NUR 1110C - Health Concepts I

College of Nursing

Credit(s): 6
Contact Hours: 180
Effective Term Fall 2022 (610)

Requisites

Admission to Nursing (R.N.) (Associate in Science) (NURSE-AS) and
Pre- or Co-requisite NUR 1111 with a minimum grade of C and
Pre- or Co-requisite NUR 1141 with a minimum grade of C and
Pre- or Co-requisite PSY 1012 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This course introduces students to safe, basic adult care, health promotion, and development across the illness-wellness continuum. Students will acquire foundational psychomotor skills, including health assessment, and begin to develop clinical judgment skills in a variety of settings.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will incorporate patient preferences and values when providing health teaching for adults in a variety of health care settings by:
    1. Explaining how preferences and values influences patient care.
    2. Describing common cultural differences in healthcare teaching.
    3. Providing a teaching example that incorporates a patient’s preferences and values.
  2. The student will perform basic health assessment and psychomotor skills for adults in a variety of health care settings by:
    1. Completing a basic health assessment on an adult patient.
    2. Demonstrating common psychomotor skills performed for adult patients.
    3. Providing and maintaining a safe environment for the adult patient.
  3. The student will apply essential principles to communicate effectively with patients and nursing staff by:
    1. Describing the essential principles of communicating effectively with patients and nursing staff.
    2. Exhibiting effective communication skills while providing patient care.
    3. Demonstrating effective communication skills while working with clinical instructors and nursing staff.
  4. The student will utilize clinical judgment skills to promote basic care, comfort, and safety for adults in a variety of health care settings by:
    1. Describing the process of clinical judgement and critical thinking.
    2. Accurately decerning priority cues found in the patient history, diagnostic and assessment findings.
    3. Identifying priority cues to promote basic patient care and comfort needs of the adult patient.
    4. Appropriately assigning priority assessments based on priority cues, to promote basic care and comfort for the patient.
    5. Providing and maintaining a safe environment for the adult patient based on priority cues and assessments.
  5. The student will follow clinical agency policies and established legal standards when providing nursing care by:
    1. Completing online education provided by the clinical agency assigned.
    2. Adhering to the clinical agency policies provided in the online education.
    3. Identifying the function and key concepts of the Florida nursing practice act.
    4. Adhering to the legal standards in the Florida nursing practice act when providing nursing care.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 80% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom/lab/clinical measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2022 (610)

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