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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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NUR 209 Entry into Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 15 Credits: 8
Provides students with opportunities to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge, skills and attitudes inherent in the beginning practice roles of an associate degree registered nurse. Theoretical concepts focus on the first-level management skills necessary for providing nursing care to groups of patients in a variety of settings. As the culmination of the Nursing program clinical sequence, NUR 209 incorporates a clinical preceptorship during which students demonstrate achievement of program outcomes.
Prerequisite: NUR 208 with a grade of C or better. Corequisite: WR 121Z (may be completed prior to enrollment) Student Learning Outcomes:
- Patient centered care: Incorporates novice level management skills while providing patient centered care.
- Quality and safety: Develop nursing care that minimizes risk of harm to patients, self, and others and uses data to monitor outcomes of patient centered care.
- Clinical decision making: Formulate clinical judgments in providing nursing care based on current evidence, clinical expertise, patient preferences, needs and values.
- Professionalism: Design nursing care that reflects integrity, accountability, legal and ethical practice while modeling the professional roles of coordinator of care, educator, advocate, and leader.
- Informatics and technology: Formulate nursing care using current technology and patient information to maximize safety and optimize health.
- Teamwork and collaboration: Communicate effectively and collaboratively in a self-directed manner with patients, families, and members of the health-care team.
Content Outline Professional Nursing Concepts
- Clinical Decision Making, Leadership
- Delegation in the clinical setting
- Prioritizing care for multiple patients
- Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration
- Communication styles with groups and individuals (To clinical hours)
- Managing stress and conflict resolution
- Nursing power and influence
- Economics, Health Care Delivery Systems and Leadership
- Organizational theory and structure
- Motivation and performance appraisal
- Methods of nursing care delivery
- Styles of leadership and management
- Healthcare economics
- Legal aspects, Informatics and Technology, and Professionalism
- Legal implications of managing orders
- Speak up for Safety
- Patient centered Care
- Quality and Safety
- Improving care through quality
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