Focuses on beginning nursing care to promote healthy transitions for individuals exhibiting manifestations of chronic illness in well-defined practice setting. Emphasis is on basic time management concepts and continued development of critical thinking, clinical judgment, and skills.
Clinical Practice and Prevention
- Examines nursing situations using standards of care, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice.
- Applies a range of knowledge to promote health and well-being and prevent complications in adults experiencing illness and disease.
- Applies the nursing process to patient learning needs.
Communication
- Demonstrates professional, empathetic and therapeutic communication skills in all learning situations.
Critical Reasoning
- Applies the nursing process as a basis for clinical decision-making.
- Constructs and implements safe, effective, patient-centered nursing care using nursing knowledge, information technologies and research evidence.
Leadership
- Explores principles of collaboration and advocacy to safely provide and manage patient care.
Professionalism and Professional Values
- Emulates professional behavior in all learning situations.
- Examines ethical and legal principles and professional standards that are foundations to nursing practice.
- Explores caring’s essential elements as they are expressed in holistic patient-centered care.
Global Health
- Discusses the impact of health equity and social justice on nursing and health care in a variety of settings.