RNSG-1413 Foundation of Nursing Practice

Introduction to the role of the professional nurse as provider of patient-centered care, patient safety advocate, member of health care team, and member of the profession. Content includes fundamental concepts of nursing practice, history of professional nursing, a systematic framework for decision-making and critical thinking. The mechanisms of disease and the needs and problems that can arise are discussed and how the nursing process helps manage the patient through these issues. Emphasis on knowledge, judgment, skills and professional values within a legal/ethical framework. Lec 3, Lab 4, Cr 4

Credits

4

Prerequisite

RNSG-1205, RNSG-1215, RNSG-1160

Outcomes

  1. Describe the roles of the nurse in the delivery of health care.
  2. Use basic nursing skills.
  3. Apply basic systematic problem-solving skills using critical thinking for clinical decision-making.
  4. Apply basic systematic problem-solving skills using critical thinking for clinical decision-making.
  5. Using clinical reasoning, knowledge, and evidence based practice to identify physical variations in client needs, including teaching needs that affect the implementation of various nursing skills.
  6. Describe the human, information, and material resources required, tools needed, methods used, and steps involved in implementation of a variety of basic nursing skills for the foundation of nursing practice.
  7. Describe nursing skills used to provide clients and their families patient-centered care for a culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patient population.
  8. Describe the responsibilities of the nurse in the implementation of nursing skills including providing safe, compassionate, comprehensive nursing care to clients and their families.
  9. Describe how the nurse can implement measures to promote quality and a safe environment for clients, self and others when caring for a group of clients and their families with basic health care needs.
  10. Recognize situations where the nurse will need to obtain instruction, supervision, or training when implementing skills and practice to reduce safety risks for patients and their families.
  11. Describe how the nurse coordinating, collaborating, and communicating with clients and their families and a simulated health care team while performing a variety of basic nursing skills.
  12. Identify how the nurse can be a health care advocate in monitoring and promoting quality and access to care for clients and their families with basic health care disorders.
  13. Identify how the nurse coordinates, collaborates and communicates with clients and their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to plan, deliver and evaluate patient- centered care for clients and their families experiencing basic health care needs.
  14. Discuss the nurse's legal scope of practice and ethical parameters of professional nursing practice including the Nursing Practice Act.
  15. Discuss the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to clients and their families with basic health care needs.