Nurses Coordinating Care for Adults and Older Adults

Catalog description

This course focuses on the management of transitions in care for adults, older adults, and their family caregivers. Nurses working with “at risk” populations and their caregivers manage transitions across health care settings and through stages of illness severity with a focus on team-based care coordination. Nurses are well positioned to be key influencers and leaders of these transitional care processes. (Penn Nursing website https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/1610-new-open-online-course-focused-on-transitional ) Clinical learning activities will focus on intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, and communities to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. Students will acquire skills for building interprofessional partnerships that involve coordinated, integrated, and collaborative implementation of the unique knowledge, beliefs, and skills of the full team for the end purpose of optimized care delivery. Effective collaboration requires an understanding of team dynamics and an ability to work effectively in care-oriented teams. Onsite and off-site Clinical experiences help to guide skill acquisition for clinical reasoning, clinical care, and knowledge integration.