Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This course introduces the learner to framework of the OCNE curriculum. The emphasis on health promotion across the life span includes learning about self-health as well as patient health practices. To support self and patient health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview patients in a culturally sensitive manner, work as members of a multidisciplinary team giving and receiving feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Populations studied in the course include children, adults, older adults and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy.  Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. The clinical portion of the course includes practice with therapeutic communication skills and selected core nursing skills identified in the OCNE Core Nursing Skills document.This course introduces the learner to framework of the OCNE curriculum. The emphasis on health promotion across the life span includes learning about self-health as well as patient health practices. To support self and patient health practices, students learn to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease/illness, apply growth and development theory, interview patients in a culturally sensitive manner, work as members of a multidisciplinary team giving and receiving feedback about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Populations studied in the course include children, adults, older adults and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy.  Includes classroom and clinical learning experiences. The clinical portion of the course includes practice with therapeutic communication skills and selected core nursing skills identified in the OCNE Core Nursing Skills document.

1. Conduct a culturally and age appropriate health assessment, and interpret health data, such as screening for biological and psychosocial health risks, evidence of safe and healthy habits, developmental tasks and vulnerabilities, and patterns family functioning.
2. Develop a plan of care that is family-centered, and developmentally and culturally appropriate using evidence such as clinical practice guidelines and integrative literature reviews, to help facilitate a client’s health behavior change.
3. Use effective communication to establish a therapeutic client-centered relationship and advocate for a health behavior change based on assessment of health risks.
4. Design and evaluate a health behavior change for self and for a selected client using relevant evidence and family/cultural data.
5. Demonstrate beginning use of selected nursing frameworks, including the legal ethical base for practice, and their application to the practice of nursing.
6. Recognize the importance and relevance of reflection on clinical experiences and on competencies and its influence on personal and professional behavior.
7. Demonstrate use of effective learning strategies in a performance-based curriculum.
8. Demonstrate use of the importance of fulfilling commitments to the team in completing assignments.

Intended Outcomes for the course:

1.  Conduct a culturally and age appropriate health assessment, and interpret health data, such as screening for biological and psychosocial health risks, evidence of safe and healthy habits, developmental tasks and vulnerabilities, and patterns of family functioning.

2.  Develop a plan of care that is family-centered, and developmentally and culturally appropriate using evidence such as clinical practice guidelines and integrative literature reviews, to help facilitate a patient’s health behavior change.

3.  Use effective communication to establish a therapeutic patient-centered relationship and advocate for a health behavior change based on assessment of health risks.

4.  Design and evaluate a health behavior change for self and for a selected patient using relevant evidence and family/cultural data. 

5.  Demonstrate beginning use of selected nursing frameworks, including the legal ethical base for practice, and their application to the practice of nursing.

6.  Recognize the importance and relevance of reflection on clinical experiences and on competencies and its influence on personal and professional behavior.

7.  Demonstrate use of effective learning strategies in a performance-based curriculum.

8.  Demonstrate use of the importance of fulfilling commitments to the team in timely completion of assignments.

9.  Demonstrate safe and competent practice of the fundamentals of nursing care, and adherence to patient dignity, safety of patient, self and others, asepsis, and infection prevention with each patient encounter.

Classroom lecture
Skills Lab
Clinical
Projects
Written papers

Multiple choice exams
Clinical performance evaluation
Lab skill performance evaluation

Themes, Issues & Concepts:

Learning in OCNE

Fundamentals of Health Promotion and Assessment

Basic Skills/Caregiving Skills and Medication Administration

Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Children and Adolescents

Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Young and Middle Age Adult

Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan: Pregnancy

Health Promotion and Assessment across the lifespan:  Older Adult

Skills:

Principles of Infection control & PPE
Hand washing 

Isolation technique 

Body mechanics

Client/environment safety, bed making

Basic ‘head to toe’ physical assessment
Vital signs & SpO2 (pulse oximetry)

Health History interviewing (across the lifespan)

Height & Weight

Client hygiene

Client Skin Care & Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Client range of motion

Client’s ADLs,  mobility, fall risk

Safe patient handling: positioning, transfers & mobilizing
Nutrition and elimination procedures, I&O
Pain Assessment & Management: Acute & Chronic
Nursing Documentation

Diabetic Care (skin, foot, oral, illness, eyes)

Capillary Blood Glucose Measurement

Intramuscular Injection sites

Subcutaneous and Intradermal Injections sites

Insulin preparation/injection

Medication calculation