Course Details
Course Code: PNUR 235
Credits: 0
Calendar Description:
This course builds on the theory and practice from Level 1 and 2. Through a variety of approaches (e.g., simulation), learners will continue to develop knowledge and practice comprehensive nursing assessment, planning for, and interventions with for clients experiencing multiple health challenges.
Date First Offered: 2012-09-01
Hours: Total Hours: 120
- Lecture Hours: 45
- Laboratory Hours: 75
Total Weeks: 10
This course is offered online: No
Pre-Requisites:
Successful completion of Level 2 courses and Consolidated Practice Experience 2
Non-Course Pre-Requisites: None
Co-Requisites:
PNUR 230: Professional Communication 3
PNUR 231: Professional Practice 3
PNUR 232: Health Promotion 3
PNUR 233: Variations in Health 3
Detailed Course Content, Topics and Sequence Covered:
Course outcomes will be met through examination and exploration of the following:
Comprehensive health assessment
Clinical decision making
Nursing interventions
- Risk management
- Surgical wound management (assessment, cleansing, and irrigation)
- Infusion therapy I (assessment of insertion sites including PIC and CVC lines, changing IV tubing and solutions, regulating rate of flow, setting up and priming infusion line, converting IV to an intermittent infusion device, flushing an intermittent infusion device, discontinuing a peripheral infusion device)
- Blood and blood products (checking client identification, monitoring infusion, responding to blood reactions)
- Catheterization
- Assessment and care of the mental health client
- Assessment and care of the postpartum client
- Assessment and care of the newborn
- Individualizing nursing care plans across the lifespan
Medication administration
- Pain management
- Immunization (theory/knowledge only)
Context specific reporting and documentation
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, within the simulated learning environment, the learner will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the Scope of Practice for LPNs, Baseline Competencies for LPNs Professional Practice (2009) Professional Standards of Practice for LPNs (2010), Code of Ethics for LPNs (2004) to guide practice
- Safely and competently perform comprehensive nursing assessment and interventions with clients experiencing mental illness
- Safely and competently perform comprehensive nursing assessment and interventions with maternal/child clients
- Safely and competently complete a point of care risk assessment related to infectious diseases
- Incorporate practice guidelines into decision making
- Demonstrate critical thinking, clinical judgment and knowledge of assessment to plan, implement and evaluate care of clients across the lifespan
- Practice in collaboration with clients, the interprofessional health care team, peers and faculty
- Provide a caring environment for clients by connecting, sharing and exploring with them in a collaborative relationship
- Provide person-centered care that recognizes and respects the uniqueness of each individual and is sensitive to culture and diversity
- Identify own values, biases, and assumptions as a self-reflective, responsible and accountable practitioner
- Identify own learning needs to enhance competence
Grading System: Percentage
Passing Grade: In order to pass this course, a grade of B (75%) is required for the lecture part of the course. In addition, students must pass their skills assessments, integrated lab assessments and field experience (marked pass/fail). One retest is granted for failure of the OSCE, as per Northern Lights College's Practical Nursing Handbook.
Grading Weight:
Final Exam: 40 %
Quizzes/Test: 60 %
Percentage of Individual Work: 100
Course Offered in Other Programs: No
Text Books:
Required - Kozier et al., 2010, Fundamentals of Canadian Nursing, (Pearson). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Leifer, 2011, Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, (Elsevier). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Townsend, 2011, Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, (FA Davis Co). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Adams et. al., 2010, Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiological Approach, (Pearson). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Corbett, 2013, Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, (Pearson). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Hopfer-Geglin and Hazard-Vallerand, 2012, Davis' Drug Guide, (FA Davies Co.). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Hannon et al., 2010, Porth Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States, (LWW). Chapters Covered: All