The student will focus on the nursing care of clients with common ineffective behaviours, nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems in the integumentary, immune, musculoskeletal and sensory-neurological systems. These include impaired skin/tissue integrity, impaired oral mucous membrane, ineffective protection, risk for infection, potential complications: opportunistic infection, impaired physical mobility, pain, fluid volume excess/deficit, hypovolemia, shock, hemorrhage and increased intracranial pressure. Students will learn how to assess and care for clients during the diagnostic phase, the perioperative period and the experience of loss, separation and grief. This course will build on the understanding of adaptive behaviours in these systems explored in the Health Assessment Course and first semester nursing theory and health course.
Course Code
PNR212
Course Credit
3