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May 16, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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NURS 240 Advanced Skills Lab2 credits
This course teaches advanced medical surgical nursing evidence-based practice within the laboratory and simulation environment. Students apply critical thinking, prioritize care, refine nursing skills, and practice collaborative and therapeutic communication. Simulations and skills will entail complex health disturbances and scenarios to engage students with enhanced problem solving and practice.
Prerequisites: NURS 221 and NURS 225
Corequisites: NURS 241 and NURS 242
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Evaluate nursing care involving life and death decisions within evidence-based, ethical, and legal frameworks
- Facilitate therapeutic communication with patients and families
- Analyze nursing diagnoses, implementation, and evaluation using assessment tools and nursing process while incorporating theoretical principals and pathophysiology to prioritize care
- Apply subjective and objective data collection, nursing diagnosis, care implementation, and evaluation using assessment tools, nursing process and theoretical principals to prioritize care
- Collaborate and role play safe and effective communication among health team members, family, and patient within a rapidly changing clinical simulation scenario
Total Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 40
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