Health Differences Across the Life Span 3

Catalog description

This course focuses on the application of the nursing process to support nursing judgment for the provision of care for persons with health problems related to infectious and communicable diseases, tissue trauma, neurological dysfunction, and musculoskeletal disorders. Content areas include immune function, chain of infection, perioperative nursing, neuromuscular functional assessment, and musculoskeletal disorders. Health problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, degenerative diseases, stroke, and trauma are highlighted. Evidence-based, culturally sensitive nursing care, standards of professional nursing practice, as well as ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements are addressed. Principles, concepts, and theories from the natural and social sciences in relation to safe quality nursing care are applied to clients and families across the lifespan. The laboratory component is a practice experience using virtual simulation patients included in the required resource for the course. All the laboratory requirements in this course must be successfully completed with a satisfactory grade of Complete to pass this course, regardless of the course numeric grade. Skills labs are graded as Satisfactory (Complete) or Unsatisfactory (Incomplete). View Sample Syllabus