RNSG 2432 ENHANCED CONCEPTS OF ADULT HEALTH
Course Description
This course focuses on enhanced concepts and skills for developing professional competencies in
complicated nursing care situations involving adult patients and families with multiple body system
problems. It continues with development of the professional nurse as a provider of care, patient safety
advocate, member of health care team, and member of the profession in complicated nursing care
situations. Emphasis is on critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and determining legal/ethical values for
optimization of patient care in intermediate and acute care settings.
Prerequisites: RNSG 1412, RNSG 1262, RNSG 2213, RNSG 1261; Co-Requisite: RNSG 2362
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Utilize clinical reasoning and the nursing process guided by evidence based practice as a
framework for nursing decisions in meeting the health care needs of adult patients /families
with multiple body system problems.
2. Integrate the etiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, complications,
therapeutic interventions for patients / families with complicated health needs.
3. Integrate the four roles of the professional nurse when providing patient-centered care for adult
patients and families with complicated health needs.
4. Modify teaching plans that assist adult patients and their families to meet their needs for health
maintenance, promotion, and /or restoration.
5. Integrate legal principles from governing and accrediting agencies and ethical guidelines when
planning patient-centered nursing care.
6. Formulate goals and outcomes that promote quality and a risk free, safe environment for all
individuals.
7. Demonstrate competence and safety in the performance of selected nursing skills.
8. Analyze the role of a health care advocate when collaborating with members of the
interdisciplinary health team determining resources that facilitate continuity of care; health
promotion, maintenance, and restoration.
9. Integrate the principles of therapeutic communication that facilitate interactions with patients
and health care members
10. Analyze use of technology when communicating and managing information to support decision
making to improve care for individuals and their families.
11. Analyze the guidelines and responsibilities associated with delegation of nursing care.
12. Analyze measures that promote the development and practice of professional nursing.
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COURSE CONTENT
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Respiratory Disorder
Module 1:
Pleural & Thoracic Injury
Includes chest tubes
Module 2:
Respiratory Failure & ARDS
Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary emboli
Pulmonary hypertension
Lung transplant
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Cardiovascular Disorder
Module 3:
Cardiac Rhythm Disorders
Module 4:
Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema
Module 5:
Valvular Heart Disease, Myopathy & Aneurysms
Module 6:
Inflammatory Heart Disorders
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Neurosensory Disorder
Module 7:
Spinal Cord Injury
Module 8:
Herniated Disc & Spinal Cord Tumors
Module 9:
Stroke & Brain Tumors
Module 10:
Altered Cerebral Function & Increased ICP
Module 11:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Genitourinary Disorder
Module 12:
Acute Renal Failure & Kidney Trauma
Module 13:
Chronic Renal failure, immunologic disorders of the kidney, and chronic kidney
disease
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Gastrointestinal Disorder
Module 14:
Liver: Hepatitis & Cirrhosis
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual needing Critical Care
Module 15:
Trauma, Shock, Emergency and Critical Care Nursing
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Integumentary Disorder
Module 16:
Burns
Providing Patient-Centered Care for the Individual with a Endocrine Disorder
Module 17:
Pituitary & Adrenal Disorders
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