NURS 254 Transition to Nursing Practice (2 credits)

1. Reflect on the roles and responsibilities of the registered nurse in relation to managing the continuum of care for all patients across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate effective communication skills and conflict management that involves members of a multidisciplinary healthcare team to deliver holistic, competent nursing care.
3. Employ evidence-based practice that incorporates cultural, ethical, legal, and professional nursing values to meet the needs of the patient/family in a variety of settings.
4. Examine the significance of prioritization and delegation in relation to quality management and promoting positive patient outcomes.
5. Analyze individual performance and system effectiveness in minimizing risk to patients and healthcare providers.
6. Explain nursing’s involvement in design, selection, implementation, and evaluation of information technologies to support 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 Ability

• 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.