Course Details
Course Code: PNUR 245
Credits: 0
Calendar Description:
This practical course emphasizes the development of nursing skills aimed at promoting health and healing with individuals experiencing acute health challenges across the lifespan. Classroom, laboratory, simulation, and integrated practice experiences will help learners build on theory and practice from level 1, 2 and 3 to integrate new knowledge and skills relevant to the acute care setting.
Date First Offered: 2012-09-01
Hours: Total Hours: 180
- Lecture Hours: 75
- Laboratory Hours: 105
Total Weeks: 12
This course is offered online: No
Pre-Requisites:
Successful completion of Level 3 courses and Consolidated Practice Experience 3
Non-Course Pre-Requisites: None
Co-Requisites:
PNUR 240: Professional Communication 4
PNUR 241: Professional Practice 4
PNUR 242: Health Promotion 4
PNUR 243: Variations in Health 4
Detailed Course Content, Topics and Sequence Covered:
Course outcomes will be met through examination and exploration of the following:
Comprehensive holistic health assessment
Clinical decision making
Nursing interventions with clients experiencing acute illness
- Continuous bladder irrigation
- Risk management
- Principles of infection control
- Remove sutures, staples and drains, insert and remove packing
- IV therapy II (converting IV to an intermittent infusion device, flushing an intermittent infusion device, discontinuing a peripheral infusion device) [IV insertion – theory/knowledge only]
- Blood and blood products (checking client identification, monitoring infusion, responding to blood reactions) [Initiation of blood and blood products – theory/knowledge only]
- Maintaining, and removing nasogastric tubes [ Inserting nasogastric tubes – theory/knowledge only]
- Management of chest tubes, epidural catheter, drainage tubes, suprapubic catheter, tracheostomy, ostomy
- Care of the medical/surgical client
- Individualizing nursing care plans in acute care setting
Medication Administration
- Acute pain management
- IV medication administration – theory/knowledge only
Reporting and documentation in the acute care setting
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, within the simulated learning environment, the learner will be able to:
- Apply 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) and how these guide the practice of LPNs in acute care settings
- Perform comprehensive nursing assessment and interventions with clients experiencing acute illness
- Apply critical thinking, clinical judgment and knowledge of assessment to plan, implement and evaluate care of clients experiencing acute illness
- Practice in collaboration with clients, the interprofessional healthcare 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 - 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 - Day et al., 2009, Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Canadian Medical-Surgical Nursing, (LWW). Chapters Covered: All
Required - Kozier et al., 2010, Fundamentals of Canadian Nursing (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
Covered: All