Nursing 201 is a nursing theory course where student continue to explore complex alteration in health across the lifespan in the context of holistic assessment and care management, pharmacology, evidence based clinical decision making, concepts of caring, safety, patient teaching, collaboration, therapeutic communication, and professionalism. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Prerequisites
Nursing Program Admittance
Course Outcomes
- Analyze relevant and abnormal data in the assessment of normal and high risk obstetric patient, the normal newborn and acutely ill adult clients.
- Apply evidence based information to make clinical judgments for the normal and the high risk obstetric client, as well as acutely ill adult clients.
- Apply concepts of caring to clients with acute alterations in health and obstetric clients, and adapt care to in consideration of the client’s values, customs, culture, and/or habits.
- Correlate and analyze the performance of safe nursing care with desired physiologic and psychologic outcomes for clients in obstetric and acute care settings.
- Identify components of patient teaching in the context of chronic and acute illness, as well as the obstetric client.
- Apply the nursing process in the context of acute illness and the obstetric client.
- Apply principles of collaborative decision making in the context of acute illness, as well as the obstetric client.
- Identify appropriate communication to achieve positive client outcomes in the context in the context of acute illness, as well as the obstetric client.
- Identify ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards and scope of nursing practice in the context of acute illness as well as the obstetric client.