PN-101 Practical Nursing 1
This course introduces foundational nursing concepts to provide safe, patient-centered care. The student will focus on providing safe patient-centered care, utilizing beginning clinical judgment to meet the basic needs of patients and families across the lifespan. The student's training will include principles of safe medication administration.
Outcomes
- Utilize beginning clinical judgment skills to meet basic needs of patients across the lifespan.
- Perform foundational psychomotor skills following professional nursing standards.
- Provide basic, safe, patient-centered care to individuals, including effective communication, in long term care settings.
- Demonstrate professional nursing behaviors within established legal and ethical guidelines, including identification of essential ethical principles related to nursing practice.
- Describe the national and state scope of practice of the Licensed Practical Nurse.
- Describe the nurse's professional role and responsibilities for safe medication administration, along with basic principles of pharmacology and math.