Holistic Adult Care Advanced Concepts

General

Prefix

NURS

Course Number

401

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Health and Wellness Professions

Description

Collaborative role of the nurse in holistic nursing care for individuals and families experiencing critical, chronic, and/or terminal illness. Physical and psychological support to clients and families coping with loss, death, and chronic pain. Quality of life issues and the meaning of chronicity.

Prerequisites

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Integrate theory and research-based knowledge from the arts, sciences, humanities, informatics, and genetics into professional nursing practice to design nursing systems for clients experiencing disharmony of a critical, chronic and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Discuss how nurses practice in a culturally diverse, rapidly changing, global society, and provide high quality and safe patient care to clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature through quality improvement.

Outcome

Utilize critical thinking in the development of holistic, evidenced-based plans that are culturally and ethnically sensitive and address the needs of the individuals, and families who are experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Integrate knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology to identify and plan care for clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Examine how health care policy, including financial and regulatory environments influences the delivery of high quality and safe patient-centered care for clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Describe how Interprofessional teams coordinate and communicate in the care of clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Identify how improvements in individual and population health through health promotion and disease prevention can be provided when caring for clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Outcome

Identify how professional values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice can be integrated into a personal philosophy of nursing practice with caring at the core when caring for clients experiencing alterations of a critical, chronic, and/or terminal nature.

Dependencies

Courses

NURS401 is a prerequisite for:

Programs

NURS401 is a completion requirement for: