Emergency Nursing Theory 1 NSER 7110

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the social, political, and historical context of ED practice environments.
• Evaluate ethical dimensions of emergency nursing practice using a principle-based ethical framework as a guide.
• Reflect on your personal values and beliefs related to caring for non-urgent and marginalized patients in the emergency department.
• Relate the influence an emergency care environment has on the communication, collaboration, and partnership relationships for the nurse, patient, family, and health care team.
• Explain the importance of understanding the phenomenological or “lived experience” of patients and their families and how this impacts emergency nursing care.
• Apply the components of the systematic emergency nursing assessment framework to a variety of common acute and chronic patient presentations.
• Apply the concepts of the oxygen supply and demand framework to a variety of common and chronic patient presentations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the level of urgency and prioritization of care for emergency patients.
• Apply knowledge of the anatomy and pathophysiology of major body systems to clinical findings in common emergency presentations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate pharmacological interventions for non-complex emergency patient presentations.
• Describe how to foster a collaborative partnership among nurses, patients, families, and other health care professionals within the context of an emergency setting.
• Use clinical reasoning to identify and manage actual and potential health-related problems for non-complex adult emergency patients.
• Interpret a variety of arterial blood gas (ABG) results and cardiac rhythms and determine the clinical significance and underlying pathophysiology of these findings.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023