Heritage High School

Nursing Education Syllabus

Spring 2017

Week / Unit of Study / Assignments/Activities
1 / Chapter 2: The Nursing Assistant and Care Team (st. 1.i) (NE2)
Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical(7.iii,iv,v,vi)
Chapter 4: Communication and Cultural Diversity (NE8)
Chapter 5: Preventing Infection (st.1.ii)
Chapter 9: The Healthy Human Body (observing and reporting) (NE 15)
Chapter 24: Caring for Your Career and Yourself / Beginning paperwork
PLP set up
Job duties of a CNA (NE 2)
Conflict resolution, appropriate response to criticism, stress management (NE 1)
Patient Rights and Responsibilities (st. 1.iv, 1.v, 4iv, 7ii, 7v) (NE 3 & 4)
State website abuse video and abuse prevention (st. vi) (NE 6)
Hospital education modules: safety, infection control (NE 10&11), age specific care, diversity, patient rights and confidentiality (st. 7.1), national safety goals
Observing and reporting (6.2.iv) (NE 9)
Communication (NE 8)
Skills: hand washing, isolation gown and gloves
2 / Ch. 6: Safety and Body Mechanics (NE 13)
Ch. 7: Emergency Care and Disaster Preparation (NE 12, 14) / PLP
Body position, transfers, positions, turns lab (st. 6.3viii,6iv)
Abdominal thrust
Restraint alternatives , avoiding restraints (st. 7.vi) and promotion of resident independence (st. 7.ii) (NE 7)
Gait belt procedures
Skills: ambulation with a gait belt, ambulation with a walker, positioning a resident on side(st. 6.3viii)
3 / Ch. 8: Rehabilitative and Restorative Care (st. 6.6.iii,iv,vi) (NE 22)
Ch. 12: The Resident Unit (st. 6.2.iii)
Ch. 13: Personal Care Skills (st. 6.3i,ii,iii, vii) (NE 17,18,19) / PLP
Skills: ROM hip and knee, ROM shoulder(6.6.iii), stand, pivot and transfer, making and occupied bed and unoccupied bed, partial bed bath, backrub, hair care, nail care, dressing a resident, Oxygen therapy
4 / Ch. 15: Nutrition and Hydration (NE 21)
Ch. 16: Urinary Elimination (NE 20)
Ch. 18: Bowel Elimination / PLP
Intake and Output
Bowel and bladder training st.6.6.v)
Bedpans and briefs
Skills: catheter care, emptying a urinary drainage bag, perineal care for a female, bedpan with output, denture care, feeding the dependent resident, mouth care (alert and comatose), weighing an ambulatory resident and obtaining height (st . 6.2.ii)
5 / Ch. 14: Basic Nursing Skills (NE 16)
Ch. 23: Dying, Death and Hospice / Bellringer: vitals labs (st.6.2.i)
PLP
Occupational Therapy: assistive devices (st. 6i, 6ii), ADL assist (st. 6.1), prosthetic and orthotic devices (st. 6vi)
End of life care (st. 6.2.v), Advance Directives
Skills: vitals (temperature- oral and axillary, pulse, respiration)
6 / Ch. 19: Confusion, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (st. 6.5.i-v and 6.4. i,iii,iv,v) (NE 23,24,25,26) / PLP (NE24)
Communication and interpersonal skills
Techniques for understanding behavior and addressing behavior
Interventions for difficult behavior
7 / (T-F) Asbury Clinicals
(Monday no school) / General Patient Care Skills
PLP
8 / (M-TH)
Ch.8: Human needs and development (st.6.4.ii) / PLP
Patient Care Skills
Aging myths and developmental tasks
9 / (M-TH)
Ch. 18: Common Chronic and Acute Conditions / PLP
Patient Care Skills
Senior Project Introduction
10 / (M-TH)
Continue Ch. 18 / PLP
Patient Care Skills
Senior Project- Must have patient data to begin organization
11 / Spring Break
12 / Tu-Th- clinical sites
M and F: classroom
Chapter 20: Mental Health and Mental Illness / PLP
Patient Care Skills
Understanding Mental Illness
Communication techniques
Observing and reporting
13 / (Tu-Th) clinical sites
M and F: classroom / PLP
Patient Care Skills
Skills Practice
14 / (Tu-Th) clinical sites
M and F: classroom / PLP
Patient Care Skills
15 / (Tu-Th) clinical sites
M and F: classroom / PLP
Job shadowing
16 / Monday and Friday : Classroom
Tuesday-Thursday: Clinical Sites / PLP
Job shadowing
Skills practice
17 / Monday and Tuesday classroom
Thanksgiving Break (Nov 23-25) / Skills practice
18 / Classroom: Test Prep / PLP
Skills
Written practice
Mock testing
19 / Classroom / Complete PLP and submit
Senior Projects
Pinning ceremony preparation- ppt, music, speaker
Wrap up visits to clinical sites (thank you notes)
Pay it forward project