NURS 216 Health & Healing III: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives

Learning Outcomes

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

1. identify which assessments are required when performing psychomotor skills.
2. demonstrate proficient implementation of psychomotor skills.
3. explain rationale for each step taken during implementation of psychomotor skills.
4. perform calculations to accurately prepare medication doses.
5. demonstrate skills to interview a client/family with a focus on increasing understanding of the personal meaning of a chronic health challenge.
6. appraise the role of complementary and alternative healing modalities in the context of a nursing lens and culturally diverse clients.
7. distinguish the meaning of chronicity in the context of chronic and episodic health challenges facing individuals and their families.
8. apply Professional Standards, Scope of Practice, and Practice Standards to activities related to medication administration.
9. integrate teaching-learning theory into the assessment and planning phase of client teaching and distinguish effective printed teaching tools.
10. distinguish acute and chronic pain, etiology, assessment components and non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical treatment for different pain scenarios.
11. identify fever/diaphoresis, nausea/vomiting, assessment components and non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical treatment options.
12. recognize the impacts of immobility on clients and distinguish key considerations for client care - both non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical.
13. differentiate the following mental illness types: anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and identify non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical care strategies.
14. explain the importance of collaboration with other members of the inter-professional team when providing care for clients with chronic and episodic health challenges (RC-R).
15. describe the responsibilities of the Registered Nurse related to interacting with other health professionals (RC-R).
16. in addition to the aforementioned outcomes, learners will be able to interpret the following key concepts and sub-concepts in the context of their nursing practice; concepts: client, context, health and healing, inquiry, relational practice; and sub-concepts: family and individual, hardiness, resilience, vulnerability, community, environment, family, spirituality, transition, change, comfort, epidemiology, healing, healing initiatives, illness, primary health care, suffering, teaching and learning, accountability, decision making, caring, and collaboration.