NURS 263 Nursing Practicum (5 credits)

1. Apply multiple dimensions of patient-centered care for individuals with chronic and acute illnesses across the lifespan.
2. Utilize nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing.
3. Plan nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Model processes for quality improvement and patient outcomes in the care setting.
5. Integrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Use information technology to support safe processes of care including protecting patient health information.

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.

Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

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.

Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Informatics:  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Core Abilities

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.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 150
Total Contact Hours 150