RNSG-2201 Care of Children and Families

Outcomes

1. Explain the roles of the professional nurse in caring for children and families.
2. Utilize critical thinking skills and a systematic problem-solving process for providing care for the child and the family.
3. Incorporate clinical reasoning, knowledge, and evidence-based practice outcomes as a basis of decision making on methods to care for Pediatric clients with various health care disorders/needs.
4. Apply how the nurse can provide safe, compassionate, comprehensive care using a broad array of health care services for Pediatric clients and their families who are experiencing various health care disorders.
5. Apply various ways the nurse coordinates the management of human, information, and material resources to provide quality health care to Pediatric clients and their families with basic health care needs.
6. Demonstrate 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 clients and their families with various pediatric health disorders.
7. Demonstrate how the nurse can implement measures to promote quality and safe environment for Pediatric clients, self, and others when caring for a group of clients and families with various health care needs.
8. Demonstrate how the nurse formulates goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce safety risks for Pediatric clients experiencing various health care disorders and needs.
9. Demonstrate how the nurse can be a health care advocate in monitoring and promoting quality and access to care for Pediatric clients and their families experiencing various health care disorders.
10. Demonstrate how the nurse can refer Pediatric clients and their families experiencing various health care needs to resources that facilitate continuity of care, health promotion, maintenance and restoration; and ensure confidentiality.
11. Demonstrate how the nurse coordinates, collaborates, and communicates with Pediatric 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.
12. 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 Pediatric clients and families with various health care needs.
13. Demonstrate the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to Pediatric clients and families experiencing various health care needs.