NURS 2500 Professional Nursing Concepts 3

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Successfully complete NURS 2400, NURS 2405, and NURS 2415.
Corequisite: PHIL 150 successfully completed by end of final ASN semester.

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

1. Analyze principles of diversity and cultural sensitivity for quality client care during acute and chronic physical and psychosocial conditions across the lifespan.
2. Determine therapeutic communication techniques that promote effective client nurse communication across the lifespan.
3. Integrate principles of teaching learning in providing information to clients across the lifespan to promote and maintain optimal health.
4. Examine medical surgical and maternal child theory and the nursing process to alterations in body systems.
5. Differentiate medication and pharmacology practices to acute and chronic physical and psychosocial conditions across the lifespan.
6. Utilize critical thinking strategies for clients across the lifespan within a variety of settings that promote high-level wellness.
7. Differentiate the professional nurse role within the interdisciplinary team in caring for clients across the lifespan.
8. Discuss legal and ethical implications of medication administration for clients across the lifespan.
9. Choose medication and nursing interventions based on evidence-based practice across the lifespan.
10. Analyze evidence-based practice components that promote safe, quality care for clients, their families, and communities to clients across the lifespan.
11. Evaluate digital and other technology resources to improve client care acute and chronic physical and psychosocial conditions.
12. Identify nursing interventions based on evidence-based practice for adult medical surgical and maternal child clients.