NSG 3110 - NURSING CARE OF ADULT CLIENTS

credits: 6.0
NOTE: BIO 3310 NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CONCURRENTLY WITH OR PRIOR TO TAKING NSG 3110. A clinical nursing course that focuses on the study of nursing as a process with the individual as a client. The use of systems theory and transitional process theory facilitates a view of the individual client interacting with family, social and health care systems. Additional concepts, theories and processes are selected from nursing, the humanities, and sciences to form a basis for nursing care. Basic concepts of medical-surgical nursing will be applied to adult clients drawn from several different levels on the health-illness continuum. Opportunity will be given through classroom and clinical experience for the expansion of knowledge of the transitional process, three levels of prevention, and the nursing process. Objectives: A) Apply appropriate theories and concepts from nursing and related fields as a basis for nursing practice relevant to the self and the individual systems in an acute health care setting; B) Utilize the nursing process to assess health status and to plan, prioritize, and implement activities for the preservation, restoration, and-or maintenance of optimum health for the individual client systems; C) Examine the position of young, middle-aged, and older adult individuals in acute care settings on the health-illness continuum; D) Implement activities that support constructive changes in methods of coping with actual or potential health problems based on relevant theories; E) Examine individual predisposition for various discontinuities as they relate to genetics and genetic markers; F) Analyze research, relevant to the care of the individual client system, as part of the nursing process; G) Identify the impact of internal and external discontinuities upon the individual adult system in meeting health care needs; H) Define and employ the leadership process within the framework of the nurse/client relationship; I) Identify needed changes in the health care of the individual client system through coordination with colleagues; J) Demonstrate ethical and legal accountability for the nursing care of adult clients; K) Demonstrate proficiency in skills necessary to provide nursing care for adult clients in an acute care setting. Method of Instruction: Teaching-learning strategies may include: interactive lecture, class discussion, case studies, written assignments, oral presentations, technological assisted learning with course base management system, You-Tube, and group work. Method of Evaluation: Examinations, presentation, service learning, laboratory, and clinical experiences.

Prerequisite(s): BIO 3310 NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CONCURRENTLY WITH OR PRIOR TO TAKING NSG 3110, additional prereqs. NSG 2640 - FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITY ANDSAFETY FOR NURSING PRACTICE and NSG 3115 - HEALTH ASSESSMENT OF CLIENTS ACROSSTHE LIFE SPAN