RNSG-1327 Professional Nursing

Outcomes

1. Differentiate between roles of the professional nurse as provider in patient-centered care, patient safety advocate, member of the health care team, and member of the profession and other licensed health care providers in a variety of health care settings.
2. Utilize critical thinking skills and a systematic problem solving process in planning comprehensive care for diverse patients and their families.
3. Demonstrate skills for safe basic professional nursing care.
4. Apply clinical reasoning, knowledge, and evidence-based practice outcomes as a basis of decision making on methods to care for clients with various health care needs including Mental Health.
5. Examine how the nurse can provide safe, compassionate, comprehensive care using a broad array of health care services for clients and their families who are experiencing various health care disorders, including Mental Health.
6. Explain various ways the nurse coordinates the management of human, information, and material resources to provide quality health care to a group of clients and their families with various health care needs, including Mental Health.
7. Demonstrate assessment data to identify problems, formulate goals/outcomes, and develop a plan of care for the clients and their families experiencing various health care disorders, including Mental Health, using information from evidence-based practice in collaboration with clients, their families, and the interdisciplinary team.
8. Explain how the nurse can implement measures to promote quality and safe environment for clients, self, and others when caring for a group of clients and families with various health care needs, including Mental Health.
9. Examine how the nurse formulates goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce safety risks for clients experiencing various health care disorders and needs, including Mental Health.
10. Explain how the nurse can be a health care advocate in monitoring and promoting quality and access to care for clients and their families experiencing various health care disorders, including Mental Health.
11. Examine how the nurse can refer clients and their families experiencing various health care needs, including Mental Health to resources that facilitate continuity of care, health promotion, maintenance and restoration; and ensure confidentiality.
12. Explain how the nurse coordinates, collaborates, and communicates with clients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient-centered care for clients and their families experiencing various health care needs, including Mental Health.
13. Examine how the nurse functions within the nurse's legal scope of practice and in accordance with the policies and procedures of the employing health care institution or practice setting when caring for clients and families with various health care needs, including Mental Health.
14. Examine the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to clients and families experiencing various health care needs, including Mental Health.