RNSG-1205 Nursing Skills I

Outcomes

1. Apply concepts and principles necessary for the performance of basic nursing skills for the adult patient.
2. Demonstrate competence/clinical reasoning in the performance of basic nursing procedures and practices.
3. Using clinical reasoning and knowledge to identify physical variations in client needs, including teaching needs that affect the implementation of various nursing skills.
4. Describe the human, information, and material resources required, tools needed, methods used, and steps involved in the implementation of a variety of basic nursing skills.
5. In simulated situations, practice nursing skills used to provide client care for a culturally, ethically, and socially diverse patient population.
6. Describe the responsibility of the nurse in the implementation of nursing skills including providing safe, compassionate, comprehensive nursing care to patients and their families.
7. In simulated situations practice implementing nursing skills to provide quality care and a safe environment for patients, self and others.
8. Identify situations where the nurse will need to obtain instruction, supervision or training when implementing nursing skills and practice.
9. Practice coordinating, collaborating, and communicating with clients and their families and a simulated health care team performing a variety of basic nursing skills.
10. Using case studies and simulated laboratory experiences, practice functioning within the associate degree nurses scope of practice.
11. Identify the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to clients and their families while performing a variety of nursing skills.