NURS 253 Nursing skills in Acute Illnesses Clinical/Simulation II (4 credits)

1. Demonstrate patient-centered care for individuals experiencing acute illnesses by applying the nursing process.
2. Demonstrate nursing skills as a provider of care, manager of care, and member of the discipline of nursing, utilizing the nursing process.
3. Perform nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients within acceptable nursing standards.
4. Evaluate a process that demonstrates improved patient outcomes.
5. Apply effective strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
6. Integrate technology and information management tools 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, 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.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 80
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 80