Description
This course focuses on monitoring a variety of subjective and objective data, identifying obvious patterns and deviations, and developing a prioritized intervention plan for specific populations. In this course, students will implement new nursing skills with supervision, develop their own beginning leadership abilities, and acknowledge delegation as a needed modality to improve client care.
Prerequisites
“C” or higher in both NURS 203 and NURS 220. Approval of instructor.
Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs)
- Collaborate as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Use therapeutic communication skills in the development of relationships with clients and families in specific populations.
- Practice effective oral and written communication with clients, peers, and faculty.
- Develop a plan of care for clients using clinical judgments based on assessment data, and an understanding of clients' perspective and illness experience in specific settings.
- Discuss one's personal nursing practice within the legal and ethical framework of nursing.
- Identify the need for initiation of referrals and explore community resources.
- Identify potential legal and ethical issues in delivery of health care.
- Demonstrates leadership abilities and acknowledges delegation as a needed modality to improve client care.
- Utilize reliable sources of information to support nursing care decisions and accept responsibility for maintaining current evidence-based practice, ongoing professional growth, and lifelong learning.