[RN 202] Syllabus

Course Syllabus:  [Syllabus PDF Document]

Meet Your Instructor:  Mila Paunovic & Louise Jones

Course Description:  

RN 202 emphasizes nursing process for adult and geriatric patients of diverse cultures with critical psychosocial and biological system needs; with a focus on R.N. role in leadership, decision making and patient teaching.

Textbook Information:  

• Deglin J, Vallerand A, eds. Davis’s drug guide for nurses. Latest edition. Philadelphia: A. Davis, 2013 (ISBN: 0-8036-1454-3).
• Ignatavicius D, Workman ML. eds. Medical-surgical nursing: patient-centered collaborative Care. 7^th St Louis, MO:  Saunders Elsevier: 2010 (ISBN: 978-1-4377-2801-9).
• Phillips L. Manual of I.V. therapeutics:  Evidence-based practice for infusion therapy. 6th ed. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 2010 (ISBN: 978-0-8036-3846-4)

Course Learning Objectives & Student Learning Objectives:  

By the end of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate communication skills  by:

a. managing effective, accurate and congruent transfer of information.

b. designing health care teaching plans to assist the patient and family to recover optimal fulfillment of system needs.

By the end of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate thinking and reasoning   skills by:

a.modifying the nursing process to meet the patient’s biological and psychosocial system needs;

b. selecting theories related to natural, behavioral, and social sciences that influence.patient’s biological and psychosocial system needs in order to provide  individualized nursing care;

c. demonstrating appropriate delegation of care to members of the health care team in various health care settings.

By the end of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate development of the knowledge and skills necessary to enter a registered nursing career by:

a. evaluating one’s own accountability and responsibility for nursing practice within legal/ethical boundaries; 

b.evaluating one’s own development of professional awareness, commitment, education and growth; 

c. operating as an advocate in the care of patients with biological and psychosocial system needs.