MNURS 105 - Fundamentals of Health Community Lab

Credits: 2
Designed for a student who is already Medical Assistant-Certified and is enrolled in the MA to LPN program. Provides students with the knowledge of basic patient care skills across the lifespan and their application in the clinical setting. Students will utilize critical thinking with the nursing process, demonstrate culturally sensitive care, provide documentation, and communicate with clients/families and members of the health care team. On campus simulation scenarios will provide the student with the opportunity to begin to develop clinical reasoning skills in a safe environment. To be used concurrently with NURSE 105 .

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in Practical Nursing program and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:

Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
Use the nursing process with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive nursing care plan / concept map for one or more patients who are in different stages of the life cycle.
Document nursing care provided and patient/family teaching.
Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, and spiritual needs of a client.
Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including a head to toe physical assessment and accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.
Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

Program Outcomes
Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.