NU 301 - Nursing Care of the Adult I

Corequisite: NU 309

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

• Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients, using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches.
• Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient’s support network.
• Deliver compassionate, patient centered, evidence-based care that respects patient and family preferences.
• Implement patient and family care around resolution of end of life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences.
• Provide appropriate patient teaching that reflects developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient engagement in their care.
• Implement evidence-based nursing interventions as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients and promoting health across the lifespan.
• Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions.
• Facilitate patient-centered transitions of care, including discharge planning and ensuring the caregiver’s knowledge of care requirements to promote safe care.
• Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems.
• Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.
• Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate the application of psychomotor skills for the efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of patient care.
• Develop an awareness of patients’ spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care.
• Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.
• Apply knowledge of social and cultural factors to the care of diverse populations.
• Promote achievement of safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations.
• Demonstrate skills in using patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support safe nursing practice.
• Use standardized terminology in a care environment that reflects nursing’s unique contribution to patient outcomes.
• Apply patientcare technologies as appropriate to address the needs of a diverse patient population.
• Contribute the unique nursing perspective to interprofessional teams to optimize patient outcomes.
• Advocate for high quality and safe patient care as a member of the interprofessional team.
• Access interprofessional and intra-professional resources to resolve ethical and other practice dilemmas.
• Act to prevent unsafe, illegal, or unethical care practices.