, inflammation, intracranial regulation, mobility, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, safety, sexuality, spirituality, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, and time management/organization. Special consideration is placed upon events that are common in the normal life cycle. In addition, this course uses theory and guided clinical experiences to allow students to focus on meeting basic human needs while providing safe nursing care for diverse individuals and families. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AA program. A course fee is required.

Minimum Grade Required

  1. Prerequisites: NURS 150, BIOL 122, ENGL 101, PSYC 101C

Corequisites:BIOL 221, SOCI 201, PSYC 209C

Other: Permission of the Nursing Faculty.

  1. Learning Outcomes

[These outcomes are necessary to enable students to attain the essential

knowledge and skills embodied in the program’s educational objectives.]

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

Professionalism

  • Demonstrate interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Provide safe, clinically competent care to diverse patient populations

Communication

  • Demonstrate the importance of effective communication when interacting with diverse individuals and families

Critical Thinking

  • Demonstrate clinical problem solving when developing a plan of care for individuals and families
  • Use the nursing process to meet basic human needs while providing safe, holistic nursing care for diverse individuals and families

Caring

  • Use the nursing process to meet basic human needs
  • Provide safe holistic nursing care for diverse individuals
  1. Planned Sequence of Instruction

[These must be designed to help students achieve the learning outcomes.]

-Accountability

  • Competence
  • Professional Development

-Acid Base

  • Acid-Base Balance

-Advocacy

  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Patient Rights

-Caring

  • Caring Behaviors
  • Assistive Devices
  • Nasogastric Insertion
  • Ostomy Care

-Clinical Decision Making

  • Critical Thinking
  • Decision Making
  • Nursing Process
  • Problem Solving

-Collaboration

  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Interdisciplinary Teams

-Communication

  • Therapeutic Communication

-Culture

  • Cultural Awareness
  • Religion
  • Stereotyping
  • Values and Beliefs

-Diversity

  • Abilities
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Individual Life Experience
  • Race
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Vulnerable Populations

-Elimination

  • Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
  • Kidney Stones

-Ethics

  • Ethical Principles
  • Patient Rights

-Evidence-Based Practice

  • Best Practices
  • Personal Preferences
  • Patient-Care Guidelines

-Family

  • Community Support
  • Family-Centered Care
  • Family Dynamics
  • Family Response to Health Alterations
  • Family Response to Health Promotion
  • Family Structure and Roles
  • Needs of Veterans and Families

-Fluid and Electrolytes

  • Acute Renal Failure
  • Chronic Renal Failure

-Grief and Loss

  • Situational Loss

-Health care systems

  • Access to Health Care

-Health Policy

  • Healthy People 2020

-Health, Wellness and Illness

  • Consumer Education
  • Focus on Family and Community Health, Wellness, and Illness
  • Screening
  • Immunization
  • Nutrition
  • Life Style Choices
  • Self Management
  • Alternative Therapies

-Illness

  • Health Illness Continuum
  • Psychological Response to Illness

-Immunity

  • Lupus
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Transplant Rejection

-Inflammation

  • Nephritis

-Intracranial Regulation

  • Seizures

-Mobility

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Fractures
  • Hip Fractures

-Perfusion

  • Angina
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Stroke

-Professional Behaviors

  • Accountability
  • Commitment to Profession
  • Professional Standards
  • RN Scope of Practice
  • Work Ethics

-Quality Improvement

  • Benchmarking
  • Reporting
  • Process Information Cycle: Plan-Do-Check-Act

-Safety

  • Anticipatory Guidance
  • Environmental Control/Safety
  • Illness/Injury Prevention
  • National Patient Safety Goals

-Sexuality

  • Menopause
  • Menstrual Dysfunction
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

-Spirituality

  • Higher Consciousness
  • Morality
  • Religion
  • Spiritual Distress
  • Spiritual Ethical Caring
  • Spiritual Health
  • Spiritual Well-Being
  • Spirituality

-Teaching and Learning

  • Consumer Education/Prevention
  • Patient Education/Teaching

-Time Management/Organization

  • Care Coordination
  • Prioritizing Care
  1. Assessment of Student Learning

[Methods of assessment should be appropriate for Learning Outcomes listed above.]

  • Assignments
  • Quizzes
  • Examinations

Assessment of student learning outcomes for the course, as required by AP 765, is part of regular curriculum maintenance and/or improvement. The specific plan has been determined by the pertinent faculty involved and is maintained in the College’s assessment management system.

  1. List of Texts, References, Selected Library Resources or other Learning Materials (code each item based on instructional use): C-Lecture/Laboratory, A-Lecture, B-Laboratory, LC-Lecture/Clinical, CLN-Clinical, I-Online,

BL-Blended, D-Independent Study, P-Private Lessons, E-Internship,

F-Cooperative Work-Study, FE-Field Experience. [These resources must be easily accessible to students.]

LC-ATI Learning Modules, Kansas City: Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC

LC-Lippincott Nursing Concepts, Philadelphia

LC- Karch, A. (2013). Focus on nursing pharmacology, 7th ed. Philadelphia: LWW. ISBN: 978-1-4511-2834-5

LC-Marquis, B. & Huston, C. (2012). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application. Philadelphia: LWW. ISBN: 978-1-60831-685-4

LC-Stedman. (2011). Stedmans medical dictionary for the health professions and

nursing, 7th ed. Philadelphia: LWW. ISBN: 978-1-60831-692-2

LC- Pellico, L. (2013). Focus on adult health medical surgical nursing. Philadelphia: LWW. ISBN: 978-1-58255-877-6

  1. Prepared by Faculty Member: Cynthia L. Donell Date: 8/21/12
  1. Approved by Department Chairperson: Ronald E. Rebuck Date: 9/21/12
  1. Approved by Academic Division Dean: Lori A. Fair Date: 11/7/12

This course meets all reimbursement requirements of Chapter 335, subchapters A / B.

This course was developed, approved, and offered in accordance with the policies, standards, guidelines, and practices established by the College. It is consistent with the college mission.

If the course described here is a transfer course, it is comparable to similar courses generally accepted for transfer to accredited four-year colleges and universities.

  1. Director, Curriculum Compliance: Erika SteenlandDate: 11/13/12
  1. Provost & VP, Academic Affairs: James E. Baxter, P.G. Date: 11/15/12
  1. Original Date of course approval by the college:
  1. Date(s) of subsequent reviews [Indicate change: Learning Outcomes; textbook(s)]:

06/02/15 – Added new blended ratio format & approved maximum enrollment number - nb

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12/1/04

Form Template Reviewed & Updated: 10/26/07; 1/11/08; 1/16/09; 7/14/09; 7/31/12