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Course: |
NUR 103
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Title: | Basic Assessment for the PN |
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Long Title: | Basic Health Assessment for the Practical Nurse |
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Course Description: | Provides the theoretical knowledge and psychomotor skills used by the Practical Nurse performing a basic assessment of health status of stable adult patients with predictable outcomes, including collecting, reporting, and recording objective/subjective data, observing conditions or changes in condition, and differentiating normal from abnormal findings. Principles of therapeutic communication and patient teaching are included. Includes practice collecting basic assessment data in the nursing skills laboratory. |
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Min Credit: | 1 |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
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Status Notes: | revised-ttl,dscrptn,cmptncs,outln 12/5/13 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Provide at a basic level safe, quality, patient-centered nursing care when performing a basic assessment on stable adult patients with predictable outcomes.
2. Apply critical thinking and clinical judgment needed to make patient-centered care decisions, at the basic level.
3. Discuss the Practical Nurse’s role in collaboration with healthcare team members when reporting data collected.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Major program concepts
a. Safe, quality, patient-centered care
b. Research and evidence-based care
c. Culture of caring
d. Critical thinking and clinical judgment
e. Performance improvement/quality improvement
f. Collaboration/teamwork
g. Information technology/ patient technology
h. Role and scope of practice for Practical Nursing in the larger context of Nursing Practice
II. General practical nursing practice concepts
a. Teaching and learning
b. Identification of community resources
c. Health maintenance and promotion
d. Pain management
e. Nursing process
f. Communication techniques
III. Health history and documentation of all data collected during the basic assessment.
IV. Normal and abnormal findings for each of the body systems within the scope of the Practical Nurse.
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