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Grade Level:

6

Subject:

Oxygenation Needs

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Goal Summary:

Students will gain the overall basic knowledge needed to care for patients with oxygenation needs, using the nursing process to identify, describe, and prioritize information related to oxygenation needs, including describing medications related to the oxygenation needs of adult patients. They will learn prevention strategies related to the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients. They will also learn teaching strategies and communication techniques to use when caring for the adult med-surg patient with oxgyenation needs.

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Essential Questions:

1. What are some conditions affecting chest wall movement?
2. What are some oxygenation changes in older adults?
3. What lifestyle and environmental factors that affect oxygenation?
4. What are some clinical signs and symptoms of altered oxygenation?
5. What factors in the nursing history are relevant to the cardiopulmonary system and oxygenation? What cardiovascular assessment findings are normal in aging individuals? What can inspection reveal about the cardiovascular system? What factors promote oxygenation?

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Content Goals:

1. Explain the knowledge necessary for care that addresses the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify factors that affect oxygenation needs in adult med-surg patients.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care that addresses the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients.
4. Describe and prioritize caring nursing interventions that address the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients.
5. Describe medications that pertain to the oxygenation needs of an adult patient
6. Describe prevention strategies that address the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients.
7. Practice communication techniques, including information technologies that address the oxygenation needs of an adult med-surg patient.
8. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction that address the oxygenation needs of adult med-surg patients.
9. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with oxygenation needs.
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