2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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LPN 201 - Fundamentals of Practical Nursing Care II
Description: Concepts of practical nursing care for clients with commonly occurring alternations in their physical, mental, and psychosocial health, utilizing the nursing process to apply critical thinking skills, and previously learned concepts. Concepts related to the practical nurse's contributions to assessment, planning, and nursing diagnosis, with emphasis on implementation. Incorporation of a holistic approach to the physical, mental, and psychosocial health care needs of the adult, obstetric, newborn, and pediatric patient, as well as teaching and learning for the obstetric, newborn and pediatric patient populations. Integrates the competencies of nursing knowledge to include patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
Prerequisites: LPN 101 , LPN 105 , LPN 110 , and LPN 115 .
Corequisite: LPN 205 , LPN 210 , and LPN 215 .
Credits: 4
Lecture: 4
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Fluid status and assessment of homeostasis
- Specimen collection and diagnostic testing
- Care of the patient with disease processes by system: integumentary, digestive, musculoskeletal, lymphatic, immune, neurologic, reproductive, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, urinary, hematologic, and oncologic.
- Care of the mother and newborn
- Labor and delivery
- Newborn screening, and vaccinations
- Care of the infant, toddler, school age, and adolescent patient
- Disease prevention and health promotion, restoration and maintenance of the adult, obstetric, newborn, and pediatric patient
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize how to support the patient as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate care over the life span that addresses the patient's physical, mental, and psychosocial health care needs (Patient Centered Care). (1-8)
- Solicit input from other team members to improve individual, as well as team, performance (Teamwork and Collaboration). (1-8)
- Incorporate evidence-based practice to include the components of research as it relates to acute and chronic alterations in health (Evidence-based Practice). (1-8)
- Demonstrate the need for quality and system improvement when performing practical nursing skills (Quality Improvement). (1-8)
- Determine strategies that minimize risk of harm to patients across the lifespan (Safety). (1-8)
- Incorporate information technology management and methods of documentation when implementing a plan of care for patients across the lifespan (Informatics). (1-8)
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