Maricopa Community Colleges  NUR290BA   19886-20086 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 07/22/08
NUR290BA 19886-20086 LEC 0.50 Credit(s) 0.50 Period(s)
Nursing Diagnosis
The concept of nursing diagnosis and its relationship to the nursing process. Utilization of nursing diagnosis in the patient care planning process, with application of the process to realistic patient situations.
Prerequisites: Registered Nurse (RN) licensure, or enrollment in RN program, or permission of Instructor.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
NUR290BA   19886-20086 Nursing Diagnosis
1. Describe the relationship of nursing diagnosis to the nursing process. (I)
2. Use Gordon's Functional Health Patterns organization format when analyzing patient data. (I)
3. Apply a systematic and logical cognitive process to identify correct nursing diagnosis categories. (I)
4. Formulate a nursing diagnosis, indicating the correct etiology in the diagnostic statement. (I)
5. Collect patient data using Gordon's data base format. (II)
6. Identify patient problems from the patient data analysis. (III)
7. Write a realistic outcome for a nusring diagnostic statement using the behavioral objective format. (IV)
8. Develop realistic nursing orders for the identified nursing diagnosis. (V)
9. Critique written components of the nursing care plan process. (VI)
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MCCCD Official Course Outline:
 
NUR290BA   19886-20086 Nursing Diagnosis
    I. Nursing diagnosis
        A. Introduction
          1. Overview of the nursing process
          2. Placement of nursing diagnosis
        B. Historical evolution of nursing diagnosis
        C. Definition of nursing diagnosis
          1. Concept
          2. Process
          3. Structure
          4. Overall definition
        D. Legal implications
          1. Nurse Practice Acts
          2. Clinical nursing problems versus clinical medical problem
            a. Dependent role
            b. Interdependent
            c. Independent role
        E. Data collection
          1. Nurse data base versus medical data base
          2. Functional health patterns
            a. Purpose
            b. Format
            c. Application
            d. Pitfalls
        F. Identification of nursing diagnosis: cognitive process
          1. Recognize clues
          2. Cluster clues
          3. Hypothesize as to cause
          4. Search for more clues
          5. Validate hypothesis
        G. Common pitfalls in diagnostic reasoning
        H. Application of nursing diagnosis to a patient situation
      II. Patient data
          A. Definition of terms
          B. Patient data and the nursing process
          C. Types of patient data
          D. Data source categories
        III. Patient problems
            A. Definition
            B. Types
            C. Patient problems and the nursing process
            D. Identification of patient problems
          IV. Behavioral objectives: outcomes
              A. Definition
              B. Domains
              C. Components
              D. Relationship to the nursing process
              E. Appropriate versus inappropriate behavioral objectives
              F. Sequential process for writing behavioral objectives
            V. Nursing orders
                A. Definition
                B. Types
                C. Components
                D. Relationship to the nursing process
                E. Appropriate versus inappropriate nursing orders
                F. Sequential process for writing nursing orders
              VI. Critique of a nursing care plan
                  A. Critique components of care plan data collection
                  B. Nursing diagnosis
                  C. Nursing orders
                  D. Outcomes
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