Overview
Description
Uses critical analyses and clinical reasoning in caring for diverse individuals with complex chronic disease. Focus on safety, especially during care transitions. Explores the nurse’s role on the interprofessional team.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to the Nursing Major
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Admission to the Nursing Major
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Restrictions
Admission to the Nursing Major
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze the relationship between illness chronicity and acute care to develop individualized plans of care.
- develop an individualized plan to provide continuity of safe care.
- evaluate client response to plan of care to guide future interventions and needs.
- describe disease progression to recognize potential complications.
- develop an individualized teaching plan that includes client and support systems to promote and manage current and future health.
- explain treatment strategies and symptom management for diverse chronically ill clients receiving palliative care to improve quality of life.
- adopt a supportive role in a client’s dying and death processes to help ensure a positive closure of life.
- develop professional nursing practice and self-advocacy strategies.