B.Sc. Nursing
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Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh
Raipur Raipur http://www.cghealthuniv.com/
B.Sc. Nursing 1st Year
Subject: Nursing Foundations

UNIT-1 Describe Health, Illness & Health Care Agencies.

Introducton
* Concept of Health: Health-Illness Continuum * Factors influencing Health * Causes & Risk Factors For Developing Illness * Body Defences: Immunity & Immunization * Illness & Illness Behaviour * Impact of Illness on Patient & Family * Health Care Services: Health Promotion & Prevention, Primary Care, Diagnosis, Treatment, Rehabilitation & Continuing Care. * Health Care teams. * Types of Health Care Agencies. * Hospitals: Types, Organisation & Function. * Health Promotion & Levels of Disease Prevention. * Primary Health Care & Its Delivery: Role of Nurse.


UNIT-2 Explain Concept & Scope of Nursing, Value, Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct For Nurses.

Nursing as a Profession
* Definition & Characteristics of a Profession * Nursing: - Definition, Concepts, Philosophy, Objectives - Characteristics, Nature & Scope of Nursing Practice - Function of Nurse - Qualities of a Nurse - Categories of Nursing Personnel - Nursing as a Profession - History of Nursing in India. * Values: Definition, Types, Values Clarification & Values in Professional Nursing: Caring & Advocacy. * Ethics: - Definition & Ethical Principles - Code of ethics & Professional Conduct for Nurses.


UNIT-3 Explain Admission & Discharge Procedure

* Admission to the Hospital - Unit & its Preparation Admission Bed. - Admission Procedure - Special Consideration - Medico-Legal Issues - Role & Responsibilitiesof the Nurses * Discharge From the Hospital - Types: PlannedDischarge, LAMA & Abscond, Referrals & Transfers - Discharge Planning - Discharge Procedure - Special Considerations - Medico-Legal Issues - Roles & Responsibilities of the Nurse - Care of the Unit Afhter Discharge. Hospital Admission & Discharge


UNIT-4 Communicate Effectively with Patient, Families & Team Member

Communication & Nurse Patient Relationship
* Communication: Levels, Elements, Types, Modes, Process, Factors Influencing Communication, - Methods of Effective Communication, Attending Skills, Rapport Building Skills, Empathy Skills, - Barriers toEffective Communication, * Helping Relationships (NPR): Dimensions of Helping Relationships, Phases of a Helping Relationship, * Communicating Effectively with Patient, Families & Team Member & Maintain Effective Human Relations with Special Reference to Communicating with Vulnerable Group(Children, Women, Physically & Mentally Challenged & Elderly), * Patient teaching: Importance, Purposes Process, Role of Nurse & Integrating Teaching in Nursing Process, .


UNIT-5 Explain The Concept, Uses, Format & Strps of Nursing Process

The Nursing Process
* Critical Thinking & Nursing Judgment - Critical Thinking: Thinking & Learning, - Competencies, Attitudes for Critical Thinking, Levels of Critical Thinking in Nursing, * Nursing Process Overview: Application in Practice - Nursing Process Format: INC, Current Format, - Assessment, Collection of Data: Type, Sources, Methods, Formulating Nursing Judgment: Data Interpretation - Nursing Diagnosis, Identification of Client Problems, Nursing Diagnosis Statement, Difference Between Medical & Nursing Diagnosis - Planning, Establishing Priorities, Establishing Goal & Expected Outcomes, Selection of Interventions: Protocols & Standing Orders, Writing The Nursing Care Plan, - Implementation The Plan of Care - Evaluation Outcome of Care, Review of Care, - Documentation & Reporting.


UNIT-6 Describe The Purpose, Types & Techniques of Recording & Reporting

Documentation & Reporting
* Documentation: Purposes of Recording & Reporting. * Communication within The Health Care Team, * Types of Records; Ward records, Medical/Nursing Records, * Common Record-Keeping Forms, Computerized Documentation, * Guidelines for Reporting: Factual Basis, Accuracy, Completeness, Currentness, Organization, Confidentiality, * Methods of Recording, * Reporting: Change-of Shift Reports: Transfer Reports, Incident reports, * Minimizing Legal Liability through effective record keeping.


UNIT-7 Describe Principal & Techniques of monitoring & Maintaining Vital Signs

Vital Signs
* Guidelines for taking vital signs: * Body Temperature, * Pulse, * respiration, * Blood Pressure, * Recording of Vital Signs.


UNIT-8 Describe Purpose & Process of Health Assessment.

Health Assessment
* Purpose * Process of Health Assessment, * Assessment of Each Boday System * Recording of Health Assessment.


UNIT-9 Identifies The Various Machinery, Equipment & Linen &Their Care.

Machinery, Equipment & Linen
* Type: Disposables & Reusables - Linen, Rubber Goods, Glass Ware, Metal, Plastics, Furniture, Machinery, * Introduction: Indent, Maintenance, Inventory.


UNIT-10 Describe The Need of Patient.

Meeting Needs of Patient.
* Basic Needs (Activities of Daily Living) - Providing Safe & Clean Environment: - Hygiene: - Comfort: * Physiological Needs: - Sleep & Rest: - Nutrition: - Urinary Elimination: - Bowel Elimination: - Mobility & Immobility - Oxygenation: - Fluid, Electrolyte, & Acid Base Balances: * Psychosocial Needs - Concepts of Cultural Diversity, Stress & Adaptation, Self-Concept, Sexuality, Spiritual Health, Coping With Loss, Death & Grieving, - Assessment of Psychosocial Needs, - Nursing Intervention for Psychosocial Needs. - Recreational & Diversional Therapies.


UNIT-11 Describe The Infection Control & Biomedical Waste Management In Supervised Clinical.

Infection Control In Clinical Settings
* Infection Control * Concept of Asepsis: Medical Asepsis, & Surgical Asepsis. * Isolation Precautions (Barrier Nursing): * Biomedical Waste Management:


UNIT-12 Explain The Principles, Routes, Effects of Administration of Medications

Administration of Medications
* Purposes of Medication * Drug Forms * Store & Maintenance of Drugs & Nurses Responsibility * Broad Classification of Drugs * Converting Measurements Units * Terminologies & Abbreviations Used In Prescriptions of Medications. * Oral Drugs Administration * Parenteral * Topical Administration * Application to Skin * Application to Mucous Membrane * Inhalation: Nasal, Oral, Endotracheal/Tracheal. * Recording & Reporting of Medications Administered.


UNIT-13 Describe The Pre & Post Operative Care of Patients, Wound Healing & Care.

Meeting Needs of Preoperative Patients
* Definition & Concept of Preoperative Nursing * Preoperative Phase * Intraoperative * Postoperative Phase * Wounds, Wound Healing * Surgical Asepsis * Care of the Wound: Dressing, Suture Care, Care of Drainage, Application of Bandages, Binder, Splints & Slings, Heat & Cold Therapy.


UNIT-14 Explain Care of Patient Having Alterations in Body Functioning

Meeting Special Needs of The Patients
* Care of Patients Having Alteration In, Temperature, Sensorium, Urinary Elimination, Functioning of Sensory Organs: Assessment of Self-Care Ability, Communication Methods & Special Considerations, Mobility , Mental State, Respiration, Comfor * Treatments Related to Gastrointestinal System, Nasogastric Suction, Gastric Irrigation, Gastric Analysis.


UNIT-15 Explain Care of terminally ill Patient.

Care of terminally illPatients
Concepts of Loss, Grief, Grieving Process, Signs of Clinical Death, Care of Dying Patient, Medico-Legal Issues, Care of Death Boday, Autopsy, Embalming.


UNIT-16 Explain The Basic Concepts of Conceptual & Theoretical Models of Nursing

Professional Nursing Concepts & Practices
Conceptual & Theoretical Models of Nursing Practice:, Introduction to Theories in Nursing, Linking Theories with Nursing Process.


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