STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care at the basic level in a variety of healthcare settings to diverse patient populations across the lifespan.

 2. Discuss critical thinking and clinical reasoning strategies used to make patient-centered care decisions at the fundamental level.

 3. Explain how quality measures are used on the care unit to improve patient care.

 4. Recognize the importance of collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team, the patient, and the patient’s support persons.

 5. Summarize how information management principles, techniques, and systems, and patient care technology are used in the healthcare setting.

 6. Explain the role of leadership in a variety of healthcare settings for diverse patient populations.

 7. Explain how professional, legal, and ethical guidelines are used in nursing practice.

 8. Relate how a culture of caring contributes to holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. Patient Centered Care

 A. Nursing process

 1. Fluid & electrolytes

 2. Nutrition

 3. Pain

 4. Activity

 5. Oxygenation

 6. Perfusion

 7. Elimination

 8. Sleep & Rest

 9. Stress, Adaptation, Mental Health Concepts

 a. Dementias associated with aging

 b. Stress Anxiety crisis intervention

 c. Loss, grief, death and dying

 d. Suicide and violence prevention

 10. Health Illness continuum

 

 B. Health assessment

 1. Physical Assessment

 head to toe

 2. Socio-Cultural/Spiritual Assessment

 3. Psychological/Developmental Assessment

 4. Health disparities-risk assessment

 C. National safety/quality care standards

 D. Evidence Based Nursing practice

 E. Nursing skills per CCCS Skills List

 

 II. Critical thinking/clinical reasoning

 A.  Basic clinical judgment

 B.  Risk assessment

 III. Quality Measures

 A. Patient outcomes

 B. Best practices

 C. Healthcare delivery systems

 IV. Collaborative Relationships

 A.  Communication: patient, family, healthcare team, I-SBAR

 B.  Interdisciplinary teams

 C.  Common conflicts

 D.  Teaching/learning

 V. Information Technology

  A.   Introduction to use of patient care technologies

  B.  Documentation of care

  C.   Medication administration systems

 

 VI. Leadership

  A.  Delegation Process

  B.  Advocacy

  C.  Adaptation of theory to health care system

 

 VII. Legal Ethical Nursing Concepts

 A.   Professional Organization Standards of Practice

  B.  State Board of Nursing Rules and Regulations

  C.  Professional behaviors

 

 VIII. Culture of caring

  A.  Holistic care

 b.  Compassionate care

 C.  Culturally-competent care