STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1. Apply concepts to safe, quality, evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care to diverse patient populations across the lifespan within the standards of practice that are specific to practical nursing.

 2. Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered decisions in care for patients within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.

 3. Relate quality measures to improved patient care.

 4. Contribute to collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team within the role of the practical nurse.

 5. Use information management principles, techniques, systems, and patient care technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

 6. Demonstrate leadership and followership roles of the practical nurse in among the interdisciplinary healthcare team while caring for stable patients across the healthcare continuum.

 7. Apply professional, legal, and ethical guidelines while caring for stable patients across the healthcare continuum in the practical nurse role.

 8. Demonstrate culture of caring when providing holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care to stable patients across the healthcare continuum in the practical nurse role.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.  Professionalism

 A. History of nursing

 B. Educational models

 C. Multiple roles of the LPN

 D. Nursing Care Delivery Models

 E. Licensure

 F. Nurse Practice Act

 G. Professional organizations /National organizations for practical nursing

 H. Job readiness and career development

 I. Reality shock

 J. Impaired Nurse

 

 II.     Communication

 A. Forms of Communication

 B. Therapeutic Communication

 C. Cultural Sensitivity

 D. Mental Health concepts

 

  III.    Safe and Effective Care Environment

 A. The LPN role in the application of the nursing process

 B. Coordinated Care

 C. Teaching/learning

 D. Ethical Practice

 E. Legal Responsibilities

 F. Advanced Directives

 G. Informed Consents

 H. Emergency Response Plan

 

 IV. Nursing Management/leadership

 A. Theories of management/leadership

 B. Time management

 C. Supervision/assignments

 D. Accountability when accepting delegated tasks

 E. Power issues/member of health care team

 F. Referrals, resource management

 G. Advocacy

 H. Client rights

 I. Continuity of care/prioritization

 J. Collaboration with healthcare team

 K. Conflict management

 L. Performance Improvement (Quality Improvement)