Course Description
This course builds on the Nurse of the Future competencies and clinical judgment skills necessary for students to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for providing safe, quality, patient-centered care. The course addresses care for patients in both medical-surgical and mental health settings across the wellness-illness continuum. This course covers mental health disorders, psychiatric medications, and therapeutic communication, assessment, and nursing interventions for mental health conditions.
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 120L course.
Course Fees: Nonrefundable fees are required for each Nursing course. See the fee schedule in the catalog and Nursing handbook for details.
Prerequisites
NUR 110 with a grade of “B” or higher, and BIO 202 and PSY 101 with a grade of “C” or higher.
Corequisites
HCE 240
1. Patient-Centered Care: The student will apply compassionate and coordinated care utilizing the nursing process and problem-solving strategies to both medical-surgical and mental health patients while respecting the patient’s beliefs, preferences, values, and needs.
2. Communication: The student will demonstrate effective communication techniques when interacting with adult medical-surgical patients, mental health patients, their families, and colleagues to promote positive health outcomes.
3. Professionalism: The student will demonstrate standards of professional behavior, consistently aligning with both legal and ethical guidelines.
4. Teamwork and Collaboration: The student will explain the impact of effective team functioning on safety and quality of care and adapt one’s communication style to meet the needs of the patient, family, team, and situation.
5. Safety: The student will provide safe patient care and demonstrate the use of current evidence and institutional guidelines when delivering nursing care.
6. Quality Improvement: The student will recognize and initiate opportunities to improve patient outcomes appropriately.
7. Evidence-Based Guidelines: The student will identify how to incorporate evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes when caring for medical-surgical patients and those with mental health disorders.
8. Informatics: The student will show competency in using electronic health records and managing patient data systems to improve patient experiences and outcomes.