RNSG-1441 Common Concepts of Adult Health

Outcomes

1. Explain the roles of the professional nurse in caring for adult patients and families.
2. Utilize critical thinking skills and a systematic problem-solving process in providing care for adult patients and families with common health needs.
3. Discuss evidenced-based practice outcomes as a basis of decision making on methods to care for clients with various common health disorders.
4. Explain how the nurse can provide safe, compassionate, comprehensive nursing care using a broad array of health care services for clients and their families who are experiencing common health care disorders.
5. 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 basic health care needs.
6. Identify a systematic nursing process using clinical reasoning tools to construct and evaluate an individualized plan of care that includes safe, therapeutic, culturally sensitive, compassionate, evidence-based and educational nursing interventions based on interpretation assessed needs and other pertinent data for the client and family during the with various common health care disorders.
7. Explain 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 families with common health care disorders.
8. Examine how the nurse formulates goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce safety risks for clients experiencing common health care disorders.
9. 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 common health care disorders.
10. Explain how the nurse can refer clients and their families experiencing common health care needs to resources that facilitate continuity of care, health promotion, maintenance and restoration; and ensure confidentiality.
11. Explain how the nurse coordinates, collaborates, and communicates with clients and their families, and the interdisciplinary team to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient-centered care for clients and their families experiencing common health care disorders.
12. Describe 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 common health care needs.
13. Describe the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to clients and families experiencing common health care needs.