Practicum: Concepts of Professional Nursing

Catalog description

Application of the role of the nurse as a member of the profession, provider of patient/client-centered care, patient safety advocate, and member of the interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare team. Explores holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families using evidence-based practice (EBP) and systems-based approaches. Assesses for the holistic multidimensional needs of patients and families. Focuses on the provision of health promotion and disease prevention in patients and families across the lifespan. Concepts to be applied include critical thinking, nursing process, nursing theories, caring, relationship skills, clinical reasoning, safe patient-centered care, cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, and teaching-learning principles.