NURS 143 Foundations of Nursing Clinical/Simulation (2 credits)
Prerequisite Enrollment in the Associate Degree Nursing Program.
Course Description
Application of nursing skills needed to assist individuals in meeting basic human needs. Includes focus on assessments of clients across the lifespan and skills learned in Foundations of Nursing Skills Lab.
Course Content
A. Basic nursing skills for patients across the lifespan.
B. Compassionate care with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
C. Communication within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering positive patient outcomes, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.
D. Nursing care and clinical skills/procedures for patients across the lifespan within acceptable nursing standards.
E. Quality improvement in the patient care setting.
F. System effectiveness and individual performance that minimizes risk of harm to patients and families.
G. Information technology
Student Outcomes
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Identify basic concepts of patient-centered care for individuals across the lifespan.
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Create a personal plan or strategy for success while in the nursing program.
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Develop strategies for responding to NCLEX style questions.
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Summarize how the competencies of safety, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration, and informatics relate to the holistic care of a patient.
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Integrate information and technological skills that are essential for safe patient care including dosage calculation and medication conversions.
Degree Outcomes
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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.
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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.
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Evidence-based practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
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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.
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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.
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Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
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.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40
Potential Methods
A. Careplans
B. Case studies
C. Direct observation
D. Reflections
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