At the end of the course, the students will be able to demonstrate beginning nursing skills in health promotion and illness prevention utilizing the nursing process; as well as value nursing as a Profession, an Art, and as a Science. Specifically, the students are expected to: a.1 Learn the concepts of Nursing as a Science b.1 Utilize the nursing process in the holistic care of client for the promotion and maintenance of care. c.1 Develop their Knowledge, Skills and Attitude (KSA) in nursing as applied in the hospital and community as well. c.3 Demonstrate correctly and tactfully the nursing procedures learned in the skills laboratory. c.3 Demonstrate selected competencies under the eleven key areas of responsibilities pertinent to nursing.
UNIT 1 Understanding the Person
A. The Individual, Family, Group and Community
1. The Individual
2. Needs of the Individual 3. The Family
4. Groups
5. The Community
B. Self – Concept
1. Development of a self-concept
2. Four Components of Self – concept
3. Factors affecting the Self-concept
4. Altered Self-concept
5. Assisting the Patient to reach long-term goals when experiencing an alteration in self-concept 6. Nursing measures for adjusting to an alteration in body image
C. Values in the Nursing Context
1. Definition and function of values
2. Value Formation
3. Modification of Values
4. Professional practice and values
D. Culture and Ethnicity in the Nursing Context
1. Culture and Ethnicity
2. Definitions of Culture/Ethnicity
3. Influences of culture on patients
4. Differences and similarities among cultural and ethnic groups
5. Cultural/ethnic factors and the nursing process
UNIT 2 Nursing as a Science
A. Nursing Process
1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Intervention
5. Evaluation
6. Documentation 7. SOAPIE charting
8. NCP formulation
b. Health & Illness
1. Define Health, Wellness and Illness
2. Explain the dimensions of wellness
3. Discuss the health-illness continuum
4. Enumerate the stages of wellness and illness
5. Describe the three levels of prevention
c. Levels of Care
1. Health promotion
2. Disease prevention
3. Health maintenance
4. Curative
5. Rehabilitative
E. Basic Interventions to maintain
a. Healthy Lifestyle
b. Temperature Regulation
c. Mobility & Exercise
d. Hygiene and Comfort
e. Safety, security and privacy
f. Psychosocial and spiritual concerns
F. Meeting Needs related to death and dying/grief and grieving
g. Concept of death and dying/grief and grieving
h. Care of the terminally ill patients and their families
i. Post mortem care
VIII. Methodology, Activities, & Assessment Tools:
a. Research
b. Case Analysis
c. Examinations
d. Audio-visual Aids
e. Handouts
f. Demonstrations – use of models
g. Return demonstration by students utilizing evaluation tool for grading
h. Multimedia
Kozier, Erb, Olivieri. Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts, Process and Practice. 2006. Massachusetts; Benjamin/Cunning Publishing Co. Inc.
Josie Quiambao-Udan RN,MAN. 3.Fundamentals of Nursing, Concepts and Clinical Application, 2nd Ed., 2004 .
