STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

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

 2. Engage in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions.

 3. Implement quality measures to improve patient care.

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

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

 6. Provide leadership in a variety of healthcare settings for diverse patient populations.

 7. Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse.

 8. Promote a culture of caring to provide holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. Application of key concepts to transitioning to safe, quality, evidence-based, patient centered professional nursing practice

 A. Patient-centered care and system measurement

 1.  Quality patient outcome strategies: advanced assessment, risk reduction, establishing priorities, continuous improvement

 2.  Health care strategies (Clinical Pathways, patient satisfaction)

 3.  National quality benchmarks ( HCAPs-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid)

 B. Quality/Safety measures

 1.  IOM (Institute of Medicine Reports)

 2.  QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for  Nursing)

 3.  TJC (The Joint Commission) Standards

 4.  Systems approach to error mitigation

 C. Critical thinking/Clinical reasoning about safety and quality

 1.  Continued competency post-licensure

 2.  Just culture and blame free problem solving

 3.  Sentinel events and root cause analysis

 4.  Types of errors

 D. Collaborative relationship strategies for quality and safety

 1.  Communication

 2.  Transparency

 3.  Prevention of errors/reporting of unsafe behaviors

 4.  Team professional responsibilities: conflict management

 5.  Consultation

 6.  Case Management

 7.  Continuity of Care

 E. Information Technology

 1.  Human Technology interface with caring

 2.  Documentation (Electronic medical record-EMR)

 3.  Research utilization for evidence based practice

 4.  Safety enhancing technology (bar codes, medication pumps, alarms)

 F. Advocacy in Quality and Safety

 1.  Nursing role

 2. Case management

 3.  Consumer driven health care

 G. Leadership approaches in professional transition and transformation

 1.  Professional concepts, roles, and responsibilities: member of a profession, manager, leader, teacher, advocate, novice to expert

 2.  Professional scope of practice

 3.  Regulatory agencies: state and federal

 4.  Professional practice standards- ANA

 5.  Practice settings and national certification

 6.  ANA Social Policy-political involvement

 7.  Further education pathways: ANA position paper and PEW report

 8.  Professional organizations

 9.  Career development: licensing, resumes, portfolio, interviews

 H. Professional/ Legal -Ethical Guidelines

 1.  Health care policy impact on Nursing Practice

 2.  Health care policy impact on legislation and reimbursement

 3.  Professional ethics impact on management and patient care decision

 4.  Economics of healthcare delivery systems/Legal Compliance

 I. Continued Development of the Culture of Caring

 1.  Art and a science of Nursing

 2.  Compassion/Compassion Fatigue

 3.  Spiritual beliefs and practices with at risk populations

 4.  Therapeutic relationship

 5.  Cultural competencies

 6.  Reality shock in the work environment