NURS 2505 Professional Nursing Practicum 2

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

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

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. Prioritize holistic nursing care that is client and family-centered, culturally sensitive for clients across the lifespan.
2. Apply the nursing process when providing care for clients across the lifespan and throughout the wellness illness continuum.
3. Demonstrate safe clinical practice behaviors reflecting the standards of professional practice for adult medical surgical and maternal child.
4. Apply teaching/learning principles in planning care for adult medical surgical and maternal child clients.
5. Demonstrate critical thinking by applying the nursing process to clients in the adult medical surgical and maternal child setting.
6. Demonstrate safety in medication administration.
7. Demonstrate understanding of the professional nurse role in caring for adult medical surgical and maternal child clients.
8. Practice teamwork and collaboration as an interdisciplinary team member within the adult medical surgical and maternal child clinical setting.
9. Demonstrate leadership skills by organizing, delegating, and assigning nursing activities to implement the plan of care.
10. Incorporate concepts of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and current technology to improve the quality of care for clients and families within adult medical surgical and maternal child clinical settings.
11. Use evidence-based interventions that reduce the risk of harm and promote the health of clients with health problems across the lifespan.
12. Examine technology advances in healthcare that contribute to quality client care.