Interpersonal and Communication Skills for Health Care Professionals - NURS20010
-Compentencies: Interpersonal Communication skills, APA Writing Skills
-Evidence Based Practice: Group Facilitations, Group Presentation on AssertiveCommunication
-Personal Reflection: This course helped improve my APA writing skills, showed me the benefits of teamwork, helped improve my communication skills and allowed me to apply these techniques to nursing and everyday life situations.
Foundations of Assessment and Communication in Nursing - NURS20020
-Compentencies: Vital Signs, Head-to-Toe Assessment, Interpersonal Process Recording
-Evidence Based Practice: Concept Care Maps
-Personal Reflection: This class was a great introduction to nursing. It introduced the basics and what to expect as I move further along in my nursing career. It helped prepare me for the role of a professional nurse and taught me many useful tools and techniques that I will take with me through clinicals and on through my nursing career.
Healthcare of Children - NURS 30020
-Competencies: Perspectives of healthcare of children, Safe medication dosage calculations related to the pediatric client; Alterations in fluid and electrolyte balance; Alterations in GI function; Pain assessment and management; Alterations in cardiovascular function; Infant child and adolescent nutrition; Alterations in Respiratory function; Alterations in mental health and cognition; Social and environmental influences; Alterations in eye, ear, nose and throat functions; Alterations in musculoskeletal function; Infectious and communicable diseases; Alterations in hematologic function; Life threatening illness or injury; Alterations in GU function; Alterations in Endocrine function; Alterations in neurologic function; Alterations in cellular growth and End of life care and bereavement. Electronic Charting, Clinical Access and EPIC program training.
-Patient teaching: Proper handwashing techniques to care givers; Proper Bottle preparation and feeding; Importance of adherence to prescribed medications; Teaching of proper hydration and nutrition for optimal health and CPR education
Evidence Based Practice: direct care of pediatric patients; Case Studies on Leukemia, Asthma, Dehydration, Diabetes, Sickle Cell Anemia, Third Degree burns, and Heart Defects; Simulations, Patient charting and a Nursing Process Paper.
Personal Reflection: This course provide me with the many tools and skills needed to provide effective healthcare for children of all different ages and developmental ages. It allowed me to use critical thinking skills when caring for the children. It helped my communication skills of learning how to interact with differnt types of children, families and loved ones around. I was able to use these skills and apply my knowledge in a clinical setting. This enabled me the ability to develop a successful nursing care plan for the pediatric client and put that plan of care into action.
Parent Newborn Nursing - NURS30010 -
Competencies: Use of ethical, legal, and hospital guidelines in the clinical setting; Head to toe assessment of the newborn; Focused assessment of the newborn; Head to toe assessment on a postpartum mother; Focused assessment on a postpartum mother using the BUBBLE-HEB model, Use of the nursing process and therapeutic communication to provide safe and effective care to clients in a clinical setting; Medication administration: IM, PO, and IV; Fetal monitoring: Nonstress Test, Biophysical Profile, Accelerations, Early, Late, and Variable decelerations; Pain assessment and management towards postpartum mothers; Conception, fetal development, & healthy pregnancy; Nursing care related to the high risk newborn; Stages of Labor; and Nursing care related to fertility and infertility issues, contraceptive use, and infection control.
-Patient teaching: Hand hygiene and infection control; Umbilical cord care; Circumcision care including signs and symptoms of infection; Importance of maternal and infant nutrition; Suctioning the newborn; Use of sitz baths to promote perineal comfort; Different techniques for proper breast feeding and newborn positioning during and after feedings.
Evidence Based Practice: Medication administration and intervention follow-up; Postpartum Assessment; Pain medication to postpartum clients & Evidence-based practice in maternal-child nursing, nursing research, & standards of practice. Case Study: This paper was written on a postpartum client and included nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions with rationale. The information was collected through the use of textbooks, journal articles and conversations with the client.
Personal Reflection: This course was was an amazing experience to me and really opened my eyes to the world of newborn nursing. It was amazing to be there with the patient before, during and after they gave birth and to see the bond and connection between the parents and their child. This course also allowed me many oppurtunities to practice the skills that I have learned in previous courses. It also showed me just how important patient education can be and the importance of providing your clients with all the information possible to help them care for their newborn child.
Nursing Informatics - NURS30050
-Compentencies: Understanding of Nursing Informatics in the healthcare profession, Understanding of the terminology and technology behind nursing informatics, HIPAA regulations, Evidence-based practice in relation to nursing informatics, Patient education through techological uses, Understanding of how technology in the nursing profession positively impacts communication techniques and patient care
Evidence Based Practice: Diabetes Concept Care Map
PatientTeaching: Depression Brochure, H1N1 Proposal.
Personal Reflection: The course has helped me to gain a better understanding on the importance of nursing informatics and how to prepare for it while entering into the nursing profession. I have learned how the use of technology in nursing positively impacts both patients as well as the health care team. With nursing as a profession moving forward in the world of technology, understanding the techniques behind nursing informatics will help me in my future career.
GERONTOLOGY/REHAB NURS ADULTS-NURS-30040
-Competencies: Assessing the older adult, start IV's, maintain IV's, IV medications via IV push and IV piggyback, assessment of IV, colostomy care, enteral feeding tubes, urinary catherization, sterile dressing changes, medication calculations, I.M. and intradermal injections.
-Patient Teaching: I taught clients proper technique to clear the airway. Other teaching also included proper ambulating for clients with impaired gait and the importance of exercise and proper diet.
-Evidence Based Practice: Process Paper, medication sheets, concept care maps.
-Personal Reflection: This course helped me have a further understanding about the psychological and physiological changes that occur in the older adult. It is important to provide education to the older adult about the changes that may arise, and to assess them routinely for changes that may have occured.
NURSING OF ADULTS-NURS-30030
-Competencies: Start IV pump, start an IV, administer IV, IM, oral, and subcutaneous medications, monitor I&O, foley catheters, and dressing changes.
-Patient Teaching: How to administer medications properly, take rest in between high demand activities, deep breathing techniques and proper technique to cough, and how to use relaxation and distraction techniques to relieve pain.
-Evidence Based Practice: Process Paper, medication sheets, concept care map.
-Personal Reflection: The course helped me with organization skills due to having multiple patients at once. Time had to be used efficiently to be able to get all the things done that needed to be. This also was the first time documenting in the computers for me, so it helped with my experience with electronic charting. It also taught me how to gather information from the assessment, medications, lab values, etc. and combine them to be able to provide the best nursing care available.
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING -NURS-40020
-Competencies: Implementing Primary, Secondary, & Tertiary Prevention in the community setting, Incorporating Healthy People 2020 objectives, Community Assessment of Hartville and Population Teaching (Healthy Choices), Assessing the role of a community health nurse and performing their many various roles.
-Patient Teaching: Educated Hartville adolescents/residents about high risk behaviors and the effects of bullying, smoking, drinking, texting/drinking and driving and poor eating habits.
-Evidence Based Practice: Community assessment of Hartville and population teaching of of bullying, smoking, drinking, texting/drinking and driving and poor eating habits. Power point presentation on increasing healthy years in minority populations.
-Personal Reflection: The course allowed me to understand the importance of community nursing and the wide range of areas a community nurse may cover. It also taught me to assess populations as a whole. It demonstrated what resources can be used for individuals in the community and all of the different ways that these resources can be utilized.
PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURS - NURS-40030
Professional Nursing Development - NURS-40005
Competencies: Resume and cover letter, APA writing style, Professional Writing.Integration of Leadership and Management in Nursing - NURS-
40045
-Competencies: Improvement in prioritization, time management and interpersonal communication skills. Developed a deeper understanding of applying the nursing process in the clinical setting. Patient admissions, discharges, surgical post-operatives, medications and heart rhythms.
-Patient Teaching: Use of incentive spirometer, ambulation, pain management, home medications, JP drain education and dressing changes.
-Evidence Based Practice: Medication Administration, Glycemic protocol, Sterile Technique, 60 hour journals.
-Personal Reflection: This clinical experience gave me the opportunity to work and learn from another nursing professional for 120 hours in SUMMA Akron City Hospital. I worked with a variety of patients that required extra care and attention. This clinical rotation has increased my confidence in nursing skills, communication, time management, and prioritization. I was able to perform all of the patient care, medication administration, and assessments. The experience allowed me to see into my future and gave me the confidence to feel comfortable once I obtain a RN position in the hospital setting.
NURSING OF THE CRITICALLY ILL -NURS-40010
-Competencies: Hemodynamic monitoring and assessment of critically ill patients; Telemetry/ECG Interpretation and understanding; Caring for pre/post cardiac operation patients, patients with imbalances in fluid & electrolytes and alterations in cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, tissue perfusion, gastrointestinal, and atrial and ventricular dysrhythmias.
-Patient Teaching: Explained A CABG to a patient that was pre-op one day before the procedure. Educated cardiac patients on medications they were receiving and healthy food choices and the importance of smoking cessation.
-Evidence Based Practice: Nursing process paper, Critical care patient case studies.
-Personal Reflection: This course allowed me to build upon previously learned assessment skills and knowledge of prior nursing courses. I received a better understanding of how to care for critically ill patients and the importance of continuously monitoring patients with such complex health problems. The foundation of this course was to provide a background of the critical care nurses' practice and the continuity of learning.
