Nursing care begins with the patient.

This lesson outlines basic patient needs and the nursing skills needed to provide care for those needs.

Section I. Basic Human Needs and Principles of Health

1.01 Introduction

1.02 Principles of Health

1.03 The Health-Illness Continuum

1.04 Adapting to Change

1.05 Positive Health Habits

1.06 Categories of Basic Human Needs

1.07 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

1.08 Comparison of Basic Human Needs and Maslow’s Hierarchy

1.09 Closing

Section II. Communication Skills

1.10 Introduction

1.11 Purposes of Communication

1.12 Essential Components of the Human Communication System

1.13 Verbal and Nonverbal Methods of Communication

1.14 Methods of Nonverbal Communication

1.15 Guidelines for Communicating with Patients and their Families

1.16 Techniques for Communicating with Patients

1.17 Therapeutic Communication

1.18 Critical Elements of Effective Therapeutic Communication

1.19 Nursing Intervention with Patients with Special Communication Needs

1.20 Closing

Section III. Reaction to Stress and Hospitalization

1.21 Introduction

1.22 Factors Influencing whether a Person will Seek or Avoid Professional Help

1.23 Factors Causing Stress in the Hospital

1.24 Stages of the Illness Experience

1.25 Emotional Responses to Illness and Hospitalization

1.26 Closing

Section IV. Transcultural Factors Influencing Nursing Care

1.27 Introduction

1.28 Major Factors in Transcultural Nursing

1.29 Variables Relating to the Transcultural Aspects of Nursing

1.30 Sociocultural Beliefs about Illness, its’ Causes and Cures

1.31 Religious Beliefs about Illness and Death

Lesson 1 Self-Test