NURS 116 Health and Healing I: Living Health

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. elate personal meaning and definitions of health and wellness to client care;
2. examine and demonstrate an evolving understanding of population health theory in nursing practice locally, nationally and globally;
3. examine and demonstrate an evolving understanding of diversity in nursing practice locally, nationally and globally;
4. review critical social theory and apply it to the concept of social justice;
5. examine and demonstrate an evolving understanding of global health issues;
6. review health promotion and apply it to the concept of complementary therapies in nursing practice;
7. relate knowledge about human anatomy and physiology to physical assessment;
8. utilize effective communication techniques to obtain a patient health history;
9. apply knowledge of subjective and objective assessment to case studies and focused physical examinations;
10. demonstrate how to perform accurate physical assessments on integumentary, abdominal & musculoskeletal body systems;
11. evaluate teaching needs of patients in case scenarios;
12. name and define the social determinants of health, models of health and health prerequisites;
13. illustrate how to maintain infection control by following standard precautions and performing proper hand hygiene;
14. utilize focused assessment tools for assessment of specific problems (nutrition assessment, cognitive assessment, sleep assessment); and
15. make use of safe body mechanics during all patient assessment and care.
16. relate the social determinants of health and health prerequisites to the wider context of health;
17. explain and apply the concept of epidemiology in nursing;
18. examine the foundations of primary health care in nursing;
19. examine the definitions of family as client in nursing and apply family theory in nursing practice;
20. examine the definitions of community as client in nursing and apply community theory in nursing practice;
21. summarize and examine levels of prevention in nursing practice;
22. examine and demonstrate an evolving understanding of health promotion theory in nursing practice locally, nationally and globally;