NURS 163 Nursing Skills in Chron Ill Clinical/Sim II (4 credits)

1. Demonstrate patient-centered care for individuals experiencing chronic illnesses by applying the steps in the nursing process
2. Demonstrate effective communication with the healthcare team to provide quality patient care. 
3. Perform nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Discuss a process that demonstrates improved patient outcomes.
5. Compare effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Utilize technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.

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.