NURS 1100 - Professional Nursing Care in health Promotion
This course introduces the learner to concepts of health promotion, safety, clinical judgment, leadership, patient centeredness, and professionalism. Health promotion includes learning about self-health and health in children, adults, older adults, and the family experiencing a normal pregnancy. Learners value evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns and risk factors for disease and illness, apply growth and development theory, develop therapeutic relationships, conduct an age-appropriate and culturally-sensitive health assessment, and promote health using the nursing process and standards of professional nursing.
Credits: 9
Instructional Method a combination of lecture, lab and clinical
Prerequisites:
Acceptance into the Nursing Program and successful completion of NURS 1000 Nursing First Year Seminar
Minimum Student Competencies
Upon completion of NURS 1100-Professional Nursing Care in Health Promotion , the student will:
- Adhere to safety standards when providing nursing care.
- Explain the role of the nurse in supporting patient safety.
- Begin to use the steps of the nursing process to provide care and promote health.
- Identify the role of evidence and appropriate sources in guiding decision-making.
- Identify the leadership role of the nurse in the healthcare system.
- Recognize the role of the nurse in healthcare delivery.
- Identify the influence of patient needs, values, and choices when individualizing care.
- Recognize effective communication techniques used in establishing therapeutic relationships.
- Explore the nurse’s role in advocacy.
- Identify the core values of professional nursing.
- Identify the legal and ethical basis of nursing practice, including scope of practice.
- Utilize concepts of health promotion to educate patients across the lifespan.
Program Outcomes
Nursing Programs
PO#1 Provide safe nursing care within the healthcare system.
PO#2 Incorporate prior knowledge, current research, and clinical experience in decision-making.
PO#3 Demonstrate leadership skills as part of an inter-professional team to promote desired outcomes.
PO#4 Use effective communication and advocacy to provide individualized care.
PO#5 Practice within the core values, principles, and standards of the nursing profession.
PO#6 Utilize the nursing process and a broad knowledge base to maximize health.
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