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
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prerequisite
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Programs
NURS401
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completion requirement
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