NURS 143 Foundations of Nursing Clinical/Simulation (2 credits)

1. Apply the nursing process to the care of patients across the lifespan with a focus on health promotion.
2. Identify fundamental nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing by using the Nursing Process model.
3. Demonstrate nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Outline a process demonstrating improved patient outcomes.
5. Discuss effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Identify technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care.

1. Patient-centered care:  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Teamwork and collaboration:  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement:  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Ability

• Critical, Creative, Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.