NURS 264 Nursing Capstone Seminar (2 credits)

1. Identify the patient as the source of control and full partner in the coordination of their care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
2. Demonstrate open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
3. Integrate evidence-based practice to deliver optimal paritent care. 
4. Utilize data to monitor and improve patient care outcomes.
5. Describe methods of risk reduction to patients and providers. 
6. Utilize technology and information managment to support safe patient 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 Abilities

• Global Citizenship: 

  Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

• Critical, Creative, and 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.