Older Adult Health.

Catalog description

Building on the fundamentals of care for the roles of the professional nurse as a provider of patient-centered care, member of the profession and healthcare team, and patient safety advocate with Marianist values, this course focuses on patient-centered care clinical concepts and skills for care of the older adult. Students begin to develop an understanding of the social determinants of health and their effect on the health and wellness of older adults and consider nursing implications for healthcare policy. Students begin to utilize the nursing process to plan for safe, evidence-based, strategies and demonstrate caring and compassionate behaviors to assist older adults and their families to enhance, protect or preserve optimum health or an end-of-life experience. The course imparts nursing knowledge, develops clinical judgment skills, fosters situational awareness, communication, and assessment skills central to the nursing process in the care of older adults. Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in simulation and various clinical settings. An additional fee is associated with this course. See the fee schedule for details at https://www.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/tuition/. Prerequisite: NU 2601 Corequisite: NU 2302 .