NURS2902 — Lifespan Health II
NURS 2902 - Lifespan Health II NURS 2902 - Lifespan Health II 8 Credits Focuses on the nursing care of clients experiencing acute disruptions of health across the lifespan. The emphasis is on exploring client and family responses to actual or potential health alterations in acute, urgent, and emergent settings utilizing critical thinking and analysis of disease processes. The pathophysiology and nursing care of each disease process is explored with increasing depth and complexity in this course for a comprehensive understanding of the disease process. Focus is placed on applying the empiric, ethical, aesthetic and self knowledges required to provide nursing care to clients with a complex and/or unstable condition. Evidence-informed practice is used to support appropriate focused assessments, and effective, efficient nursing interventions. Knowledge of lifespan developmental factors, cultural variables, and legal aspects of care guides ethical decision making in delivery of care. Lab modules for skills-based client interventions Holistic nursing assessment of objective and subjective manifestations of common acute health problems Learning
Prerequisites: NURS2801, NURS2812, NURS2852