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Foundations of Nursing Care
Syllabus
Organization / KCTCS - Madisonville Community College
Course Prefix, Number, Section, PS Class # / NIP 110
Section #: 81W1, 81L1, 81W2, 81L2, 81W3, 81L3, 81W4, 81L4, 81W5, 81L5, 81W6, 81L6, 81W7, 81L7, 81W8, 81L8
Class #: 37336, 37364, 37367, 37375, 37484, 37495, 37498, 37502, 37506, 37549, 37621, 37623, 37624, 37625, 37626, 37627
Credits / 4
Credit Hours / 4
Instructors:
Each instructor will have office hours posted on their doors at the beginning of the semester. / Shannon Allen / 147 / 824-1785 /
Beth Almes / 146 / 824-1786 /
Leah Atcher / 136
Part-time faculty TBA
Michele Quisenberry
Kay Vespie / 133 / 824-1799 /
Robyn Whitehair / 125 / 824-1800 /
Marsha Woodall / 148 / 824-1802 /
Campus / Health Campus
Address / 750 North Laffoon Drive
City/State/Zip / Madisonville Community College
Beginning Date / 08/13/2007
Meeting Times/Location / Monday: Lecture (8:00 - 11:00) Lab for groups 1,2,3 & 4 (1:00 - 4:00)
Tuesday: Lecture (8:00 - 11:00) Lab for groups 5,6,7 & 8 (1:00 - 4:00)
Wednesday: Lab for groups 1,2,3 & 4 (8:00 - 11:00)
Thursday: Tuesday: Lecture (8:00 - 11:00) Lab for groups 5,6,7 & 8 (1:00 - 4:00)
Friday: Lab for groups 1,2,3 & 4 (8:00 - 11:00) Lab for groups 5,6,7 & 8 (1:00 - 4:00)
Official Course Description
Focuses on basic nursing concepts that the beginning nurse will need to provide care to diverse client populations. Current and historical issues impacting nursing will be explored within the scope of nursing practice. The nursing process will be introduced as a framework for organizing the care of clients with alterations in basic human needs. Emphasizes performing basic nursing skills, health promotion activities, the formation of nurse-client relationships, communications, data collection, documentation, and medication administration. The focus is on the integration of knowledge, skills acquisition and critical thinking in the provision of prudent health care delivery.
Admission to the Nursing Program
Successful completion of a Medicaid Nurse Aide equivalent course or proof of active status on the Medicaid Nurse Aide Registry
Completion, with a grade of "C" or better, of BIO135, PSY100/PY110, COM181/COM252 and ENG101
Students must have Basic Life Support certification, current liability insurance coverage and current immunizations for the duration of the course.
A current membership in the Madisonville Community College Kentucky Association of Nursing Students (KANS) organization or Kentucky Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (KSALPN) student organization is required.
COREQUISITES: NIP 115, AHS 100, FHM 100
Required Text
Potter - Perry.Basic Nursing Essentials for Practice.Mosby.2007.Edition: 6th.Unit Price: 124.55.Pages: 400.ISBN: 978-0-323-03937-6.
Potter & Perry.Virtual Clinical Excursions for Basic Nursing Essentials for Practice.Mosby.2007.Edition: 6th.ISBN: 0-323-04616-9.
Potter & Perry; Castaldi.Basic Nursing Essentials for Practice Study Guide - Potter & Perry.Mosby.2007.Edition: 6th.Pages: 429.ISBN: 978032304121-8.
Doenges, Moorhouse & Murr.Nurse's Pocket guide Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions & Rationale.Davis.Edition: 10th.
Pagana & Pagana, Mosby.Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests.Mosby.
Skyscape.Nursing Constellation package for PDA.Unit Price: 124.20.
Jarvis.Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment.Mosby.Unit Price: 41.85.ISBN: 0-7216-9774-7.
PDA.Palm.Unit Price: 349.98.
Learner Supplies
1st semester Nursing Lab Pack.
PDA as indicated under required texts.
Bandage Scissors.
Stethoscope.
Wristwatch with a second hand.
Black Ink Pen.
General Education Competencies
A. / Communicate Effectively
Read and listen with comprehension. - "The student will: Demonstrate learned knowledge by successfully performing a physical assessment."
Interact cooperatively with others using both verbal and non-verbal means. "The student will a. Communicate effectively with health care personnel. b. Identify and utilize therapeutic communication in the clinical setting."
Demonstrate information processing through basic computer skills. "The student will a. Complete online testing as assigned."
B. / Think Critically
Make connections in learning across the disciplines and draw logical conclusions.
Demonstrate problem solving through interpreting, analyzing, summarizing, and/or integrating a variety of materials. - Utilize the nursing process in development of a client plan of care.
Use mathematics to organize, analyze, and synthesize data. - Calculate medication dosages as required in the clinical setting.
C. / Learn Independently
Use appropriate search strategies and resources to find, evaluate, and use information. - Utilize appropriate resources to find evidence-based information in preparation for client care experiences.
Make choices based upon awareness of ethics and differing perspectives/ideas. - Anticipate the effects of cultural characteristics on the successful delivery of health care.
Apply learning in academic, personal, and public situations. - Demonstrate knowledge through safe performance of client care.
Program Outcomes
A. / Utilize the nursing process incorporating Neuman's System's Model and Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a basis for clinical decision-making in providing client, family and community care;
B. / Utilize individual plans of care focusing on services and activities that promote independence, maintain, or restore health and/or support a peaceful death;
C. / Demonstrate competency in the performance of all essential nursing skills as identified by the Associate Degree Nursing Faculty;
D. / Provide evidence-based clinically competent care with evidence of caring behaviors;
E. / Collaborate through effective therapeutic communication with the client, family, significant others and members of the health care team in the management of care;
F. / Establish priorities and organize nursing care in a timely, efficient and cost effective manner with the utilization of delegation to all members of the health care team;
G. / Serve as a client advocate and demonstrate respect for individual diversity;
H. / Assume responsibility for professional development;
I. / Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing, and;
J. / Use teaching/learning processes to facilitate clients informed decision-making to achieve positive outcomes and support functional patterns.
K. / Uses the human caring phenomena and the nursing process in providing nursing care.
L. / Assumes the role of a competent, caring practical nurse in a variety of health care settings under the direction or supervision or a registered nurse, licensed physician, or dentist.
M. / Demonstrates accountability of practice with adherence to ethical and legal standards of the profession.
N. / Communicates effectively with all members of the health care team.
O. / Demonstrates self-direction and responsibility for maintaining nursing competence by pursuing personal and professional development.
External Standards
PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORS
1. Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards of professional nursing practice.
2. Report unsafe practices of healthcare providers using appropriate channels of communication.
3. Demonstrate accountability for nursing care given by self and/or delegated to others.
4. Use standards of nursing practice to perform and evaluate client care.
5. Advocate for client rights.
6. Maintain organizational and client confidentiality.
7. Practice within the parameters of individual knowledge and experience.
8. Describe political processes as they affect agency specific healthcare.
9. Participate as a member of professional organizations.
10. Serve as a positive role model within healthcare settings and the community at large.
11. Recognize the impact of economic, political, social, and demographic forces on the delivery of healthcare.
12. Participate in lifelong learning.
13. Develop and implement a plan to meet self learning needs.
14. Delineate and maintain appropriate professional boundaries in the nursing relationship.
COMMUNICATION
1. Utilize therapeutic communication skills when interacting with clients and significant support person(s).
2. Communicate relevant, accurate, and complete information in a concise and clear manner.
3. Report and document assessments, interventions, and progress toward client outcomes.
4. Protect confidential information.
5. Utilize information technology to support and communicate the planning and provision of client care.
ASSESSMENT
1. Assess the interaction patterns of the individual client or significant support person(s).
2. Assess the impact of development, emotional, cultural, religious, and spiritual influences on the client's health status.
3. Assess the client's health status by completing health history and performing a physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and functional assessment.
4. Assess client and significant support person(s) for learning, strengths, capabilities, barriers, and educational needs.
5. Assess the client's response to actual or potential health problems.
6. Assess the client's response to interventions.
7. Assess the client for changes in health status and identified needs.
8. Assess the client's ability to access available community resources.
9. Assess the environment for facts that may impact the client's health status.
10. Assess the strengths, resources, and needs of clients within the context of their community.
CLINICAL DECISION MAKING
1. Make clinical judgments and management decision to ensure accurate and safe care.
2. Analyze and utilize assessment and reassessment data to plan care.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of care provided in meeting client outcomes.
4. Modify client care as indicated by the evaluation of outcomes.
5. Participate in problem identification and data collection for research, quality continuous improvement processes to meet client outcomes.
6. Use evidence-based information, collected electronically or through other means to support clinical decision making.
CARING INTERVENTIONS
1. Protect and promote the client's dignity.
2. Identify and honor the emotional, cultural, religious, and spiritual influences on a client's health.
3. Demonstrate caring behavior towards the client, significant support person(s), and other members of the healthcare team.
4. Provide accurate and safe nursing care in diverse settings.
5. Implement the prescribed care regimen within the legal, ethical, and regulatory framework of nursing practice.
6. Perform nursing skills competently.
7. Provide a safe physical and psychosocial environment for the client.
8. Assist the client and significant support person(s) to cope with and adapt to stressful events and changes in health status.
9. Assist the client to achieve optimum comfort and functioning.
10. Prepare the client and significant support person(s) for intervention, treatment modalities, and self-care.
11. Support the client and significant support person(s) when making healthcare and end-of-life decisions.
12. Adapt care in consideration of the client's values, customs, culture, and/or habits.
TEACHING AND LEARNING
1. Develop an individualized teaching plan based on assessed needs.
2. Provide the client and significant support person(s) with the information to make choices regarding health.
3. Teach the client and significant support person(s) the information and skills needed to achieve desired learning outcomes.
4. Evaluate the progress of the client and significant support person(s) toward achievement of identified learning outcomes.
5. Modify the teaching plan based on evaluation of progress toward meeting identified learning outcomes.
6. Provide assistive personnel with relevant instruction to support achievement of client outcomes.
COLLABORATION
1. Coordinate the decision making process with the client, significant support person(s), and other members of the healthcare team.
2. Work cooperatively with others to achieve client and organizational outcomes.
3. Collaborate with the client, significant support person(s), and other members of the healthcare team to evaluate progress toward achievement of outcomes.
4. Interact creatively and openly with others to solve problems to achieve client goals and outcomes.
5. Collaborate to bring about fair solutions that balance differing needs, values, and motivations for the purpose of achieving positive client outcomes.
Course Competencies
1. / Identify the Newman Systems Model and the Maslow Hierarchy, at a beginning level, the nursing process/critical thinking as a basis for decision making in providing care for the client across the lifespan. (KCTCS)
Linked General Education Competencies
Learn Independently
Linked Program Outcomes
Assume responsibility for professional development;
Utilize the nursing process incorporating Neuman's System's Model and Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a basis for clinical decision-making in providing client, family and community care;
Collaborate through effective therapeutic communication with the client, family, significant others and members of the health care team in the management of care;
Uses the human caring phenomena and the nursing process in providing nursing care.
Linked External Standards
1. Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards of professional nursing practice.
4. Use standards of nursing practice to perform and evaluate client care.
Course Objectives
a.Discuss the health belief, health promotion and holistic health models of health and illness.
b.Discuss the meaning of determinants of health status.
c.Describe the variable influencing health beliefs and health practices.
d.Describe health promotion and illness prevention activities as it relates to the Newman Systems Model.
e.Discuss the three levels of prevention.
f.Discuss four types of risk factors and the process of risk factor modification.
g.Describe the variables influencing illness behavior.
h.Define Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
i.Discuss the nurse's role in health and illness.
j.Explain the relationship between levels of care and levels of prevention.
k.Discuss the role of the nurse in community-based practice.
l.Explain the characteristics of patients from vulnerable populations that influence a nurse's approach to care.
2. / Identify professional, legal, and ethical behaviors as identified by the standards of nursing practice. (KCTCS)
Linked General Education Competencies
Think Critically
Linked Program Outcomes
Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing, and;
Establish priorities and organize nursing care in a timely, efficient and cost effective manner with the utilization of delegation to all members of the health care team;
Assume responsibility for professional development;
Linked External Standards
1. Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards of professional nursing practice.
Course Objectives
a.Describe the legal obligations and role of nurses regarding federal and state laws that affect
b.Explain the legal concepts of standard of care and informed consent.
c.List sources for standards of care for nurses.
d.Explain the concept of negligence and identify the elements of professional negligence.
e.Identify nursing interventions to improve patient safety.
f.Explain the importance of accountability and responsibility in nursing practice.
g.Discuss patient advocacy.
h.Describe the role of ethics in nursing practice.
i.Explain a process used to analyze an ethical dilemma.
j.Describe ethical conflicts nurses experience in different clinical settings.
3. / Discuss the nurse's legal responsibilities in medication preparation and administration. (MCC)
Linked External Standards