NUR 2030 - Foundations of Safe, Person-Centered Nursing Care for CNAs

3 lecture hours 6 lab hours 5 credits

• Students must provide proof of active Certified Nurse Assistant certification and have completed the transfer credit process for NUR 2035.
• NUR 2030 will substitute for NUR 2020 for students who have an active CNA certification

• Use therapeutic communication skills to build a partnership based on an understanding of the client as a unique human being whose health and perspectives have been influenced by social and cultural factors and one’s lifetime experiences
• Use core nursing knowledge, critical thinking, and the client’s input to develop a logical plan of care that incorporates and advocates for care priorities and reflects the client’s values, needs, and preferences
• Use the nursing process to provide safe, effective, equitable, compassionate person-centered care with a focus on interventions that promote self-care and protect, maintain, or restore health
• Demonstrate the clinical and medication administration skills needed to practice safe, high quality nursing care
• Use patient education principles to plan, implement, and evaluate an individual teaching intervention that promotes or restores health, prevents complications, or advances the client’s or family’s self-care skills
• Make effective use of health information systems and other technology in the provision of client care
• Further develop the use of best evidence to support clinical judgment and practice across the lifespan
• Develop professional communication to build collegiality and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to improve care
• Reflect on one’s personal values and biases as part of developing a deeper insight into the core values of nursing; exhibit behaviors that align with those of an ethical, responsible professional and a leader of character
• Exhibit an attitude of curiosity by using resources, feedback, and reflection to develop own practice and critical thinking skills

• None

• Nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, interventions and evaluation
• Clinical judgment/critical thinking

Professional Practice

• Documentation and informatics
• Licensing and regulation, legal issues
• Introduction to communication, collaboration, delegation, conflict resolution, and verbal de-escalation
• Application of evidence-based practice in clinical judgment through the nursing process

Family Health Promotion

• The experience of aging
• Deficient diversional activity; loneliness
• Health seeking behavior; readiness for enhanced health management
• Health perception/health management, ineffective health management

Functional Health Patterns and Risk Reduction

• Risk for injury: safely initiatives, prevention
• Activity-exercises, mobility, prevention of hazards of immobility
• Readiness for enhanced knowledge, deficient knowledge
• Self-concept and ineffective individual coping
• Risk for injury, disabled family coping, domestic and intimate partner violence
• Anxiety - mild, moderate, anticipatory; self-perception; fear
• Risk for impaired skin integrity, perssure ulcers
• Imbalanced nutrition: swallowing, risk for aspiration
• Risk for infection, transmission, chain of infection
• Anticipatory grief, dysfunctional grief, death across the lifespan
• Readiness for enhanced sleep and sleep pattern disturbance

• Pharmacology lab (medication calculations and medication administration)
• Focused assessment
• Restraint and restraint alternative use
• Postmortem care
• Aspiration prevention
• Safe patient handling and assistive devices-cane, walker
• Verbal de-escalation
• Electronic Health Record (Orientation and use)

Clinical

• Clinical experiences
• Simulations