NURS 1280 Clinical Application II
Description
Clinical Application II provides the learner an opportunity to apply nursing judgment using evidence based care, critical thinking and clinical judgment to implement safe, patient/relationship centered care to patients across the lifespan. The learner reflects on the value of patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, informatics, quality improvement, safety, managing care, and nursing judgment/evidence based care in his/her career as a LPN.
Credits
6
Prerequisite
Successful completion of semester I courses and acceptance into the Practical Nursing Program
Corequisite
None
Topics to be Covered
1. Nursing Process
2. Assessment
3. Nursing Interventions
4. Evaluation of Interventions
5. Therapeutic Communication
6. Patient Education
7. Collaboration
8. Prioritization
9. Nursing Skills
10. Charting via HER
Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate confidentiality and the ramifications associated with accurate documentation of patient care. (NLN: INFORMATICS/TECHNOLOGY).
2. Examine reliable resources that support evidence-based patient care, decrease the reliance on memory and enhance competency within the practice setting. (NLN: INFORMATICS/TECHNOLOGY).
3. Demonstrate one’s role in managing care (planning and organizing) in providing quality nursing care under the direction of a RN or licensed HCP. (NLN: MANAGING CARE).
4. Provide evidence for one’s prioritization of nursing judgments across the lifespan. (NLN: NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE-BASED CARE).
5. Demonstrate focused assessments and interventions from an established plan of care for the adult patient with common medical/surgical health problems. (NLN: NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE-BASED CARE).
6. Differentiate one’s communication skills and cultural sensitivity when working with diverse patients across the lifespan. (NLN: PATIENT/RELATIONSHIP CENTERED CARE).
7. Provide health care information while considering the patient’s culture, experience, and knowledge of his/her own health. (NLN: PATIENT/RELATIONSHIP CENTERED CARE).
8. Demonstrate responsibility for personal integrity, professional boundaries, and professional behaviors within the ethical, legal, regulatory frameworks and within the scope of practice for the LPN. (NLN: PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR).
9. Differentiate important methods to improve patient satisfaction, customer service and enhance cost efficient health care services. (NLN: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT).
10. Analyze one’s responsibility to prevent actual/potential patient complications, demonstrate safe nursing practice, and follow the national patient safety goals. (NLN: SAFETY).
11. Recognize conflict and when to report conflict to supervisor. (NLN: TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION).
12. Use effective communication skills including the responsibility to report to appropriate health care personnel when working with members of the interprofessional teams. (NLN: TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION).
Credit Details
Lecture: 6
Lab: 0
OJT: 0
MnTC Goal Area(s): None