I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
2. Course Prefix & Number:
NURS 2501
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 6
Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 0
Internship Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
The beginning course in a two-semester sequence which emphasizes use of the nursing process and nursing judgment to assess, plan, and implement nursing interventions to promote safe, quality care and human flourishing for individuals, families and groups experiencing alterations in physiological, psychosocial, sociocultural, spiritual and developmental integrity. Concepts related to teaching/learning needs in the RN role in providing education to prevent, preserve, and restore health and human flourishing are integrated. Content includes caring for clients across the lifespan. This course focuses on the pathophysiology and RN role for the following concepts: Nursing Process, Teaching and Learning, Pharmacology, Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Fluid and Electrolytes, Elimination Pattern: Renal and Urinary Tract Function, Normal Ante/Intra/Postpartum and Newborn Care, Activity-Exercise Pattern: Cardiovascular, Circulatory and Hematological Function, Activity-Exercise Pattern: Gas Exchange and Respiratory Function, and, Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Mental Health.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
NURS 2501 - Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
There are no prerequisites for this course.
7. Other Prerequisites
Admission to the ADN program
9. Co-requisite Courses:
NURS 2501 - Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
All Credit(s) from the following...
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| NURS 2513 | Nursing Practicum I | 3 cr. |
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
|
Name of Institution |
Course Number and Title |
Credits |
|
Lake Superior College |
NURS 2510 Advanced Nursing Concepts
NURS 2510 Pediatric Nursing
NURS 2530 Obstetrical Nursing |
3
2
2 |
|
Minneapolis Community & Technical College |
NURS 2000 Integration of Nursing
NURS 2010 Health Assessment |
3
3 |
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
|
Name of Program(s) |
Program Type |
|
Associate of Science, Nursing |
AS |
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Produce comprehensive and analytical written work through completion of Minnesota Board of Nursing Ability 1800 Cluster 2 and Cluster 5. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Apply principles of therapeutic communication through active role play during psychiatric nursing content. |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Analyze assigned case scenarios and apply theoretical concepts through written worksheets, group discussions. Test questions require synthesis and application of knowledge. |
| Work as a team member to achieve shared goals |
Work within learning teams to present information to classmates on theory content, case study, or other projects/ assignments. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Apply a beginning level of nursing process to accurately assess, plan, implement, and evaluate holistic, patient-centered care as it relates to the diagnosis and treatment of actual or potential nursing and collaborative health problems to clients and families across the lifespan. (QSEN Competencies: Patient Centered Care);
- Utilize beginning level critical thinking and nursing judgment to accurately plan client priorities and preferences, including use of available resources, referrals, and evidence-based practice standards. (QSEN Competencies: Evidence Based Practice);
- Summarize the teaching and learning process including how to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes promoting a change in behavior;
- Utilize beginning level management of care concepts as it relates to providing and directing nursing care that enhances the care delivery setting to protect clients and health care personnel. (QSEN Competencies: Safety);
- Apply safety and infection control concepts that protect clients and health care personnel from health and environmental hazards in multiple settings. (QSEN Competencies: Safety);
- Apply beginning level health promotion and maintenance concepts that incorporates the knowledge of expected growth and development principles, prevention and/or early detection of health problems, and strategies to achieve optimal health across the lifespan;
- Apply beginning level psychosocial integrity concepts that promote and support the emotional, mental and social well-being of the client experiencing stressful events, as well as clients with acute or chronic mental illness. (QSEN Competencies: Patient Centered Care);
- Apply concepts of nutrition taking into account multiple client factors such as personal preference, laboratory values, health problems, education level and ability to adhere to prescribed dietary plan;
- Apply pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies as they relate to the management of actual health problems across the lifespan. (QSEN Competencies: Safety; Informatics);
- Apply risk reduction concepts to help reduce the likelihood that clients will develop complications or health problems related to existing conditions, treatments or procedures;
- Demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge of normal values and recognize deviations from normal values for multiple laboratory and diagnostic tests;
- Apply beginning level concepts of physiological adaptation including the ability to manage and provide care for clients with acute, chronic or life threatening physical health conditions.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Nursing Process:
- analyze the nursing process as a way to accurately assess, plan, implement, and evaluate health needs of families across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate application of nursing process through written care plans.
- Teaching and Learning:
- Discuss key teaching and learning principles
- assessment of learning needs,
- development of individualized teaching plans, and
- evaluation of outcomes.
- Perioperative Nursing:
- Review nursing responsibilities for care of the surgical client.
- Apply assessment skills, teaching skills, and nursing process to care of the client in all phases of surgical experience (perioperative, intraoperative, postoperative).
- Fluid and Electrolyte/ Acid-Base Balance:
- Analyze the various fluid and electrolyte imbalances:
- fluid volume deficit, fluid volume excess, hypokalemia, hyperkalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, and acid base disturbances.
- Utilize nursing process to plan individualized care to clients with fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Genitourinary:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the genitourinary system for clients across the lifespan.
- Normal childbearing family:
- Review pathophysiology and normal development/ changes within all stages of childbearing experience (antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum).
- Apply nursing process to care of the childbearing family and newborn.
- Pharmacology:
- Review of pharmacology principles for medication administration of all routes.
- Apply advanced pharmacology theory to clients across the lifespan.
- Cardiovascular:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the cardiovascular system for clients across the lifespan.
- Respiratory:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the respiratory system for clients across the lifespan.
- Mental Health:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common mental illnesses, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to various mental illnesses, including therapeutic communication for clients across the lifespan.
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
2. Course Prefix & Number:
NURS 2501
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 6
Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 0
Internship Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
The beginning course in a two-semester sequence which emphasizes use of the nursing process and nursing judgment to assess, plan, and implement nursing interventions to promote safe, quality care and human flourishing for individuals, families and groups experiencing alterations in physiological, psychosocial, sociocultural, spiritual and developmental integrity. Concepts related to teaching/learning needs in the RN role in providing education to prevent, preserve, and restore health and human flourishing are integrated. Content includes caring for clients across the lifespan. This course focuses on the pathophysiology and RN role for the following concepts: Nursing Process, Teaching and Learning, Pharmacology, Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Fluid and Electrolytes, Elimination Pattern: Renal and Urinary Tract Function, Normal Ante/Intra/Postpartum and Newborn Care, Activity-Exercise Pattern: Cardiovascular, Circulatory and Hematological Function, Activity-Exercise Pattern: Gas Exchange and Respiratory Function, and, Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Mental Health.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
NURS 2501 - Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
There are no prerequisites for this course.
7. Other Prerequisites
Admission to the ADN program
9. Co-requisite Courses:
NURS 2501 - Adaptation to Health & Illness Through The Lifespan I
All Credit(s) from the following...
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| NURS 2513 | Nursing Practicum I | 3 cr. |
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
|
Name of Institution |
Course Number and Title |
Credits |
|
Lake Superior College |
NURS 2510 Advanced Nursing Concepts
NURS 2510 Pediatric Nursing
NURS 2530 Obstetrical Nursing |
3
2
2 |
|
Minneapolis Community & Technical College |
NURS 2000 Integration of Nursing
NURS 2010 Health Assessment |
3
3 |
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
|
Name of Program(s) |
Program Type |
|
Associate of Science, Nursing |
AS |
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Produce comprehensive and analytical written work through completion of Minnesota Board of Nursing Ability 1800 Cluster 2 and Cluster 5. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Apply principles of therapeutic communication through active role play during psychiatric nursing content. |
| Work as a team member to achieve shared goals |
Work within learning teams to present information to classmates on theory content, case study, or other projects/ assignments. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Apply a beginning level of nursing process to accurately assess, plan, implement, and evaluate holistic, patient-centered care as it relates to the diagnosis and treatment of actual or potential nursing and collaborative health problems to clients and families across the lifespan. (QSEN Competencies: Patient Centered Care);
- Utilize beginning level critical thinking and nursing judgment to accurately plan client priorities and preferences, including use of available resources, referrals, and evidence-based practice standards. (QSEN Competencies: Evidence Based Practice);
- Summarize the teaching and learning process including how to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes promoting a change in behavior;
- Utilize beginning level management of care concepts as it relates to providing and directing nursing care that enhances the care delivery setting to protect clients and health care personnel. (QSEN Competencies: Safety);
- Apply safety and infection control concepts that protect clients and health care personnel from health and environmental hazards in multiple settings. (QSEN Competencies: Safety);
- Apply beginning level health promotion and maintenance concepts that incorporates the knowledge of expected growth and development principles, prevention and/or early detection of health problems, and strategies to achieve optimal health across the lifespan;
- Apply beginning level psychosocial integrity concepts that promote and support the emotional, mental and social well-being of the client experiencing stressful events, as well as clients with acute or chronic mental illness. (QSEN Competencies: Patient Centered Care);
- Apply concepts of nutrition taking into account multiple client factors such as personal preference, laboratory values, health problems, education level and ability to adhere to prescribed dietary plan;
- Apply pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies as they relate to the management of actual health problems across the lifespan. (QSEN Competencies: Safety; Informatics);
- Apply risk reduction concepts to help reduce the likelihood that clients will develop complications or health problems related to existing conditions, treatments or procedures;
- Demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge of normal values and recognize deviations from normal values for multiple laboratory and diagnostic tests;
- Apply beginning level concepts of physiological adaptation including the ability to manage and provide care for clients with acute, chronic or life threatening physical health conditions.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Nursing Process:
- analyze the nursing process as a way to accurately assess, plan, implement, and evaluate health needs of families across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate application of nursing process through written care plans.
- Teaching and Learning:
- Discuss key teaching and learning principles
- assessment of learning needs,
- development of individualized teaching plans, and
- evaluation of outcomes.
- Perioperative Nursing:
- Review nursing responsibilities for care of the surgical client.
- Apply assessment skills, teaching skills, and nursing process to care of the client in all phases of surgical experience (perioperative, intraoperative, postoperative).
- Fluid and Electrolyte/ Acid-Base Balance:
- Analyze the various fluid and electrolyte imbalances:
- fluid volume deficit, fluid volume excess, hypokalemia, hyperkalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, and acid base disturbances.
- Utilize nursing process to plan individualized care to clients with fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Genitourinary:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the genitourinary system for clients across the lifespan.
- Normal childbearing family:
- Review pathophysiology and normal development/ changes within all stages of childbearing experience (antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum).
- Apply nursing process to care of the childbearing family and newborn.
- Pharmacology:
- Review of pharmacology principles for medication administration of all routes.
- Apply advanced pharmacology theory to clients across the lifespan.
- Cardiovascular:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the cardiovascular system for clients across the lifespan.
- Respiratory:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common disease conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to conditions of the respiratory system for clients across the lifespan.
- Mental Health:
- Review anatomy and physiology.
- Explore the most common mental illnesses, including pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical and nursing management.
- Apply nursing process to various mental illnesses, including therapeutic communication for clients across the lifespan.