Advanced Concepts of Adult Health Syllabus for 2024-2025
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Course

RNSG-2231-001 Advanced Concepts of Adult Health

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: RNSG 1248 and RNSG 2213 Corequisite: RNSG 2262

Course Description

Application of advanced concepts and skills for the development of the professional nurse's roles with adult patients and families with complex health needs involving multiple body systems. Emphasis on advanced knowledge, judgment, skills and professional values within a legal/ethical framework. This course lends itself to a blocked approach.

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Occupational License Disclaimer

Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:

Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:

Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me

You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.

Hours

(2 sem hrs; 2 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Required:

• Course Manual for RNSG 2231 and RNSG 2262: available online
• Sole/Klein/Moseley, Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition, St. Louis: Saunders Company, 2021. 
• Huff, ECG Workout: Exercises in Arrhythmia Interpretation, 8th Edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2023. 
• Hinkle and Cheever; Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th or 15th edition, Wolters Kluwer Health

Suggested:

• Any general drug guide or Pharmacology book, intravenous medications guide and laboratory manual.
   

Supplies

Textbooks, course manual, computer with stable internet (see Student Handbook for specific devise requirements).
 

Student Performance

Upon completion of the Advanced Concepts of Adult Health course, the student will:

  Member of the Profession

1. Identify an ethical-legal framework and applicable professional standards, regulation and requirements for nursing practice in critically ill patient situations who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments. 
2. Identify avenues for continuing competence in critical care nursing practice.
3. Discuss characteristics of quality nursing care for the critical ill patient and ways to promote evidence based critical care nursing practice.

Provider of Patient-Centered Care

1. Discuss strategies, processes and procedures to promote, maintain, and restore the health of the critically ill patient and incorporating their families in the process.      
2. Utilize a systematic process and clinical reasoning based on analysis of comprehensive assessment data to plan holistic patient-centered care for critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments in the critical care environment.
3. Articulate nursing concepts specific to meeting unique psychosocial needs of the critically ill      patient and their families.
4. Formulate effective health teaching strategies for critically ill patients and their families.
5. Identify both basic and advanced nursing skills relevant to the care of critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments.
6. Demonstrate respects and compassionate behaviors using appropriate communication skills in the care of patients and their families within the critical care environment regardless of culture, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, identity, spirituality or disability.
7. Determine appropriate human, information and physical resources to meet the needs of the critically ill patient and their families for comprehensive, quality care.

Patient Safety Advocate

1. Locate evidence-based practice data to improve the safety and quality of patient-centered care for the critically ill patient who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments.
2. Discuss regulations of the Texas Nursing Practice Act and Texas Board of Nursing that pertain to the promotion of patient safety in critical care environments.

Member of the Healthcare Team

1. Explain various approaches to coordinate, collaborate and communicate in a timely manner with patients, families and the interdisciplinary team to promote and provide quality holistic patient-centered care to patients who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments.
2. Discuss the need to participate with health care teams during local or global health emergencies or pandemics to promote health and safety, and prevent disease.
3. Summarize how to utilize information systems and technology to efficiently manage and improve holistic patient-centered care critically-ill patients who require mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring and other lifesaving treatments.
4. Discuss principles and practices of effective assignment, delegation of nursing activities and supervision in the critical care environment.

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Log in using the AC Connect Portal

In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .

If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".

Expected Student Behavior

See the A.D.N. Student Handbook, Professional Conduct, ANA Code of Ethics and Amarillo College Student Rights and Responsibilities.

Grading Criteria

Attendance

Regular attendance is required.  Less than 90% of classroom hours may result in failure of the course.
 

RNSG 2262 - clinical must be taken congruently with RNSG 2231. 

Calendar

Additional Information

Academic Grievances

A student who has a grievance concerning an academic course in which he or she is enrolled should make an appeal in the following order to the:

1.   Instructor: Verena Johnson 806-356 -3630

2.   Assistant Director: Teresa Herrera 806-467-3002

3.   Dean/Division Committee: Kim Crowley 806-354-6087

4.   Associate VP of Academic Affairs:  Becky Burton 806-371-5122

5.   VP of Academic Affairs:  Dr. Frank Sobey 806-345-5518

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