Course Description
This course introduces Nurse of the Future competencies as a foundational framework for developing professional nurses. It covers basic care concepts, the nursing process, clinical reasoning to address the needs of adult and older adult patients, and the fundamentals of mental health nursing care. Additionally, the course addresses the fundamentals of nursing care, including patient assessment, hygiene, mobility, nutrition, and medication administration. Emphasis is placed on patient-centered care, safety, and effective communication as well as collaboration skills essential for quality nursing practice.
Course Requirements:
1. Clinical hours are mandatory.
2. Students must keep clinical requirements such as background checks, certifications, immunizations/exemptions, current throughout the program. A list of requirements can be found in the Nursing Student Handbook.
3. Students enrolled in the course must also register for the associated NUR 110L course.
Course Fees: Nonrefundable fees are required for each Nursing course. See the fee schedule in the catalog and Nursing handbook for details.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Gila Community College Nursing Program.
Corequisites
PSY 101 and BIO 202.
1. Patient-Centered Care: The student will identify the importance of patient-centered care and display the ability to create a tailored approach that meets the needs of the individual patient's preferences, values, and beliefs and demonstrate placing value in the importance of involving the patient and family in the decision-making process.
2. Communication: The student will verbalize the importance of different communication styles and demonstrate effective strategies when conversing with patients, families, and members of the healthcare team.
3. Professionalism: The student will verbalize the importance of respectful communication and the importance of legal and ethical guidelines to nursing practice and will be able to represent professional standards found in the healthcare setting.
4. Teamwork and Collaboration: The student will describe the scope of practice and roles of interdisciplinary healthcare team members while functioning within their scope of practice as a member of the healthcare team.
5. Safety: The student will demonstrate established safety protocols in adult and geriatric nursing care and will describe safety initiative strategies in relation to safety concerns in the clinical environment for patients, families, and members of the healthcare team.
6. Quality Improvement: The student will identify quality improvement initiatives in the adult and geriatric population by utilizing quality improvement tools to describe possible areas of concern within the healthcare setting.
7. Evidence-Based Practice: The student will define evidence-based practice and its impact on healthcare and the nursing profession and articulate how evidence-based practice drives decision-making to improve patient outcomes.
8. Informatics: The student will identify basic informatics concepts and utilize them to manage patient data effectively and demonstrate how to use simple informatics tools for assignment submission and gathering clinical data for clinical documentation.