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NU 210 - Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course prepares nursing students for the role of the professional registered nurse. Emphasis is placed on understanding professional nursing practice in the context of its social contract with society. Standards of professional nursing practice, standards of professional performance, and ethics are examined. Health is studied from the perspective of the individual. Students are introduced to the nursing process and Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns and apply them in the development of a behavioral change project to promote their own health. None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Discuss factors that promote healthy lifestyles and prevent illness for individuals across the lifespan (Level 2, Health Concepts)
• Describe professional nursing practice in the context of the Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice and Nursing’s Social Policy Statement (Level 2, Professional Role)
• Explore the components of the nursing process (Level 2, Nursing Care)
• Analyze personal health behavior using a health model (Level 2, Health Concepts)
• Apply a health model to the personal change project (Level 2, Nursing Care)
• Discuss Functional Health Patterns as a framework for health assessment (Level 2, Nursing Care).
• Describe the criteria that define a profession (Level 2, Professional Role)
• Describe the role of the nurse as a member of the health care system (Level 2, Professional Role)
• Demonstrate accountability and responsibility for self-directed learning (Level 2, Life-long Learning)
Course Topics
• Health Models for change
• Nursing and Policy: Social Policy Statement
• Professional Nursing Practice
• Health/Healthy People 2020
• Health Perception/Health Management
• Nutritional/Metabolic
• Activity/Exercise Pattern
• Self-Perception/Self-Concept Pattern
• Cognitive/Perceptual Pattern
• Value/Belief Pattern
• Sexuality/Reproductive Pattern
• Sleep/Rest Pattern
• Elimination Pattern
• Coping/Stress Tolerance Pattern
• Role/Relationship Pattern
• U.S. Health Care System
• Standard of Nursing Practice and Standards of Professional Performance
• Nursing and Society: Ethics
• Nursing Process: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes, Interventions, Evaluation
Coordinator
Jane Paige


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