NURS 2250 Semester 1 Clinical Practice
Course Information
| Course Number | NURS 2250 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Semester 1 Clinical Practice |
| Description | This course provides an opportunity to integrate laboratory and supervised client care in the long-term health care setting. Students utilize the Nursing Process to collect data, implement nursing interventions and administer medications. Emphasis is placed on organization, critical thinking, therapeutic communication, and use of the EHR (electronic health record). Professional behavior will be modeled including ethics, maintaining confidentiality, and recognizing the hierarchy structure in health care. This course will also cover the characteristics of hazardous wastes and its safe handling, storage, and disposal. (Prerequisite: Acceptance into Nursing Program is required in order to register for Nursing Courses) |
| Total Credits | 2 |
| Total Hours | 64 |
| Instruction Type | Credits and Hours |
|---|---|
| Lab | 2 Credits, 64 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
- Discover concepts of culture and cultural sensitivity for the long-term care (LTC) setting.
- Demonstrate use of evidence based practice in the development of nursing interventions.
- Demonstrate accurate resident assessment.
- Demonstrate safe nursing interventions in resident care with accuracy and best practice rationale.
- Use therapeutic communication in the patient-care setting.
- Demonstrate responsible nursing judgment in medication administration including patient teaching.
- Identify quality improvement measures to promote safety in the long-term care setting.
- Discuss professionalism in the nursing role related to leadership hierarchy, established codes of ethics, and legal frameworks.
- Identify the role of the student nurse within the health care team to provide safe resident outcomes.
- Demonstrate accurate documentation and sharing of client information within health care team.
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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