For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
The Nursing Program at Seward County Community College prepares competent practical and associate degree nurses to assist in meeting the health care needs of clients by delivering quality wholistic care.
Outcome #1: Read with comprehension, be critical of what they read, and apply knowledge gained from their reading to broader issues of the day.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #3: Communicate their ideas clearly and proficiently in speaking, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations
Outcome #4: Demonstrate mathematical skills by using a variety of techniques and technologies.
Outcome #5: Demonstrate the ability to think critically by gathering facts, generating insights, analyzing data, and evaluating information.
Outcome #6: Exhibit skills in information and technological literacy.
Outcome #7: Understand each other, moving beyond simple acceptance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity by working as a team to learn, engaging with community, exhibiting cultural awareness, and creating equity
Outcome #9: Exhibit workplace skills to include respect for others, teamwork competence, attendance/punctuality, decision making, conflict resolution, truthfulness/honest, positive attitude, judgment, responsibility.
- Identify legal/ethical responsibilities of the practical nurse within the health care system.
- Adhere to accepted safety standards of medication administration while providing nursing care across the life span.
- Utilize therapeutic communication techniques to facilitate the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health in clients with diverse cultural population.
- Collaborate as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team by providing safe and skillful therapeutic care.
- Recall biological, cultural, spiritual, and psycho-social principals when applying each step of the nursing process to the basic needs of the client experiencing actual or potential health problems.
- Demonstrate competency of basic age-specific physiological, psychosocial and emotional changes, affecting nursing care for the geriatric population.
- Evaluate attitudinal responses to the aging process in diverse settings.
Course: Foundations of Nursing Care I
Content Outline:
a. Introduction to Nursing
b. The Nursing Process
c. Vital Signs
a. Professional Communication
b. Health Assessment and Physical Examination
c. Person-Centered Care
d. Critical Thinking and Nursing Judgment
a. Care of the Aging Adult
b. Activity and Ambulation
c. Cognition
IV. Legal and Ethical Considerations in Nursing
a. Quality Improvement and Informatics
b. Legal and Ethical Principles
V. Safety
a. Patient Abuse & Protection
b. Infection Control
c. Physical Safety
Oxygenation & Perfusion
a. Concepts of Oxygenation and Perfusion
b. Oxygenation Devices
c. Living with a Chronic Respiratory Illness
a. Care of the Skin
b. Impaired Skin and Wounds
c. Healthy Skin
V3. Patient Care in the Health Care Setting
a. Health Care Delivery and Collaboration
b. Orientation to the Clinical Setting
a. Intake
b. Intake and Elimination
c. Elimination
X. Application of Patient Care Principles
a. Practical Readiness
b. Peri-Operative Nursing
X1. Sensory System
a. Alterations to the Sensory System
b. Metabolic Changes and the Effect on the Elderly
X2. Healthy Psychosocial Responses
a. Family Dynamics
b. Sexuality and Self-Concepts
X3. Spirituality in Nursing Care
a. Spirituality
b. Loss, Grief and Dying
c. Cultural Sensitivity
XIV. Patient Comfort
a. Rest and Sleep
b. Comfort and Pain
XV. Physiological Responses
a. Introduction to Fluid and Electrolytes
- Foundational Principles
- Nursing Professional Skills and Concepts
- Physical and Mental Changes
- Applying General Concepts in Nursing
- Skin Integrity
- Nutrition and Elimination
Lecture, discussion, demonstration, computer assisted instruction including online assignments, interactive video, medication computation worksheets; skills laboratory and clinical instruction (including pre and post conference).
Handouts, computer assisted instruction, supplies and equipment used in hospitals and the skills lab settings, selected reference readings
Note:
This is a team-taught course therefore, though these methods and materials are available, it is possible that not each of them will be utilized based on the individual instructor preference.
- SCCC Outcome 1 will be assessed and measured by class participation, written care plans, written examinations and written assignments indicating comprehension of material read.
- SCCC Outcome 2 will be assessed and measured by writing assignments and by documentation in the clinical areas.
- SCCC Outcome %23 3 will be assessed through skills lab interaction, bedside reporting in the clinical setting.
- SCCC Outcome 4 will be assessed and measured by written examination and in the clinical areas particularly with medication administration.
- SCCC Outcome 5 will be assessed and measured by written examinations, verbal report, nursing care plans, and written paper SCCC Outcome 6 will be assessed and measured by clinical competencies, testing, and in the skills lab.
- SCCC Outcome 6 will be assessed and measured by clinical competencies, testing, and in the skills and/ or simulation lab.
- SCCC Outcome 7 will be assessed and measured by class participation, clinical care and nursing care plans.
- SCCC Outcome 9 will be assessed and measured by class and clinical participation, ability to respond to clinical situations, attendance, ability to work as a team member, and overall dependability.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Seward County Community College will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations. Students should identify themselves to the Mental Health Counselor at 620-417-1106 or go to the Student Success Center in the Hobble Academic building, room A149.