MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

NUR260   19996-20004

Nursing Process and Critical Thinking III

1.

Employ critical thinking skills to make inferences and judgments from client data that describes actual and potential nursing problems that will meet physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs of clients. (I, II, III)

2.

Use the nursing process to care for clients across the life span who have physical and mental health problems. (II, III, IV, V)

3.

Develop nursing care plans that use established nursing diagnoses for clients with complex health problems based on the legal and ethical boundaries of nursing care. (II)

4.

Demonstrate caring behaviors with clients with physical and mental health problems in a variety of clinical settings. (II, III, IV, V)

5.

Demonstrate strategies for providing culturally sensitive care to clients across the wellness/illness continuum in both the acute care and community settings. ( II, III, IV, V)

6.

Use theories of human growth and development to develop holistic nursing care plans for clients with physical and mental health across the life span. (III)

7.

Apply knowledge of nutrition, fluid and electrolyte balance, oxygenation, and skin integrity to the care of clients with selected system disorders. (IV)

8.

Identify appropriate and holistic nursing care for clients with problems related to altered immune responses, cancers affecting major systems, ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination, renal and urinary function and regulatory mechanisms. (IV)

9.

Develop a teaching plan in collaboration with members of the health care team that promotes and maintains health, prevents illness, and meets the needs of clients. (IV)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

NUR260   19996-20004

Nursing Process and Critical Thinking III

I. Critical Thinking in the Nursing Process

A. Cognitive processes

B. Decision making

C. Analysis of client data

D. Inferences and judgments

E. Development of the nursing care plan

II. Professional Nursing using the Nursing Process

A. Wellness-illness-wellness continuum

B. Professional nursing

1. legal concerns

2. ethical considerations

3. therapeutic communication

4. caring behaviors

C. Nursing process

III. Holistic Nursing Care

A. Developmental considerations

B. Cultural sensitivity

IV. Nursing Process for Clients with Physiologic Needs

A. Integration of basic needs with system disorders

1. nutrition

2. fluid and electrolytes

3. oxygenation

4. skin integrity

B. System disorders

1. altered immune responses

2. cancers affecting major systems

3. ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination

4. renal and urinary function regulatory mechanisms

C. Client teaching

1. principles of teaching and learning

2. cultural sensitivity

3. developmental level

4. health promotion

5. health maintenance

V. Nursing Process for Clients with Psychological/Mental Health Disorders

A. Mood disorders

B. Thought disorders

C. Psychophysiological disorders

D. Anxiety disorders

E. Attention deficit disorders

F. Family violence

G. Substance abuse

H. Eating disorders

I. Personality disorders