Maricopa Community Colleges  NUR260   20012-20032 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 06/17/03
NUR260 20012-20032 LEC 2 Credit(s) 2 Period(s)
Nursing Process and Critical Thinking III
Focus on nursing concepts and theories to meet complex human needs across the life span based on the wellness/illness continuum in a variety of acute care and community settings. Emphasis on utilizing critical thinking skills to plan holistic care through the nursing process for groups of clients with selected acute and chronic alterations in health and psychiatric/mental health disorders. Prerequisites: (NUR180, NUR184, NUR186, NUR188, HCC208, and HCR240 or HCR240AB) or Integrated Competency Assessment Network (ICAN) placement.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
NUR260   20012-20032 Nursing Process and Critical Thinking III
1. Adapt therapeutic communication skills to convey caring with clients and families experiencing psychiatric/mental health disorders and acute and chronic alterations in health. (I)
2. Incorporate critical thinking skills to make inferences and judgments from client data that describe actual and potential nursing problems. (II)
3. Integrate holism in planning nursing care of clients and families with psychiatric/mental disorders and acute and chronic alterations in health. (III)
4. Design a holistic health care teaching plan in collaboration with client, family and members of the health team. (II, III)
5. Develop a nursing plan of care for clients with acute and chronic alterations of health and psychiatric/mental health disorders. (IV)
6. Modify the nursing plan of care for clients across the life span integrating their developmental needs. (IV)
7. Analyze community based health care issues within a defined community. (IV)
8. Incorporate professional nursing standards in the plan of care for clients and families with acute and chronic alterations of health and psychiatric/mental health disorders. (IV, V)
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NUR260   20012-20032 Nursing Process and Critical Thinking III
    I. Caring
        A. Advanced techniques in therapeutic communication in psychiatric/mental health settings
        B. Caring behaviors
      II. Critical Thinking
          A. Analysis of data
          B. Inferences and judgment
          C. Modification of nursing care plan
        III. Holism
            A. Cultural competence
            B. Life span development
            C. Wellness / illness continuum
            D. Health education /promotion
            E. Chronic illness and disabilities
          IV. Safe Nursing Practice
              A. Nursing process for clients with psychiatric/mental health disorders
                1. mood disorders
                2. thought disorders
                3. psychophysiological disorders
                4. personality disorders
                5. anxiety disorders
                6. child/adolescent disorders
                7. family violence
                8. addictions disorders
                9. family in crisis
              B. Nursing process for clients with acute and chronic alterations in health
                1. altered immune response
                2. ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination 3 urinary elimination
                4. regulatory mechanisms
              C. Nursing process for clients in the community
                1. principles of epidemiology
                2. collaborative role as the case manager
                3. accessing resources
            V. Role Development
                A. Standards of nursing care related to clients with acute and chronic alterations in health
                B. Standards of nursing care related to client and families with psychiatric/mental health disorders
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