NRS 110 - Foundations of Nursing-Health Promotion

4 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Completion of all prerequisite / preparatory courses (minimum of 45 credits) and formal acceptance into the RCC AAS nursing program.

Course Description: This course introduces the learner to framework of the OCNE curriculum. The emphasis on health promotion across the life span includes learning about self-health as well as client health practices. To support self and client health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview clients in a culturally sensitive manner, work as members of a multidisciplinary team giving and receiving feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Populations studied in the course include children, adults, older adults and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy. This course includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. The clinical portion of the course includes practice with therapeutic communication skills and selected core nursing skills identified in the OCNE Core Nursing Skills document.

Course Level: Career/Tech Preparatory

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Conduct a culturally and age-appropriate health assessment, and interpret health data, such as screening for biological and psychosocial health risks, evidence of safe and healthy habits, developmental tasks and vulnerabilities, family functioning. (ILO: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Global Consciousness)
CLO#2: Develop a plan of care that is family-centered, and developmentally and culturally appropriate, using evidence such as clinical guidelines and integrative literature reviews, to help facilitate a patient’s health behavior change.
CLO#3: Use effective communication to establish a therapeutic patient-centered relationship and advocate for a health behavior change based on assessment of health risks.
CLO#4: Design and evaluate a health behavior change for self and for a selected patient using relevant evidence and family/cultural data.
CLO#5: Demonstrate beginning use of selected nursing frameworks, including the legal/ethical base for practice, and their application to the practice of nursing.
CLO#6: Recognize and report the importance and relevance of reflection on clinical experiences and on competencies and its influence on personal and professional behavior.
CLO#7: Demonstrate use of effective learning strategies in a performance-based curriculum.
CLO#8: Demonstrate use of the importance of fulfilling commitments to the team in timely completion of assignments.
CLO#9: Demonstrate safe and competent practice of the fundamentals of nursing care, and adherence to patient dignity, safety of patient, self and others, asepsis, and infection prevention with each patient encounter.