NURS 1210 - Adult Health I: ADN

• Student will be able to assess the physiological, psychosocial, and environmental factors that influence collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team, delegation of duties to delineate responsibility, establish priorities for care delivery.
• Student will be able to relate and interpret steps of the nursing process to facilitate the management of safe and effective care for the client.
• Student will be able to utilize legal/ethical principles in nursing practice.
• Student will be able to develop verbally and/or in writing, a plan of care incorporating the steps of the nursing process.
• Student will be able to utilize critical thinking to discuss needs/problems related to safety for the client.
• Student will be able to relate and interpret steps of the nursing process to facilitate safe and effective care for the client of any age.
• Student will be able to discuss and apply professional standards for error and injury prevention for the client of any age and for health personnel.
• Student will be able to promote achievement of client outcomes by providing nursing care that enhances the care delivery setting in order to protect clients, family/significant others and health care personnel.
• Student will be able to maintain client confidentiality/privacy.
• Student will be able to apply principles of infection control when performing client care.
• Student will be able to describe the effectiveness of commonly prescribed medications associated with each topic and identify potential adverse reactions.
• Student will be able to apply learned practices and principles of nursing care to apply and provide direct care of the client.
• Student will be able to identify client strengths to plan and implement strategies to achieve optimal health for the client of any age.
• Student will be able to utilize knowledge and assessment skills to evaluate the clients needs for disease prevention through critical thinking and wellness strategies including prevention strategies and health maintenance visits for the client.
• Student will be able to discuss the role of health promotion programs, and community health screenings to promote strategies for clients.
• Student will be able to apply and practice techniques of physical assessment for clients.
• Student will be able to differentiate basic human needs according to ethnic and cultural diversities in the promotion of wellness.
• Student will be able to apply previously learned principles of client education to client care.
• Student will be able to explain the various intrinsic and extrinsic factors which may influence the health problems associated with each topic.
• Student will be able to promote self care strategies.
• Student will be able to apply and practice nursing principles of practice and nursing process to provide nursing care that promotes and supports the emotional, mental and social well-being of the client and family/significant others.
• Student will be able to utilize critical thinking and knowledge to evaluate, plan and optimize wellness for the client of all ages and all diverse cultures.
• Student will be able to utilize critical thinking and knowledge to evaluate, plan and optimize wellness for the client of all ages and various family structures and dynamics.
• Student will be able to discuss characteristics, skills and attitudes of critical thinking.
• Student will be able to assess importance of client cultural/ethnicity when planning/providing/evaluating care.
• Student will be able to utilize current nursing literature as a foundation for evidence based practice.
• Student will be able to apply and perform nursing principles of practice and nursing process to promote physical health and wellness and reduce client risk.
• Student will be able to utilize knowledge and critical thinking to apply learned skills to reduce the likelihood that clients will develop complications or health problems related to existing conditions, treatments or procedures.
• Student will be able to utilize knowledge and critical thinking to build skills for managing and providing care for clients with acute and/or chronic physical health conditions including unexpected response to therapies.
• Student will be able to identify the importance of diet for the client recovering from burns.
• Student will be able to review normal body structure and function as related to meeting the nursing needs of clients with health problems presented with each topic.
• Student will be able to identify the pathophysiology present in relation to the common health problems presented in each topic.
• Student will be able to describe physiological responses to illness.
• Student will be able to assess the physiological, psychosocial, developmental and environmental aspects related to the provisions of care.
• Student will be able to identify common diagnostic measures related to health problems presented in each nursing topic with emphasis on nursing assessment and responsibilities.
• Student will be able to demonstrate clinical competence in utilizing selected measures designed to provide nursing care.
• Student will be able to evaluate factors that promote physiological integrity.
• Student will be able to prepare medication for administration.
• Student will be able to administer and document medications given by common routes.
• Student will be able to evaluate and document client response to medication.
• Student will be able to perform calculation needed for medication administration.
• Student will be able to apply knowledge of specific drug classes and specific drugs prior to administration regarding adverse effect/contraindications and side effects.
• Student will be able to perform accurate dosage calculations.
• Student will be able to know the effects and outcomes of medication administration.
• Student will be able perform the procedure for safe medication administration for non-parenteral, parenteral and intravenous medications.
• Student will be able to apply knowledge about the pharmacological drug agent and its specific actions.
• Student will be able to evaluate the type and amount of fluid necessary to manage the critically ill burn client.