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Communication; Infection Prevention and Control; Vital Signs; Pain Management |
Communication
- Describe the impact of communication on the helping relationship between nurse and patient.
- Identify examples of therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication in the following situations:
- Establishing trust
- Demonstrating caring
- Encouraging open communication
- Enhancing understanding
- Reducing stress
- Reinforcing patient focus
- Impact Health Formulate appropriate nursing diagnoses for patients with communication difficulties.
- Demonstrate strategies for communicating with patients with communication difficulties, including older adults.
- Role-play therapeutic communication.
- Recognize aspects of professional communication.
- Describe qualities, behaviors, and communication techniques that affect professional communication
- Role-play professional communication.
Infection Prevention and Control
- Give an example of preventing infection for each element of the infection chain.
- Identify the body’s normal defenses against infection.
- Identify patients most at risk for infection.
- Explain conditions that promote the transmission of healthcare-associated infection.
- Compare and contrast signs and symptoms of local and systemic infections.
- Explain the difference between medical and surgical asepsis.
- Explain the rationale for standard precautions.
- Explain how infection and control interventions may differ in the home versus the hospital.
- Explain procedures for each isolation category.
- Compare and contrast the signs and symptoms of a localized versus systemic infection.
- Explain the definition of occupational exposure and the post-exposure process.
Vital Signs
- Explain the physiology of normal regulation of temperature, blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation, and respirations.
- Describe factors that cause variations in body temperature, pulse, oxygen saturation, respirations, and blood pressure.
- Identify ranges of acceptable vital sign values for an infant, a child, and an adult.
- Identify when to take vital signs.
- Explain variations in technique used to assess the vital signs of an infant, a child, and an adult.
Pain Management
- Outline the physiology of pain.
- Identify components of the pain experience.
- Discuss the common misconceptions about pain.
- Explain how the physiology of pain relates to selecting interventions for pain relief.
- Identify the elements of a pain assessment.
- Explain how cultural factors may influence the pain experience.
- Recall guidelines for selecting and individualizing pain interventions.
- Describe various pharmacological approaches to treating pain.
- Discuss nursing implications for administering analgesics.
- Describe the use of non-pharmacological pain interventions.
- Summarize therapeutic communication as it relates to the patient in pain.
- Identify barriers to effective pain management.
- Predict learning needs of patients in pain.
- Choose teaching strategies appropriate for the patient in pain.
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Reading
- Review course syllabus and WCU RN Student Handbook
- TFundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 8 Communication
- Ch. 24 Asepsis and Infection Control
- Ch. 25 Vital Signs
- Ch. 35 Comfort and Pain Management
Content Outline
- Therapeutic communication
- Professional communication & documentation
- Infection prevention and control
Specific Course Activities
- Role play therapeutic & professional communication (iSBAR).
- Practice using alternate methods of communication (gestures, signals, lip reading, communication board, interpreter board, etc.).
- Practice CDC approved “cough etiquette” or create a CDC “cough etiquette” skit (song, dance, poem, public service announcement, dramatization, etc.).
- View ATI Medical Surgical Review Module Media Index: Pain Management.
- Discuss 5 NCLEX style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System.
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module
- Ch. 10 Medical Surgical Asepsis
- Ch. 11 Infection Control
- Ch. 27 Vital Signs
- Ch. 32 Therapeutic Communication
- Ch. 41 Pain Management
- Ch. 56 Bacterial, Viral, Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Assignments
- ATI Achieve Modules
- Test Taking Skills
- Study Skills
- Classroom Skills
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Health Assessment; Mobility and Immobility; Safety; Hygiene |
Health Assessment and Physical Exam
- Identify data to collect from the nursing history before an examination.
- Describe interview techniques used to enhance communication during history taking.
- Discuss the purposes of physical assessment.
- List techniques for preparing a patient physically and psychologically before and during an examination.
- Describe ways to use physical assessment skills during routine nursing care.
- Discuss ways to incorporate health promotion and health teaching into the examination.
- Discuss normal physical findings in a young, middle-aged, and older adult.
- Identify preventive screenings and the appropriate age(s) for each screening to occur.
Mobility and Immobility
- Outline the functions of the musculoskeletal and nervous system in the regulation of movement.
- Summarize physiological and pathological influences on body alignment and joint mobility.
- Identify changes in physiological and psychosocial functioning associated with mobility and immobility.
- List elements of an assessment of body alignment and mobility.
- Formulate appropriate nursing diagnoses for patients with impaired mobility.
- Compare and contrast active and passive range of motion exercises.
- Discuss the importance of no-lift policies for the patient and healthcare provider.
- Describe equipment needed for safe patient transfer and movement.
- Identify criteria for the evaluation of nursing care for maintaining body alignment and mobility.
Patient Safety
- Recognize safety hazards for patients with difficulty with mobility and activity.
- Discuss the nurse’s role in protecting the safety of patients with difficulty with mobility and activity.
- Identify nursing strategies to prevent injury to patients with mobility and activity difficulties.
- Outline key teaching patients for patients at risk for injury related to mobility and activity difficulties.
Hygiene
- Describe factors that influence personal hygiene practices.
- Discuss the implications of inadequate hygiene practices.
- List common hair and scalp problems and their related interventions.
- Describe how hygiene care for the older adult, younger patient, and impaired patient differ.
- Discuss different approaches used in maintaining a patient’s comfort and safety during hygiene care.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 27 Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness
- Ch. 26 Health Assessment
- Ch. 31 Hygiene
Content Outline
- Physical assessment
- Mobility and immobility
- Patient safety
- Hygiene
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System RN
- Fundamentals 1 Practice test
- View ATI Skills Module Physical Assessment Adult Step By Step Viewing and Complete Practice Challenge 1
- Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with mobility alterations, including safety measures and anticipated teaching needed. Active Learning Templates (30 minutes)
- Break into groups based on body system
- Using the Basic Concept template, identify how immobility impacts each body system
- Present to class
- Review ATI Skills Module Personal Hygiene Practice Challenges
- View ATI Fundamentals Review Module Media Index: Delegation
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 12 Client Safety
- Ch. 14 Ergonomic Principles
- Ch. 26 Health Assessment, Data Collection, & General Survey
- Ch. 28 Head & Neck
- Ch. 29 Thorax, Heart, & Abdomen
- Ch. 30 Integumentary & Peripheral Vascular Systems
- Ch. 31 Musculoskeletal & Neurosensory Systems
- Ch. 37 Hygiene
- Ch. 40 Mobility & Immobility
Assignments
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Activity and Exercise; Sensory Alteration; Patient Safety; Sleep |
Activity and Exercise
- Summarize the role of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems in the regulation of movement.
- Explain physiological and pathological influences on body alignment and joint mobility.
- Discuss how exercise and activity benefit physiological and psychological functioning.
- State the effects of exercise on health promotion.
- Identify factors to consider when planning an exercise program for patients across the life span with specific chronic illnesses.
- Describe how to assess patients for impaired mobility and activity intolerance.
- Formulate appropriate nursing diagnoses for a patient with activity or exercise intolerances.
- Choose interventions to maintain or improve activity tolerance and mobility for a variety of patient situations.
Sensory Alteration
- Differentiate between the processes of reception, perception, and reaction to sensory stimuli.
- Explain the relationship of sensory function to an individual’s level of wellness.
- Identify common causes and effects of sensory alterations.
- Describe common sensory changes that normally occur with aging.
- Select factors to assess when determining a patient’s sensory status.
- Develop nursing diagnoses relevant to patient with sensory alterations.
- Determine interventions for preventing sensory deprivation and controlling sensory overload.
- Recognize conditions in the healthcare agency or patient’s home that you can adjust to promote meaningful sensory stimulation.
Patient Safety
- Recognize safety hazards for patients with sensory alterations.
- Discuss the nurse’s role in protecting patient safety.
- Identify nursing strategies to prevent injury to patients with sensory alterations.
- Outline key teaching elements for patients at risk for injury related to sensory alterations.
Sleep
- Explain the effect that the 24-hour sleep-wake cycle has on biological function.
- Describe mechanisms that regulate sleep, the stages of sleep, and the normal sleep cycle.
- Explain the functions of sleep.
- Compare and contrast the sleep requirements of different age groups.
- Identify factors that normally promote and disrupt sleep.
- Discuss characteristics of common sleep disorders.
- Conduct a sleep history for a patient.
- Identify nursing diagnoses appropriate for patients with sleep alterations.
- Identify nursing interventions designed to promote normal sleep cycles for patients of all ages.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 33 Activity
- Ch. 34 Rest and Sleep
- Ch. 44 Sensory Functioning
Content Outline
- Activity and exercise
- Sensory alteration
- Patient safety
- Sleep
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning
- System RN Fundamentals 1 Practice test.
- Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with activity deficits or sensory alterations, including safety measures andanticipated teaching needed.
- Sensory alteration simulation
(Cotton balls, glasses, gloves: Try to carry out a task such as being fed, having VS taken, learning a new skill, playing a game of checkers, etc.)
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 26 Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness
- Ch. 38 Rest & Sleep
- Ch. 45 Sensory Perception
Assignments
- ATI Learning System RN Quiz
- Communication Practice Quiz
- ATI Simulator Case 1
- The Communicator- Client Discharge
- Assessment 2
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Wound Care; Bowel Elimination |
Wound Care
- Summarize the normal process of wound healing.
- Compare and contrast wounds healing by primary and secondary intention.
- Describe factors that impede and promote wound healing and their impact on health.
- Explain potential complications of wound healing.
- Differentiate between pressure ulcer and excoriation.
- Identify different pressure ulcers using the staging system.
- Recognize risk factors for pressure ulcers and associated preventative measures.
- Develop nursing diagnoses for patients with impaired tissue integrity.
- Describe nursing interventions for acute and chronic wounds.
- Design a teaching plan for a patient with actual or potential impaired tissue integrity.
- Develop evaluation criteria for patients with impaired skin integrity.
Bowel Elimination
- Summarize the role of gastrointestinal organs in digestion and elimination.
- State three main functions of the large intestine.
- Outline the physiological aspects of normal defecation.
- Describe characteristics of normal and abnormal feces.
- Identify psychological and physiological factors that influence the elimination process.
- Describe common physiological alterations in elimination.
- List criteria for the assessment of bowel elimination.
- Formulate nursing diagnoses related to alterations in elimination.
- Explain common diagnostic examinations of the gastrointestinal tract and the nurse’s role related to them.
- List nursing interventions that promote normal elimination; include bowel training.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 32 Skin Integrity and Wound Care
- Ch. 38 Bowel Elimination
- Wound care
- Bowel elimination
- Drug therapy for constipation
- Fiber supplements: psyllium (Metamucil)
- Stool softeners: docusate sodium (Colace), docusate sodium and senna (Peri-Colace)
- Stimulant laxatives: bisacodyl (Dulcolax)
- Drug therapy for diarrhea
- Opioids: diphenoxylate and atropine (Lomotil), loperamide (Imodium)
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System RN
- Fundamentals 1 Practice test
- Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with a wound, including anticipated teaching needed.
- Review ATI Real Life RN Medical Surgical (30–60 minutes)
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 55 Pressure Ulcers, Wounds, & Wound Management
- Ch. 43 Bowel Elimination
Assignments
- ATI Learning System RN Quiz
- Fundamentals 2 Practice Quiz
- Midterm Exam
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Medication Administration; Alternative Therapies |
Medical Administration
- Outline the physiological mechanisms of medication action: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of medications.
- Explain developmental factors that influence pharmacokinetics and their impact on medication administration.
- Compare and contrast the roles of prescriber, pharmacist, and nurse in medication administration.
- Describe how medication actions and side effects impact patient assessments prior to medication administration.
- Formulate nursing diagnoses pertinent to the patient receiving prescribed medication.
- Discuss factors that influence medication actions and nursing actions to address these.
- Identify factors influencing routes of medication administration.
- Describe nursing actions to prevent medication errors, including the six rights of medication administration
- Calculate prescribed medication doses accurately.
- Create a patient teaching plan about prescribed medications.
- Select evaluation criteria to assess a patient’s response to medications.
Alternative Therapies
- Differentiate between complementary and alternative therapies.
- Describe the clinical applications of alternative therapies.
- Describe the methods of and the psychophysiological responses to therapeutic touch.
- Describe safe and unsafe herbal therapies.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 28 Complementary and Integrative Health
- Ch. 29 Medication
Content Outline
- Medication administration
- Alternative therapies
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning
- System RN Fundamentals 1 Practice test.
- Students in groups use information in their drug guides to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient given a specific medication including anticipated teaching needed.
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 42 Complementary & Alternative Therapies
- Ch. 46 Pharmacokinetics & Routes of Administration
- Pharmacokinetics & Routes of Administration
- Ch. 47 Safe Medication Administration & Error Reduction
- Ch. 48 Dosage Calculation
- Ch. 50 Adverse Effects, Interactions, & Contraindications
- Ch. 51 Individual Considerations of Medication Administration
Assignments
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Nutrition |
Nutrition
- Explain the role of the nurse related to patient nutrition.
- Identify basic elements of a nutritional assessment.
- Calculate intake by calories, percentage eaten, and liquid volume correctly.
- Define the terms food allergy, food intolerance, and food preference.
- Discuss the components and proportions of a balanced diet.
- Describe common types of patient diets and their indications.
- Differentiate between thick liquid, full liquid, and clear liquid diets.
- Develop nursing diagnoses related to nutrition.
- Recognize factors that lead to inadequate nutritional intake.
- Describe nursing interventions to address patient nutritional problems.
Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Summarize the distribution, composition, movement, and regulation of body fluids, and major electrolytes;
- Outline the processes involved in acid-base balance.
- Identify factors that affect normal fluid and electrolyte balance.
- Describe common disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balances.
- List critical elements of a clinical assessment for determining fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Recall laboratory studies performed to identify fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Construct nursing diagnoses for the patient with fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Discuss nursing interventions for patients with fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Explain the purpose and procedure for initiating and maintaining intravenous fluid therapy.
- Calculate fluid intake correctly.
- Determine evaluation criteria for a patient receiving care for fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
Urinary Elimination
- Summarize the process of urination.
- Identify factors that commonly influence urinary elimination.
- List criteria for the assessment of urinary elimination.
- Explain the nursing implications of common diagnostic tests of the urinary system.
- State the characteristics of normal and abnormal urine.
- Recognize common alterations in urinary elimination.
- Develop nursing diagnoses appropriate for patients with alterations in urinary elimination.
- Describe nursing measures to promote normal micturition and reduce episodes of incontinence.
- Describe nursing measures to prevent urinary tract infection.
- Compare and contrast two modalities of renal replacement therapy.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 40 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
- Ch. 36 Nutrition
- Ch. 37 Urinary Elimination
Content Outline
- Nutrition and hydration
- Drug therapy for nausea
- Serotonin antagonists: ondansetron (Zofran)
- Dopamine antagonists: prochlorperazine (Compazine)
- Antihistamines: dimenhydrinate (Dramamine)
- Prokinetic: metoclopramide (Reglan)
- Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Bladder Elimination
- Drug therapy for urinary incontinence/overactive bladder
- Anticholinergics: oxybutynin chloride (Ditropan)
- Drug therapy for urinary retention
- Cholinergics: bethanechol (Urecholine)
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System RN
- Fundamentals 1 Practice test.
- Practice calculating intake by calories, percentage eaten, and liquid volume.
- Practice measuring and calculating output from the GI and urinary tracts.
Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with nutrition, hydration, or elimination alterations, including anticipated teaching needed.
- Review ATI The Communicator Technique Identifiers 1 & 2 (40 minutes)
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 39 Nutrition & Oral Hydration
- Ch. 44 Urinary Elimination
- Ch. 54 Nasogastric Intubation & Enteral Feedings
- Ch. 57 Fluid & Electrolyte Imbalances
Assignments
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Oxygenation |
- Outline the structure and function of the cardiopulmonary system.
- Explain the physiological processes of ventilation, respiration, and perfusion.
- Identify the clinical outcomes occurring as a result of hyperventilation, hypoventilation, hypoxemia, and altered cardiac output.
- Discuss the effect of a patient’s level of health, age, lifestyle, and environment on oxygenation and perfusion.
- Select nursing diagnoses for a patient with impaired oxygenation or perfusion.
- Describe the nursing care interventions to promote oxygenation in the primary care, acute care, and restorative and continuing care settings.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 39 Oxygenation and Perfusion
Content Outline
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System RN
- Fundamentals 1 Practice test
- Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with oxygenation issues, including anticipated teaching needed
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Review: Create a Focused Review based on the first attempt, and complete hours and assignments. Focused Review will be due in week 8.
Assignments
- Assessment 5
- ATI Practice Assessment
- RN Fundamentals Online Practice A
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Psychosocial Basis |
Psychosocial Basis
- Use a cultural assessment to identify significant values, beliefs, and practices of patients who are experiencing death, grief, and loss.
- Explain the concept of family as patient and how it affects nursing practice.
- Discuss the influence of spiritual practices on the health status of patients and nursing interventions designed to promote spiritual health.
- Outline individual coping strategies to deal with the stress response.
- Explain the nurse’s role in assisting patients to cope with stress.
- Identify characteristics of a person experiencing grief.
- Explain the nurse’s role when caring for patients who are experiencing loss, grief, or death.
- Describe interventions for symptom management in patients at the end of life.
- Identify ways to collaborate with family members and the interdisciplinary team to provide palliative care.
- Differentiate between palliative care and hospice care.
- Describe care of the body after death.
- Discuss the nurse’s own grief experience when caring for dying patients and nurse self-care in grief and loss.
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Reading
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Ch. 4 Health of the Individual, Family, and Community
- Ch. 5 Cultural Diversity
- Ch. 41 Self Concept
- Ch. 42 Stress and Adaptation
- Ch. 43 Loss, Grief, and Dying
- Ch. 46 Spirituality
Content Outline
- Psychosocial
- Culture
- Family
- Spiritual health
- Loss, death, and grief
- Stress and coping
Specific Course Activities
- Discuss 5 NCLEX-style test questions related to class content from ATI Learning System RN
- Fundamentals 1 Practice test.
- Students in groups use information in their books to present the application of the nursing process for a case study patient with psychosocial issues.
ATI
- ATI Fundamentals RN Review Module (Chapters in ATI Book) Electonic version located on the Learn Tab
- Ch. 33 Coping
- Ch. 35 Cultural & Spiritual Nursing Care
- Ch. 36 Grief, Loss, & Palliative Care
Assignments
- Assessment 6
- Focused Review Hours
- After ATI Practice Assessment
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