ADN 457 - Complex Health Concepts

Credit(s) 12.00
Lecture Hours: 8.00
Clinical Hours: 12.00
This course is designed to assimilate the concepts within the domain of the individual, healthcare, and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of fluid and electrolytes, metabolism, perfusion, professional behaviors, caring interventions, and managing care, mobility, stress/coping, violence, health-wellness-illness, healthcare systems, and quality improvement. This course incorporates Preceptorship for the Associate Degree Nursing students, which builds upon concepts taught in previous nursing courses. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process to meet the health needs of individuals and groups across the life span.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C in the following courses:

ADN 302

ADN 451

ADN 176

, and

BIO 186

SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

Assimilate all concepts within the domain of the individual related to complex alterations in health.
Demonstrates safe, culturally competent, therapeutic nursing care to multiple individuals with complex alterations in health.
Safely and ethically execute the management of therapeutic nursing care within the healthcare system for individuals with complex alterations in health.
Collaborates with the interdisciplinary health care team to safely and ethically execute the management of therapeutic nursing care within the health care system.