NURS 144 Nursing Success Seminar (2 credits)

1. Identify basic concepts of patient-centered care for individuals across the lifespan
2. Create a personal plan or strategy for success while in the nursing program
3. Develop strategies for responding to NCLEX style questions
4. Summarize how the competencies of safety, quality improvement, evidence based practice, teamwork and collaboration, and informatics relate to the holistic care of a patient Integrate information and technological skills that are essential for safe patient care including dosage calculation and medication conversions

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.

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

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

Potential Methods
Quizzes
Case Studies
Research writing
Projects (individual and/or group)
Demonstration/return demonstration
Careplans
Direct observation