RNSG-2260 Clinical-Registered Nursing

Outcomes

1. Apply the theory, concepts, and skills involving specialized materials, tools, equipment, procedures, regulation laws, and interactions within and among political, economic, environmental, social and legal systems associated with the occupation and the business industry.
2. Demonstrate legal and ethical behavior, safety practices, interpersonal and teamwork skills, and appropriate written and verbal communication skills using the terminology of the occupation and business/industry.
3. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Explains clinical reasoning and knowledge based on the associate degree nursing program of study and evidence-based practice outcomes as a basis for decision making in nursing practice.
4. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Apply the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families based upon interpretation of comprehensive health assessment findings compared with evidence-based health data derived from the associate degree nursing program of study.
5. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Apply assessment data to identify problems, formulate goals/outcomes, and develop plans of care for patients and their families using information from evidence-based practice in collaboration with patients, their families, and their interdisciplinary health care team.
6. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Provide, safe, compassionate, comprehensive nursing care to patients and their families through a broad array of health care services.
7. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Develop and Implement the plan of care for patients and their families within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters and in consideration of disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of health lifestyles.
8. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Evaluate and report patient outcomes and responses to therapeutic interventions in comparison to benchmarks from evidence-based practice, and plan follow-up nursing care.
9. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Identify, implement, and evaluate teaching plans for patients and their families to address health promotion, maintenance, and restoration.
10. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Improve the performance of basic nursing skills along with performing additional skills to provide safe therapeutic nursing interventions to the individual patient and family
11. Provider of Patience-Centered Care: Use effective communication skills to interact with individual patients and their families.
12. Member of Profession: Function within the nurse's legal scope of practice and in accordance with the policies and procedures of the host facility.
13. Member of Profession: Assume responsibility and accountability for the quality of nursing care provided to patients and their families.
14. Member of Profession: Participate in activities that promote the development and practice of professional nursing.
15. Member of Profession: Demonstrate responsibility for continued competence in nursing practice, and develop insight through reflection, self-analysis, self-care, and lifelong learning.
16. Patient Safety Advocate: Demonstrate knowledge of the Texas Nursing Practice Act and the Texas Board of Nursing Rules that emphasize safety, as well as all federal, state, and local government and accreditation organization safety requirements and standards.
17. Patient Safety Advocate: Implement measures to promote quality and a safe environment for patients, self, and others.
18. Patient Safety Advocate: Formulate goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce patient risks.
19. Patient Safety Advocate: Comply with mandatory reporting requirements of the Texas Nursing Practice Act.
20. Member of the Health Care Team: Collaborate, and communicate with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient-centered care.
21. Member of the Health Care Team: Serve as a health care advocate in monitoring and promoting quality and access to health care for patients and their families.
22. Member of the Health Care Team: Refer patients and their families to resources that facilitate continuity of care; health promotion, maintenance, and restoration; and ensure confidentiality.
23. Member of the Health Care Team: Communicate and collaborate in a timely manner with members of the interdisciplinary health care team to promote and maintain optimal health status of patients and their families. Communicate and manage information using technology to support decision making to improve patient care.