NU 217 - Foundations of Nursing

Guides and assists the student in the application of the nursing process to implement holistic patient centered care that reflects an emerging understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management and nursing management.  Emphasis is on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of threats to basic safety.  Students explore the relationship between stress, illness, and coping mechanisms to meet physiologuic, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.  

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: NU 105, NU 205, NU 211, and NU 215

Corequisites: NU 205 and NU 212

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following:

• Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a therapeutic nurse patient relationship.
• Communicate effectively with members of the healthcare team including the patient and the patient’s support network.
• Deliver compassionate, patient centered evidenced based care that respects patient and family preferences, spiritual beliefs and values.
• Implement patient and family care around resolution of life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals and respect for patient and family preferences.
• Demonstrates the application of psychomotor skills for the efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of patient care.
• Manage the interaction of multiple functional problems affecting patients with a focus on the geriatric population.
• Develop a beginning understanding of complementary and alternative modalities and their role in health care.
• Demonstrates the professional standards of moral, ethical and legal conduct including patent privacy and confidentiality of patient records and other privileged communications.
• Demonstrates professionalism including attention to appearance, demeanor, respect for self and others, and appropriate professional boundaries with patients and families as well as among care givers.
• Recognize the impact of attitudes, values and expectations on the care of the frail, older adult. 
• Demonstrate professionalism, including attention to appearance, demeanor, respect for self and others and attention to professional boundaries and assume accountability for personal and professional boundaries.
• Recognizes the nurse’s legal and ethical responsibilities in patient care including informed consent, advocacy, client’s rights, confidentiality, and privacy.
• Recognize the relationship between personal health, self-renewal, and the ability to deliver sustained quality care.
• Demonstrate skills in using patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support safe nursing practice.
• Use evidence-based practices to guide health teaching, health counseling, disease management, and referral for the adult patient.
• Identify and implement evidence-based nursing interventions as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients and promoting health across the lifespan.
• Implement holistic, patient-centered care that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management, and nursing management across the health-illness continuum in the care of the adult patient.