Course Description | This
course addresses common health responses that acutely ill adults may experience
within the context of family and culture.
Students use a holistic approach to provide nursing care directed to
these responses and associated physiological, psychological, and spiritual
phenomena. This course emphasizes the
assessment, diagnosis, and planning phases of the nursing process. In
this course, the students will examine selected health alterations in response
to acute illness. The focus will be on
the following responses: stress, pain, edema, fatigue, ischemia, dyspnea,
cachexia, trauma, metabolic syndrome, altered clotting, impaired immune
response, sleep disturbances, and psychological responses. In addition, each student will identify
clinical problem, synthesize the literature around it and write a formal
paper. Each health response will be
examined in respect to definition, related terms, pathophysiological
mechanisms, assessment parameters, risk groups, and associated diagnoses. Emphasis will be placed on analysis of
factors related to legal, ethical, cultural, family, and spirituality
dimensions. |
