IDENTIFICATION OF COURSE                        NS V10                                                                                                      

Descriptive Title: Introduction to Professional Nursing

Course Student Learning Outcomes                                                                                                                              

At the completion of this course of study NS 10 students will be able to:

1.   Identify the framework of the ADN program.

            2.   Demonstrate beginning skills in utilization of the nursing process and critical thinking in formulating a plan of care.

            3.   Recognize the nursing process and Orem’s S-CDTN framework as a basis for patient centered care.

            4.   Perform fundamental nursing skills with technical competence for selected patients.

            5.   Maintain patient safety and confidentiality.

            6.   Demonstrates professional, ethical and legal behavior in personal practice.

7.   Identify universal requisites and normal parameters.

            8.   Recognize basic conditioning factors affecting health, such as age, sexuality, ethnicity, spirituality, cultural differences

                 and socioeconomic status.

9.   Incorporate basic health teaching into patient centered care.

10. Communicate effectively in a respectful manner with patient, patient’s family, and health care professionals. 

            11.  Document and report nursing care accurately.

            12.  Recognize standardized practices that support safety and quality.

            13.  Identify community resources for patient referrals.    

            14.  Identify health promotion concepts to enhance self-care agency of self and patient.

            15.  Describes the components of evidence based practice.

            16.  Recognize technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care.

            17.  Identify developmental self-care requites for the pediatric, adult, geriatric patients.