PN-103 Practical Nursing 3
This course expands the concepts of health care to individuals and childbearing families experiencing acute and chronic physical health problems across the lifespan. The student will use clinical judgment, inter-professional communication and teamwork, and interventions to provide safe patient-centered care.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Utilize knowledge of pathophysiology to apply clinical judgment skills to provide care to individuals and childbearing families experiencing acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan.
- Perform psychomotor skills requiring increasing clinical judgment, that follow professional nursing standards.
- Provide prioritized, safe, patient-centered care to individuals and childbearing families, utilizing effective communication, with acute and chronic physical problems in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Demonstrate professional nursing behaviors within established legal and ethical guidelines.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and members of the interprofessional team to provide safe, patient-centered care.
- Understand the role of the professional nurse when administering pharmacological therapies to manage patients with acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan.