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Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Describe professional values and the importance of committment.
2. Identify ways in which sociocultural needs of clients are respected.
3. Communicate therapeutically in simulated clinical encounters.
4. Demonstrate knowledge needed for compliance with laws and institutional
policies, including a simulated documentation of nursing care.
5. Apply principle of infection control in hypothetical clinical scenarios
6. Apply principles of basic pharmacology and medication safety to various
hypothetical client care scenarios.
7. Calculate medication dosages accurately.
8. Discuss client scenarios within the framework of the Orem's Theory.
9. Create nursing care plans using nursing process for simulated cases.
10. Identify deviations from normal for common clinical parameters.
11. Describe and assess normal function, health maintenance, and standard
nursing/medical care and pharmacologic therapies as they relate to
common alterations in physical/psychological function.
12. Compare & contrast care of clients in acute versus rehab settings.
13. Describe common diseases occurring in the elderly.
14. Develop concepts and rationales for basic nurse assistant care.
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1. Professionalism, Role of the LVN on the health care team.
2. Legal and ethical contexts of practice.
3. Transcultural aspects of practice.
4. Therapeutic communication.
5. Health care systems- admission, discharge, transfer.
6. Documentation and medical records.
7. Infection control principles.
8. Pharmacology and medication safety principles. Conversions and dosage
calculations.
9. Nursing Process.
10. Orem's Self Care Deficit Theory.
11. Study of physiologic indicators.
12. Homeostasis Deviations related to major acute stress.
13. Basic changes related to aging.
14. Basic chronic illness conditions.
15. Rehabilitation concepts.
16. Care (normal function, basic assessment, health maintenance and com-
mon deviations related to nursing/medical care, including basic drugs)
of clients with alterations:
a) Mobility - orthopedic/neuromuscular diseases & surgeries
b) Neurological functioning - ALOC, stroke, head injury, neurosurgery
c) Behavior - substance abuse and dependence
d) Carbohydrate metabolism - diabetes mellitus
e) Respiratory function - acute distress & chronic airflow failure
f) Cardio vascular function - hypertension, CAD, heart failure
g) Urinary elimination - infection, retention, incontinence
i) Sensory perception - inflammation/infections of eye & ear, glaucoma
cataracts, & eye/ear surgeries.
j) Gastrointestinal - nutritional needs of client, common problems, &
common drug therapy.
k) Blood & Lymphatics - common problems, labs, & basic anticoagulant
l) Cancer - Basic features and medical/nursing care
m) Immunity - Basic principles of immune system
n) Integumentary - Common skin disorders & documentation
o) Death & Dying - Care of dying
17. Basic Nutrition Related to Health.
18. The importance of good health habits and the relationships to client's
emotional state, and hereditary factors.
19. Basic Oral and Topical medication therapies and common treatments for
basic medical-surgical conditions.
20. Basics of nurse assistant theory.
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