NURS 1150 Clinical Foundation
Course Information
| Course Number | NURS 1150 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Clinical Foundation |
| Description | This course provides an opportunity to integrate laboratory and actual clinical learning with supervised client care in a healthcare setting. Students utilize the nursing process to collect data, implement nursing interventions and administer medications, and begin the documentation process. Nursing care is individualized to meet each client's needs with consideration of the client's culture. Emphasis is placed on organization, critical thinking, therapeutic communication and a holistic approach to client care. Professional behavior is an expectation in this course. This course will also cover the characteristics of hazardous wastes and its safe handling, storage, and disposal. (Prerequisites: Acceptance into Nursing Program is required in order to register for Nursing Courses) |
| Total Credits | 3 |
| Total Hours | 96 |
| Instruction Type | Credits and Hours |
|---|---|
| Lab | 3 Credits, 96 Hours |
Pre/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Acceptance into Nursing Program is required in order to register for Nursing Courses
Institutional Core Competencies
- Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
- Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
- Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to engage in the social responsibilities expected of a community member.
- Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.
Course Competencies
- Identify learning needs and resources to support the care plan and empower older adult client.
- Demonstrate caring communication skills and cultural sensitivity when using the nursing process to contribute to the plan of care for the older adult client.
- Discover established teaching plans for the older adult client.
- Provide confidentiality when using information technology in the provision of client care.
- Use technology to access reliable information and resources that support client care.
- Apply knowledge of pharmacology and health promotion concepts to the care of older adults with common health problems.
- Provide rationale for prioritization of care and nursing judgments while recognizing there may be more than one solution.
- Demonstrate nursing judgment when assessing, choosing nursing interventions, monitoring, and reporting changes in the client’s condition.
- Demonstrate personal integrity, professional behaviors and maintain professional boundaries within the scope of nursing practice.
- Identify methods to improve client satisfaction, and enhance cost efficient health care services.
- Apply standards of practice for safe nursing practice for the long-term clinical setting.
- Apply open communication, mutual respect and shared decision making when working with interdisciplinary health team members.
- Demonstrate the student nurse role in the clinical setting including identification of tasks assigned.
SCC Accessibility Statement
South Central College strives to make all learning experiences as accessible as possible. If you have a disability and need accommodations for access to this class, contact the Academic Support Center to request and discuss accommodations.
North Mankato: Room B-132, (507) 389-7222; Faribault: Room A-116, (507) 332-7222.
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