Complex High Acuity Health Challenges

Catalog description

This course focuses on the care of clients with a critical imbalance of health and high acuity care needs. Using clinical reasoning skills gained in previous nursing courses, students examine the interrelationship between physiological, psychological, and environmental factors that impact and create emerging and dynamic health patterns. Students apply the nursing process as they prioritize the delivery of nursing care to diverse clients across the life span and their support systems. Students have the opportunity to strengthen their comfort in working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and increase their skill in the use of biomedical and health information technology to gather data and drive decision-making to optimize the restoration of health and minimize risk and error.