BSN Course Objectives (COs): By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Identify competent nursing care for clients with chronic conditions, utilizing evidence-based practice guidelines (SLO 1,2,5).
2.
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BSN Course Objectives (COs): By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Identify competent nursing care for clients with chronic conditions, utilizing evidence-based practice guidelines (SLO 1,2,5).
2. Differentiate care needs of the elderly adult experiencing alterations in health (SLO 2,3,5).
3. Acknowledge legal and ethical issues in healthcare (SLO 3).
4. Prioritize nursing care for patients with chronic alterations in health (SLO 1.2.4.5).
5. Develop an individualized teaching plan for the client with the goal of improving and maintaining personal health (SLO 1,2,3,4).
6. Correctly calculate medication doses appropriate for the population (SLO 1,5).
THOROUGHLY ANSWER THE FOLLOWING COMPREHENSIVELY and upload 24 hours BEFORE SIMULATION TIME (48
hours preferable). Incomplete tickets will be returned for redo, and must be in before next simulation at discretion of instructor.
**ANSWERS MUST BE paraphrased AND CITE PROFESSIONAL source (Author, year, page).
1. “Sacred Cow”: Everyone “knows” that confusion in the elderly indicates an underlying UTI. What are some pathophysiology theories about how the correlation?
2. Opinion based on research: How might Parkinson’s Disease increase the risk of UTI?
3. What labs should be followed for Mrs. Harrison’s medications?
4. Discuss the difference between normal urine output (per hour) and minimal. What does each indicate?
5. See Marchant, J. (2018). When Antibiotics turn Toxic. Nature. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03267-5 Discuss fluroquinolone adverse effects and toxicity.
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6. How does the nurse’s communication pattern differ between delirium and dementia? Communicating with a person who has both dementia and delirium tends to be more challenging. The person's ability to understand what you are saying and his or her ability to make you understand can be inconsistent. Here are a few communication techniques I found researching this topic:
1. What are the focused assessments for this patient? Describe the elements of each.
Pain: By accessing pain level we can determine the severity and the need for treatment to help her.
2. Create 3 problem-based nursing diagnoses using template from Simulation Materials/General Information. Insert template into Ticket.
MS I Nursing Diagnosis Template
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