Health Care Participant - NSG 152
https://courses.vccs.edu./courses/NSG152-HealthCareParticipant
Effective: 2023-08-01
Course Description
Focuses on the health and wellness of diverse individuals, families, and the community throughout the lifespan. Covers concepts that focus on client attributes and preferences regarding healthcare. Emphasizes population-focused care. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or cooperating agencies, and/or simulated environments.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to introduce the advanced beginner student to concepts relevant to community based nursing.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisites: BIO 142 (or BIO 232), NSG 100, NSG 106, NSG 130 and NSG 200
Course Objectives
- Assess diverse client/family values, beliefs, and attitudes as well as community resources in a variety of community settings.
- Provide culturally relevant care that minimizes risk of harm to clients in community settings.
- Demonstrate use of the clinical judgment and evidence-based care related to the concepts of family dynamics, culture, spirituality, grief/loss, motivation/adherence, patient teaching, health care disparities and infection in supervised community care.
- Differentiate relevant cues in the care of diverse populations experiencing health problems with common and predictable outcomes in the community setting.
- Develop a plan for providing community-based care in a resource poor environment.
- Use epidemiological principles in the evaluation of diverse community settings.
- Implement a teaching plan for an individual or group in the community setting with supervision.
- Compare and contrast the uses of informatics and quality control for inpatient vs. community based care.
- Demonstrate the principles of pharmacology in the community setting.
Major Topics to be Included
- Community Based Practice
- Overview of community nursing
- Role of the nurse in community setting
- Home health nursing
- Home safety
- Epidemiology
- Exemplar: community assessment (windshield survey)
- Family Dynamics Concept
- Overview of the family dynamics
- Genogram
- Risk related to genetics
- Family structure and roles
- Exemplars: aging of family members, expanding family, chronic illness of a family member
- Culture Concept
- Overview of culture
- Culture subconcepts
- Cultural competence
- Cultural self-awareness
- Diversity
- Exemplars: sexual orientation, examples of cultural preferences in situations across the lifespan
- Spirituality Concept
- Overview of spirituality
- Effects on health
- Spiritual needs and assessment
- Exemplar: spiritual distress
- Health Care Disparities Concept
- Overview of health care disparities
- Characteristics of those at risk
- Healthcare access
- Quality of care
- Healthy people 2020
- Exemplars: homelessness, veterans, lower socioeconomic status
- Stress and Coping Concept
- Overview of stress and coping
- Physiological response to stress
- Risk/benefit of stress
- Healthy coping & stress Management
- Exemplars: physical response/disease, separation anxiety (child)
- Patient Education Concept
- Overview of patient education
- Domains of learning: affective, cognitive, psychomotor
- Teaching- learning process: teaching/learning theories, educational principles
- Factors affecting learning: health literacy, learning readiness, motivation theories
- Health belief model
- Self efficacy, change theory, response to change technology: client health informatics promotion of healthy lifestyle
- Exemplars: diabetes education, pre-operative teaching
- Grief & Loss
- Types of loss
- Stages of grief
- Effect on the family and significant others
- Exemplars: loss of a child at birth, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), children's response to loss, end-of-life care, amputation
- Infection Concept
- Community based infections
- Epidemiology
- Diagnostics related to infection
- Pharmacological interventions: antimicrobials (antibiotics and antifungals)
- Pharmacology: Aminoglycoside (ex. Gentamycin, streptomycin, neomycin), b-lactam antibiotics-(Cephalosporins), Macrolide antibiotics (ex. Azithromycin, clarithromycin), Fluoroquinolone (Ciprofloxacin), Tetracycline (ex. Doxycycline), Antifungals (Fluconazole)
- Exemplars: pneumonia, otitis media (child), meningitis (adolescent), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) (infant)